Design CS:GO Skins Using Templates in Blender3d (Free software)
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This Video shows how to create weapon templates using a free program called blender. The templates help simplify the design process and allow you to design the majority of your weapon skins/finishes on a 2D side view rather than on the flat UV's/Texture map.
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That poor, poor cube, always gets deleted :(
This is so far the best explained version of how counter strike skins can be made with blender and photoshop.
+Edward Bozin Thank you, really pleased you like it, its definitely not a perfect process but it hopefully should be enough to get people started.
Is see a lot of question in the video and the comments. As I use blender for a while, i'll try to give some advices and answers.
Also, I'm french and I don't have a degree of english writing, so don't get mad at me.
Firsts things first : Blender have a lot of tools, if you intend to use it seriously, you need to leanr some keyboard shortcuts. It will save you a lot of time. I mean, really.
Also, in Blender, use your right mouse button to select something in the viewport.
► Managing the 3D view
Using the down menus to set your view is very slow and it makes a lot of things to remember. Just remember a few shortcuts, all in the numpad : 1 for front view, 3 for right view, 7 for top, hold Ctrl with these to get their oposite, hit 0 for camera view, Ctrl Alt 0 to set the camera to your current view, and hit 5 to switch between orthographic and perspective modes.
Also, when you are in camera view and want to get out, simply hold the middle mouse and move. If you didn't set on the "lock camera to view" mode, it will get you out and let you control your view at the same time.
► Open and close the side bars.
You can see theses left and right bar in a lot of windows in Blender. The left one is named "Tools bar", the right one is named "Options bar". You can toggle them by pressing T and N. Simple.
► Lock the camera
As explained arround 11:45 , if you move your view with the "lock camera to view" on, it will move your camera, destroy your 2D projection and you're good to redo the set. But there is a way to lock the camera. Turn that lock camera to view as we actually don't need it for now and it's actually handy to set it of (so that you can middle mouse as explained above). Then, with the camera selected, open the options bar (N), go to the Transform pannel. You can see all the position, rotation and scale parameters of the camera. Just click all the padlocks on the right, it will lock these parameters and you will be happy for the next minutes/hours of work.
► I can't paint in the UV/Image editor, i don't see the color wheel, bla bla bla
Watch down the window, at the center. Make sure you set the UV/Image Editor from "View" to "Paint". Then open the tools bar (T), go to the tools section and enjoy.
► I don't see my texture in the UV/Image Editor
By default, Blender loads the "Render Result" image (as it's the main purpose of that software). You need to load your texture in the UV/Image editor to see it.
To load your texture image instead of the render result, watch down the UV/Image Editor window, click the little picture icon next to the "Render Result" text and select your image in the dropdown menu that just apeared. And if your texture is not there, it means that you didn't created it as showed in the video, so you have to open an extenral file via the folder icon, or create the texture file via the menu Image → New Image.
Thanks for helping people out! As i mentioned I don't use blender (learnt what needed to for this video) so great to have someone that has good knowledge of it and is willing to help people. Cheers!
My pleasure ! :)
Thanks for the tutorial... this entire time I've been manually editing the UV Sheets piece by piece, or creating images and then merging them onto the weapon.
it took me so long to find a video explaining how to edit objs in blender great video :)
Much thanks for this Tutorial. It has always been a limitation for me to only be able to create Skins with expensive modelling programs. ty
+GrizzlyWiesel pleased it allows you to give it a try. GL
Nice! I imagine this is really good news for a lot of people that doesn't own 3D-coat and other expensive programs. Btw cool that you make videos to help out people in the skin-community, keep it up!
+Birk Manum Thank you for the nice comment.
I do have 3d coat already. But you stil deserve a like(many likes) for being so helpful to everyone. You're the best Coridium!
+BadbearXIII Thanks very kind.
Glad you are back!
+August Ager thanks!
Very god vid m8!! Finally i can design my weapon xD! Thanks.
pleased you found it useful
When I move from photoshop to blender the kin arrives incomplete or with modification that I did not. What can this be?
Very helpful, you are kind person and deserve success
Pleased that you found it helpful!
Thank you so much for making this tutorial :)
your welcome, pleased it was useful
Thanks dude! Very helpfully!
+Mazdayxxxspb you welcome!
when i press apply texture or something i cant see the design, it gets darker (i couldnt find comment like that)
Just wondering on Gimp how would i go about using an image for the layer mask is their a set way to use it as an overlay or not?
Hello Buddy you have helped me build up a lot of skills due to your vids. So thank you. I am having an issue tho that i hope you can help with. When i bring the skin out of photoshop to blender i am getting texture issue where i get a black box across my skin. have you seen this before.
When I click on Quick Edit, I don't get the model I've done I only get a empty image with a light source and thats it.
Anyone got the same problem? if so any fixes? thanks.
Great vid mate! Your tuts are always appreciated.. Btw is that a Bangor accent you have there?
+Lipsy Thank you very much. I am in fact a Scot. ;-P
Hi when I hit apply, seemingly a texture is loaded into blender but there wasn't any color, what's wrong?
On 6:36 where he puts the skin on texture paint. But when i do it with the usp, it only selects either the silencer or gun, so how do i select them both on texture paint at the same time?
Awesome tutorial Coridium, it helped me so much! :) Thankyou man! +1 sub to you!!
+Nathen Dale thanks and your welcome.
One question: What files do I have to upload to the Steam Workshop??
When you go to upload your design the uploader tool highlights what is required. Its mostly texture files of your design. In various formats like VTF, TGA, etc and a TXT file which is generated by the CS workbench this contains information about the settings used in the workbench, for example, phong intensity, wear settings, etc.
Okay awesome! Figured it out!
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=689865960 Please check it out! Thankyou for the tutorial :D
when i import the file it does not show weapons it only shows my previous blender projects. why?
When i click apply weapon just become black
Really nice video! Learned alot from it! Just one question. Always when i import my skins to the workshop they have like this odd white light over them and it looks amateurish. I see alot of the big skin creators dont get this problem and their skins look more profesional. Is there a setting in the workbench or is it the artwork that is probably the issue? Thanks and keep making these videos :)
+Erki16 difficult to know exactly what you mean but try experimenting with the phong exponent and intensity.
thanks bro i was doing this shit manually with only uv map and photoshop... took ages to complete something :D
+MrJackoable - yeah, I have done many textures with UV maps alone, it work perfectly well but of course is more time consuming to get similar results.
Could you possibly make a newer video, since you used photoshop in this one, maybe make one using paintnet or gimp? Im not sure how to do all the layering stuff in paintnet, and I dont have photoshop :c
Sorry, I have never used GIMP but there are many many tutorials on it online, try watching some I am sure they will cover stuff like layers etc.
So I just got done with a skin about 2-3 hours ago... do you have problems with the UV map being projected pixelated? I made sure both image sizes were correct before hitting apply as well. Also another thing that helped me greatly when applying the texture is hollowing out the inside of the model first. I was having a lot of projection issues like triangles being punched through my uv map but after watching your OTHER video I figured I'd try hollowing out the model and it worked!
Edit: [SOLVED]; For anyone having issues with the quality of your texture once it's on the 3D Model, at the very beginning when you're editing the alpha value be sure to put in the appropriate width and height, as well as checking the 32-bit. Did both of these and it's amazing how much difference that makes.
+Alissan Gardner (Trinity) - yeah the texture size is of course very important. 32 bit in theory should not make a massive difference. Could effect gradients and stuff like that but tbh the difference in game should be very small as it will be compressed.
Awesome, solid tutorial for Custom Paint jobs for Counter-Strike. But how do edit the alpha channel / UV mapping to make Anodized Airbrushed Style, Patina Style, Gunsmith Style... I know you can edit how the paint wears down, but how do you make certain parts metallic like ?? Your Decimator skin would be a great example :D
Hi the best thing to do is read this post by Valve, it explains what the values do what in the alpha channel of Anodized, Patina, Gunsmith, etc blog.counter-strike.net/workshop/finishes/phong.html
part of the texture is missing when applying to blender!
image size is correct
tried everything, doesnt work!
what could be wrong?
Try watching my fixing projection issues video, the answer might be in that.
Hi, I've got an issue with linking PS and Blender. When I click "Quick Edit" in Blender it opens up correctly. I do everything the same as you do in the video. But when I click "Apply" it loads and then nothing happens. I couldn't find a clue by myself so I hope you can help me with that.
For me, I did everything he did in the video but my blender won't open Photoshop with "Quick Edit." I keep getting an error message saying "Image editor not found"
When I select the UV/Image Editor, it's just a blank UV Image.. My design is missing. I also don't have has much options as you in the Image pop-up menu. What's the prob? :o
Please have a look at the various conversations in the comments, i think this question has been asked before. Sadly, as I mention in the video, my knowledge of blender is very limited and I learnt/figured out what I needed to purely to try to help others without 3d coat or zbrush. I personally dont actually use blender.
I have used Blender alot, so I thought I'd clear up two things :)
1: Lock camera to view= you move the camera when you move your view (when you are in camera mode) You can turn this off when you set up the right camera view. This way you dont have to care about messing with your camera view.
2: for the step at 27:00 you need to make sure your material is selected, otherwise you will get a black and grey map.
actually I didnt know about the photoshop texturing that you showed in this video, so I'm very glad you made it! Are you entering the new SI FI contest that valve launched last week btw? :)
Take care!
+Bepske Kaatje Thanks for the help! Great to have someone helping that knows Blender helping out!!!
I really dont use it as I said in the video, basically figured out the stuff I needed to for this video having never used the program before. With regards to the lock camera to view, the thing I dont like about that either is that if you pan/zoom it moves the render region. I am not sure if this would cause issues with a projection but both with it locked and with it unlocked, it concerned me.
What I was really looking for was a feature that would store a view. For example you position the viewport using any view (right, left, camera, etc) then you hit a store button then you can freely use the viewport when want to go back to the view you just hit the stored view button. Most other software seems to have this as standard (3d coat, zbrush, 3ds max, etc) but I could not find it in blender. I did find a plugin for blender that did it but did not want to add the extra steps of downloading and installing plugins to the video. (this is a video of the plugin I mentioned vimeo.com/23716437)
Thanks again for the help.
+Coridium Studios to go to different view modes you can use the Num Pad...
7 - top view
1 - front view
3 - side view
5 - perspective/orthographic view
Coridium Studios I understand what you mean, but Blender works a bit different than other 3D programs I think. If you don't lock the camera to view (in this case view=viewport but I believe you already know that) the camera will work the same as a normal object. You can only move it when you select it and press "g" to move it around.
When you are using this texture method, blender is using the camera view to export, not your viewport. Because of this you will NOT have to worry about it fucking up because you have a different viewport.
Knowing this I think it is easier to use your numpad (click "view" next too "object mode" to see the shortcuts) to change your viewport. That is how I always work and you just get used to it besically :p
Another way to do it is to animate the camera. Place it at all the positions you want to have saved, and then just use the timeline to get to the different postitions. Ofcourse this is a slow process so I'm glad you were able to find a plugin for that ;D
Hope this helps you out in some way!
+Bepske Kaatje Thanks for all the info! good of you to take the time. I personally use 3d coat (mostly) to create my designs as I like the painting tools and the fact it supports layers etc, but hopefully anyone watching this can read your comments and hopefully it will help them out! Cheers!
Ok so I have a question.
When you're making the design in PS, you are only able to edit the sides of the weapon since it's a 2D model. If you want to edit the top/bottom of the weapon, do you have to do that in Blender or is there a way to do it in PS?
+Emil Kajsjö As I mentioned in the video I dont actually use blender, I figured out this process to try to offer people a alternate option to 3d coat/zbrush/etc. but in theory the process I use in 3d coat would be similar... it really depends on what I am trying to do, sometimes I will do more projections from top/front/etc (if you do this I would recommend saving your file and texture first as this will allow you to blend the two projections using the before and after textures) other option is to paint it in blender using the painting tools (as mentioned in the video) and the last option is to edit the flat 2d texture. As I said i often used a mixture of these depending on the situation.
I got some few questions. First of all, I can't connect my photoshop to blender. I found the file but when I try quick edit it wont open photoshop (I'm on a mac osx). Also My brush doesnt seem hard while my opacity and flow and that kinda stuff is all full. I don't know how to make it thick because now I can see the grey thru my color.
I am sorry I dont use a mac so cant really help with the program linking, as for the brush opacity are you using a graphics tablet? also check your flow settings too.
When I do the texture thing, it turns white instead of purple...
If you un-check "Lock camera to view" then it won't rotate when you move, and you can press Numpad0 to go back to camera view.
+Leking moonya Thanks for the info, good of you and Bepske Kattje to take the time to mention this.
Just to be a bit clearer about what I was looking for, as in the video I did not explain myself very well...
With regards to the lock camera to view, what I was really looking for was a feature that would store a view. For example you position the viewport using any view (right, left, camera, etc) then you hit a store button then you can freely use the viewport when want to go back to the view you just hit the stored view button. Most other software seems to have this as standard (3d coat, zbrush, 3ds max, etc) but I could not find it in blender. I did find a plugin for blender that did it but did not want to add the extra steps of downloading and installing plugins to the video. (this is a video of the plugin I mentioned vimeo.com/23716437) Thanks again for the reply.
why i cant open it on gimp 2.8??
Would you have a problem with me referring to this video in my timelapse, since i got many requests for a tutorial?
If it will help more people learn, then feel free!
Hope im helping you out getting some additional views and/or subs (not that youd need those... :P)
im trying to load it in photoshop, however when photoshop loads, the image does not.
I assume that you have checked and tested the path in user preferences? if you have it should just work, never had a problem with it personally, maybe try the blender forums if you are still having trouble.
Can you type in the link that you used to connect blender to photoshop?
mine is C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015\ but that didnt work, yours seemed longer too,
a respond would be nice. Great Video!
Never mind. I did a little bit of research and found out that there has to be an additional Photoshop.exe at th end to make it work!
i have done everything in the comments where the UV map doesnt work in Blender, i have tried opening it, everything nothing will work. I have all the sizes correct. Can anyone help me please.
Huffy that happen to me
uuu really nice :D
+RIKO Thanks. :-)
u r confusing me what to use exactly
i have cs6 extended
so shd i I use blender3d,3d coat,zbrush all three
or can u suggest using only one software with ps.
I personally prefer 3d coat as it has extra functionality but it costs quite a lot, that is why I included processes for blender (which is free) and Zbrush (which is not free but a lot of people already have it for other work)
i have a problem where i cant link photoshop with my pc its windows not mac but it keeps saying image editor not found even though i put the cs6 photoshop in the file
I assume its the full path to the .exe? If it is and its definitely including any username stuff (if in a username folder) then I honestly have not idea what the issue might be, it has always just worked for me. Might be worth trying the blender forums.
I have a problem with my editing software I use photoshop but it wont sync with blender says it can't be found.
did you check the path to the image editing software in blender is correct?
Great video. Any possibility that you could upload the template files for different guns? Would probably save people a lot of time in the end :)
+Hello Do you like my name? Because i think it's a pretty dang amazing name! - Thank you for the comment, I am really short of free time at the moment, it would probably be faster for someone else to do it. :-) but you never know I might find time.
+Hello Do you like my name? Because i think it's a pretty dang amazing name! drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6BFjXblqNzoLWRFR25BMk9oQXc&usp=drive_web is that what u wanted?
Thank U for your tutorials, you really helped me a lot!!! I am actually in the middle of making my first skin ever... :) BUT: There is one thing that really important, but you never talked about it in your videos: You explain how to make skins from sideview, but sometimes other parts of the weapon like the TOP or the BOTTOM should be edited too... specially at some tricky skins the top of the weapon becomes ugly looking.... So how do you fix/edit/draw those parts after you done with the side painting? Or this kind of painting is not a good way if I want to draw on other different parts wich can't be edited from side view? And another thing... How do I edit protruding part of the weapons? Because from sideview it cant be edited separately... I know these are not easy things, but a quick video about this would be very helpful... (or painful? :)
This can be done in many ways none of them are particularly easy and require a bit of effort. One way is to try to do it on the flat texture (this depends on the UV layout and each gun is different) Other option is to do a bunch of projections from different views. (if you do this be sure to save your texture before each additional projection as you will need to bland the various views together in a program like PS. Last option is to do the fixes directly inside blender/3d coat/zbrush using its 3d painting tools.
Thanks :)
Hey Coridium, Im using blender and substance painter to make textures. Going to make a tutorial about it and maybe it can help you. Im using Cycles to render the textures and I can use the nodes to make them procedurally as well
+Victor Hugo Borges Thanks for the message, always interested to see new stuff/processes but I dont actually use blender I purely installed and figured this out for this video to try to give people free alternative to program to the likes of 3d coat. I use mainly use PS, Zbrush, 3ds max, 3d coat and substance painter, depending on the "thing" I am trying to create. Thanks.
+Coridium Studios Ha! Thanks for the reply. Will do it anyway, maybe help someone else aswell.
Hi,
Very nice tutorial. I just have one question: do I need to worry about texture padding in Blender? I saw your tutorial about 3D Coat and ZBrush and there was an option to set the texture padding. Thanks in advance.
+BUCK3T - Padding is important, sadly I forgot to mention that in the video. (to many things to remember ;-) ) but by default blender had a bit of padding so that helps but increasing it is a good idea.
+Coridium Studios Thanks for the answer.
While working with Blender I have found that before exporting to Photoshop the Lamp should be hidden in Blender (by clicking the eye icon near the Lamp in the Outliner). The lighting on the weapon doesn't change. If the lamp isn't hidden, the projection will have a vertical line from the lamp object to the ground (i.e. the lighting layer will have a transparent line through the weapon).
Yeah, this is a good point, but at least the line has no effect on the projection as you need to remove the lighting layer before projection or you will bake the lighting into the texture.
Thanks! :)
np, your welcome.
After almost an hour, I finally was able to connect GIMP to quick edit using the path: /Users/[yourname]/Desktop/GIMP.app (Just for anyone who is looking for this). When i clicked quick edit, it opened GIMP with a blank canvas. Now i've given up. :(
While your tutorial is great, I do have an issue with moving the texture over to blender. When I hit the "apply" button, the gun's skin darkens instead. I'm wondering if this a bad setting, or something i'm missing.
did you remove the lighting layer? like shown in the video
yes, the only layer left was the merged "color/detail" layer (mask removed)
sadly with out more info I am not sure what your problem might be.
great video, thanks! btw, what's the soft you're using after 5:00
+Сергей Дорошенко its called zbrush, its mainly used for sculpting 3d models, its a excellent program for doing detailed organic models.
+Coridium Studios btw, it would be nice if you show me "how to" spread out the whole model into separate parts... the main thing why i can't do it by myself cause i am not native English speaker =/ and Zbrush slang is too heavy for me, there's no tolerance localisation to my language (i was sent you a friend invite via Steam @Neutrino, add me if you like)
Why do you want to spread the model out into different parts, that is not required, I only showed this in the video to explain what a texture map was and how it worked.
Sometimes you need more detailed skin design, and textures are laying one over one. I already found out how to spread out the model, but, as for me, the way of UV-painting is much easier and faster
so it means that you can desgin and texture without uv
i mean, the way i texture is, i open my model and create uv , once uv's are done, i open my uv in photoshop and apply texture, ofcourse my uv's are perfect and i know all the parts , once texture is done i then apply it to the model
the way you did confused me, can you explain it,,, do u mean you can texture first then uv? or it only happens if the uv is already done? like the csgo files which are already uv ( btw for csgo i did the same thing, i downloaded the uvs and object files, and i opened the uvs and textured it
i dont know if the way you do helps to do complicated design and textures plus, all you are doing is texturing on top of a 3d model and not on top of a uv
abit confused, i hope to get a reply
than kyou
i use maya for my models
This process only works if your model already has UV like the CS GO weapon models. What the process does is it projects the side view design on to the 3d model, the projection assigns the various colours, etc to the texture map and therefore onto the corresponding UVs. Basically it removes (for the most part) the need to design on a flat texture and allows you to design on a 3d model. The end result is the same you end up with a texture that corresponds to your UV layout.
thank you
do you know if we can apply texture on a 3d model directly like blender
i mean i use maya all the time and i apply texture using uvs which sometimes is confusing for complicated design textures
sorry not sure what you are asking? Are you asking if you can do it in Maya? if you are I am sorry I dont use Maya so I dont know, I would suggest searching for texture projection in maya.
Hey, I'm kinda new to making skins. On photoshop, how do you paint on both sides of the model?
if you are exporting from blender, make sure that you have turned off the options show around 13mins in the video.
Um, I meant how to do it directly on photoshop without blender.
Sorry I am not a fan of the 3d element of PS, so I don't use it.
Coridium, when I try and press "quick edit" under the external tab, so I can do the designing in photoshop, it keeps giving me this message: Error: Image editor not found, please specify in User Preferences > File. But I have already set up photoshop in user preferences correctly but it still won't work. Can you please help me?
Sorry I have never had this problem but as I mentioned in the video I dont use Blender very much, I honestly learnt what I needed to so that I could create this tutorial. I use other 3d editing software normally. You should try the blender forums I am sure their will be people there that will be able to help.
Thanks for responding, I tried working with the forums, they tried but they didn't know what the problem was either. I just don't have access to the 3D editing programs that cost money because I don't have enough, so that was why I was using Blender.
Sorry to hear that you never found an answer thats really odd. I was not suggesting that you use other software was just trying to explain that I dont use blender very much at all so I am not sure of what the problem might be.
Hey Coridium, can you make a small tutorial by using Substance painter?
+ArT3D7 I only have substance painter 1 and have never used it for creating skins, only used it for personal 3D projects. I know that creating skins in substance would be totally possible but I think most of it would need to be painted inside substance rather and exporting to PS, etc. TBH that is not a bad thing as it save jumping from program to program but in substance painter 1 there is no orthographic views which when designing can cause some issues as lines dont always line up as nicely as they do when things are without perspective. As I said its totally possible but not sure when I might get time to do that.
ah.. ok I tried making some AK skin but as you may know Substance is more Normal map focused software.... it's sort of tough doing without normal map... and yea the points you mentioned too.... but I like the easy texturing techniques in that.
Great vid, but for some reason when I try to set my image editor it won't show up paint.net. Please help.
Oh never mind, just happened to find the anwser by scrolling down xD
cool pleased its sorted
hi Coridium, is there any other free photo editing alternative, other than photoshop that zbrush can export to
There is a program called G.I.M.P. try googling it, I have not used it but i have heard it is very similar to PS and is free.
thanks coridium, i got GIMP and it zbrush seems to export to it fine
great
am i able to do the jist of this in GIMP? I usually dont have PS accessible (school only) and its alot easier with gimp. This is an awesome tutorial btw!
+Mik Last Thanks, yes as far as I know this should be relatively easy to do similar things in GIMP, you would just need to set the path for export to GIMP (The location of the path you need to change is shown in the video). Sadly I dont use GIMP so you will need to figure out the various features that correspond to PS.
The only issue I have found with GIMP is that it has no 3D View. I'm looking right now if someone has made a plugin for it, but I haven't taken too much time yet. I'm fairly sure you didn't use it for this video, correct? If so I can do just about everything you did in this video.
+Mik Last Exactly, the process takes away the need for 3d in you 2d painting program, you can use blender to deal with the 3d part.
+Coridium Studios okay. Im going to take a shot at it tonight, ill see how well it goes. Lucky for me i already know blender fairly well, so it should be a bit easier to do.
+Mik Last - cool, goodluck
when i hit uv/image iditor... i see no colors ?????????
what am i missing here ?
I got the same problem, have you figured it out yet? :/
i stopped using blender. free softwres are bullshit. u can buy 3D coat + Zbrush.. the two are so awesome, and come very handy.
where i live (3rd world) goverements don't give a shit about piracy. so i downloaded a cracked version of the software.
if u'r not like me i highly recommend buying.
cry wolf You need to prees "u" and unwrap.
If you have this issue you need to go back to 3d view click slots under tool, template will be selected. you need to click UVMAP with the little ball and choose UVMap
Free software are not bullshit.
It's just that you can not properly use an advanced tool without knowing a minimum of things. And with Blender, we are not talking about a text editor or an MS Paint, but a digital 3D software that allows to do everything up to a professional production level. Don't blame the "free softwares" for something that is only up to you.
And, just to "help" you, i don't know if you speak about the painting tools or the texture file, so i'll speak about both :
You need to load your texture in the UV/Image editor to see it. As you need to tell your picture viewer program wich file you want to see.
By default, the UV/Image editor may load the "Render Result" because it's the most comonly excpected thing by most of the users opening that window : see what they are rendering.
To load your texture image instead of the render result, watch down the UV/Image Editor window, click the little picture icon next to the "Render Result" text and select your image in the dropdown menu that just apeared. And if your texture is not there, it means that you didn't created it as showed in the video, so you have to open an extenral file via the folder icon, or create the texture file via the menu Image → New Image.
If you were speaking about the color wheel and painting tolls stuff, make sure you set the UV/Image editor frow View mode to Paint mode via the drop down menu at the bottom center, then open the tool bar (T) and go in the tools section.
After i pressed UV/Image Editor, the UV map came up without my texture. Plz help?
ah, i found the fix. thanks for this amazing tutorial!
Great, any chance you can post how you fixed it as a few people have ran into the same issue.
Basically, you need to have the gun selected and near the bottom of the screen, after you select the UV/Image Editor, you need to select your texture in the drop down menu.
thanks
Glad to help, thanks for this video!
Following the step at 27:00 by clicking UV/Image Editor, the texture map thing shows up but is blank/grey for me. Any idea why that might be?
+Will Stubbs As I mentioned in the video I don't know Blender very well at all, I basically figured out how to do this for the video. Have you applied a texture? also have you selected the object that the texture is applied too?
no worries, figured i'd ask. Yeah to both of those, i'll keep trying, appreciate the response, and all your video guides!
you need to make sure your material is selected, otherwise you will indeed get a black and grey map. If you already did that, pls say it because I will look a bit futher into it for you!
+Bepske Kaatje Thanks Bepske for helping out!
Coridium Studios Haha I should thank YOU for making the great tutorials :)
When trying to change from "Object Mode" to "Texture Pink" texture pink doesnt show up!
Please have a look at the various conversations in the comments, i think this question has been asked before. Sadly, as I mention in the video, my knowledge of blender is very limited and I learnt/figured out what I needed to purely to try to help others with out 3d coat or zbrush. I personally dont actually use blender.
+Coridium Studios what DO you use, anyways?
for projection stuff and 3d painting for CS - 3d coat mainly.
if you want to change "Object Mode" to "Texture Pink" you need to make sure you have selected "Weapon" in the top right. When done that "Texture Pink" should show up.
Colekebolleke OH! Thanks, man!
i couldn't get this to work
what problem are you having and what software are you using?
Every time i drag the design onto the template, it never fits?
the documents have to be the same size, (or proportions) if they are you should be able to hold shift and drag from one doc to another and it should match.
Coridium Studios they are same size but the design is always slightly off in a way that you can see the both of the images
If they match it should just align but if its not perfect for some odd reason, you can use the arrow keys in PS to pixel nudge the layers/folders to match them up
Coridium Studios thanks
Can I do this with paint tool Sai?
in theory you should be able to export to any image manipulation program, so I would guess yes. You would need to direct the export path shown in the video to the program executable.
Coridium Studios Yeah I got, had to fumble around to a bit to figure out how to do it. It is pretty suimilar to photoshop though.
does this work with gimp to ?
It should, yes.
It does but it is complected, at least for me. I got lost at the layers...
When he says to the power of two, he means two to the power of. 2048 is two to the power of 11
+beshj thanks. I am just used to saying it that way (incorrectly I am sure) but its often refereed to that way in the games industry.
What programm is it at 5:00?
its called zbrush its a 3d sculpting program, pixologic.com/
Ok thank you very much :)
np
Pretty cool besides the fact i linked blender to my photoshop.exe and it doesnt fucking work. Says it is not found...
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good video, but not everybody can afford photoshop, especially when its monthly payment...
Gimp is free and has lots of video tutorials online of how it works, try looking into that. It should work as a replacement for PS.
in the title it said free sofware and then you start using photoshop that is just stupid.
but stil good video :)
PS is not essential to the process any 2d editing software can be used. Gimp is free and has lots of video tutorials online of how it works, try looking into that. It should work as a replacement for PS.
Here's the end result if you care to take a look, big thank you Coridium!
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685453190
+Alissan Gardner (Trinity) - You are welcome, congrats on finishing!
in title says free software but u need to use ps -_- and ps isnt free dud
You can use any image editing software, you just need to link it to blender.
23:06 just opens a blank .png file for me
You need to make sure you set the rendering mode to material or lighting mode it's shown in the video if you double check it hopefully you will see what I mean.
+Coridium Studios Okay x_x first time doing this, thank you for the video
Now we only need one for GIMP instead of the 100000$ photoshop :S
There is lots of tutorials on how to use gimp and if you link blender to gimp using the path shown in the video it should be pretty straight forward to find good tutorials on how to use gimp.
this works with gimp, too
Have anyone figured out how layers(masks) works with gimp? i have tried like every layer mask options, but i cant get design to blender. Tried google but didn't found any help!
I don't have the money to buy photoshop though
check out a free software called G.I.M.P. its like PS and free to Download and use.