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Maya
Texturing question.
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07 Feb 2008This may be a little difficult to explain clearly, but i'll try... I'm texturing the hull of a ship, the Titanic to be specific, and i'm having a slight problem with the coloring of it. I made a tileable texture for the riveted iron plate pattern that goes along the side of the hull, similar to a metal brick wall I guess and in the Place 2d texture node, I jacked up the UV repeat so that it would appear on the ship in the proper size and that's all working great. The problem comes when I try to color that metal pattern half black and half red like this http://www.pottsoft.com/home/titanic/jp ... model2.jpg , however because my texture is only a small bit of the pattern and tiled like crazy, I can only either get a solid black hull, a solid red hull, or a red and black striped hull. Is there's a way I can export the tiled pattern from Maya into a texture file or something so that I could color that in photoshop? I had also tried coloring it with a ramp texture node, but it came out pretty crappy looking.
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07 Feb 2008Hey,
If you use your tiled iron plate texture as your bump map, and pipe in a hard-edged ramp into the color channel that should give you the effect you want, as the tile map and the ramp will have their own Place2d texture node.
If you want both to make up your color, you could do the same thing (i.e. each texture node has its own Place2d node) but use a layered texture, or a BlendColors node to mix them together.
Here's a screenshot of the two networks:
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Will J 215 posts07 Feb 2008Thats pretty much what I was going to reccomend. Sadly, Titanic didn't get the chance to have her hull become rusted and fauled to any appreciable degree, so Christians method is both effective, and historically accurate
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08 Feb 2008Got it to work, thanks a lot
. There is one more problem, though I can probably solve it by using an image map instead of a ramp for the coloring. The Iron panels on the Titanic curve upward with the shape of the ship when they approach the bow and the stern, however the paintjob doesn't lol. Life would be so easy if I had 2 UV sets for the same object lol.
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