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Creating Custom Skins/Textures in Virt-A-Mate - Beginner Tutorial, Part 1

www.syrinxo.com   / syrinxo   Outline: 1) Rundown of texture types 2) Where to start when creating a new skin 3) The two major challenges - seams and color matching 4) Demo: Using frequency separation in GIMP to color match a new feature: Duplicate layer Gaussian blur the duplicate until all desired details are lost Set blurred layer mode to Grain Extract Create New Layer from Visible; set that new layer to Grain Merge mode, and return the blurred duplicate mode to Normal There's so much to know about texture creation that I didn't include here - file management; how to best use FaceGen; how to create spec, gloss, and normal maps with GIMP or Photoshop; choosing reference materials; what edits turn a photo into a good texture in VAM; 3D/2D editing workflow... the list goes on. Keep an eye out for Part 2 next to cover some of these more in-depth topics. Software used or mentioned in this video: Virt-A-Mate (  / posts  ) FaceGen (https://facegen.com/artist.htm -- Free version puts blue letters on the character's forehead.) GIMP (https://www.gimp.org/ -- free) Substance Painter (https://store.steampowered.com/app/14... -- The Adobe site has a free trial but it's $30/mo to subscribe to access. Or, drop $150 on it once on Steam. ) ZBrush Photoshop Blender