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3 Dimensional Chat / Texture Baking

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Sph!nx
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Posted: 10th Jul 2011 13:18
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Hey everybody!

Anyone got some experience with 'texture baking'? I know the technique is possible with 3D Studio Max, but that's an app I can simply not afford.

Now my questions are, does anyone know of any other (affordable) application that can do it and if anyone had any good tutorials or other articles on the subject?

Thanks ahead!

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MikeS
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Posted: 10th Jul 2011 14:31 Edited at: 10th Jul 2011 14:34
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Blender can do texture baking quite nicely. It's simply a matter of placing lights in the scene, adjusting them, and then baking onto an object through a modifier.

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And as far as tutorials, I'm sure there are plenty scattered around. In general though, try to think of your scene and what kind of lighting it will have. If someone is pointing a light in a specific direction, then add a directional light in blender. You can also use objects(cubes, spheres, etc.) to occlude light where you would not want it to pass through. Of course, also remember you can fire up GIMP(another free program) to tweak the texture after it has been baked, to get the final feel just right on your model.



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Sph!nx
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Posted: 10th Jul 2011 15:51 Edited at: 10th Jul 2011 15:52
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Thanks! Blender, ey? Will do some searches on that one. (I will primarily will use the 'texture baking' technique for characters, items and prop. HD mesh texture over a reduced mesh. Scenes are already covered!)

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mgarand
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Posted: 10th Jul 2011 16:52 Edited at: 10th Jul 2011 16:54
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if you got the meshes you can always use Xnormal, free and easy to use\
edit: eat3d has a free tutorial,here

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Sph!nx
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That's exactly what I need! Looks really easy as well.

Thanks a lot!

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mgarand
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Posted: 11th Jul 2011 13:47
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have fun

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