Unfinished SAM Textures 0.1

Looks really interesting, thanks for sharing.

5 hours ago, cuyima said:

thank, I hope these are actually of use for someone out there because I'm too mad at myself to touch these textures again 🙃

Where i hear your name before. Cuyima. You have other mod connected to interesting NPC ?
Ahhh skin as resources. My hand itchy play with it XD. I hope can finish this at some point for vector members.

1 hour ago, cuyima said:

Yeah I got an NPC overhaul and a bunch of other things over at Nexus. Most of my mods these days are private ones that I make for my own characters, which is the reason why these textures have a CotR neck seam.

Technically they are usable already, but the hands and feet especially are still lacking detailing. The coloring is also off and they probably need some HSL/Levels adjustments to play nice with skyrim's skin tints.

In skyrim mostly color now controlled by enb. Even skyrim se with dull color become so good.Normal map maybe the most important but so far i like your diffuse and normal too. Let see if i can play with it and combine it into something else. 

what software do you use to paint these textures? 

These look nice and I recognize the struggle of projection painting 🤡

50 minutes ago, KouLeifoh said:

These look nice and I recognize the struggle of projection painting 🤡

So all skin maniac gathered here at last. LOL. 

5 hours ago, cuyima said:

The base normals I sculpted in zBrush and everything else in Substance Painter. I used a bunch of photographs that I projected onto the mesh and then color corrected and blended stuff together overlayed with maps generated from the high poly zBrush model.

Bro, sam neck patch available too ? I see cotr neck map but i don't see sam light neck. Is this pack special for sam + cotr ?

12 hours ago, cuyima said:

The base normals I sculpted in zBrush and everything else in Substance Painter. I used a bunch of photographs that I projected onto the mesh and then color corrected and blended stuff together overlayed with maps generated from the high poly zBrush model.

how do you "project" these textures unto your mesh? do you mean like, copy pasting them in photoshop and then blending it out afterwards? 😅 sorry if it's a dumb question lol

26 minutes ago, cuyima said:

It's fine, that's essentially it ☺️

If using Substance Painter or similar software you can do exactly that but in 3D so you're not as limited by UV layout and seams.

I'm actually using 3D-Coat coz with that you literally can project by 3d-view instead of just copypasting into 2d texture, except it's very memory-heavy; so I was wondering if there was a better alternative 😂

i usually use SP for most of my custom armors since most of the time I just need to drop preset materials and edit some parameters with basic mask.

However, SP is a bit unintuitive for me to use as painting software due to the lack of some essential brushes (like, blur and smudge brushes which I used a lot )