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kageryu
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 03:49 PM

Re: Tips And Trix
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One trick I found a long time ago, and is handy when on a mcahine with limited resources, is for altering an items color without needing to create or purchase lots of texture maps.  There are a couple ways to do this, one is to set the textures strength for an image map to a lower value (like 50 to 75%) and change the default color - though this may require some test rendering to get the mixing to look right.  Another way is to create simple greyscales of all of your textures - enhance the contrast a bit and use them at 50% with a base color on the figure.  I orriginally did this for Hair files that didn't have a color texture I wanted, and to save valuable HD space by not having hundreds of texture maps for one item just in different colors.