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Beginner Intro to Creating Custom Textures/Skins - A 13 minute tutorial introducing texture editing for VAM
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Beginner Intro to Creating Custom Textures/Skins - A 13 minute tutorial introducing texture editing for VAM
Outline:
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- Rundown of texture types
- Where to start when creating a new skin
- The two major challenges - seams and color matching
- Demo: Using frequency separation in GIMP to color match a new feature:
- Duplicate layer
- Gaussian blur the duplicate until all desired details are lost
- Set blurred layer mode to Grain Extract
- Create New Layer from Visible; set that new layer to Grain Merge mode,
and return the blurred duplicate mode to Normal
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