Realtime Stone with detail maps in Blender

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blender realtime stone mappingThis 45 minute video tutorial by Pelle Johnsen takes a simple stone to carefully illustrate the process of applying several UV maps to a real-time object.

Pelle Johnsen wrote:

Show creation of a ‘realtime’ stone in Blender using the standard color and normal maps as well as detail maps for color and nomals. The whole process is covered including:

  • photo texture preparation in gimp
  • tilable texture painting in blender
  • modeling and basic sculpting
  • uv unwrapping
  • projection painting to fix texture seams
  • material and detail color map
  • sculpting and displacement mapping
  • normal map baking
  • detail normal map

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    • SebastianErler

      Fantastic tutorial! There are a lot of techniques i have never seen before. Especially the kind of creating the detail maps. Very impressive, thanks a lot.

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      sweet

    • http://www.negdesign.com DeMoN

      very nice! Although I knew of the clone brush, I never thought of using it to make tileable textures, it really puts the old way of doing it in photoshop to shame :)

      I really want to see the rest of it, but for me it stops at 7:11 on hd and on sd it just wont work. Probably a *billion* people watching at the same time, will try again later. Thanks man, you rock!

    • Indee

      if you gonna use it on a comercial way ( large scale of obj)then u should add a material node => camera data => deph => and edit this to the detail maps (256×256 is not much but it will help on large scales)

    • -jay-

      Thanks for the tutorial!

    • http://www.watchmike.ca Mike

      Yeah thanks for the tut!

    • Charon

      The stone is stunning.

    • S-T-S

      Thanks for the tutorial Pelle Johnsen! Good one, especially for the first tutorial. Hope to see more from you :)

      @ DeMoN (& others interested):

      There are sites like ClipNabber (good one, supports HD download from vimeo) to get download link for the videos on a different video sites. There are also some add-ons for firefox to do the same, like Video DownloadHelper or UnPlug.

      Personally I use the Video DownloadHelper firefox add-on all the time to get videos like this to myself.

    • ari

      Great tutorial! :) Just learned a lot of stuff I knew nothing about. Thanks for sharing your technique, Pelle!

    • http://pellej.com pjohnsen

      Hi all,

      thanks for all the positive feedback :)

      @DeMoN: must be some vimeo problem .. hope you will be able to see the full tut soon. I’m pretty new to vimeo, but I really wanted to share this in HD. I hope it is working for most people.

      Big thanks (of course) to the blender foundation and Dr. Roosendaal :) for making this possible at all by providing such a good open and free software package.

      -Pelle

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Thank you very much, Pelle.

      Very interesting tutorial.

    • Jeff

      Watched this yesterday. Really good tutorial. You say in the video you haven’t used Blender much yet but it doesn’t show.

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/joaoyates yates

      congratulations man thats one of the best blender tutorials i’ve seen, and the subject is very usefull as well… i wish you all the best in the 3D world and want to extend a sincere thanks from brasil. great job dude. you really helped

    • http://guillaume.magnaudet.com/blog/ Guillaume

      Great tut and amazing stone. Waiting for your next fantastic tutorial :)

    • young_voter

      Thank you for the beautiful tutorial. It seems like 10 tutorials rolled into one.

    • Vincent hanz

      have you try NDO a plugins for photoshop?it can generate uv map.