Next I’m going to switch on some of the basic global illumination and lighting settings that I like to keep consistent throughout the process. I like to set it to somewhere around the 70mm mark which is much more in keeping with portrait photography, you can see the difference this makes in the image below. I like to setup the camera early on, as I've said in previous articles no one likes a horse face and a sure fire way to do that is to have use a 35mm focal distance. For this I like to export an FBX rather than an OBJ from Zbrush because they store normal information and don’t result in unwanted smoothing errors on the mesh. The very first thing we need to do is import our model, File> Import model. Male 45 Head Scan Cleaned - Avaliable here In part 2 I will look more in-depth at tileable micro skin details using TextureXYZ maps. I’m going to make this a 2-part tutorial so this will show you the basics of how to setup the shader and the scene as well as create some of the secondary maps such as the gloss and spec. For the purposes of this article I’m only going to be focusing on the skin and completely ignoring things like the eyes and hair. This can save up a lot of time and fiddling, especially if you work with a lot of characters.In this tutorial we are going to look at how to setup a fairly simple skin shader using a 3d scan from our store.

With Toolbag, it will also enable the relevant material slots if that is not done already. For example, it can tell the tool that texture names ending with “_Albedo” should be assigned to the diffuse material slot in Maya.

Separate JSON file presets can be used to search for different naming conventions and assignment slots.

The only bit that was different was the UI code. Luckily, both Maya and Marmoset Toolbag support Python, so I could easily port it between the two softwares. To help with that, I wrote a Texture Setter tool in Python. It’s not the most time-consuming task, but it happens frequently, especially on our live games. The Texture Setter finds all textures in a folder with a certain suffix and assigns them to the correct material slot.Īt Space Ape, we have a lot of characters to manage and in almost every case we need to set up the textures and materials for marketing renders and also for them to appear correctly in our games. Have you ever done the same small repetitive task repeatedly during your 3D workflow? Situations like that are perfect for creating new tools.

Materials for marmoset toolbag 3