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How do you create eyes like Terror Eyes for Genesis 2?

Daniel BarnettDaniel Barnett Posts: 389
edited December 1969 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

How do you create eyes like Terror Eyes for Genesis 2?
Thank you!
dbb

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  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449
    edited December 1969

    You learn about UV maps and textures and the different shaders available with Studio (and/or Poser) and then you find a paint/image program (GIMP is free) and learn to use that. There are no shortcuts to making a good set of textures.

  • Daniel BarnettDaniel Barnett Posts: 389
    edited December 1969

    jestmart said:
    You learn about UV maps and textures and the different shaders available with Studio (and/or Poser) and then you find a paint/image program (GIMP is free) and learn to use that. There are no shortcuts to making a good set of textures.
    That sounds like a start since I know very little about UV maps!! Thank you!
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,185
    edited December 1969

    The UV map is given - what you need to learn is painting on a template so that the result will wrap around the model correctly.

  • KeryaKerya Posts: 10,943
    edited December 1969

    How to paint eye textures
    http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/?tutorial_id=236
    http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/?tutorial_id=2091

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449
    edited December 1969

    In simplest terms UV mapping is the process of cutting, unwrapping and flattening the 3 dimensional (X,Y, and Z coordinates) mesh object into 2 dimensional (U and V coordinates) map. As Richard said the vast majority of models made to Studio or Poser will already be UV mapped so you just need a way to get the template(s). Most of the models in DAZ's store have the templates available for download through your product library. Then there is the free UV Mapper Classic that with a little work will allow you to extract the map(s) yourself. But for the most popular figures there are SnowSultan's seam guides.

    http://www.uvmapper.com/downloads.html

    http://www.snowsultan.com/3.html

  • Daniel BarnettDaniel Barnett Posts: 389
    edited December 1969

    jestmart said:
    In simplest terms UV mapping is the process of cutting, unwrapping and flattening the 3 dimensional (X,Y, and Z coordinates) mesh object into 2 dimensional (U and V coordinates) map. As Richard said the vast majority of models made to Studio or Poser will already be UV mapped so you just need a way to get the template(s). Most of the models in DAZ's store have the templates available for download through your product library. Then there is the free UV Mapper Classic that with a little work will allow you to extract the map(s) yourself. But for the most popular figures there are SnowSultan's seam guides.

    http://www.uvmapper.com/downloads.html

    http://www.snowsultan.com/3.html


    Thank you for your help!
    dbb
  • Daniel BarnettDaniel Barnett Posts: 389
    edited December 1969

    Kerya said:
    How to paint eye textures
    http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/?tutorial_id=236
    http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/?tutorial_id=2091

    Thank you for your help! I'll check this out!
    dbb
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