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Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Tom Krowka — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:53:33 GMT

anyone have an idea how to create a new texture with custom colors? I don't have a JPG that matches what is needed, nor can I go out and take a picture of it. It's a shingle siding with an Owner's custom color. I tried various methods to color an existing colored JPG but results are not accurate. I do have the RBG values of the color but not the blank JPG on which to apply it.

Am assuming I would do it through Maxon and then save the texture back to Basic engine. but how would I get that back into the Open GL engine. I went to the Maxon website but the information is way over my head and couldn't find anything related to the basic question.

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Lingwisyer — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 01:15:05 GMT

If you have managed to create the texture in CineRender/C4D, you could go render a perpendicular view of a large surface with the texture on it then save that out to be used as your OpenGL surface.

Ling.

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Tom Krowka — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 23:09:06 GMT

Managing to create the texture in Maxon is where I'm having the problem.

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Carstenem — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 01:54:00 GMT

This might not be the answer you are looking for but the easiest way is to do this in Photoshop and save the texture out from there.

- find a shingle siding texture online which matches closest ( in design your client is after )
- open in photoshop and desaturate ( make no color )
- create new layer above with your RGB color values
- tell the new layer to be an overlay

This will give you a pretty close representation.

Good luck, cheers Carsten

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Tom Krowka — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:08:59 GMT

Sounds good thanks.

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:39:23 GMT

Carstenem wrote:
This might not be the answer you are looking for but the easiest way is to do this in Photoshop and save the texture out from there.

- find a shingle siding texture online which matches closest ( in design your client is after )
- open in photoshop and desaturate ( make no color )
- create new layer above with your RGB color values
- tell the new layer to be an overlay

This will give you a pretty close representation.

Good luck, cheers Carsten

Thank you for your answer. Please could you clarify how we can put a rgb layer with new colors, which order do you use.
REgards

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Lingwisyer — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 02:09:21 GMT

Darwinland,

darwinland wrote:
- create new layer above...
- tell the new layer to be an overlay

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Carstenem — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 04:29:54 GMT

here you go. You might have to play with the brightness and contrast a bit.

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Lingwisyer — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 04:55:00 GMT

Might also be worth playing around with a Levels Adjustment Layer over the top for more control over the colour shades compared to what is achievable with just brightness and contrast.

Ling.

Re: Create new textures in Maxon & open GL

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:34:50 GMT

Thank you both