{"id":6632,"date":"2011-05-14T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2011-05-12T21:06:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T19:06:51","slug":"some-daz-studio-material-tweaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=6632","title":{"rendered":"Some DAZ Studio material tweaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is about a request that was on the Dundjinni<\/a> forum for some items, among them dead police officers as the map was some zombie apocalypse map with dead people, doctors and police officers. The problem was that no one had any good police officers, so I decided maybe I can tweak some materials as I got a M4 Police hat from a hat pack.<\/p>\n

So, first I started DAZ Studio 3<\/a>, added Michael 4 and dressed him up in the Army Uniform I had in mind for tweaking.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, this could double as a police uniform lacking any other solutions. So I located the material files, and found that it is only one single file for the diffuse, one for bump and one for specular.<\/p>\n

I started FilterForge<\/a> and used the tweed filter to generate a bluish very fine tweed. Here is the map.<\/p>\n

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Then I rendered a greyscale map, as this filter doesn’t use height information but has a greyscale button for that, very clever.<\/p>\n

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I then ran a bumpmap filter on this greyscale to make bumps.<\/p>\n

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Then I masked out the old cloth texture and replaced that with transparent color on all three maps. Then into OmniGraffle<\/a> to assemble the new texture maps. What I needed from the old were buttons and some other things. Here is the new texture map (smaller of course, the original maps are 2048×2048).<\/p>\n

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And here is the new bump map<\/p>\n

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So, how did it go? Here are three of those dead cops I rendered. splatter has to be added, these are all clean.<\/p>\n

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So, they do look dead don’t they, so mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

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