Program for creating character textures/content creation tuts
Sorel
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Hello. I have been pondering on the idea for a while on making stuff to sell here in the daz store. I have zbrush for modeling (though I have not really given it much use lol...) I want to start off on making characters. WHat programs are good for creating human textures? I know zbrush can do textures but sometimes I read that it's not the best? Also I would like some tutorials on how the content creation process works.
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I can't really help much with what to use for texture creation, I use photoshop and that works for me, but it sounds like you may be thinking more along the lines of painting directly onto the model. I've heard great things about Blacksmith3D - I have a free trial, but haven't used it yet. You can find the free trial here. It's pretty expensive so you'd want to be sure you liked it first.
As for tutorials, I love the ones from Winterbrose. There are several that cover morphing, packaging, etc. I have "Packaging Your Morphs for Genesis" which doesn't seem to be available anywhere anymore, but "Packaging your morphs for genesis 2" is probably just about the same as information goes, and if you're working with genesis 2 then it would be even better for you.
Unfortunately all those cool tutorials from Winterbrose appear to be missing from the DAZ store (I bought mine here, but there's no link from my product library anymore), you can still get them at the Winterbrose site. And there are also a handful of them available at the Renderosity store.
And I'll add this too, just in the interest of being thorough - this is a tutorial on saving props for distribution. I don't own this yet and I have no experience with this vendor, so I can't speak to the quality or the information included. But it looks like might be helpful :)
Thank you for your reply. Yeah I have the genesis tutorial. Although for content creation purpose, I'm more looking for how to fit things to an object. I plan on making fiber brows and lashes for my characters so will need to know how to make those work in DAZ. I also have been eyeing blacksmith 3d for a while. though I might give zbrush a go first just to see what I can do, but would be nice to know what other people use as well.
You can do a lot with Zbrush. Tutorials abound over at Youtube.com. Mec4D has some good ones.