Dragon scale Bump/Texture Help

[soulburn3d]

Something like that is difficult to automate. You could try something like a cellular procedural map, which will give you stuff that looks sorta like scales, but they won't be directional like if you place them by hand.

I'd personally just bite the bullet and do it by hand. But make sure you have made a scale brush, so with each press of the brush you get a scale, and then go to town.

- Neil

[soulburn3d]

Here's a lizard I painted scale by scale a few years back...

http://www.neilblevins.com/artgallery/artgallery.pl?image=varanus_panoptes

This was even harder then it would have been now, since this was before photoshop allowed you to resize custom brushes. So every time I needed a smaller or larger scale, I had to make a brand new brush for it instead of just pressing the [ or ] keys. I think it took me about 2 days to place the scales.

- Neil

[Shellfish]

THanks Soulburn3d! I guess there is no other way than.

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