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If you love the retro 3D game aesthetic of animating the textures on the face of a character and want to be able to do it for yourself, but need a little help...
In the spirit of sharing things I’ve worked on, here’s a Skillshare class I made!
It’s an introduction to changing character expressions using texture maps.
The link gets you one month free, which is more than long enough to watch my class :)
Frivolous Thoughts: #1
Underarmour is just texture maps for real life humans.
Change my mind.
Projects and their respective texture maps. All maps are measured in pixels. I enjoy working in Photoshop to make these texture maps.
Maya and Photoshop.
So I’m reconstructing the vendor stalls and hawkers alley in limsa and looking at the model for the awning and ‘counter’ objects, its interesting to see what they did.
Usually, if you’re gonna skimp on adding the actual ‘physical’ detail to a model, you just add the graphic detail to the texture map. For the awning, the little corner accent graphic actually got modeled into the mesh (albeit with no ‘depth’ detail) so the UV portion of that texture map would be exact.
Idk, maybe a game of this type benefits from that kinda thing haha i just thought it was a little odd was all.
Sine this is the base for every stall, and the only thing that differs between them as the objects on the shelves, counters, and hanging from the actual awnings, duplicating this base group and positioning them was a pretty quick way to add detail to the hawkers alley.
Most of the vendor-specific accoutrements are their own objects in FFXIVExplorer, so finding a good pivot point in them will make placing them a lot easier....texturing all of it is another issue all together haha
duck toy - 2015
So i was going through some of the texture maps and kinda had a realization (which felt like a dumb thing to have since its pretty obvious haha).
The texture on the left is a standard texture for a lot of ground/pathways and the one on the right is a ‘weathered’ version of it. The realization is that instead of making weathered version from scratch, they just put another layer on top and created the weathering haha
in the span of like 1.5 seconds i went ‘OH! Oh...oh yeah duh’ haha
Some of these doors have pretty nice detail done in the texture, which probably wouldn’t be too hard to sculpt into the geometry in Zbrush once i get re-familiarized with the application.
And luckily most of Limsa Lominsa is just stone (easy to make), wood (also easy to make) and metal (unless its shiney or reflective, also easy to make) haha
So i found the texture map for a building (I’m actually going to assume its for multiple buildings and ‘structures’ not accessible to the player) and am deciding whether i’m going to add the detail that’s clearly only in the texture map (like the latticed windows and layered metal elements).
I just need to find the models and details and see exactly how much that would and either try to model those elements into the actual geometry, or just try and use this as an ACTUAL texture map and try to get the UVs just right....honestly idk which would be a bigger pain in the ass at the moment haha
