Hey Chrisjuuuh, Did anyone point you in the direction of any tutorials or helpful threads on here? I've saved a few for when I finally take a shot at this sort of texture so hopefully these will help: Here are some threads which have nice tutorials saved as images within the posts:…
I'd love to hear some tricks, too... a tutorial would be awesome or at least a recorded version (for yt or vimeo) of the handout or something like that. That would be superduper nice, since wildstar is really looking way to awesome! I'd love to know how to get such beautiful results! (Beside practice, a lot of practice)
Zbrush doesn't exclude photoshop as far as I know, zbrush is mostly used to sculpt out a high poly (like a really complex tree, or stones with damage, or whatever...) You still can push that a lot with great texturing skills (in photoshop). So I'd recommend you to try both... do some oldschool textures, and some with only…
I think it would help you to tone down the clouds, alot. I'm not too fond of the whole multiply technique myself. Try following the wood tutorial beezul linked. I use layers just for safety if I'm about to make a radical change to the texture and want a easy way to cop-out if it doesn't turn out well. I know it's hard…