Welcome
to this mini-tutorial. This
tutorial is about texturing
a car using one of my previous
models I have created. The
car itself is based on the
Nissan Skyline GT-R R34, modified
to look like a street racer.
I will be using the new Total
Textures v8 Vehicles CD.
Texturing
First
off, I textured the car
body, using the paint shader
from the cd (lightwave006.srf)
as a base (Btw, the disk
contains shaders also for
Studio Max and Cinema 4d).
The colors may be tweaked
a bit to your own liking.
I made the orange here a
bit darker.
The
hood was done by using the
same shader, and making the
colour black, and adding a
procedural map on the colour
channel
For
the main texture on the
body, there would be a
lot to choose from, included
on the CD. I opted for
a more “ethnic”
look, so I chose one of
the tribal images (tribal004.tiff).
Since the background of
the tiff files included
are transparent, they
are very easy to use in
Lightwave, just a matter
of adding it on the colour
channel and making necessary
changes in scale
The
background of the decals may
appear white in the viewport
but once it is rendered, the
base colour will appear. The
same technique was applied
for the racing decals used,
racedecal001.tiff and racedecal003.tiff,
for the hood and for the side
of the body respectively.
There are a lot of other racing
decals to choose from, but
since I can’t place
them all in one car, I just
got these two.
For
the interior of the car,
even though it’s not
seen much in the rendering,
I used the other maps included
in the cd. For the dashboard,
material003.jpg was used
in the colour and the bump,
and material001.jpg was
used for some parts of the
seats.
For
the background building
and the road, I basically
used an old model I made,
and changed some maps with
the ‘road textures’
that came with the cd since
they are better quality.
Well,
that would be it for now.
Thanks to 3dTotal for these
great textures and for the
giving me the chance to
try them out! Till next
time,
Kenji
Gozum
This image was created using
a few of the hundreds of textures from the Total Texture CDs - very comprehensive
texture collections priced with the hobbyist in mind. To see more examples, download
free samples and read full details follow
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