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    09 Texturing Methods

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    1) To texture a 3D model in Maya, you first create a material and connect it to the model, then create a texture and connect it to the material using the Hypershade editor. 2) Procedural textures are algorithm-generated patterns like checkerboard or noise that are applied through software instead of image files. To export a procedural texture, it must first be converted to an image file texture. 3) The 3D Paint Tool in Maya allows painting textures directly onto models, though external programs like Substance Painter offer more advanced painting tools. Automatic UV mapping is used to avoid seams when painting in Maya.

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    1) To texture a 3D model in Maya, you first create a material and connect it to the model, then create a texture and connect it to the material using the Hypershade editor. 2) Procedural textures are algorithm-generated patterns like checkerboard or noise that are applied through software instead of image files. To export a procedural texture, it must first be converted to an image file texture. 3) The 3D Paint Tool in Maya allows painting textures directly onto models, though external programs like Substance Painter offer more advanced painting tools. Automatic UV mapping is used to avoid seams when painting in Maya.

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    1) To texture a 3D model in Maya, you first create a material and connect it to the model, then create a texture and connect it to the material using the Hypershade editor. 2) Procedural textures are algorithm-generated patterns like checkerboard or noise that are applied through software instead of image files. To export a procedural texture, it must first be converted to an image file texture. 3) The 3D Paint Tool in Maya allows painting textures directly onto models, though external programs like Substance Painter offer more advanced painting tools. Automatic UV mapping is used to avoid seams when painting in Maya.

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    1) To texture a 3D model in Maya, you first create a material and connect it to the model, then create a texture and connect it to the material using the Hypershade editor. 2) Procedural textures are algorithm-generated patterns like checkerboard or noise that are applied through software instead of image files. To export a procedural texture, it must first be converted to an image file texture. 3) The 3D Paint Tool in Maya allows painting textures directly onto models, though external programs like Substance Painter offer more advanced painting tools. Automatic UV mapping is used to avoid seams when painting in Maya.

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    Basic Texturing Workflow in Maya

    Textures are always connected to materials, never to the polygon mesh itself. To have a texture
    on your mesh you first have to create a new material and connect it to your mesh. Next you create
    a texture and connect it to your material. The tool you need for that in Maya is called the
    Hypershade.

    Using the Hypershade to Create and Edit Textures And Shaders


    (Window -> Rendering Editors -> Hypershade)

    To assign a Shader to a 3D object use drag and drop with middle mouse button

    To assign a Texture to a Shader either use drag and drop with middle mouse button onto the desired
    attribute in the right part of the window or use the input- and output- icons on the nodes in the node-editor in
    the middle part of the window.
    Texturing by Using Procedural Textures

    Procedural textures are computer generated, mathematically calculated texture patterns as


    checkerboard, noise or ramp-textures. Any texture that is not a file-texture, is a procedural one.

    Eye-Texture created procedurally

    Procedural textures are using software-internal algorithms and are not exchanable with other programs as
    games engines. If you want to export a procedural texture, you first have to convert it to a file-texture:

    1. Select the mesh and the texture you want to convert for this mesh.
    2. In the hypershade click edit -> convert to file texture options
    3. Set the options to your needs and click "convert"
    Texturing by Painting on the 3D mesh
    (rendering menu -> texturing -> 3D paint Tool option box)

    You can also use a 3d tool to paint on your 3d surface directly instead of using pictures or procedural.
    Most common tool today for this is substance painter. Maya offers the same workflow but is not as
    powerfull as external tools. Never the less, the workflow to external tools in Maya is pretty similar. Here
    is how it works with Maya:

    Workflow:

    First you have to create a uv-layout with no overlapping shells. Just use the automatic mapping, when
    you want to use the 3D paint tool. with this, you dont have to care for seems and uv-placement and the
    automatic mapping is fine (Polygon Menu -> Create UVs -> automatic mapping

    Best is to assign a new shader before you go on. (e.g. Right click on your object -> assign favourite
    material -> lambert)

    Next you open the 3D Paint Tool (rendering menu -> texturing -> 3D paint Tool option box) and assign a
    texture to your shader. use the file textures section of the tool's options for that

    Go on and paint using the marked buttons from next page


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    Texturing by Painting on the UV-Layout in a 2D-program as Photoshop

    For being able to paint your texture in any 2D-program or editing image-files to fit to your object, you
    have to export your uv-layout as a reference to use it in the appropriate 2D-program:

    1. Select your object


    2. window -> uv texture editor -> polygons -> uv snapshot options -> set size, image format and
    place to store the final image in the apearing dialog -> press ok
    3. Open this image in Photoshop
    4. Unlock the background Layer
    5. Create a new Layer and sort it to be below the UV-Snapshot Layer
    6. Select the UV-Snapshot-Layer and set the mode to "negatively multiply" (or something similar)
    7. Now you can paint on the newly created layer and will still see the UV-lines on top of it

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