MATERIALS
Tutorials by Philip Klevestav < Back to Tutorials Index page On this page I have tried to create a few step by step tutorials including a lot of hints and tricks I use when creating such materials. If you want some handy Photoshop actions I use frequently you can find a .atn file at the bottom of this page. The materials created here are not to be seen as tiling textures only (some of them are not even seamlessly tiling), but the point of the tutorials are more to go through material definition in general. Even if you create something with a highly stylized art direction, you will most likely want to define your materials anyhow, of course there are a lot of exceptions, but in my opinion defining good materials is not bound to realism, but rather to create a believable world, regardless if the world is a desert city on earth or a pink castle in space. I would also like to thank Lamont Gilkey for the .PDF versions of all tutorials here. Click image to view the rough wood planks tutorial.
Wow Effect !
Blogs :: The tree - Creating surface textures tip.
By default Asset Tracking will not show the status for files on network drives. Read More >> Subscribe to RSS feed The UV editing improvements in Maya 2015 are the most substantial that we seen in many years. Read More >> A collection of tips for speeding up 3ds Max /3ds-Max Design Read More >> Catch the GDC 2014 Aussie wrap-up by David Zwierzchaczewski | ANZ Animation Specialist at Autodesk Read More >> This is what it looks like inside the booth. Read More >> A very thorough tutorial from Jud Pratt showing how to set up an Amazon EC2 render farm for 3ds Max or Maya with Backburner Read More >> Dev and Tips and Tricks sessions for 3ds Max, Maya and Mudbox Read More >> In this short video, I step way out of my typical comfort zone to share an interesting tip and trick for the TD’s and scripting gang out there.
RetroPixel
A la une sur RetroPixel ! Planet Centauri Proposé par onilink_, Le 03/04/2015 à 14:13 Bonjour, je tiens a vous présenter un jeu sur lequel je bosse depuis plus d'un an en tant que developpeur/pixel artiste/game designer. Il s'agit de Planet Centauri, un platformer sandbox comparable a Terraria ou encore Starbound. (8 commentaires) :: Catégorie : Jeux-Vidéo Dead Cells Proposé par Cancre, Le 01/10/2014 à 10:55 Un jeu de survie coopératif dans lequel la menace ne vient pas forcément de l'extérieur. (6 commentaires) :: Catégorie : Jeux-Vidéo
Texture Creation using nDo2
About : Creating textures using photosources for Diffuse, and nDo2 for the Normal map. Target Audience : Photoshop and nDo2 users – Intermediate Platform : Photoshop/nDo2 Latest Update :October 2011 Introduction I never really got into zBrush and Mudbox, I have always stuck to the oldschool approach of pure Photoshop for 2D work. No sculpting or such. zBrush and Mudbox are great tools, but it really adds an extra layer of complexity to texture creation, and I am not too fond of using too many different tools next to each other. That pure Photoshop approach regained a lot of its credibility again with the recent release of nDo2. nDo2 is a new program that hooks into Photoshop, and allows you paint, sculpt, convert, and draw normal maps directly from within PS. In this tutorial I am going to show you how I usually create my diffuse textures, and how to then take a diffuse texture into nDo2 and use it to create a normal map for it. The tutorial requires at least basic Photoshop knowledge.
Game Artist - Ambient Occlusion in Maya
AMBIENT OCCLUSION IN MAYA8 and PHOTOSHOP This tutorial covers the basics of how to setup and bake ambient occlusion maps in Maya8. The process is similar for previous versions of Maya only the menu names will be different. As with most things in Maya there are probably many different ways to do this but this method works well for me and is reasonably quick to setup. - First open the hypershade window and from the Maya nodes list MMB drag a Surface Shader node into the work area - Now click on the "Create Maya Nodes" button at the top of the nodes list and change it to MentalRay nodes. - Then under the textures tab MMB drag an 'mib_amb_occlusion' node onto the work area - Now connect the 'OutValue' of the Occlusion node to the 'OutColor' of the surface shader. - In order to get good results from Ambient Occlusion the scene environment must be white. - Now open the Render Globals window and select MentalRay as your renderer and Production as the quality preset. [/size] 1. 2. 3. 4.
Multi-Photo Panoramas in 3ds Max
December 2006 The end result. If you have a camera with a decent zoom lens, then you're better off using a light probe (see HDRShop, Keith Bruns, Brock Stern). I also tried using a 12-inch garden-style gazing globe, but the dimples and imperfections from the 2592x1944 photo were magnified huge when I finally got to the 1024x1024 cubemap stage. If you don't want to buy a better camera, you could try the cheap solution of just shooting a bunch of pictures and hand-stitching them. I used Canon's stitcher software only for stitching together the vertical... the horizontal I pieced together in Photoshop. Canon's stitcher only creates a "straight" image when the camera is panned perpendicular to the left/right edges. In 3ds Max, here's how I set up the geometry. The horizontal. Copied for the vertical, just rotated the sphere and scaled it down a bit. Added a gradient opacity. Render from a camera in the center. Finished result: Another example: 1. 2. Hope this helps. ec1 ericchadwick
Four-Way Tiling
October 2010 (this is derived from a post I made on the Spiral Graphics forum) Four-way tiling is a texturing trick that allows a texture to be rotated 90° and/or flipped on adjacent polygons, but still tile with itself. The texture is edited so that each of the four edges will tile with each other. The benefits of this are to hide the tiling artifacts from features that repeat again and again across the surface, and it allows the artist to use less texture memory because they don't have to use multiple textures for the same effect. I found the 4-way-tiled edge needs to be very thin to minimize the Rorshach effect, and it often needs hand-editing, to mask in more in some areas than in others, so for example a certain mirrored feature can be extended further into one corner than in the others. It might be better if you break up the mask with a noise function, creating a rougher edge. Original texture, that tiles in the traditional way (made with Filter Forge) Result:
NormalMap
What is a Normal Map? A Normal Map is usually used to fake high-res geometry detail when it's mapped onto a low-res mesh. The pixels of the normal map each store a normal, a vector that describes the surface slope of the original high-res mesh at that point. The red, green, and blue channels of the normal map are used to control the direction of each pixel's normal. When a normal map is applied to a low-poly mesh, the texture pixels control the direction each of the pixels on the low-poly mesh will be facing in 3D space, creating the illusion of more surface detail or better curvature. However, the silhouette of the model doesn't change. Tangent-Space vs. Normal maps can be made in either of two basic flavors: tangent-space or object-space. Tangent-space normal map Predominantly-blue colors. Maps can be reused easily, like on differently-shaped meshes. Maps can be tiled and mirrored easily, though some games might not support mirroring very well. Easier to overlay painted details. Mirroring
