Decals and Procedural Textures: can they work together

[mcutler]

Can I apply a procedural texture over top of a model that I have placed decals on? Does the procedural texture have to be in a specific place in the PWS heirarchy for it to show up? I'd like to add a turbulence over top of bitmapped images to simulate staining or grunge.

 

thanks

[robcat2075]

Can I apply a procedural texture over top of a model that I have placed decals on? Does the procedural texture have to be in a specific place in the PWS heirarchy for it to show up? I'd like to add a turbulence over top of bitmapped images to simulate staining or grunge.

 

thanks

 

It seems that decals always override the color of materials. As far as I can tell.

 

 

However.... you can bake materials into decals (>SHIFT-Bake Surface). Make your grunge material, bake it, THEN change the baked "color" type map to type "diffuse". "Diffuse" maps act to darken surfaces (gray scale only)

 

 

decal over material:

 

 

decal over "diffuse decal"

[mcutler]

Yes, that worked, I've uploaded a pic on what I did. I used a photoshop image as a diffuse map, but I think that your method of baking out a procedural texture would be good as I like the transition from one colour to the next.

Thanks!!

RiceSack.bmp

[robcat2075]

Yes, that worked, I've uploaded a pic on what I did. I used a photoshop image as a diffuse map, but I think that your method of baking out a procedural texture would be good as I like the transition from one colour to the next.

Thanks!!

 

BTW, if you save your images as JPG they'll be much smaller and display directly in the forum.

[jakerupert]

you can avoid the white aura by making a sharp clean mask.

AM will do the antialiasing for you...

[mcutler]

thanks to all. they all worked.