Hey all!
I was given the idea for this one, but I wasn't sure if it was going to work. Experience should've eased my mind on this one already. GOD has never shown me anything to write here that didn't work.
HE showed me that you can literally paint in your normal influence and I was like: "Really?! No..." and tried it on Saturday night and sure enough! You can!
Here's a video of what it looks like in action:
(~89 MB, Ogg)
Now, basically, you do exactly what you would, when you want to paint a texture onto any object in Blender:
- UV unwrap
- Add new image
- Pack Image as PNG
- Save the project
- Add it to your material as a texture
Here is where it differs. Instead of ticking Color (which is on by default), you turn it off and only add Normal influence and get painting!
Do note, that this does require you to be in Textured view to see the result, just like with other texture painting directly onto the model.
It is truly that simple!! Hope you enjoyed this one and that you are eager to get artsy with some of your game characters!
Thank YOU!!!!!!
Hey! I'm having an incredible learning experience, not only learning how Blender works (yes, still learning), but also about Open-Source and the incredible software available. Stick around!
