Tinkering with Textures Tutorial

Have you got stuck on trying to adapt textures for your content within Daz Studio?

Have you wondered if there are some cost-effective ways to manipulate textures?

Are you looking for fast and simple methods for changing texturing on your DS assets?

This tutorial covers the essentials in handling textures for your content in Daz Studio. Join Tiffanie Gray as she demonstrates all of her learned methods for dealing with textures in step by step fashion. This class is aimed at beginners for managing textures in Daz Studio and wishing to repurpose their existing content with new textures.

Tutorial Content

Introduction

• Breaking down the terminology
• Changing Iray to 3DL and 3DL to Iray with DS Defaults

Quick and Dirty Changes

• Changing Diffuse color
• Changing Bump or Normal Settings
• Alter Gloss and Specularity
• Substituting available textures (Bump, specular)
• Using Shaders to Add
• Using Shaders to Change
• Changing Ambient in 3DL
• Changing Emissions in Iray
• Using HDRIs in Iray and Light colors in 3DL

More involved methods

• Shift colors in Irfanview or PS or PD
• Replace diffuse with another flat texture image
• Make a copy of the Diffuse/Base, mask it and add your own textures/colors
• Make a copy of the Transmap/Opacity map (if there is one and add new zones)
• Make a copy of the Diffuse/Base and turn to Black/White and add zones Place in Trans
• Add a bump or Displace map based on the Diffuse map

5 Texturing Case Studies

• The Pillow
• The Nailed Note
• The Commercial Hallway
• The Shirt
• The Big Cat

Software used in this webinar:-

• Daz Studio
• IrFanview
• Filter Forge
• Some Photoshop
• PD Howler