Reskinning with blender

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tangerine

Member

• Jan 23, 2022

• #1

Is reskinning an asset with Blender possible? I'm considering using Blender as a free reskinning alternative to the EXPENSIVE Adobe Substance Painter. Substance Painter does look nice, HOWEVER $65.99cdn a month is far too expensive.

 

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slenderman8888

Member

• Jan 23, 2022

• #2

Probably not. Since you'd need access to source mesh files in order to get it into Blender unless you are willing to use a program to rip the model from the game while running. For your reskinning needs I would suggest just using paint.net since it is free and has several neat things like layers, support for many formats, plugins, etc.

 

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johnwhelan

Well-known member

• Jan 23, 2022

• #3

Are you trying to reskin a .pbr texture? Blender modifies or creates meshes, there is free software or low cost software for handling .pbr texture files.

Look at PBR Painter and posts from Cayden.


https://forums.auran.com/trainz/sho...ld-be-using-it-in-TRS19&p=1793322#post1793322 might be useful as well.


Cheerio John

 

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tangerine

Member

• Jan 24, 2022

• #4

johnwhelan said:

Are you trying to reskin a .pbr texture? Blender modifies or creates meshes, there is free software or low cost software for handling .pbr texture files.

Look at PBR Painter and posts from Cayden.


https://forums.auran.com/trainz/sho...ld-be-using-it-in-TRS19&p=1793322#post1793322 might be useful as well.


Cheerio John

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Yes I am. I'm planning to reskin a locomotive with PBR textures. Any advice is gladly appreciated!

 

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H222

Well-known member

• Jan 24, 2022

• #5

Blender is a 3D modelling software, not a texture or photo-based software.

Try having a look at quixel mixer: https://quixel.com/mixer

 

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tangerine

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• Jan 25, 2022

• #6

H222 said:

Blender is a 3D modelling software, not a texture or photo-based software.

Try having a look at quixel mixer: https://quixel.com/mixer

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Thanks for the advice!

 

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dundun92

UK Content Creator

• Jan 26, 2022

• #7

Take a look at this thread I made about mixer:
https://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?160072-Quixel-Mixer-for-PBR-texturing

 

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PWillard

Member

• Jan 26, 2022

• #8

Hey, you should still download Blender. Start making your own meshes. Can't have too many creators... ;-P

 

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whitepass

Active member

• Jan 26, 2022

• #9

You can not reskin from the old materials to the new PBR materials as you must have the mesh to change the material type, this is coded into the mesh file.