Reply To: BC1-1908 Homework, Thibault Caradec
Week 2 – Day 0
Ok, so texture painting is pretty new for me. I used the chapter 2 of the chest course and what Kent explained during the stream to start working on it.
On my model, the most important display for texture will very likely be the katana blade.
Katana blade specifically have a very nice “temper line” (called Hamon). These come in a large variety of form, size, and can separate two different colors of metal, the cutting edge being a hardened part compared to the rest of the blade.
Some references
The tip of the blade can also have different patterns.
So during the stream, I just decided to try to get confortable with the texture painting tools, and to give a first go at a very simple pattern inspired by this:
So I simply applied the modifiers to my blade, marked the seam on the cutting edge, UV unwrapped, and started painting to, “just try”. This is neither the final shape or what my goal is, but at least I start to have an idea on how it works :
Edit : Don’t mind the lower part of the texture, I started horizontally until Kent said that rotating your UV island may give you more space to work with…