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Re: Painted Textures
Ah yeah, I think it seems like I'm being stubborn :x But these were the specs given for this texture assignment - that I paint lighting coming from the top left into the diffuse, and have a normal map and spec map *shrug*. From here on out though (personal assignments where I do it my way xD), I will be painting… -
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just cos you like the wow doesnt mean theres no place for decent hand paimnted normals... but totally agree with dll's statement... if you are using normals to do lighting do night fight against it in the diffuse.... your diffuse should be just that diffused light info... this basically goes the more lighting information… -
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"I will be painting diffuse-only textures because I enjoy being able to paint lighting into the diffuse itself" Amen, sista. I feel the same way about my own work. A lot of people are trying to get me to normal map my scene, but it just doesn't look good with hand painted texture (usually. Here and there, it looks good).… -
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Bigjohn - Hm no, not a specific type of metal. I gather a bunch of photo reference and then just paint whatever comes out from there; but I am probably looking at several different types of metals as I paint. Do you suggest I be more specific about my reference? How does my metal read to you? Andy H - Thanks Andy :) I… -
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njc6425, KennyTles, RAWTalent, Scythe - Thanks! Haiasi - Thanks so much for the explanation and paintover :] As you said lighting is rather studio-dependent, I will continue to paint from a top left 45-degree angle to cater to some of the studios in my area. But I definitely understand what you are saying about lighting… -
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Wow Jessica, I'm liking the normals this time with the metal. Really good stuff! As much as I enjoy the normals though, there's still something about the diffuse by itself that I love! I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. -
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I would really love to see what you could come up with using handpainted diffuse, combined with normal and spec. I think you'd get some really nice results. I dunno, might be something to experiment with. -
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You're painting specular highlights into the diffuse and spec maps, again ruining any purpose of using d/s/n maps. The renderer can add those white dots for you, and always at the right place - that's what those extra textures are for. -
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Picture explaining the problem. The normal map is there to control the lighting. Ideally speaking your diffuse texture should have little to no lighting information, possibly very faint directional lighting to keep it looking like it has depth when there's no lightsource (shouldn't happen if your scene is lit correctly but… -
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Selaznog xD your language settings are hilarious haha. Here it is applied to a plane with spec and normals (diffuse still needs all kinds of tightening up/rendering out though). But anyway this is how it's working now! Berrays!! I've been critiqued that the normals are too strong and creating overly steep angles, so I will…
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