{"id":1949,"date":"2025-09-04T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kankiprojects.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:40:30","slug":"robots-texturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kankiprojects.com\/es\/robots-texturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots texturing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In this activity I texturize the two models from the\u00a0previous work<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0Blender Bros Material Works<\/a>\u00a0addon and bake\u00a0the materials so that they are\u00a0game ready<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workflow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First of all I grouped the different elements of the model and assigned them vertex groups to maintain the distinction of materials in the same object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After creating the new materials with the Material Works plugin, I used the \u201cRemap Users\u201d function in the blender materials to link all instances of the sample material I used to the new material:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selecting all the parts of the robot in “faces” editing mode, I make a smart UV project to get the UV map<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To create the materials I use Material Works, from Blender Bros. The beauty of this plugin is that it allows you to generate metals with different layers of wear that can be configured at will. I have paid special attention to the wear of the edges to highlight more the silhouette of the hard surface figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And once I’ve done all this, it’s time to bake the textures. This step cost much more than expected, since all the tools I had to bake either gave errors or did not create a coherent UV map. Following the tutorial ”\u00a0Blender Baking Textures in less that 1 Minute using Omniverse<\/a>\u00a0“, I decided to use the Envidia Omniverse implementation in Blender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfortunately, with this method, for some reason, the error\u00a0\u00a0
Circular dependency for image \u201cBasic_Metal_basecolor.png\u201d from object \u201cCube.029_baked\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0appeared (example). After trial and error I discovered that it occurred due to the shared use of the instances of the textures of the Material Works plugin, so to fix it I went one by one in the nodes of the textures making the instances unique (single-user copy):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This process turns into tedious what at first I thought was going to be simple (that’s not counting the various other tests I did by baking with Blender’s native tool, using the Bystedts Blender Baker plugin…). Even so, I think that Omniverse is a very powerful tool and if you create the textures yourself properly it can be a great ally (yes, its computational cost is high).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we have the result with the procedural textures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here are the Omniverse textures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, just before starting to texturize the V2 robot I came across this tutorial: Blender to Unreal and Unity \u2013 Export and Bake Anything<\/a> , which mentioned an addon that I still hadn’t tried: Principled Baker.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And after testing it, I came to the conclusion that it was a much better option, since it was more efficient, it didn’t give me an error with my textures and the UV map was more faithful to the procedural textures. Here an example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this case I could add the  decals <\/em> I wanted by following this tutorial<\/a> , and using Chuck_CG’s resources on Gumroad: https:\/\/chuckcg.gumroad.com\/l\/SXxhW?layout=profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the case of the logos, belonging to each model, I asked ChatGPT to create some illustrations with the synopsis of the previous work as input and retouched them with Photoshop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For texturing you can see a time-lapse with the already optimized workflow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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