Specular – Nalates’ Things & Stuff

Blender 2.7 Photorealistic Texture Painting Tutorial

2017/05/28 by Nalates Urriah

Adding more detail and making a texture look real takes some effort. The know-how is in a tutorial in this series: Creating a Realistic Head in Blender – part 08 – Clothing Textures. In the 8th of the series, CG Cookie Blender is working on the clothes. So, don’t let the title put you off. … Read more

Blender 2.7 Texture Painting Tutorial

2017/05/28 by Nalates Urriah

I’m not that great at texture painting in 3D. I am trying to get better. So, when this video caught my eye, I checked it out. Blender Character Texture Painting (Play List). Darrin Lile made the videos. I think he did a good job. There are six in the set, each about 15 minutes long. … Read more

Second Life: Specular Maps Tutorial

2016/07/03 by Nalates Urriah

New Work Notes has posted a rare tutorial: Metaverse ProTips: Building With Second Life Specular Maps. Well… I think rare for NWN. This is a good tutorial on how specular maps are used in SL.

SL Material’s Transparency

2013/04/102013/04/10 by Nalates Urriah

If you are playing with materials and trying to do transparency with specular maps, you may have run into problems. The problem came up on Plurk and Geenz, the one coding the project, replied in the comments on Inara Pey’s site. Laverne Unit – April 10, 2013 at 16:56 After some testing, it seems that … Read more

Specular Maps Tutorial

2013/07/312013/04/10 by Nalates Urriah

There is information about the Materials System in the SL Wiki and Forum. The part I found interesting is the link to: Brief Considerations About Materials. This is an article by a teacher for a Post-Graduate Course on Game Art.

The emphasis in this article is on Specular Maps. This is something many of us have little knowledge about. But, the specular map is going to be far more complex than the normal map. This is the area where knowledge will be key to making nice object textures or great object textures.