The Source engine is a 3D game engine developed by Valve Corporation. Its unique features include a large degree of modularity and flexibility, an artist-driven, shader-based renderer, accurate lip sync and facial expression technology, and a powerful, efficient and completely network-enabled physics system.
This Noesis Interactive tutorial teaches the process of creating custom facial maps using Photoshop. Learn how to take a series of digital photos and edit them together so that they are ready to be mapped onto a 3D game model as a single texture. The principles of the lesson can be applied to any image editing program. If you’ve ever wanted to see your own face inside a video game, this is the lesson for you.
Basic Textures Posted by Noesis_Interactive on Jan 11th, 2008
This Noesis Interactive tutorial teaches the process of creating custom facial maps using Photoshop. Learn how to take a series of digital photos and edit them together so that they are ready to be mapped onto a 3D game model as a single texture. The principles of the lesson can be applied to any image editing program. If you’ve ever wanted to see your own face inside a video game, this is the lesson for you.
You will need to get the Maya application from Autodesk to follow this tutorial.
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Great! Thanks for that. I was always using only 3 pics to make a facemap and had probelms to fill the gaps. Also the hint with the eyes is really useful.
wow that was pretty cool, even for me and im not a texture artist.
very nice tutorial!
very handy!
You should have shown it on a hl2 model or something.
Very nice tutorial to creat our models.
thanx a lot.
This looks very cool. Might help me since I've not yet tried character texturing yet.
Thanks for the comments everybody!! We're glad you guys are finding it useful.
Broadsword: You're right we probably should have shown it applied to an in-game model at the end of the tutorial. If you go to the Noesis Interactive ModDB group page and watch the "Noesis Interactive Promotional Trailer" you can see the facemap on a Deathmatch character at the very beginning of the video.
Thanks again everybody and keep an eye out for new tutorials and DVDs !!
brilliant tutorial but to advanced for me :D
whats the point of the 45 degree turned face the 90 degree one completely ocvered it
It was to have more neck coverage
THANKXX a lot..i was looking sth like this!!!...what a luck
Thank a lot! i was looking for something like this :D