How to use nvidia texture tools for adobe photoshop skin#

The normalmapВ is instead the sub skin of the diffusemaps,itвЂ™s the one that gives depth. The diffusemapВ is what is commonly called вЂњtextureвЂќ, and itвЂ™s the coloured texture.

How to use nvidia texture tools for adobe photoshop how to#

Now you know how to save textures.i just wanna talk about the difference of diffusemp and normalmap.

Remember that to save an alpha texture you have to activate the alpha channel:ДЈ- Textuers that cannot be compressed,like Face and body normalmaps (This is also recommended, for body and face textures(diffusemaps) ). вЂ“> DXT 1 compression.Дў- Textuers with alpha. How to save with DXT compression (with DXT compression your texture wil be a lot more performance friendly,a:ДЎ- Textuers without alpha. ItвЂ™s probably just my personal opinion,anyway i think it causes sme green and red spots appear on the textureвЂ¦

REMEMBER THAT FACE AND BODY NORMALMAPS (the _msn.dds files, CANNOT BE COMPRESSEDВ and they donвЂ™t need an alpha channel. In photoshop you can use dxt compression,but this is NOT RECOMMENDED FOR BODY AND FACIAL TEXTURES,because it will loose some details,unnoticiable on armors,but noticiable on face textures. The photoshop dds plugins is instead free: Photoshop is not free and it can be bought from adobe sites for around 100$ i think,but if youвЂ™re a student,or a teacher you can have discounts. *If you prefere a performance friendly texture you can use the Nvidia dds plugin(this is for 64 bit) to properly compress your texturer as iвЂ™ll explain. While with textures that doesnвЂ™t have an alpha channel itвЂ™s better saving in RGB format,just to avoid saving an empty alpha channel that will just increase the texture size without any utility. There are basycally 2 type of textures: with alpha channel,and without Alpha channel (transparent).ДЇor those with Alpha channel you have to save (with the command вЂњSave asвЂќВ in Gimp with the default format,plus mipmaps: Gimp doesnвЂ™t save good quality textures in dxt compression,for this reason itвЂ™s highly recommended to not use it,and lways save the texture as uncompressed.

How to use nvidia texture tools for adobe photoshop for free#

You can download gimp from here for free (Of course make sure to download a version compatible with your OS,64bit,or 32bitвЂ¦):ДЄnother usefull gimp plugin is the normalmap plugin: Gimp is a free program, and more easy to use for uneperienced users, but it have some issues with DXT compression (that makes file size smaller,but thereвЂ™s a way to do it anyway*). Those object space normalmaps CANNOT BE COMPRESSED (unless you want theold blocky face bug to appear again). While the _msn files (face and bofy normalmaps (object space normalmaps) arenвЂ™t alpha textures. dds files.В You can either use PhotoshopВ or Gimp,combined with their relative dds plugins.ДЄn alpha texture is a texture with an alpha channel that is not all white,and for this reason it will result transparent.ДЄll armors normalmaps (t-space normalmaps)are alpha textures. To edit a texture you nees a program to oped. In this tutorial youвЂ™ll find all you need to know about вЂњhow to save your textureвЂќ and the tools you need.