Hello, personally I forgoe the whole brush route, I'm not the best painter and I find hand painting textures pretty time consuming. I drop a photograph of scratches on to a layer add a layer mask to it, fill it with black and then just paint white where ever I want the scratches to show up. For me it creates a less…
Displacement? I would think spec or ao, I'll have to play around with disp. I usually ignore it. Crazybump is a great way to start off a metal spec map too. Only go pretty dark and use crazybump to work the edge detail a little lighter gray. The only problem with Crazybump is that it tends to over do it on UV shell seams…
Can the crazy bump method be used for high resolution textures ? I understand one can take an image and create scratches from an image, with the aid of masks etc for high resolutions but having your own set of brushes, that can be reused, rather then a collection of images is more convenient and can be used many times. Can…
Shepeiro: Thanks for explaining that, and if you do indeed make a mini tutorial please link it here so we all know where to find it. I understood everything you said Shepeiro, except this part: "push levels until occluded areas are invisible" It's probably because I'm dense and I'm not sure if "occluded" is the black areas…