Texturing Questions

[Cross]

Working on a shirt, but i need to have my decal wrap. how would i go about setting up the materials to do so?

[paradymx]

Uv editor might be your best bet. A quick run through: (cant find a link)

 

Decal a blank image over the t shirt splines.

Under the decal, now right click edit.

Move the splines so that they don't over lap

Here I usually do a screen copy and take that image into Photoshop

make a new layer,Paint on your texture as it should be positioned

Take out the spline layer and save

In AM under decals and images right click add image and choose the prior saved

 

 

It might need some minor tweeking but this is the general method.

 

Anyone with a better tute or a link please chime in

[Fuchur]

If the decals of the shirt are of a more or less equal size, you can try to use a Patch-Image for it.

To do that, just go to the group in the PWS, rightclick on the shirt-group and choose "Add Image". This is a very fast way for titled maps.

 

You could although try to use BitMapPlus for such a task, which is a material-typ. You can find it by doubleclicking on the MAterials-Folder, Going to the new material and rightclicking on the attribue.

Choose "Change Type To" -> "Plugin" -> "Kci-Group" -> "BitMapPlus".

 

The most flexible choice will however be a real decal like paradymx told you. A little tip so: You can use an Action-Window to unwrap your model with the flattening-command (see manual) or by hand.

 

*Fuchur*

[Cross]

Uv editor might be your best bet. A quick run through: (cant find a link)

 

Decal a blank image over the t shirt splines.

Under the decal, now right click edit.

Move the splines so that they don't over lap

Here I usually do a screen copy and take that image into Photoshop

make a new layer,Paint on your texture as it should be positioned

Take out the spline layer and save

In AM under decals and images right click add image and choose the prior saved

 

 

It might need some minor tweeking but this is the general method.

 

Anyone with a better tute or a link please chime in

 

 

Could you please post images of how to do the steps? I'm still a little confused about it. It would be much appreciated.

[Caroline]

Decalling is quite easy, but surprisingly hard to explain.

 

You could try

Colin's Head texturing

Jim Talbot's head decalling video tutorials

Rusty's skin layering

 

All of which are excellent, but I did not understand the simplicity until I saw

Will Sutton's video tutorial on the A:M 2006 Siggraph disk

 

As a checklist, paradymx's list is good. Maybe write those down, and tick them off as you understand them through the videos above.