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Custom-made materials/textures for Harry (and others?)

quinnuki

New-Bee
Hello! I'm brand new to using DAZ but have made a couple of renders so far. I purchased Harry and love him, and love the available textures for him, but I'm wondering if I can make my own? I know when I bought the CWRW pose pack, there was a 'template' folder with JPEGs (of meshes? I think?) but I'm not sure how to use them to paint them (I use clip studio paint) and then apply to Harry's model.
 

Janet

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
Use photographs in Photoshop to make them. The templates are the uvs of the model. So use those as a base. Hope this helps.
 

HaiGan

Energetic
Contributing Artist
Maybe try this? Download one of the Harry texture packages and unzip it to a new folder, not your 3D software folder. Browse this folder to find Runtime/Textures then keep going down the folder tree until you find a bunch of image files. This will hopefully be the textures, so you can see what they look like before they are wrapped around the model.

If you pull one of them into image editing software (such as Photoshop, but many others also work), you can play around changing the colouring, contrast and/or lightness/darkness, adding white markings and so on. These must be just for your own use, you may not give them or sell them to anyone else, I am suggesting it as a step towards eventually creating your own textures from scratch.

You will also need to know how to apply your edited texture files to the horse.
 
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