Material Tutorials: 8 Step By Step Tutorials and General Tips

philipk@philipk.net · 30-07-2010, 09:33 AM

Hello, I decided to get this out now. I may add a couple of more ones later on.

There are at the moment 8 different tutorials on materials and how I define them and some tricks I do on various surface types.

Some of them involves sculpting in Zbrush and some are only Max or even Photoshop only.

So here goes:

PHILIPK.NET - MATERIALS

And here are some quick links to the different tutorials (New wood tutorial up Aug 29, 2010):

PHILIPK.NET - ROUGH WOOD PLANKS TUTORIAL

PHILIPK.NET - MATTE METAL TUTORIAL

PHILIPK.NET - ROCK STONE TUTORIAL

PHILIPK.NET - ROUGH STONE TUTORIAL

PHILIPK.NET - CRACKED STONE TUTORIAL

PHILIPK.NET - CLEAN MARBLE TUTORIAL

PHILIPK.NET - CLEAN CONCRETE TUTORIAL

PHILIPK.NET - OLD TILES WALL TUTORIAL

PHILIPK.NET - BRICK WALL TUTORIAL

Hope you can find some of them useful!

And if you missed it before there are two more tutorials I made earlier on modular meshes:

PHILIPK.NET - WORKING WITH MODULAR SETS

PHILIPK.NET - WORKING WITH MODULAR ROCKS

dermaeher88 · 30-07-2010, 01:33 PM

I have to say, I'm very happy with the tuts (and texture pack) that you have been providing. They are extremely helpful. Keep up the awesome work and thank you for taking time to put these together

kYo · 30-07-2010, 10:42 PM

didnt have time to go through them completely yet but at first look its amazing quality and techniques.. i´d even pay for those like for eat3d´s - i hope they dont hate you for your unmatchable prices

stop619 · 31-07-2010, 02:19 AM

PhilipK: Thanks a lot for these tuts! Another great learning too.

S6

Thewiruz · 31-07-2010, 06:13 AM

Fantastic and nice of you to share!

Will read these for sure!

Perfecto · 31-07-2010, 01:46 PM

These are absolutely fantastic, I'm eternally in your debt.

philipk@philipk.net · 31-07-2010, 02:57 PM

Woah thanks for the nice comments! Greatly appreciated. I'm very glad they are of use

Btw. Gonna try and be more active on this forum on commenting threads.. I've been lurking way too much :S

philipk@philipk.net · 03-08-2010, 07:51 AM

Wanted to say I added some Photoshop actions for download, these are actions I use frequently, and you may use similar ones yourselves already, but just in case someone may be interested

:
http://philipk.net/tutorials/materia...ipsActions.atn

You can read some about them and some on what I think of overlaying details on the normal map at the bottom of this page:
PHILIPK.NET - MATERIALS

kooltrader · 03-08-2010, 08:34 AM

Fantastic tutorials, Ive been following your tutorials and website over the past few weeks, very very useful information and much appreciated amongst the community. Thank you

Greengoblin · 05-08-2010, 08:05 AM

Awesome tutorials, that everyone should look at, thank you PhillipK.

I do have one workflow query? Having followed through your workflow for the Rock stone tutorial creation. I encountered a problem with perfect cloning of each individual layer in photoshop. (Colour/Normal etc)

These were the steps that I used.
1) Zbrush - Export hi res stone work creates from poly3d plane
2) Modo - Low poly plane/geo for map projection
3) Modo - Bake AO & Normal Map
4) Photoshop - Create diff/colour with overlays or by hand etc.
5) Photoshop - Offset
6) Photoshop - Clone tool to remove seams for tileable texture

Okay now I found a bit of an issue.. I wanted to also remove the seams for the normal
map, however as far as I am aware Photoshop does not have a feature to clone several layers at once (Clone from ALL LAYERS - only picks from curent and layers below to clone
in current layer - it does not adjust the layer below.

Obviously I did this by hand, when it came to the normal map, but the result of which is that it did not have the same 'cloned' areas as the diff/colour layer above. I did'nt want to use xnormal or some other app to just re-create the normal map from the diff/colour as this would really defeat the point of baking out the original normal map in first place.

Could you possibly give your thoughts on how you have got around this in the past.
I appreciate that new iterations of Zbrush you can tile prior to exporting using - but how have you dealt with this in the past?

30-07-2010, 09:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
philipk@philipk.net New Member 23 - 80	Material Tutorials: 8 Step By Step Tutorials and General Tips Hello, I decided to get this out now. I may add a couple of more ones later on. There are at the moment 8 different tutorials on materials and how I define them and some tricks I do on various surface types. Some of them involves sculpting in Zbrush and some are only Max or even Photoshop only. So here goes: PHILIPK.NET - MATERIALS And here are some quick links to the different tutorials (New wood tutorial up Aug 29, 2010): PHILIPK.NET - ROUGH WOOD PLANKS TUTORIAL PHILIPK.NET - MATTE METAL TUTORIAL PHILIPK.NET - ROCK STONE TUTORIAL PHILIPK.NET - ROUGH STONE TUTORIAL PHILIPK.NET - CRACKED STONE TUTORIAL PHILIPK.NET - CLEAN MARBLE TUTORIAL PHILIPK.NET - CLEAN CONCRETE TUTORIAL PHILIPK.NET - OLD TILES WALL TUTORIAL PHILIPK.NET - BRICK WALL TUTORIAL Hope you can find some of them useful! And if you missed it before there are two more tutorials I made earlier on modular meshes: PHILIPK.NET - WORKING WITH MODULAR SETS PHILIPK.NET - WORKING WITH MODULAR ROCKS Last edited by philipk@philipk.net; 29-08-2010 at 08:16 AM.

30-07-2010, 10:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
kYo Senior Member 220 - 18	didnt have time to go through them completely yet but at first look its amazing quality and techniques.. i´d even pay for those like for eat3d´s - i hope they dont hate you for your unmatchable prices __________________ portfolio: svenweiss.daportfolio.com

31-07-2010, 01:46 PM	#6 (permalink)
Perfecto Frequenter 82 - 43	These are absolutely fantastic, I'm eternally in your debt. __________________ Online Portfolio

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30-07-2010, 01:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
dermaeher88 Senior Member 193 - 49	I have to say, I'm very happy with the tuts (and texture pack) that you have been providing. They are extremely helpful. Keep up the awesome work and thank you for taking time to put these together

31-07-2010, 02:19 AM	#4 (permalink)
stop619 Senior Member 184 - 52	PhilipK: Thanks a lot for these tuts! Another great learning too. S6

31-07-2010, 06:13 AM	#5 (permalink)
Thewiruz Frequenter 112 - 7	Fantastic and nice of you to share! Will read these for sure!

31-07-2010, 02:57 PM	#7 (permalink)
philipk@philipk.net New Member 23 - 80	Woah thanks for the nice comments! Greatly appreciated. I'm very glad they are of use Btw. Gonna try and be more active on this forum on commenting threads.. I've been lurking way too much :S

03-08-2010, 07:51 AM	#8 (permalink)
philipk@philipk.net New Member 23 - 80	Wanted to say I added some Photoshop actions for download, these are actions I use frequently, and you may use similar ones yourselves already, but just in case someone may be interested : http://philipk.net/tutorials/materia...ipsActions.atn You can read some about them and some on what I think of overlaying details on the normal map at the bottom of this page: PHILIPK.NET - MATERIALS

03-08-2010, 08:34 AM	#9 (permalink)
kooltrader New Member 65 - 14	Fantastic tutorials, Ive been following your tutorials and website over the past few weeks, very very useful information and much appreciated amongst the community. Thank you

05-08-2010, 08:05 AM	#10 (permalink)
Greengoblin New Member 18 - 2	Awesome tutorials, that everyone should look at, thank you PhillipK. I do have one workflow query? Having followed through your workflow for the Rock stone tutorial creation. I encountered a problem with perfect cloning of each individual layer in photoshop. (Colour/Normal etc) These were the steps that I used. 1) Zbrush - Export hi res stone work creates from poly3d plane 2) Modo - Low poly plane/geo for map projection 3) Modo - Bake AO & Normal Map 4) Photoshop - Create diff/colour with overlays or by hand etc. 5) Photoshop - Offset 6) Photoshop - Clone tool to remove seams for tileable texture Okay now I found a bit of an issue.. I wanted to also remove the seams for the normal map, however as far as I am aware Photoshop does not have a feature to clone several layers at once (Clone from ALL LAYERS - only picks from curent and layers below to clone in current layer - it does not adjust the layer below. Obviously I did this by hand, when it came to the normal map, but the result of which is that it did not have the same 'cloned' areas as the diff/colour layer above. I did'nt want to use xnormal or some other app to just re-create the normal map from the diff/colour as this would really defeat the point of baking out the original normal map in first place. Could you possibly give your thoughts on how you have got around this in the past. I appreciate that new iterations of Zbrush you can tile prior to exporting using - but how have you dealt with this in the past?