Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Member Made Tutorials => Presets & Markings Tutorials => Topic started by: aviannerd on September 18, 2020, 10:33:25 pm

Title: Skin and bones
Post by: aviannerd on September 18, 2020, 10:33:25 pm

All skin and bones

Start out with a preset. We'll go with preset 2. Open it up in GIMP
(https://i.imgur.com/3lA6RpD.png)
Next, grab fmarkSkeletonBody.png and layer it over the preset.
Adjust it over the body if you're using a cat. If you're doing a dog it should be fine. Next, paint over the paws in black
Add a new layer underneath the black markings, and paint under it. I'm using a lighter version of the fur.
(https://i.imgur.com/LhhTAHe.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/jWSSQnm.png)
Merge the black markings onto the layer you painted.
Next step is to go to Colors> Color to alpha, and set it to black. This will give you the bones themselves
(https://i.imgur.com/pZlrC2w.png)
Blur the bones.
(https://i.imgur.com/oeGNc6V.png)
Duplicate the marking layer. Turn one invisible, and turn the other's opacity waaaay down.
(https://i.imgur.com/herJ4bG.png)
Merge the low opacity onto the base, and export to preset_2body.jpg or whatever file you're using*
(https://i.imgur.com/he30LtL.png)
Hows that look? Really simple, not worth a tutorial on? But wait, what was the other bone layer we made?
(https://i.imgur.com/zFMmjHt.png)
Use the smudge tool with bristles, and brush the bones the direction of the fur. Turn the opacity down very low, I have it at 15.8. Export the bone layer as bones.png
(https://i.imgur.com/ev3wXFM.png)
Open the body file, add a white layer above the base. Set it to low opacity, I'm using 21.7. Export it as skinny.png
(https://i.imgur.com/xONp8z6.png)
Replace the body code with

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material preset_2_bodyMatL
{
technique
{
pass
{
ambient 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
diffuse 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000
specular 0.050000 0.050000 0.050000 1.000000 12.500000
emissive 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
cull_hardware none
cull_software none
alpha_rejection greater_equal 128
scene_blend alpha_blend
texture_unit
{
texture preset_2body.jpg
tex_address_mode wrap
filtering trilinear

}
}
pass
{
lighting on
scene_blend alpha_blend
specular 0.9 0.9 0.9 1 128
texture_unit
{
texture bones.png
}
lighting on
scene_blend alpha_blend
specular 0.9 0.9 0.9 1 128
texture_unit
{
env_map spherical
texture skinny.png
}
}

}
}(https://media.tenor.com/images/795aa5ebfa7da1bb8acfdb611453bb22/tenor.gif)
Now the light will hit the bones and shade them. It's subtle, if you want a more dramatic impact add some darker colors below the markings before you merge onto the main body. The step is marked with an *

Title: Re: Skin and bones
Post by: Garfield. on September 18, 2020, 11:17:58 pm

Woah, very impressive and helpful for realistic presets! this is great, thank you for sharing! +floof

Title: Re: Skin and bones
Post by: Oddonelynx on September 19, 2020, 02:31:10 am

Ooh, this is a cool trick. Might use this on something..

Title: Re: Skin and bones
Post by: Telluric on September 19, 2020, 03:26:20 am

dude this is sick, hopefully i can find an excuse to use this on a preset lol

Title: Re: Skin and bones
Post by: Dark_heart on September 19, 2020, 08:01:31 am

Very nice look though, thank you for this tutorial. Lovely work, really ❤