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I would like to know ways to make a object with a dirty appearance, materials rectangles, alpha maps, etc? I really don't know much of it... And the dirty gives an extra realism!

Thanks in Advance

In my eye's it depends from what you want to get Sometimes it is enough to work with one layer of a good created texture + bump map + good choosen shader. Sometimes the multilayer texture feature of tS is helpful - but here is the problem with other rendering engines they don't understand more than one layer. So mostly i use just one layer and invest a lot of time to create the textures. Also don't forget the lightning.

Maybe these tutorials here can help you:
http://www.leighvanderbyl.com/tutorials.html

http://www.cgtextures.com/content.php?action=tutorials

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_cus ... ry_id=4678

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotl ... nting.html

have FUN

Many Thanks DD! I will try to see those tutorials this afternoon.

Thank you

Dirty texture shows natural wear of an object. Is a matter of observation. Each material acts differently with the bumps and hollows. reliefs of white marble can be dirty while the same relief of a bronze seems cleaner and brighter. The use of multiple layers can handle multiple materials on one surface with matte and shiny part. For color, it is a work of photo editing.

Download the texture creation course from the caligari web site .... http://www.caligari.com/products/trueSp ... ate=Master

Norbert Esser explains a lot of techniques....

Seems that I need to sit down, stop creating things and see some tutorials =/

Thanks v3rd3