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Texture Painting and Using Real-Life Images as Textures

Texture painting consists of making your own textures and manually painting them onto the model itself. This process is indeed more time consuming than the methods presented in the previous chapter, but it’s the ideal method in some cases.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • How to set up the texture painting workspace
  • How to paint textures manually
  • Different brush settings for painting
  • How to texture our models using real-life images
  • How to bake textures into images in order to use them in most 3D render engines

By the end of this chapter, you should be familiar with the texture painting workflow, using and manipulating real-life images to texture your models, and baking ...

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