Just a quick question....

Is there a utility/python script that might allow selecting a part of a clothing (say "chest" or "right collar") and link it directly to a texture map (instead of editing the entire texture for the clothing? THe situation I am thinking of if I need to have part of the cloth to be either dirty or bloody....

 not too sure if this is doable but I think it could be useful feature to have!

Anyways, Thanks for your help and/or insights...

Cheers

vxg139

You can do it in the Material room because this is where you select each material zone.

IS there a tutorial that describes the process? when  I go to the material room and "click" on the "chest" part of the clothing, it shows up as "shirt"! Maybe  I am missing something fundamental?

Cheers

vxg139

First you'll want to keep your shirt as a whole material (shirt) and not split up the material zones.
You could add a ColorMath Add node in front of the shirt map and plug in a bloody or dirty map into the ColorMath node...then your dirty map would appear along with the shirt map.

Material zones may include multiple body parts, thats what you want  so shirt,pants etc dont get broken up to lots of parts.

you can use a blender node to apply one material to another. Its fairly easy if you do it like a tattoo with an image map, you can use modes if you want. You can use a mask to limit the area that your overlay texture applies to.   Search the forums for tattoo and you should find the method.

Got to say, this forum is probably the best one I have ever come across! Everyone willing to help and answer questions..... :c)))

Thank you for all your good advice.....

Cheers

vxg139