Maya 2015

Lecture Details

Making use of an image editing application such as Adobe Photoshop is a necessary requirement for any 3D Modeler. While a 3D modeling package such as Autodesk Maya is great for developing a 3D model it lacks the necessary tools to develop excellent textures. Maya does have texturing capabilities but it will never be equivalent to a full scope image editor such as Photoshop for the purposes of developing images. We will be taking the UV Snapshots we took in the last lesson and setting them up within Photoshop so we can develop our model textures. While this course mainly focuses on the use of Maya we will be briefly covering how to use Photoshop with Maya for the purpose of texture creation.

The first thing we will want to do is bring in our UV Snapshot. Once we have the UV Snapshot in Photoshop we will need to take some additional steps in order to fully utilize our UV Snapshot. One thing you will immediately notice is that the UV Snapshot is very hard to see as the lines are not very dark and almost disappear into the transparent background. We will layer the UV Snapshot roughly four times in order to darken it up. With the four UV Snapshots layered on top of one another the lines will become much more visible and useful to us. We will also be adding the UV Snapshot layers into a group so as to keep them organized and then we will setup the background color so we can begin developing our diffuse texture.

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