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SKYLAB CHAT
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YAY!!! I'm sure you're glad that's over.
Oh, yeah. BIG time! LOL
ApplauseYou did it
Oh, yes. I'm very glad it's over and done with. They actually approved it, with just a couple of small changes. They need one name change, and one small bit of text added, but then it goes to print. Finally. LOL...
Have a good night, Sky. Get some rest.
skylab
Esteemed
New FBX freebie at ShareCG...a big ole eyeball
And if you like good props, there's a guy over at Rendo who is doing some nice stuff.
And if you like good props, there's a guy over at Rendo who is doing some nice stuff.
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skylab
Esteemed
...and this glass house would be nice, if the mats good, and a few accessories have been done.
Terre
Renowned
That's why he decided to go with paid. He didn't want to move his site and didn't want ads for other things on his site.Hey Terre
Wow, still had Tripod. Guess their paid service wouldn't be so bad....but their free sites used to have pop ups that would hit you in the face and knock you in the floor when trying to surf...haha.
I just saw those top 3 props in a link from a newletter yesterday, or the day before. The light fixtures are nice.
That looks like it has some promise. Thanks.
That was the main reason I left Lycos behind and got my first paid-for hosting, though I only lasted there about 3 or 4 years, and then a friend introduced me to DreamHost, which was having a good sale on one of their hosting packages back then, and I've been happily with them now for 10 years.
Hi Miss B
Hey I've got a question for you. I think you mentioned someplace that when working with UV Layouts you usually make them about 5 pixels bigger to avoid seems. I was wondering what technique you use for doing that? In the past I've just used a brush/eraser around the edge of the UV shapes, but I want to do something more exact for a texture I'm working on. I want the bump map to have a border in places so that it will look like the fabric is sown at the seems.
Hey I've got a question for you. I think you mentioned someplace that when working with UV Layouts you usually make them about 5 pixels bigger to avoid seems. I was wondering what technique you use for doing that? In the past I've just used a brush/eraser around the edge of the UV shapes, but I want to do something more exact for a texture I'm working on. I want the bump map to have a border in places so that it will look like the fabric is sown at the seems.
Hi GG, I don't use UVLayout software. I do all my UV mapping within Blender before exporting the OBJ and the UV layout/map. I suspect that may have been the misunderstanding.
What I do is make sure there's room around each of the islands on the UV map, and then in Photoshop, when I'm creating a texture map, I select an island and then increase my selection between 15 and 20 pixels. That way there's enough "bleeding" room so one piece's texture/color doesn't bleed into an adjacent piece. For example, when you have different texture/color, on a blouse's front and back than the sleeves. It's a good way to make sure each texture is applied to the piece it belongs to, and not any adjacent pieces.
That said, as far as giving the bump map a border, you could define the border as a separate matzone, and then when you're texturing it, you apply the bump map only to the matzone you want it to appear in. Hope that makes some sense.
What I do is make sure there's room around each of the islands on the UV map, and then in Photoshop, when I'm creating a texture map, I select an island and then increase my selection between 15 and 20 pixels. That way there's enough "bleeding" room so one piece's texture/color doesn't bleed into an adjacent piece. For example, when you have different texture/color, on a blouse's front and back than the sleeves. It's a good way to make sure each texture is applied to the piece it belongs to, and not any adjacent pieces.
That said, as far as giving the bump map a border, you could define the border as a separate matzone, and then when you're texturing it, you apply the bump map only to the matzone you want it to appear in. Hope that makes some sense.
Yes that makes sense. I was actually wondering about what you did in Photoshop, I was assuming it was there. I'm starting to realize I tend to work backwards in a sense, because I usually make a cut out of the islands (probably because I was using other people's textures in the past.) If I try to increase that cut out, things end up not lined up, but it should work if I just size up the islands.
I'm not sure I'm following you. Why are you "cutting" out pieces of the islands. You don't have to touch the mesh to make another mat zone. I usually just select the polys I want in a specific mat zone, and then apply it in Blender.
IOW, if you have a sleeve that you want to have a border around the armhole, I would select that row of polys and create a separate mat zone from the sleeve itself, perhaps sleeve_border or just border if that's the only place you're going to have one. You don't need to do anything to the mesh itself.
IOW, if you have a sleeve that you want to have a border around the armhole, I would select that row of polys and create a separate mat zone from the sleeve itself, perhaps sleeve_border or just border if that's the only place you're going to have one. You don't need to do anything to the mesh itself.
This is probably one of my issues with UVs, I don't know how to talk about them correctly. What I do is more or less this, with the UV layout I do a white fill around the edges. Then I use Select Color to select the white, invert the selection, and then delete it. Then I put the image I want to use on a layer behind the white fill that used to have the UV.
Ohhhhhh. OK, I put my color/textures on layers above the UV map. I don't delete the map. It's always there under the other layers. I give each mat zone a separate layer. The final map, in JPG format, isn't layered, but the layered PSD helps me keep the islands I'm texturing separate from one another so I don't have to worry about selecting more than I should.