Basic Texturing in Maya LT

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Curious about the "Seven Deadly Sins", aren't you? Well yes, you should be. It 's a very famous and addictive manga. I gotta say it 's a must-read for all Manga Lovers ❤️

Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins「七つの大罪 Nanatsu no Taizai」 were the strongest and cruelest order of Holy Knights in the Kingdom of Liones. They were formed by seven brutal criminals, who had all been convicted for grievous crimes and had carved the symbols of seven beasts onto their bodies.

 Keep that in mind, bookmark the manga and for now, let 's get back to business. We will learn some texturing techniques widely used in 3D software like Blender, Maya and Maya LT ,...

First, please follow this fantastic tutorial carefully. Later, I 'll summarize every step we did into a pretty smooth process!

A full low poly 3D model ( game ) workflow in Maya 2016

In this low poly model ( game ) full workflow tutorial I will show you how to create a low poly model, create a UV layout for the model, export the UV, create a layered texture in Photoshop and export it back to Maya to apply it to the model.

Finished? Very well, here 's your full process on how to texturing a model, assuming you have created a model.

First, open Maya LT:
- Object Mode -> Choose all objects
- UV -> Automatic
- Modify and arrange your UV shells with some methods:

• UV Distortion
• Cut UV Edge
• Move and Sew
• And others ...

- UV Editor -> Image -> UV Snapshot -> Name it "Something_UV"

Then, open Photoshop:

- Create a New File named "Something_Texture"

- Import the "Something_UV" file

- Back to the recently created file

- New layer -> Name it "UV Layer"

- Copy all from "Something_UV" to the UV Layer

- Move UV Layer down in Layer Window ( let "Layer 1" above the "UV layer" )

- Then, we 'll brush texture inside "Layer 1" only 

- Finish? -> Delete the UV Layer

=> Boom! You now have a "Texture_Final" file.

Finally, back to Maya LT:

- Object mode -> Choose all

- Right mouse -> Assign new material

- Ctrl + A to open Attribute Window on the right

- Common material attribute -> Color -> Click "Checkbox" at the end of the color line section

- Choose File in list

- Choose the "Texture_Final" file just created in the previous phase

=> Wahla! You now have a beautiful textured model.

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