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Using layers

Using layers - Mudbox Tutorial

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Using layers

- When painting in any software package, layers can prove to be invaluable. Whether it's separating details, storing design iterations, or creating interesting effects by blending, utilizing layers is essential to providing artists with creative flexibility while painting textures. So in Mudbox we have this nice layers system for texture painting. We've taken our character here a little bit further. So I've worked with some of the details, I've adjusted lot of the coloring on here, and I've just stacked up some of the layers here doing those same effects that we're working with. Just as of note, so this sample file Chapter 10 has all of these textures in here that you can work with. And what we want to do now is take a look at how layers can really be powerful for texture painting and how they can allow us to take our texturing to a whole new level. And they have some really quick ways to help your workflow, actually, to speed along the texturing process. So let's take a look at this…

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