Blizzard Style Textures

ptdunphy · Jul 2014

Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone has any good references or tutorials on how to make hand painted textures like you see in Blizzard games. I want to know how to manipulate your textures using normal map channels and masks in photoshop. Im familiar with the concepts just every time I try to do it i feel like i am missing something. Any tutorials or workflows would be extremely helpful.

JustMeSR · Jul 2014

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125737
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_GWVez_UHM"]Texturing Workshop with Jamin Shoulet Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

For the manipulation: Normal map has solid details in it, just change color to black and you are good to go. Channels change the amount of "displacement" in each direction. You can change them in one of the adjustment settings (like RGB curves) just by changing from RGB to specific channel.

lotet · Jul 2014

Here is some more "modern" blizzard stuff.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125737

ptdunphy · Jul 2014

Thanks JustMeSR an lotet, the video and posts were very helpful.

Valerien · Jul 2014

The blizzard thread looks very nice. In general, I'd just recommend to spend quite a bit of time painting environments and characters. You eventually get well acquainted with color schemes and capable of doing a bit of anything.

Ryan Hawkins · Jul 2014

Download Vertex2 and Fanny goes over her texture workflow also Vertex1 has a few Blizzard artists workflows as well.

https://gumroad.com/ryanhawkins

Orb · Jul 2014

Definitly check fanny's tutorial on vertex 2, best way of merging nextgen workflow with handpaint feel in my opinion.

JustMeSR · Jul 2014

JustMeSR wrote: »

[You can change them in one of the adjustment settings (like RGB curves) just by changing from RGB to specific channel.

Also for normal map adjustment:
http://youtu.be/N9CTOw1lxQ0?t=13m10s

Here is video (with specific time), so that you don't have to decipher what was I trying to say.

ptdunphy · Jul 2014

Hey JustMeSR that was a great video. That was what I was looking for. Thanks everyone.

Blizzard Style Textures

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