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Title: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 09, 2011, 01:31:12 am

Hi there,

Would you like to make your preset look more realistic? Well, I can show you how to do that, by using FH's awesome fur shading included with the program.

There are 2 methods I discovered for doing this, you can put it in your preset using Photoshop, Gimp, or Paint dot Net, or you can edit your preset's material file to overlay the fur texture. I recommend just overlaying the fur texture in the material file, but it's up to you.

Note: The difference between fbodyShade and cbodyShade is that f is for feline, and c is canine. Same thing applies for all of the shade files, except fmaneShade.jpg

Navigation
Use ctrl+F on the codes to the left to quickly jump to the section relevant to you:

(F01) Method 1: Integrate the fur texture into your preset design with Photoshop, Paint dot Net, or Gimp
(F02) Gimp - Using the fur texture on your preset
(F03) Paint dot Net - Using the fur texture on your preset
(F04) Photoshop - Using the fur texture on your preset
(F05) Method 2: Edit your preset's material file
(F06) Method 2 For Felines
(F07) Method 2 For Canines
 
Method 1: Integrate the fur texture into your preset design with Photoshop, Paint dot Net, or Gimp (F01)

Have Photoshop, Paint dot Net, or Gimp? You can use the fur shading in your texture without messing with the .material file. Here's how to do that: ;D

Go to C:\FeralHeart\media\textures, and look for fbodyShade.jpg if you are working on a feline preset, or cbodyShade.jpg if you are working on a canine preset.



For Gimp (F02)

Please be sure to back up your presets in case you mess up!

1. First, make your preset. Once it is all finished, you can add the fur texture to it.

2. Open cbodyShade.jpg or fbodyShade.jpg in Gimp, and open up your body preset in Gimp.

3. Bring up your body preset, and Select All (ctrl +A) and Copy it (ctrl + C)

4. Bring up the cbodyShade.jpg or fbodyShade.jpg, and then paste your body preset onto it (ctrl + v).

5. A new layer will appear called Floating Selection (Pasted Layer). Select this new layer in the Layers window (press ctrl + L if you cannot find the Layers window), and then click on the Normal box at Mode: Normal, and select Multiply in the list. The fur texture should show through your preset design.


Make sure the fur texture is the bottom layer on the layers list, or you will just get a white preset.

5. Save this new image as your body preset file. You will need to close your old body preset file from Gimp so it can overwrite it.

For the rest of the preset parts, just follow these same steps, but use either fheadShade.jpg/cheadShade.jpg, ftailShade.jpg/ctailShade.jpg, and fmaneShade.jpg, with their respective preset images. These are all found within C:\FeralHeart\media\textures

For Paint dot net (F03)

Please be sure to back up your presets in case you mess up!

Due to the different interface, this varies some from Gimp and Photoshop.

1. First, make your preset. Once it is all finished, you can add the fur texture to it.

2. Open cbodyShade.jpg or fbodyShade.jpg in Paint dot Net, and open up your body preset in Paint dot Net.

3. Bring up your body preset, and Select All (ctrl +A) and Copy it (ctrl + C)

4. Bring up the cbodyShade.jpg or fbodyShade.jpg, and then paste your body preset onto it (ctrl + shift + v). Make sure to use ctrl + shift + v to paste the body preset onto a new layer.

5. A new layer called Layer 2 will appear with your body preset on it. Select Layer 2 in the Layers window (if you cannot find the Layers window, press F7), and press F4 to get into the layer properties.

6. Find where it says Mode: Normal, and click the box that says Normal, and choose Multiply from the menu.



7. Now, the fur texture should show up through your preset design.

8. Save this new image as your body preset file. You will need to close your old body preset file from Paint dot net so it can overwrite it.

For the rest of the preset parts, just follow these same steps, but use either fheadShade.jpg/cheadShade.jpg, ftailShade.jpg/ctailShade.jpg, and fmaneShade.jpg, with their respective preset images. These are all found within C:\FeralHeart\media\textures

For Photoshop (F04)

Please be sure to back up your presets in case you mess up!

It's pretty much the same as Gimp. XD

1. First, make your preset. Once you are happy with it, you can add the fur texture to it.

2. Open cbodyShade.jpg or fbodyShade.jpg in Photoshop, and open up your body preset in Photoshop

3. Bring up your body preset, and Select All (ctrl +A) and Copy it (ctrl + C)

4. Bring up the cbodyShade.jpg or fbodyShade.jpg, and then paste your body preset onto it (ctrl + v).

5. A new layer called Layer 1 will appear with your body preset on it. Select Layer 1 in the Layers window (if you cannot find the Layers window, press F7), and then click on the Normal box just under the tab that says Layers, and select Multiply in the list. The fur texture should show through your preset design.



6. Save this new image as your body preset file. You will need to close your old body preset file from Photoshop so it can overwrite it.

For the rest of the preset parts, just follow these same steps, but use either fheadShade.jpg/cheadShade.jpg, ftailShade.jpg/ctailShade.jpg, and fmaneShade.jpg, with their respective preset images. These are all found within C:\FeralHeart\media\textures


Phew! That's the part of actually integrating the fur texture into your preset with Photoshop or Gimp. If you do not have them, or have no desire to do it this way, there's another method, editing the material file.

Method 2 - Edit your preset's material file(F05)

This method requires no image editing, but you do need to move the shade files to your presets folder and edit your preset's material file.

Note: The sections of the material file I show may differ from yours, if you have renamed the image files used, and if you have used a different preset file. You only have to add the parts that are in bolded red.

Method 2 For Felines (F06)

Note: The sections of the material file I show may differ from yours, if you have renamed the image files used, and if you have used a different preset file. You only have to add the parts that are in bolded red. Do not change anything else.

1. Locate fbodyShade.jpg, fheadShade.jpg, ftailShade.jpg and fmaneShade.jpg in C:\FeralHeart\media\textures.

2. Copy these files into your preset's folder.

3. Open your preset's material file in Notepad.

4. For the body, add the parts in bolded red to these sections of the material file:

Quote

material preset_1_bodyMatL
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1body.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture fbodyShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}
material preset_1_bodyMatR
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1body.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture fbodyShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}

For the head, add the parts in bolded red to these sections of the material file:

Quote

material preset_1_headMatL
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1head.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture fheadShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}
material preset_1_headMatR
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1head.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture fheadShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}

For the tail, add the part in bolded red to this section of the material file:

Quote

material preset_1_tailMat
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1tail.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture ftailShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}

Finally, the mane shading. If you have no interest in using a mane, you can disregard this. Otherwise, add the part in bolded red to this section of the material file:

Quote

material preset_1_maneMat
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         lighting off
         cull_hardware none
         cull_software none
         scene_blend alpha_blend
         depth_write off
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1mane.png
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture fmaneShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}

Method 2 For Canines (F07)

Note: The sections of the material file I show may differ from yours, if you have renamed the image files used, and if you have used a different preset file. You only have to add the parts that are in bolded red. Do not change anything else.

1. Locate cbodyShade.jpg, cheadShade.jpg, ctailShade.jpg and fmaneShade.jpg in C:\FeralHeart\media\textures.

2. Copy these files into your preset's folder.

3. Open your preset's material file in Notepad.

4. For the body, add the parts in bolded red to these sections of the material file:

Quote

material preset_1_bodyMatL
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1body.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture cbodyShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}
material preset_1_bodyMatR
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1body.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture cbodyShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}

For the head, add the parts in bolded red to these sections of the material file:

Quote

material preset_1_headMatL
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1head.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture cheadShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}
material preset_1_headMatR
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1head.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture cheadShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}

For the tail, add the part in bolded red to this section of the material file:

Quote

material preset_1_tailMat
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1tail.jpg
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture ctailShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}

Finally, the mane shading. If you have no interest in using a mane, you can disregard this. Otherwise, add the part in bolded red to this section of the material file:

Quote

material preset_1_maneMat
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         lighting off
         cull_hardware none
         cull_software none
         scene_blend alpha_blend
         depth_write off
         texture_unit
         {
            texture preset_1mane.png
         }
          texture_unit
         {
                    texture fmaneShade.jpg
         }
      }
   }
}

All right, that's it, folks. Hope this tutorial was helpful for you.

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: TealSkeletore on January 09, 2011, 03:23:28 am

Thanks for this, it will be a lot of help for people having issues :3 Oh and you posted it in the wrong section, I'll move it to the Presets board and I'll sticky it for ya too.

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: choosen on January 09, 2011, 05:49:31 am

WOW thats grate.. to bad i dont have Photoshop or Gimp :/
(need to get them)

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: M-Wolf on January 09, 2011, 06:07:39 am

I use GIMP so this really helped.

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Runningwolfpro on January 09, 2011, 06:15:01 am

Once again, thank you!(:

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 09, 2011, 06:48:23 am

I made it easier to navigate to the section relevant to you, and decided it's probably best if everyone just adds the fur texture after their preset is done, so they can still work with the uv maps and stuff.

Enjoy :D

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ouuka on January 09, 2011, 07:01:11 am

This worked out great, only question i have is about the colors, the ones i use to color it didnt come out in end, like the purple came out a red, (first time ever doing preset so i know its something i did lol ) Can u help me and lemme know wat i did wrong<3

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 09, 2011, 07:09:50 am

Hmm, that's weird. Are you sure you selected "Multiply" on the list and not something else?

What image editing program did you use?

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ouuka on January 09, 2011, 07:20:18 am

I use Gimp and yes i used Multiply, ive done layers before for art work so i understood most of it, but when it was done the colors came out different, maybe its a color FH doesnt use? I can always try again and see if it happens with other colors, ^^; maybe i should leave the presets to experienced  ppl xD

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 09, 2011, 07:29:16 am

Hmm, I have an idea. Could you show me the color you used? I'll see if it becomes red for me, too.

By the way, I assume it turns red when you put the preset on in FH, right?

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ouuka on January 09, 2011, 07:33:53 am

Yea only when i go on FH, i was thinking, maybe its cuz i copied this color directly instead of making the color? Like i put this pic in gimp and used that color copy tool o.o I dont know either way XD was just trying to make this and non of the colors worked QQ These were exact colors i used ._.

(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z32/silmeriavalkyrie/Other/FursonaUpdate.jpg)

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 09, 2011, 07:42:39 am

I used the color copy tool also when I made my preset, and the colors matched when used in FeralHeart.

I tried using both of the purple colors on a preset, and they do not look red in FeralHeart. That's really weird.

Try using other colors and see if they turn out the same?

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ouuka on January 09, 2011, 07:47:39 am

Alright ^^ Ill retry tomorrow >:D im rly determined on doing this and making my first preset! Ty for the help ill let u know tomorrow how it goes. Its very late here now so beddy time <3 Ty again and Thank you for putting the tutorial up i wouldnt knwo what to do without it ;)

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Arukardis on January 09, 2011, 01:24:58 pm

Great tutorial! I used my own fur texture and didn't know how to apply it externally like this ;) It's very useful, thanks!

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Avani on January 09, 2011, 07:39:02 pm

Great Tutorial! ^^

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Lurina on January 09, 2011, 10:36:56 pm

Aaaah! Thank you. I have been having trouble trying to make my char more realistic. <3 xD

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ouuka on January 10, 2011, 03:50:23 am

Got it working :D Had to make preset then put hair texture over top. Wouldnt work other way but ims till happy ^-^ just gotta get better at figuring out the layout so my design is better, Still wouldnt have been able to do it without the tutorial here ty Dharma<3 yays

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 10, 2011, 05:08:55 am

I'm glad you fixed it Missy. You're welcome. ^^

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Baltra on January 10, 2011, 08:21:34 pm

Thanks for the tutorial, it helped me a lot. I was wondering how to get the fur texture on my preset yesterday XD

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Severa on January 11, 2011, 01:52:59 am

Thanks for the tutorial, but I have a bit of a problem, which messed up my former preset.  :'(
My problem is that on Gimp when I pasted the fur texture I couldn't find the layer list thing or the check box that says multiply so it just made my character white with the fur texture.
I'm not sure if this will help, but I have the newest version of Gimp (2.6)

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 11, 2011, 06:03:46 am

You are supposed to paste your body preset onto the fur texture, not the other way around.

For Gimp, press Ctrl + L to bring up the layers list so you can see the layers and change the Layer blending mode to Multiply.

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ritsuka on January 11, 2011, 01:14:42 pm

Thanks for this Tutorial, but i did it the other way around and it still turned out that same haha <3 ur teh best

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 12, 2011, 01:13:53 am

Hmm you're right Tasha, ah well. Just make sure one of them is on a layer that is set to Multiply. :P

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Severa on January 12, 2011, 04:07:57 am

Oh okay.. thanks Dharma I appreciate it  ;D

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: PokelilyX on January 15, 2011, 01:35:45 pm

I added everything into the material file, But now when I go to feral hearts under preset 8 my preset isn't under there anymore.. d :-\id I do something wrong?

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dharma on January 16, 2011, 05:57:10 am

Lily, can you copy your entire material file and paste it here? And, you didnt change where it says preset 8 to preset 1, right?

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Silvur on January 20, 2011, 05:23:56 pm

Thanks a bunch! This is a great help. 8D

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Lioness on January 20, 2011, 06:18:30 pm

Thanks! Very helpful!

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: IetMarriokNienda on March 21, 2011, 11:09:18 am

OMG thank you so much!

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Silvermistfalls on May 04, 2011, 07:20:20 pm

Thank you for helping me thankz to you i have a 3D preset as i call it i am every greatful

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Slave on May 14, 2011, 08:38:08 pm

I tried adding fur tex but the markings on my preset went dark and red instead of brown

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Slave on May 14, 2011, 08:44:31 pm

Fixed It

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: dingodina on May 25, 2011, 05:53:29 am

Hi i came to save my preset body shaded in fbodyu shade how do i get it back

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Squiggy18 on June 10, 2011, 09:07:34 pm

Red, I did not understand that... o-o..... so I dont have to download them? ...........

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Frostpaw860 on June 28, 2011, 10:34:44 pm

This is my first time making a preset. And your tutorial is helping me so much!<3 Thank you :D

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: aelitastar on August 08, 2011, 08:46:49 am

XD this helped A TON

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ingredient on October 05, 2011, 11:45:07 pm

Thank you it made my presets look a whole lot better thanks

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Wolve27 on October 09, 2011, 08:31:24 am

um thanks but I need to see a video of it sorry (im one of the people who needs to see the progress getting done so I don't grasp stuff written down sorry)

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ducky on November 15, 2011, 11:19:57 pm

 I'm using GIMP 2.6 and I can't get to mai layers! 8U I'm searching everywhere for a box that shows me the layers but I can't find it. DX Help? :C

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ingredient on November 16, 2011, 06:23:47 am

Quote from: Squiggy on June 10, 2011, 09:07:34 pm

Red, I did not understand that... o-o..... so I dont have to download them? ...........

no download is needed its in the FH texture folder

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Kula on February 04, 2012, 02:27:28 am

ohhh

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: nomura on March 02, 2012, 09:02:39 pm

i tried both methods but the one whit the code dont have the eye and the mounth so they appers completely white to me

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Winky123 on May 27, 2012, 01:03:42 pm

Whoa! I made my preset with Photoshot And It looks sooooo realistic! Thanks ^^

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Musashi on June 19, 2012, 04:35:08 pm

Okay, I need help a bit. I did all that stuff, and my preset head (I'm doing it for the head) Is to small. The headshade is too big for it. What shall I do? :I (By the way, I am using Tearless' texture.)

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Tetsune on June 19, 2012, 05:00:11 pm

Quote from: ParanormalHowl on June 19, 2012, 04:35:08 pm

Okay, I need help a bit. I did all that stuff, and my preset head (I'm doing it for the head) Is to small. The headshade is too big for it. What shall I do? :I (By the way, I am using Tearless' texture.)

Are you using GIMP or a similar program with layers?
If you are, you can just resize the texture to fit.

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: MistWolf on June 25, 2012, 07:58:45 pm

I used the Photoshop method of putting the fur texture on my preset, but when I tried to export it, an error message occurred that said "Failed to Export Preset". What did I do wrong?

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Reni-The-Wolf- on July 10, 2012, 06:18:19 pm

Thanks! I did this and tried it out except one side doesn't have any texture at all. I copied everything right, I'm sure of it. Dx

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: animals_rock on July 15, 2012, 07:55:57 am

Thanks for making this :3 It helped a lot 8D Thanks again

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: SingleLady on August 27, 2012, 07:13:52 pm

Um... I did Every thing u Said!! AAAANND! No Image data in Clipboard??? Sry Im new at Gimp and Presets

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: SingleLady on August 27, 2012, 07:43:01 pm

Fixed.... PRESET NO WORK NOW!!!

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Pakhet on October 14, 2012, 11:20:26 pm

Great tutorial, thanks!

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: *snap@apples?* on February 07, 2013, 12:21:56 am

I did that but it showed up like it always does, with NO fur textures, just plain skin and markings, I mean I did it the easy way, save fur textures to preset folder and junk.  What I do wrong?

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: *snap@apples?* on February 07, 2013, 12:46:13 am

 :'( I cried in the at the start and cried at the end DX

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ingredient on February 07, 2013, 07:22:46 am

Please do not double post, marble. Try modifying your post instead :)

A shame the images are no longer showing on the first page, might I ask but what program are you using? I'm willing to assist you ;)

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: souleater3 on March 05, 2013, 09:02:22 am

yea...did that paint.net one and every time I go to click on the preset number I'm working on that I put the  fur texture in..It freezes my fh sooo obviously I did something wrong..

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: Ingredient on March 05, 2013, 07:53:07 pm

Quote from: soul on March 05, 2013, 09:02:22 am

yea...did that paint.net one and every time I go to click on the preset number I'm working on that I put the  fur texture in..It freezes my fh sooo obviously I did something wrong..

Maybe take a look at Lord Suragaha's tutorial for this: http://www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=31787.0 (http://www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=31787.0) ;)

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: femalecreature on September 03, 2013, 01:26:09 am

Wonderful! Amazing job teaching this... I honestly didn't know this, lmao.. I'm probably gonna screw it up when I first try this.. once this compooter stops being such a little kakashka to meh, lol..... I'm trying to get a tablet 'n' stuffies xnx Meh, well thanks for the turtorial, Im pretty sure I understood it. Me and my crazy brain........ :P

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: ritat on September 03, 2013, 09:12:27 pm

Oh mer god. Thanks for the amazing tutorial. Now I can put fur textures on my presets. +Floof for you because you show a great example of a tutorial.

Title: Re: How to include FH's fur texture in your preset
Post by: DevXVI on December 06, 2013, 04:04:43 am

Thanks for sharing.