This tutorial is PACKED with easy to follow, pro tips. And thank you VERY much for the tip on using the fuzzy tool in Gimp at 1:25. I've been using Gimp for years, and your one little tip is SO helpful. Oh my gosh. You're awesome.
ALTERNATIVE TO TEXTURING: you can use the texture painting feature within Blender. its similar to using any other drawing application, you can create your own brushes and paint directly onto the model. however what I think is more notable is that you can select exactly what part of the mesh you wish to use and texture. if you have unwrapped the model appropriately. you can just press "L" while enabling the mask feature, so that it paints only on that island. you can also select individual faces within edit mode too, and go back to texture painting to otherwise texture a specific area that isn't unwrapped on its own. hope that information helps you. there's plenty of information on the topic!
as for shadows and highlights, you can also learn about ambient occlusion mapping and normal mapping (a process that is very much useful for lighting detail). if you are someone who prefers a more realistic approach to textures and mapping, that is how you would normally go about things. you can even go through a process of "metalness" so that certain parts of objects have shine and others do not.
id also suggest if you're making dirt textures that you use 3D texture painting because you'll run into seam issues where there's a visible discontinuation of the texture. painting directly onto the object on a seperate layer will allow you to have much more seamless effects than doing it on a 2D landscape (which I don't recommend as is. at least on detailed objects where you need to do potentially hundreds of UV islands)
Thank you, sir. This was as intense as interesting to do. Had no prior experience with GIMP (I have to admit being an old Adobe guy) but I definitely want to use it way more from now on. Texturing this barrel was a great way to learn blender for unity. Looking forward to see the rest of the videos. Good work, sir. Appreciate it.
Hi! Firstly thank you for your tutorials and every detail they contain, that helps a lot since I'm just a programmer! I was wondering if you tried texturing inside Blender itself? I guess there is no support for layers and I don't know the tools for drawing and painting but you can paint directly on the model what is very useful. I like your approach of texturing in an external software but I was just wondering if it had limits instead of painting on the model directly. I aim only lowpoly style so I think your way will do it!
Hi Jordan, Thank you for watching! Yes, you can paint directly in Blender. What I didn't like about, is that there are no layers. I don't feel comfortable painting without the layers yet, lol. Using other software to make textures is good because it gives me more tools to work with. And, of course, layers! Which is the most important for texturing, so you can work in a non-destructive way. And it's so much faster and easier to make simple changes if you need them in the future. Using external software like Affinity Photo as I did, or others like Photoshop or GIMP has a downside: you can't see the result immediately on the 3d mesh itself. For example, if you want to texture a character, it would be best to paint directly on the 3d mesh. You can do it in a blender but with minimal tools. I would use other software like Substance Painter for this kind of texture, which is a very powerful texturing tool.
I have a question. At about 18:40 when it's time to move layers into folders, My layers are not displaying once they move into the folder. I checked that the folder itself wasn't set to be invisible, I've checked that it's not an issue with layer order. At this point I'm stumped. Also, I've used Blender before but this is my first time using GIMP to make a game asset, so it could be something very simple that I'm just missing. Any help is appreciated.
Update. It WAS an issue with layering. Gotta keep the layers in the same order they were before they went into the folders. Just leaving this here for any other newbies that may have the same PEBCAC errors.😅
@@jjmartin6422 Glad you figured that out :D I'm actually a newbie at using GIMP too! I only used it for the tutorial because it's free and anyone can easily access it. In my day-to-day work, I use Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer.
I have a question for 9:30. When I select to stroke the path with the lighter color, it doesn't seem to do anything. Any idea of what might cause this?
Great tutorial, super well explained! I was going to comment that the only thing I would change is maybe talk about the fact that on a real case, this texture doesn't make much sense because it repeats a lot, and could be alot smaller. But after I finished watching the video, I see you did that to add detail later. The result is SO GOOD!! Can't wait for part 4!!
Hello I would like to thank you for posting the videos the content have been very helpfull and I learned a lot. I have a question about the Font you used on the barrow, I typed the A like you did and a category of Fonts appeared, but not the one you used, I would like to know if there is some other way to activate or get that Font if you know I would much appreciate it.
Hi, thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed my videos and found them helpful ;) I actually just checked, and I don't have that font anymore because I've been using a clean install of Windows 11 for quite some time now, so all of my old fonts are gone. I guess I found it online from one of the free font websites at that time, but I don't know where because I can't find it anymore.
@@LMHPOLY I found out how to download free Fonts on Gimp, but not exactly like the one you used, but a lot of Fonts may try looking further though, but use what I found and see how it looks.
I'm having an issue with my UV map export to Gimp. Some of the lines on the UV map appear faded after import, however the PNG file looks fine when viewed in any other medium. Gimp is disagreeing with something and making most of the map hard to see. I can provide images of the problem if anyone is prepared to reach out and would greatly appreciate any help!
I just checked and the location of the Fuzzy Select Tool is the same in the latest GIMP 2.10.38 or even dev release version 2.99.18. It should be at the same location as in the video for you too, the fourth one from the left . Keep in mind that some tools in GIMP are selected by HOLDING LEFT MOUSE BUTTON on the icon which has a small triangle indicator. Maybe you have selected Select by Color tool, which is located at the same location. Try to hover your mouse over the fourth icon, PRESS AND HOLD LEFT MOUSE button to select Fuzzy Select Tool. Or you can just press U.
thank you 🤩, the details are amazing🥰, the process is easy to follow plus you used only free programs, i appreciate your great efforts and work.🥰 May i ask how did you learn the whole process, did you take specific courses online or in a place?
Years of learning from professional game artists and developers from all over. From paid video courses, books, forums, sometimes TH-cam, etc. I put everything I've learned from others and from my own experience of creating Unity Game Assets for the Unity Asset Store :)
Watch (Part 4/5) Exporting from Blender to Unity th-cam.com/video/nhJ8EJ_GtLI/w-d-xo.html
This tutorial is PACKED with easy to follow, pro tips. And thank you VERY much for the tip on using the fuzzy tool in Gimp at 1:25. I've been using Gimp for years, and your one little tip is SO helpful. Oh my gosh. You're awesome.
ALTERNATIVE TO TEXTURING:
you can use the texture painting feature within Blender. its similar to using any other drawing application, you can create your own brushes and paint directly onto the model. however what I think is more notable is that you can select exactly what part of the mesh you wish to use and texture. if you have unwrapped the model appropriately. you can just press "L" while enabling the mask feature, so that it paints only on that island. you can also select individual faces within edit mode too, and go back to texture painting to otherwise texture a specific area that isn't unwrapped on its own.
hope that information helps you. there's plenty of information on the topic!
as for shadows and highlights, you can also learn about ambient occlusion mapping and normal mapping (a process that is very much useful for lighting detail).
if you are someone who prefers a more realistic approach to textures and mapping, that is how you would normally go about things. you can even go through a process of "metalness" so that certain parts of objects have shine and others do not.
id also suggest if you're making dirt textures that you use 3D texture painting because you'll run into seam issues where there's a visible discontinuation of the texture. painting directly onto the object on a seperate layer will allow you to have much more seamless effects than doing it on a 2D landscape (which I don't recommend as is. at least on detailed objects where you need to do potentially hundreds of UV islands)
Thanks for the info bro, creating texture in GIMP is the most worky part. It's nice to know more efficient ways
Thank you, sir. This was as intense as interesting to do. Had no prior experience with GIMP (I have to admit being an old Adobe guy) but I definitely want to use it way more from now on. Texturing this barrel was a great way to learn blender for unity. Looking forward to see the rest of the videos. Good work, sir. Appreciate it.
Thank you for this amazing tutorial. I learned ALOT from you. Be proud of your work to the game development community.
great series! thanks for the work you've put into all these videos.
This is such a good tutorial for Blender, it was incredibly helpful and packed with amazing tips!!
litterally no other uv editing tutorial showed me how to export uv unwraps into to a texturing software and back into blender again
Glad you enjoyed it!
I like the way you speak and also, the video is great too. Keep it up
Very useful. Thanks for all from Argentina :)
Hi! Firstly thank you for your tutorials and every detail they contain, that helps a lot since I'm just a programmer! I was wondering if you tried texturing inside Blender itself? I guess there is no support for layers and I don't know the tools for drawing and painting but you can paint directly on the model what is very useful. I like your approach of texturing in an external software but I was just wondering if it had limits instead of painting on the model directly. I aim only lowpoly style so I think your way will do it!
Hi Jordan,
Thank you for watching!
Yes, you can paint directly in Blender. What I didn't like about, is that there are no layers. I don't feel comfortable painting without the layers yet, lol.
Using other software to make textures is good because it gives me more tools to work with. And, of course, layers! Which is the most important for texturing, so you can work in a non-destructive way. And it's so much faster and easier to make simple changes if you need them in the future.
Using external software like Affinity Photo as I did, or others like Photoshop or GIMP has a downside: you can't see the result immediately on the 3d mesh itself. For example, if you want to texture a character, it would be best to paint directly on the 3d mesh. You can do it in a blender but with minimal tools. I would use other software like Substance Painter for this kind of texture, which is a very powerful texturing tool.
You are great teacher, thank you very much!
Love these tutorials keep it up
Great tutorial! I learned a lot about Gimp, thanks.
Amazing stuff my guy!
Wow! So much useful things in here and presented in a super clean way. I'd give you a hundred liked if I could ☺️
thanks for this tutorial !
I'm happy with this tutorial!
muchas gracias LMHPOLY por este gran tutorial paso a paso.
Thx for using GIMP :D
Excellent tutorial, thank you very much.
Thank you very much for this series
THANK YOU SO MUCH
I have a question. At about 18:40 when it's time to move layers into folders, My layers are not displaying once they move into the folder. I checked that the folder itself wasn't set to be invisible, I've checked that it's not an issue with layer order. At this point I'm stumped.
Also, I've used Blender before but this is my first time using GIMP to make a game asset, so it could be something very simple that I'm just missing. Any help is appreciated.
Update. It WAS an issue with layering. Gotta keep the layers in the same order they were before they went into the folders. Just leaving this here for any other newbies that may have the same PEBCAC errors.😅
@@jjmartin6422 Glad you figured that out :D I'm actually a newbie at using GIMP too! I only used it for the tutorial because it's free and anyone can easily access it. In my day-to-day work, I use Affinity Photo & Affinity Designer.
I have a question for 9:30. When I select to stroke the path with the lighter color, it doesn't seem to do anything. Any idea of what might cause this?
I actually got it. I forgot to deselect everything beforehand. Love your tutorials so far. They're very easy to follow.
@@focusedphillip2716 Glad, you figure that out. Thank you for watching! 🙂
How to do these vertical lines in photoshop? I don't think path tool works the same there.
Thanks.
Great tutorial, super well explained! I was going to comment that the only thing I would change is maybe talk about the fact that on a real case, this texture doesn't make much sense because it repeats a lot, and could be alot smaller. But after I finished watching the video, I see you did that to add detail later. The result is SO GOOD!! Can't wait for part 4!!
Thanks! If I wouldn't add those details and the text on the barrel than yes, you should just make 1 Wood Plank and repeat around all of the barrel.
Great!
Hello I would like to thank you for posting the videos the content have been very helpfull and I learned a lot. I have a question about the Font you used on the barrow, I typed the A like you did and a category of Fonts appeared, but not the one you used, I would like to know if there is some other way to activate or get that Font if you know I would much appreciate it.
Hi, thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed my videos and found them helpful ;)
I actually just checked, and I don't have that font anymore because I've been using a clean install of Windows 11 for quite some time now, so all of my old fonts are gone.
I guess I found it online from one of the free font websites at that time, but I don't know where because I can't find it anymore.
@@LMHPOLY I found out how to download free Fonts on Gimp, but not exactly like the one you used, but a lot of Fonts may try looking further though, but use what I found and see how it looks.
very nice tutorial how do you zoom in gimp with destroying the selection about 5.45 in the video
HOLD CTRL and scroll the MOUSE WHEEL- to zoom in and out. HOLD MIDDLE MOUSE - to pan the camera around.
@@LMHPOLY thanks
0:49 can I use photoshop instead of GIMP?
Of course, you can use any image editing software you like.
Anyone know how I can get the AcmeFont_Thin? For Windows 11
can you share the gimp file i can`t seems to create it the same
Sure, here it's: www.mediafire.com/file/aeygniwc8602k71/Barrel_Texture.zip/file
thank you very much @@LMHPOLY
I'm having an issue with my UV map export to Gimp. Some of the lines on the UV map appear faded after import, however the PNG file looks fine when viewed in any other medium. Gimp is disagreeing with something and making most of the map hard to see. I can provide images of the problem if anyone is prepared to reach out and would greatly appreciate any help!
can't find fuzzy select tool in Gimp new update
I just checked and the location of the Fuzzy Select Tool is the same in the latest GIMP 2.10.38 or even dev release version 2.99.18.
It should be at the same location as in the video for you too, the fourth one from the left . Keep in mind that some tools in GIMP are selected by HOLDING LEFT MOUSE BUTTON on the icon which has a small triangle indicator. Maybe you have selected Select by Color tool, which is located at the same location. Try to hover your mouse over the fourth icon, PRESS AND HOLD LEFT MOUSE button to select Fuzzy Select Tool. Or you can just press U.
When I export my UV layout to gimp it is blank, how do I fix this?
Did you check the exported UV.png image if it's exported from Blender correctly? (Before you import to gimp)
thank you 🤩, the details are amazing🥰, the process is easy to follow plus you used only free programs, i appreciate your great efforts and work.🥰
May i ask how did you learn the whole process, did you take specific courses online or in a place?
Years of learning from professional game artists and developers from all over. From paid video courses, books, forums, sometimes TH-cam, etc. I put everything I've learned from others and from my own experience of creating Unity Game Assets for the Unity Asset Store :)
40 minutes to texture a very simple barrel?
To explain step by step how to texture, yes.
Usually hand painted texturing can take much more than that.
@@LMHPOLY You did a wonderful job!