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In anticipation of a skin repo: Working on an instructional skin with annotations, for demonstrating where seams are and where they tie together.



Full skin image so far:

Good idea. And one of those ideas, where you ask yourself: Why hasn't this been done before? I did a lot of skin texture experiments in the past and I always had to create some kind of temporary helper texture. It never came to my mind to do this permanently and in a systematic way.

My idea for improvement:
Instead of publishing a single PNG use something that supports layers (GIMP?). This way annotations could be switched on and of and we could have something like a right-hand-details layer with highlighted borders of fingernails. Users could contribute to your work in a nondestructive way by providing a new layer they consider useful.

Just to illustrate my idea: R_fingernails

Unfortunately this forum doesn't support PNG transparency. The white area is transparent.

Good idea.

I actually have a gimp file with the text as separate layer(s).

Looking at last post in this thread http://www.elysiun.com/forum/showthread ... ge-texture it looks as if it might be possible to do texture paint in blender without having to export from gimp first. Seems a bit cumbersome though.

Pity blender doesn't support xcf.

joepal wrote:Looking at last post in this thread http://www.elysiun.com/forum/showthread ... ge-texture it looks as if it might be possible to do texture paint in blender without having to export from gimp first. Seems a bit cumbersome though.

Pity blender doesn't support xcf.

I would suggest doing the texture painting with a vector graphics application, rather than a raster graphics one like GIMP. Any changes to the UVMap or even the mesh can be handled more simply, as the vectors are infinitely correctable.

Another good idea would be to have all the mesh seams marked for Blender during the export to Blender. Perhaps this is more of an mhx2 solution?

brkurt wrote:I would suggest doing the texture painting with a vector graphics application, rather than a raster graphics one like GIMP. Any changes to the UVMap or even the mesh can be handled more simply, as the vectors are infinitely correctable.

Unfortunately, blender does not seem to support vector images as textures. I'm not painting the textures in gimp, I'm painting them in blender and then I add labels in gimp.

Right now, I'm not entirely clear on how a conversion from texture paint in blender to vector-based format would happen. I guess one could edge trace in inkscape, but that seems a bit cumbersome.

Anyway, improved version and XCF file. I've separated the labels into layers, but I'm leaving the separation of body parts for now. It is a good idea, but a bit overkill for this particular demo texture. It would fit better as a separate project.

Final version:



I've created a skin repo at http://www.makehumancommunity.org/skins.html too, you can find xcf, mhmat and thumb files there.

Hi,

is there a way to create easily a texture skin from a face picture (front/back/left/right)? I mean, is there a tool to transform a face picture into this texture skin (face part)?

Regards,

Gaetan.