Eporting Painted Texture From Mudbox 2009

#1

Ok… so I’ve got my UV’s layed out… brought my model into Mudbox 2009… Painted some nice textures with the new paint layers and painting tools…

I Understand that to get the Displacement Maps and Normal Maps out I go to Maps Extract Texture Maps… but how do I export the painted texture that I’ve created with the new paint tools?

I’ve searched help and this forum and can’t find any trace of this… I know it must be there somewhere?

Other than that I’m loving version 2009 painting and sculpting together is great!

Thanks in advance.

Regards Garry

#2

save your file…
and mud saves the textures in an extra folder named filename-files…

#3

Thanks Christoph,

I was expecting to have to export myself… Mudbox exports the texture layers as seperate files… I can’t see a way to merge the layers in Mudbox, what is the be workflow? to use the exported textures with a layered shader node in Maya?

Or do I need to flatten them together in Photoshop first?

Thanks for your help.

Garry

#4

Link

This video of mine from the quickstart series should help. (You can find the other quickstart videos either on my site or TheArea.)

Wayne…

#5

Thanks Wayne,

We’ve actually watched most of your videos which are excellent… my wife has been using Mudbox too and thinks you’re great!

I hadn’t seen that one however so thanks… The only way I could think to merge them was to drop each texture into a layerset then drag them together… major pain.
Your workaround is miles quicker.

Surely a merge layers / save as psd function will appear in a future release?

Anyway we’ll use the workaround until then.

Regards Garry and Elaine

#6

Yes merge layers will come soon …you’ll see it very soon in fact.

Wayne…

#7

sounds like… hmmm 5 hours…?
great… :smiley:

#8

Well not quite that fast lol…

Wayne…

#9

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