Hello,
I am currently working on texturing a Technic 1200 mk3 turntable. Realism is important to me, so I want to have the normal product text as part of the texture.
Does anyone have a good simple workflow for creating text for texture?
All help is greatly appreciated!
Export your uv layouts and work the text and textures in photoshop?.. This way it would be easy to map the real texture of your object on your 3D model.
my question is more related to keeping the lettering as smooth as possible without pixelation and DPI/Resolution of the image being used for the texture. Since I am modeling a turntable, the text in various places need to be readible on close inspection.
DPI won’t matter. As for resolution - 1 pixel in the rendering should have 2 pixels in the texture.
If you don’t want to texture the turntable as one file - and keep high AA settings - you could redraw the paths of the letters in Illustrator, import you .ai in maya and /surface/planar the curves.
what you COULD do is use a Vector Draw program. Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, XARA, or Serif (which is free). I’d recommend XARA as it’s the easiest to use, IMHO. Fitting text to a path is a very simple thing and you can export from vectors to any resolution you want and very accurately fit it to the UV map with ease.
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