Dragon Painting - Node Setup & Breakdown

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An in depth guide about my node setup for painting and using baked maps for detailed game characters
I talk about my node setup and show the different parts/elements that make up a finished render.
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[@ambientlightofdarknesss4245]

I just finished your sculpting playlist and you've literally jumpstarted my 3d sculpting journey! I would LOVE if you made a full texturing tutorial about the dragon. It seems to be pretty advanced and would be a great challenge to those who've dipped their toes in sculpting like me!

[@ImNotSmashy]

That dragon looks so cool, keep it up!

[@procrastinator24]

Really interesting use cases of the cavity map, did not think it would be that versatile in terms of usage, thanks! Great video!

[@sleepymemes2133]

Who wants Grant Abbit's studio tour.

[@EenaTheBudgie]

Yes I want

[@debrupsaha1365]

It's looking better and better

[@tomoyaogawa4485]

Wow I didn’t know you could use cavity to mask the emissions. thank you for the great tips! I learned something very cool.

[@rsher_digital-art]

Great tutorial, all of them for that matter are easy to follow, well passed so keeping up is manageable. There is a lot to learn here. .

[@LeonIsLate]

I'd love to see a painting tutorial on that!

[@Xhisorz1]

Learning so much. Thank you

[@brandonjacksoon]

Looks cool! Thank you for the video!

[@azaelgamer]

Please do another video showing the emission node love your 3d

[@yezzzsir]

Great overview thanks Grant!

[@nichegames9590]

The notes are intimidating.

[@SpawnWolf13]

Amazing work as always Grant, could you link the baking playlist that you mentioned in the video.

[@grabbitt]

I'll try and remember to sort that

[@grabbitt]

kzbin.info/aero/PLn3ukorJv4vsa02LIuM_IQF-SASAZBnyi

[@Maxboun3204]

am i the only one feeling like i have the brain cells of a duck watching these

[@JavierD]

Grant thanks for this playlist. One question, if you will upload this model to a SketchFab portfolio, how will you bake to obtain an image with the final result?, I made a model and I have a mix shader after the Principled BSDF and I am not sure how to bake it or make the mix in Sketchfab

[@grabbitt]

See my baking playlist

[@youngdochoi3434]

Hey Grant! Amazing work as always! I'm just wondering, why most of your character sculpts are leaning towards monsters or oddly shaped man like maybe an ogre or dwarf? Don't get me wrong though, those are some good stuff. It's just that they are kind of too much monster-ish vibe. Maybe on the next sculpt tutorial throw in some cute stuff in there, you know. 😂 Maybe like an anime girl? Something similar to Yansculpts or Follygon artworks would be a good content! 💯 I hope you consider. Regardless, awesome work, Grant! 💕

[@grabbitt]

Yeah maybe 🙂👍

[@tentative4474]

Still stuck at retopo, and my dragon looks nothing like yours, gotta go with what I have

[@vladcristea7212]

Hello! Can you show me to the video where you solve the issues with the normal map? I am struggling with it right now. I am using the 3.0 version of blender

[@grabbitt]

Search cage on my channel

[@blendfam7599]

its almost like u saw my post on the blender group on facebook when i asked how to fix baking problems , and plz plz do the tutorial on how to fix baking problems plz , oh and great dragon by the way.

[@lyaeusv3828]

Amazing !

[@wojt3d415]

cool one

[@LopusJ]

when i do the cavity emission it just makes those ridges black and flat

[@solaris207]

It's probably a stupid question but how does the dragon look more detailed than the retopologised one?

[@grabbitt]

cavity maps

[@solaris207]

@@grabbitt ah ok that makes sense thanks!

[@njs811271]

Grant, have you used ArmorPaint? It's still in the early stages of development, but it's a free alternative to substance painter. I highly recommend checking it out.

[@njs811271]

You can also put your black/white maps into a single texture by default in ArmorPaint. Saves a pretty good amount on calling.

[@EenaTheBudgie]

How was my dungeon looking?

[@grabbitt]

its good :)

[@AlOn556]

Hey Grant! Any tips on making emission maps like these for video games? Any way you can maybe bake this emission mask you made into an emission texture?

[@sttate]

Can games even do emission maps? I thought emission maps relied on ray tracing.

[@robbertzzzzz]

@@sttate games can definitely do emission, that's how lit effects like fire and lasers are done. Baking these is similar to baking a diffuse I suppose if there isn't a dedicated emission bake in blender, or else just doing it in photoshop using the multiply blend mode works too.

[@sttate]

@@robbertzzzzz Yeah but aren't they actually just point lights that are faking emission?

[@robbertzzzzz]

@@sttate no, definitely not. Emissive materials in game engines typically don't even emit light, although that's changing now more and more game engines are supporting rtx cards. Emission in games basically is a bunch of unshaded colours, the strength of which can be used to create bloom and HDR effects. It's basically identical to emission in eevee, as eevee is really just a very high quality game renderer.

[@grabbitt]

eevee doesn't do emissions either but yes you can fake it with bloom :)

[@domin6168]

I Like this series :D

[@BlenderQuick]

Interesting....

[@netranaik8985]

Do you render this in eevee

[@grabbitt]

Yes

[@457Deniz457]

SO nice gj ! :)

[@USBEN.]

HOT DAMN

[@netranaik8985]

Can you make 3d models on 3ds max or maya

[@grabbitt]

i've used maya before but not max

[@lordsoumil3677]

Am I the only fourteen year old Indian trying these out and getting to be a pro at blender?!

[@muhammadyaqoob7265]

still waiting for that venom head...

[@a.m.10football7]

Do all average funko in blender 2.8

[@grabbitt]

i've done deadpool funko see my playlist

[@a.m.10football7]

You do hulk iron man and tanos

[@umchiha9073]

Heart my comment

[@grabbitt]

🙂

[@raymedoff]

Hi nice! Up

[@raymedoff]

T y for the big like

[@billynugget7102]

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