Creating Custom Skins/Textures in Virt-A-Mate - Beginner Tutorial, Part 1

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Outline:
1) Rundown of texture types
2) Where to start when creating a new skin
3) The two major challenges - seams and color matching
4) Demo: Using frequency separation in GIMP to color match a new feature:
- Duplicate layer
- Gaussian blur the duplicate until all desired details are lost
- Set blurred layer mode to Grain Extract
- Create New Layer from Visible; set that new layer to Grain Merge mode,
and return the blurred duplicate mode to Normal
There's so much to know about texture creation that I didn't include here -
file management; how to best use FaceGen; how to create spec, gloss, and normal maps with GIMP or Photoshop; choosing reference materials; what edits turn a photo into a good texture in VAM; 3D/2D editing workflow... the list goes on. Keep an eye out for Part 2 next to cover some of these more in-depth topics.
Software used or mentioned in this video:
Virt-A-Mate ( / posts )
FaceGen (facegen.com/artist.htm -- Free version puts blue letters on the character's forehead.)
GIMP (www.gimp.org/ -- free)
Substance Painter (store.steampowered.com/app/14... -- The Adobe site has a free trial but it's $30/mo to subscribe to access. Or, drop $150 on it once on Steam. )
ZBrush
Photoshop
Blender

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27 июн 2024

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@shahwolfx2673 2 месяца назад

This is very helpful.

@wowomah6194 2 года назад

Super helpful video Syrinxo! I love your creations and honestly would love to support you on patreon if you intend to create more tutorials like this! Heck even if you don't want to make dedicated tutorials even showing your process "vids of development" so I can try to learn to make higher quality models and textures I'd be appreciative! If you have knowledge of how to create and then export custom morphs from Blender I would totally be interested in that as well and based on your Shakea and other models I imagine you had to create those in something like Blender? (plus, it would help the community in general with more people trying to push the boundaries until 2.0 comes out! Thanks)

@Tommo020788 2 года назад

I wasn't able to figure out how ur supposed to export a texture set from FaceGen. The only options I was able to see was to export a Daz mesh preset.

@rabbitolychee6395 2 года назад

With Virt-a-Mate, can you feel the controller vibrate as you touch the ped?

@Tommo020788 2 года назад

For some reason, the color of the skin textures I make always turns really weird when it is put into vam.

@espada9000 5 месяцев назад

Where's part 2?

@Mister-Fred 2 года назад

Hi ! Is it possible to use a person's face from a photo and if so is it easy to do? Thank you

@Syrinxo 2 года назад

Hi, thanks for your question. Yes, there is software that can take a photo of a face (if it meets requirements) and generate both a texture in the Daz3D Genesis 2 format (which VAM uses) and a morph to provide a rough approximation of the facial geometry. This program, called "FaceGen," is easy to use. However, making the final product look good - realistic and high-quality - takes a lot of skill and work with additional programs, such as Photoshop and SubstancePainter. Even more so for creating a very close likeness. The shape, as well, will take a lot of work to be close to the original.

@Mister-Fred 2 года назад

@@Syrinxo thank you ^^

@hastur4810 2 года назад

the face gen its a good tool! thanks, If I support you in patreon, I could ask you how I can import a model exported from face gen in virt to mate? Thank you.

@Syrinxo 2 года назад

Hey, thanks for your interest! I never say no to a new patron, but you dont' need to pay to get VAM help. =) Are you on Discord? Easier to answer your question there than typing it all out in a comment here. DM me: Syrinxo#7496

@DXCII 10 месяцев назад

Do I need pay to put pluggins?

@user-rd9yn7xv6z 2 года назад

Hi, where is the part2?

@popeyep1ay Год назад

is daz 3d texture work with VAM?

@Syrinxo Год назад

Great question! DAZ 3D has several different generations of human models. VAM uses the Genesis 2 platform, and Genesis 2 textures will work with VAM (though you do need to pick the correct in-game model for your texture -- specifically, Olympia skins don't match exactly with other G2F models). As a side note, we are all pretty excited for the beta launch of VAM 2 (hopefully before 2023), because it uses Genesis 8 (also compatible with Genesis 3, or at least easily convertible?), which as some significant improvements in both model geometry and texture UV map partitioning.

@popeyep1ay Год назад

@@Syrinxo cant wait sounds exciting

@bleibtneugierig2928 2 года назад

How do I get the 3dModel and UVs into substance painter?

@Syrinxo 2 года назад

Ah, yes! That is the correct question to ask! Here is a guide that will take you through the process to allow painting (including projection painting and texture wrapping) across UV seams. You see why I didn't include it in my video, ha! hub.virtamate.com/resources/vam-daz-gen2-to-substance-painter-udim-guide.2616/ If you find any of it confusing, click the "Discussions" tab of that page to likely find the answer.

@bleibtneugierig2928 2 года назад

@@Syrinxo Thanks, I will have a look, :)

@hankb7725 2 года назад

@@Syrinxo what does "search/replace usemtl with g" right at the beginning I'm already stuck :)

@Syrinxo 2 года назад

@@hankb7725 Yes, this part of the guide is a bit unclear. You need to open the OBJ file in a text editor (I recommend Notepad++) and do a search-and-replace to replace all instances of "usemtl" with "g" (there should be 29, iirc). This will allow Blender to see the various body parts as part of a group, which allows painting over seams, rather than using the uv map separations VAM provides in the accompanying MTL file.

@hankb7725 2 года назад

@@Syrinxo yeah. I just didn’t find ‘usemtl’ in that obj file. Not one. So I’m confused. And thanks for the quick reply.

@b_l_a_c_k-l_i_t_e Год назад

how do i export a texture?

@b_l_a_c_k-l_i_t_e Год назад

to edit in gimp i want to export a existing texture

@Syrinxo Год назад

@@b_l_a_c_k-l_i_t_e If you're talking about one of the textures built in to VAM, that's not possible. Those textures are only licensed by DAZ to VAM for in-game use and aren't accessible. The only exception are the "Custom" skins; those are available in the VAM install folder at Custom/Atom/Person/Textures/[Female, Male]/Custom. Skins made by other creators, like myself, are in the Textures folder of their shared character VAR file (it is a renamed ZIP file , open with any ZIP utility). I hope that helps!

@Syrinxo Год назад

@@b_l_a_c_k-l_i_t_e I should add that VAM's built in textures come from two places, and can be bought. The first sets in VAM's list are on the DAZ asset store (make sure you are buying Genesis 2 skins only! G3/5/8 don't work in VAM and are not easy to convert). The later, better ones are made by RenVR, and I believe they're all also available on his Patreon for a pretty cheap subscription.