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Texturing advice on a giraffe, or short haired animals in general
So I am working on a making a giraffe at the moment and have the high poly nearly done. I plan on doing completely unique UVs across the whole animal because of the nature of the spotting pattern which would look weird if it were mirrored. I plan on painting the spots by hand in zbrush and baking it to a map to finish… -
Re: Texturing advice on a giraffe, or short haired animals in general
That is only for the legs, but I will need seams around the head and neck which the fur patch method will give me issues. I am going to mess around with some Maya fur and see if I can get some decent results and report back here in a few days. -
Re: Texturing advice on a giraffe, or short haired animals in general
Baking shouldn't interfere with your UV seams, and you should be able to define colors for the patches with a texture via the material, although I'm not sure Max or Maya have that right out of the box and you need a plugin? Or, you could spend 5 seconds looking up a picture and notice that giraffe's don't have patches in… -
Re: Texturing advice on a giraffe, or short haired animals in general
Yep, that's the nature of the web unfortunately. Wish I had the inclination to save all those cool things, make PDFs or archives. But who has the time? -
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Alot of those links are dead it seems. I am glad the Panda tutorial is saved in a PDF because all his images on the thread are broken too. -
Re: Texturing advice on a giraffe, or short haired animals in general
I experimented with Maya fur and ultimately gave up, some of what I came up with to actually bake the fur out is in this thread. Fur only exists when rendered, I couldn't find a way to bake it to a texture, so there's a bit of workaround that needs to be done. -
Re: Texturing advice on a giraffe, or short haired animals in general
You could try that. Probably the highest-end results. You could also just make a good hair-like brush and paint it using a 3d paint program. http://wiki.polycount.com/PaintingAcrossSeams#Integrated_3D_Paint -
Re: Texturing advice on a giraffe, or short haired animals in general
Hmm the panda technique could work, but how would I blend those patches over UV shells to avoid seams? Or do you think I could do maya fur across the entire giraffe and bake that out as my base? -
Re: Texturing advice on a giraffe, or short haired animals in general
There's a nice tutorial for the Pandicarius character here. Also some links at the bottom that might help http://wiki.polycount.com/HairTechnique
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