Now that we have a good grasp of lighting, we moved on to look at how to texture a model. To begin with this we were asked to take a picture of a flattened cereal box that would later be applied to our models to make them look less like a model and more like a real world object.
Over the duration of the class, we learned where to put the image files on our computers, how to open the texturing window, how to reference the images we wanted to use, how to apply them to the correct plane and resize and manipulate them as needed to get the desired end result. At the end of the first lesson we were able to create and texture a cereal box from the picture we took.
In the lesson that followed, we were provided with textures and asked to follow the steps that enabled us to create the cereal box, to create a dice. Following some trial and error, I was able to successfully texture the dice.
With that area of texturing covered, we moved on to look at how you can paint your own textures. To do this we were asked to create a model, export an image of the UV map of the model, bring it into a painting app of your choice - I chose Krita - paint your design onto it, export it as the same size image that it came out of Maya as and then if it was done correctly, the texture you painted would be applied to your model.
The ability to paint my own textures will be very useful when I begin texturing the models I create for my film as I'll be able to make them look exactly as I envision them and not rely on ones that others have made and put online.
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