3d Texturing....HELP!!!

[bschulte]

Hmmm...Once you learn how to texture one thing, you'll be able to texture anything, generally speaking. So even if you don't find a tutorial on painting faces, others will probably help. Try looking at places like 3dbuzz.com, max3d.com, 3dcafe.com, and 3dluvr.com.

A great book about painting textures is Digital Texturing and Painting by Owen Demers. It is an all around good book for learning how to see and recreate textures. You can read some of the book here (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735709181/qid=1020550581/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_7_1/103-6045482-4809466).

As for UVW mapping, painting textures with UVW unwrap is the way to go. I too have a tablet and painting is incredibly fast in photoshop with it, just takes practice.

Good Luck,
Baaron

[Theta]

To start you off, here's a texturing in PS tut (translated from french :p )

http://216.239.37.120/translate_c?hl=en&ie=ASCII&oe=ASCII&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://www.3dstation.net/Tutoriaux/php/tut_face01.htm

[3DMadness]

I also suggest to use the Texporter, a pretty simple plugin that can be found here:
http://www.cuneytozdas.com/software/max/texporter/index.htm
Cheers!

Flávio

[Reality3D]

Check this(French). There are GREAT tur
http://mr2k.3dvf.com/

[kafmax]

Yes, I'm actually uing 3ds Max4x. I really want to buy any Decent book on Texturing I found theres a Book by Bill fleming where he uses Frankenstein and Deep paint. Im not very good at making textures nor Appying Textures to Face in 3d too. I looked at 3dcafe etc but Really need a Book that can Teach more From Scratch.


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Kamran.

[CANIM8]

:thumbsup: Howdy,

I'm learning myself and have found 2 books that seem to be somewhat helpful with modeling and texturing a character from start to finish...
Check this out:

Modeling a character in 3D Max from start to finish:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556228155/qid=1020708775/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_3_1/102-4822595-9766547



and then look at this


I have both..I have skimmed through both and this is as close as you'll get to published books on the subject you're looking for. If you find something else let me know.

Good Luck!

Canim8
http://home.nc.rr.com/claysanimation/


http://www.charlesriver.com/titles/lowpolygon.html

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