The BEST ways to texture your models!

There are 4 main ways to texture your models... and you should be using at least one of them!

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[TobiJenkins]

The last texture tip using photoshop is genius and one I had never considered. As a photographer that now uses blender commercially, using this black and white texture map method makes perfect sense now you have mentioned it.

[TheKevphil]

Good info, but the best part was your comment about nodes! First, it means you really *_are_* human, and two; you make me feel like there's hope for me, too.

[NightVisionOfficial]

Nodes are good, Nodes are fun :), like making UVs. It's just relaxing, and awesome watching the things you do, change the material drastically. I would take days to make just the little difference on a procedural Rust material in Blender, just to make it a little more realistic. I've started using Substance Painter, cause it's just faster at baking maps (i have a 4gb, low/medium tier GPU from 2019), and this is the only thing i miss, you got no seams, the texture can be scaled how much you want, and it will not be repeated. I think they should add something similar to Painter.

[jeanclaudedelaronde]

Cool I will have to check the last solution for texturing.
Sounds like a plan.
Thanks for the share, Josh.

[kenw]

clean, concise, and constructive. dig’n these micro-temporal vids. #keephammering

[rayzakyan]

Was looking for texture tutorial! Thank you :)

[salomon_gutierrez]

Great video! Concise and informative. 👍
As an alternative to Substance in this breakdown, how well do you think 3D Coat would fare (considering it also brings other functionality with it)? Thanks!

[Reynardfoox]

ucupaint and Matlayer are both free add-on in Blender

[jeffyboi]

your "overlay" photoshop layer can be done in substance painter to look realistic.

[marrylo]

Ok so how does hardops and boxcutter topology wprks for substance painter?

[sibtaingb]

Dear sir!How to make simple basic hard surface model and please guide some Hurd surface basic texture thanks and appreciate your work sir.

[aunabbas]

Hi bro. I am struggling with baking textures. Every time I bake texture in blender, it gets blurry (even high Res 2k texture) .Baking doesn't really create small fined details on the texture When I import my texture to Unity, it doesn't look that clean.

[jamescampionn]

what do you mean using Principled would be “less realistic” than material packs? unless they chose to use a different base shader like plain glossy or diffuse most of those materials probably link to a principled…

[invadorop]

Is blender better or quixel mixer for texturing

[gerdsfargen]

Hi Josh,

One thing I'm having difficulty learning as a newbie is that, say you want to build a shape or vehicle that fits to a track...you know like say a mag Lev. How do you fit the vehicle to the contours of the track?

[PowersVideoD]

Why does the flat/2D surface imperfection texture work on a 3D image in photoshop?

[easternpromises]

I was wondering why the Photoshop option looked so weird and unrealistic. Until I realized that there's no vanishing point, perspective warp or perhaps a bit of displacement map used in the example shown.

[charles-ngnj]

Where do you get ideas for all this kind of abstract hard surface models.

[deadend]

which is the best method for animatiom

[zillaquazar]

unwrapping and texturing go hand in hand and should be taught together.