While handpainting textures is very noble, and really cool if it can be pulled off, it's not really practical to handpaint everything in textures anymore. The results/time it takes to just use photo textures as a base pays off in the end. Again, not saying hand painting is bad or anything, just way more reasonable to do…
Ha, Japanese schoolgirls in Doom3... it was just a matter of time But fix that ugly seam in her face (by handpainting the normalmap in that area to a neutral level)
Ive been handpainting most of my textures on my most recent pieces my sweet tooth model is all handpainted so is the wasroom models and this current one im doing but i have noticed a few things that i dilike about hanpainting all my models i use a mouse so its alot of work. i just started a Gears of war scene that i will…
[ QUOTE ] While handpainting textures is very noble, and really cool if it can be pulled off, it's not really practical to handpaint everything in textures anymore. The results/time it takes to just use photo textures as a base pays off in the end. Again, not saying hand painting is bad or anything, just way more…
But fix that ugly seam in her face (by handpainting the normalmap in that area to a neutral level) I was too lazy to render the map again, you can get rid of that effect by including the adjacent faces into the mesh that's sent off to ORB, that way the normals of the mesh used for normalmap generation match the normals of…
[ QUOTE ] thanks guys ill lokk into it oh and sa7an is that ingame?and do you hae a link to your wip thread for that?and does anyone have any good lighting tutorials that would help me in this scene? [/ QUOTE ] oh dont get this wrong! its not my scene, its andrew's work. here's his wip thread:…
Thanks for the feedback guys! Looking at it again after a night of sleep I have to admit that these standard tribal tattoos do look a bit cheesy I do want to give her the tattoos but will handpaint them to look more like the concept and so they will look less tribal. I'll post a pic with and without tattoos when I am…