In this tutorial, I create a random “sketch sculpt” and discuss the reasons you might want to use vertex paint, and then we go in to our sculpt and paint a “texture map (no actual image is used)” onto the model. Then we tweak it some with some bump maps and Subsurface Scattering. I then show you how to go ahead and create a texture map from the painted vertices using the Texture Bake from the Render Menu.
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I think this would also be good for laying down guidelines to help with advanced texturing!
It’s worth noting that those blocks you got while texture painting are because of a bug, which has been fixed in Nicholas Bishop’s GSOC branch.
Fantastic, Thank you so much.
Retopo can take so much time.
Thanks David! =)
It’s a “private video” on Vimeo
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wow, i always wondered about vertex painting and now i know someone who can find this so useful
thanks david.
Thaaaank you David !!!!
i stumble upon how to do the rendering, because i vertex painted, but it didn’t show in the actual rendering. now i know what it needs to be done. So thank you!
great tipp. Thanks a lot!
Very useful for sketching out an objects texture. I’ll use this technique on my next game-character.
Great tutorial David. I’d love to see a tutorial showing “Texture Paint” to see the difference.
So when would you use Texture Paint and when would you use Vertex Paint. If I create a simple model and I want to paint on it before unwrapping it can I not paint directly on the model using Texture Paint too and then UV unwrap it later?
to use texture paint, it would have to be UV mapped already, so that you could save out the texture png (or jpg, whatever) after you’re done
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
sure, you could create another texture map for the glowy parts, and set it to “influence” the emit
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
Very nice one David . I am kind a wondering that, with ,a black and white funny texture on top of this pink bubble gum ,can we somehow make parts of pink glow and emit light (indirect lighting ) ? thank you .
This is so usefull. I would really like to se more on materials and textures.
I’ve always wondered about vertex painting so thanks for this
cool, seems like a nice way to get the base tones of an object before detailing in photoshop
For some reason I can’t seem to watch the video. It says that the video isn’t permitted to be embedded onto this website because that’s the Vimeo Plus feature…
Hmm that is odd… It should be working, I just tested it here. Have you tried watching it on Vimeo? http://vimeo.com/16551694
-Jonathan
I just tried to change to the texture mode in Blender 2.54 as shown after 2.43 minutes of this video, but the figure stays white. So what’s wrong here.
I just wanted to bake in the same way as the video shows, saved the image before baking, set the bake mode to textures, but when I hit the bake button, I got the message “No images to bake to!”. Why?
If you can’t see the colors, you have to hit N key – got to display and set the shading for GLSL which worked for me.
Hey guys see my sceen-cast on how I make texture through polypainting (Zbrush) and create displacements in Blender…http://vimeo.com/18390030
Thank You a million times. I was looking around for ages for the reason it didn’t render the colours
Thank You a million times. I was looking around for ages for the reason it didn’t render the colours
Hey, I know i may be out of date.
Thanks! i just learned something new tonight! Thanks to this tutorial…
I’m a beginner at Texturing, and i think this will get me a good start…
Any Unwrapping tutorials? Intermediate difficulty?
You can try this one here: http://www.blendercookie.com/2010/03/02/unwrapping-a-female-character/
-Jonathan
If someone have the problem with white model, then hit N and in shading choose a GLSL. Now if someone see the shadows and can’t painting go to models and checkmark on Vertex Color Paint in Options.
Sorry for my english i’m from poland and i didn’t learn it in school(only from movies, books and forum).
Great tutorial, thanks to you i know a lot of blender options and metods Jonathan Williamson
Averus
Great tutorial, really helpful with a model i literally just finished… However i was hoping somebody could make a tutorial solely based on texturing and materials…. my modeling skills have increased to that of where i make my own models that actually meet my abnormally thorough standards, but my skills with materials and textures make me want to stop using blender altogether (due to pure rage at my inability to create that final visual edge). So if a tutorial could be made for solely creating materials and textures, i would once again be a happy blender
Forever an avid watcher,
Whizzkid