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Title: Skin textures
Post by: rellik420 on March 08, 2009, 08:19:14 pm

I havent done too much texturing, and im wondering how to get great textures. (im looking at you "headwax") I've only done minimal research on bumpmaps and greyscales and things of that nature. Ill gladly research those on my own, but i would like a little heads up on creating great human and animal skin textures. Thanks.

Title: Re: Skin textures
Post by: headwax on March 09, 2009, 04:33:32 am

Ho Ho, Hya Relik

Looking at me?

Let's see. Best thing to do is get a big pic of real life face, then once you unwrap your model, use photoshop to push the textures into place. Look for faces with nice big pores. Flat lighting but lots of wrinkles that you can get a bummap from

For a nice big pic of a face do google images search BIG IMages.

I used this guy for my Elf I am working on.

http://www.advancedscientificconcepts.com/images/HWB_FACE_VIS.jpg

In photoshop play with the noise settings to get a bump map over your original pic. There is a great tutorial somewhere I'll find it and post it.

cheers

Title: Re: Skin textures
Post by: rellik420 on March 09, 2009, 12:55:43 pm

thanks dude. I was looking at you because u always have really good textures. But that helped me out alot. Thanks again

Title: Re: Skin textures
Post by: headwax on March 09, 2009, 07:38:42 pm

Thanks Rellik. No prob. :)
here's some tuts.

Best tut.

http://www.madartgraphics.com/tutorials/face1.htm

http://www.madartgraphics.com/tutorials/face5.htm

Basic philosophy

http://www.mwmythicmods.com/loch_face_texturing.htm

This one's good:

http://www.3dtotal.com/tutorials/face_texturing/

This one's OT but fun.
You could use it to make a weird face texture.
 http://www.webdesign.org/web/photoshop/textures-&-patterns/face-texture.10340.html

Do you hjave a UV mapper?
Try the UV classic version here.

http://www.uvmapper.com/downloads.html

The advantage of the UV mapper pro is, when you  are working in Photoshop you copy your jpeg to the clipboard, open up UVmapper, and the texture is already applied to the model, so you can see what difference changes you make, make.

(thanks to Raxx for Uvmapper Pro. :) )

More

http://www.rubberbug.com/texture.htm

FINAlly

http://www.blacksmith3d.com/

Get the free verison of above 3d paint tool.


Workflow. Make model, uv map it, load it up with blacsmith, paint your texture map,. You can paint across seams which is handy.


have fun

Title: Re: Skin textures
Post by: headwax on March 09, 2009, 09:56:35 pm

http://www.daz-art.com/hi_poly_tut_uv.htm

for when you get better at UV mapping

Title: Re: Skin textures
Post by: rellik420 on March 10, 2009, 11:58:00 pm

once you have your bumpmap is it better to use a .bmp or .jpg?

Title: Re: Skin textures
Post by: hihosilver on March 11, 2009, 01:34:14 am

Both work equally well.  Personally I would recommend .jpg just because it's a much smaller file size.