anyone have a good tutorial on how to modify body textures? I am new at this and trying to add some tats to one of my figures.

thanks all!

I dont know what graphic program you use but adding tattoos is not that hard to do.

Just open the skin texture you want to modifie in your graphic program and add a layer.
Draw your tattoo on that layer and save it under a diferent name.
Thats the basic.

The problems you can run into is deformation of the tattoo becouse of the skin stretch on the model.
Search in the freebie section or the net for a seam guide for the model you use, they can be of a great help to plan out your tattoo.

Also some trial and error might help :biggrin:

I did this a few times and its not all that hard.
The only hard part is if your tattoo is crossing a seam, planing out to fit both parts can be a tidyous job.

Also I think you can add a tattoo with nodes in the material room, I think Dr Geep has a tutorial about that...but I am not shure.

I hope this helped a bit.

There are some tutorials in this thread that show you how to add decals and such to textures using the material room.  Scroll down and look  for "Node Masks".

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2722867

This program is supposed to help.
DecalMaster

Attached Link: best method for tattoos in Photoshop

Attached Link: Dual Materials with Stencils

Similar technique, but to get that glossy paint look you want a different shader setup.

Follow the link.

Whoops - forgot to flag nudity. I'll flag this post. Hope that helps.

I have Decal Master, it is pretty cool, though I am sure Baggins look a bit more real. If you take your tattoo imaage into PSP (or whatever) you can play with the settings until it is more muted and looks like it sits in the skin. I am a very tattooed woman, and my problem with most of the inked textures I have seen is that the tats are very bright, and look like someone painted them on, rather then put them in, the skin, if that makes sense :-)

-Sarah

Yup, I agree with the above.

What I did is, make a new layer and create your tattoo on that layer.
Than fidle around with layer visability/transparency.
Result is that the tattoo gets a bit pale and a litle skin is shining trou it.
This gives a bit more realistic result.

Just fidle around with the settings untill you get the right look.

9/16/08

I have turned tattoos into paint burshes.This allows me to turn twist and size them. It probably would not work so well with multicolored tattoos.

I have seen suggested to use a transparent layer for the tattoo, then to copy the original texture to another layer, and adjust transparency on that layer, and then sandwich the tattoo between the layers by flattening the image.

LMK

In the sample I wanted bright, crisp colour on the shoulder, while the dragons should have been paler, "older".
You can have pretty much what you want with that "multiply" thing.