All language subtitles for 26-Creating our custom leaf texture Part2

Okay, so, we are back again.

That's our usual program.

So we now have our images.

So as you can see over here, I just converted the images from hard to

Jay back because as I said, I'm not too worried about it and you can

see the images over here.

So, if I open them up like this, you can see that we created that

first image, which was just with the lights on top down and this image

we will use mostly just to create a mask.

And after that, you have the strong images over here, which you can

see with our light, just has everything.

A single point like that.

So yeah, that's pretty much it.

So it is quite straightforward.

And once you've done this now, what we will go over is we will go over

on how to actually convert this into proper textures.

Now one thing to keep in mind, as I said, because I'm recording this

in Winter.

Literally.

It's freezing outside right now.

So I simply do not have any other leaves except for this ivy leaf.

This means that because I want this planning to actually make this 43

once I've showed you this process.

I will simply

A leaf texture form.

For example, text.com, and I will use that to show you how to create a

branches.

Don't worry.

It is literally the exact same process.

The only difference is that, I'm using a slightly different texture.

So having these textures, I actually ended up and I created for

different leaves over here.

So that I also can show you how to actually turn this into an atlas

because I think that is quite nice to also see the first thing that

you want to do is when you end up with your jpeg images in your

You are ready to start editing them is to go ahead and create a new

document and make it 512 by 512.

That's more than enough that we need for like at least like something

like this.

We don't need a lot of resolution.

You can go ahead and you can press create.

And then we have over here.

This window.

I do not know why my layers.

There we go.

Okay.

Next thing you want to do is you want to drag in all of your textures

at the same time.

So you drag them in.

And you just passed, okay.

My take a second to load them all in because I'm shooting at 6K and

I'm now going to go back to 512 by 512.

But anyway, so we now have these textures.

The next thing that I want to do is I just want to make sure that my

numbering is correct.

So here, you can see that this bottom One X needs to be here at the

top.

So we have 0, 0, 3, 55 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 61 say.

Okay.

So that's all correct.

Next thing that you need to do is you need to select all of them.

You can get rid of your background, select all of them, right?

Click free transform and then if you go ahead and you want to hold Alt

You can go in and you basically want to use nicely Center this Leaf so

that it is quite large and it is just filling the space.

So we still want to like use our resolution.

Just like that over here.

Okay, then we put can press OK and here we go.

If you want if you want to make your document around a bit slower, you

need to do this.

Anyway.

A little bit later on, is you want to go up here to selection?

Select your document and then simply go to image cop.

And this way it will be cops are all of that outside junk that are

that is still stored in the memory.

It will go away and we need to do this because of how we are going to

import this into substance.

So now that we have this one, what I want to do is I want to just go

ahead and go down until we have this one over here, which is our front

sight.

Now, as you can see, we do have a few Shadows, but that is not really

a problem.

You want to make sure that over here, as I said before, you do not

want to move your leaves or your camera.

And this is why because we

Going to now create a mask and the mask needs to match up with our

lives.

So we can go down here and we can grab our quick selection tool.

If we do not have it.

You just want to click and hold, and then you can find it here and you

basically just want to go ahead and click on the outside over here.

And just select basically everything except for leaf, and don't worry

about those really small cavities because what I like to do is I like

to just do like some custom selection on those.

So I go in here like this.

Sometimes I do like to go in and just like play around with it.

But this should be pretty much fine.

Yes.

So now, what I like to do is I like to go up here to my polygon,

select tool, which is the one above it.

I want to hold alt or shift.

Let's see is.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, I want to hold.

Also.

We are subtracting it from the selection.

So I want to hold out and just like these pieces, although it might be

difficult to see what all the pixels.

You simply want to mask out stuff.

That is not your leaf.

Like this.

Oh, this time it did not.

Do I need to hold shift?

Oh, yeah, because this time I'm on the outside, so I need to hold

shift so that I'm actually adding it to the selection.

So something like that.

So that's great.

So now that we have this, all we need to do is we need to go down here

at a solid color and you can make this color white.

So I tend to just make my leaf black.

So here, if I do another solid color over here, now, it is black.

So black and white.

And this is because of the way that

Blending modes is turned on, we can always convert it into substance

if needed.

So, we have these two over here.

You can, if you want just merge the layers.

And once that is done.

Yeah, you can leave in this Leaf if you want or you can just remove

it.

Let's just leave it in just in case.

Now that this is done.

All you need to do is you need to go ahead and I'm gonna go in

customly for our images, and let's do to substance.

Like this.

Oops, and let's open up this folder.

And then what you want to do is we if we go file and do like a save s

over here.

We just want to go ahead and we want to save Andy to substance for the

and you want to save it as a PSD.

This is really important.

So, save it.

As a PSD call it zero, one over here and that is pretty much now done.

So I need to just go ahead and I need to do this for all four of the

leave.

So I will just go ahead and time lapses, but it will not have any

narration.

So let's go ahead and click in the time.

Okay, so we now have a leaves done over here as you can see.

So we got these for now.

One thing that you might not have noticed in the time lapse that I

still want to show you, is that when you import these layers, they are

smart objects.

So before you do the copying, you just want to select them press

right?

Click and press a Hester has layers.

And after that, you want to do the copying.

If you do not do that, then when you select something, all the of this

information on the outside would still stay even if you cop.

So just

The mines.

But as you can see, we have saved them as psd's.

And now if we go ahead and go to substance designer, we are going to

go over on how to exceed turn these into textures and then on how to

turn them into an atlas.

So, let's get started with a substance graph and we are going to just

call it custom.

Underscore leaves and you want to go ahead and just go for 1024.

The reason we want to do 1024 is because as I said, we are going to

turn it into an atlas and we have four leaf textures.

So that means 512 by 512 by 512 by 512.

So we press.

OK.

And now we can start, let's get rid of the tree view.

I don't need it.

Now we go ahead and get started.

So you want to go ahead and grab your PSD, and let's just do the first

one import it.

Now you can do link.

This one is a little bit quicker to import.

However, it has the tendency to break your links whenever you want to

share this file with someone else, which is why I'm going to go ahead

and go for my simple import resources.

As you can see.

These images are supposed to be square.

If they are not Square, you did not have stretch your layers before

copying.

So just keep that in mind.

And all you need to do is just go ahead and turn off the first one

over here.

And honestly, I'm also going to turn off the last one because we don't

really need that.

One and then just going to press okay, and then it should import.

Give two s of course, but there we go.

Okay, so we have all of these images over here.

That's totally fine.

I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to select my bitmap over here.

And I'm just going to turn this to grayscale because it is a black and

white image.

And now, what we can do is we can now go ahead and we can start by

properly like setting these up.

So the first thing I need to do is I need to order them and I want to

go ahead and always work with the top, which is this one over here.

So, 0, 3, 5 8,

And then it looks like zero three five, seven.

I know it's not a top here.

You can see down here.

See how 356.

Okay so 6 7 8.

So is this working correctly?

Anyway, 89

6061.

62.

Okay.

So, it did properly import.

Sometimes it's likes to shuffle them.

That's no problem.

So, if we go this direction, it means that when you go up, we will go

clockwise.

So, this is important because the ones that we need is.

If you go into your library, you want to go down here to scan

processing and then you have these two you have multi-angle Albedo.

I believe it is called.

Yeah, multi-angle tool Albedo and multi-angle to normal.

Let's go ahead and get started with the multi-angle to Albedo.

What you want to do is you want to set your samples Mount up.

And with this one, you can basically convert these images into an

Albedo map because the lighting comes from different directions.

What this map is able to do is actually remove all of the lighting

because it basically, it can see all of the overlapping lighting.

And then by removing it, it will give us an base color.

So we basically want to go ahead and go to the first one.

And honestly, for this one, it does.

Not matter which order you go in, but I like to still stick with my

order.

So, you basically go here and then you can see that slowly, the

lighting gets removed more and more and more until we have our base

color over here.

So that's very easy.

Now, after you've done that, what you want to do is you do want to go

ahead and now properly mask out all of these Shadows that we have on

the background.

And this is why we created this mask over here.

So we now have our multi-angle tool beat.

We did a space in order to blend modes and we want to basically blend

this with a uniform color and the uniform called that you want to pick

is if you double click on your Blends, click once on your uniform

color and egg back, grab the Picker.

And you want to grab a color similar to your Leaf.

So that now if you plug in your bitmap, which is your mask, you can

see that over here.

It is masking out this Leaf at this point as in terms of cleanup what

you want to do.

Do, is you want to click on your bitmap?

Want to alter a quick blurb, high-quality grayscale and just give it

like a very small bit of blur like this.

And then you can either use a histogram scan or you can use a level.

So let's do a histogram scan over here.

And if you go into your position, you can see that.

You can basically go or swing your mask based upon the blurring.

This is nice because what it allows us to do as you can see over here,

is it allows us to basically cut off those really thin, white edges.

That

We sometimes get and there we go.

So now we have this texture at this point.

If you want, you can add an HTML node, which allows you to basically

like play around with your set of aeration.

And we'd like your likeness if you want to go for like a bit more

orange, Chi or yellowish colors or something like that.

And of course if you want to make it lighter or darker or anything

like that, I'm gonna go and set my lightness to publish 0.52 and then

my saturation I'm going to set down to around zero points.

And if for to something like that, oh, that's shows some really

strong.

That is strange.

Oh, the reason that it does that is because these pieces are a little

bit lighter because there are always like a still a few small flexions

or like in Corrections and it just happens because of the lighting.

So it is not the perfect method but it is a good method for like to

quickly capture some leaves.

Some of them will be look better than this.

I think this time probably because the leave is a little bit bent.

It just captured the lighting a little bit too strongly, but honestly

this totally fine.

Like, you will not really notice this

So anyway, you now have this one and this can be considered a final

base color for now.

And then, of course, you also have your mask for it, and this is

pretty much it.

So, if we now want to go ahead and create a normal map, we can do the

same thing.

We can grab the multi-angle to normal.

This one is a little bit more specific.

You need to set the samples amount the normal map format, which we

will use opengl.

I like to always set my intensity to one and then down here.

You need to set the next sample.

Light angle, too.

Clockwise and the first sample we made from the top.

So we need to set this to 90.

So we are basically setting in almost the same settings as that we

used in real life.

We are setting in here and then it is just a matter of going in here.

Tree.

45.

Six, seven and eight.

And as you can see, this will generate a nice Norm map for us, just

like that.

So the norm map is able to like, see all of the veins and yeah, it

looks quite nice.

Although sometimes I do have the tendency that DirectX is the correct.

One in this case.

I don't know if it's maybe like going clockwise.

No, that's not the one.

So sometimes I feel like the urge to invert it because if I look at

the leaves It Feels Like These are actually dancing in.

But this is something you can test out later on.

It's a simple invert.

Next, you want to just blend this, grab your mask again and you want

to blend this using a note that the simply called normal color, which

is just like a plain old map node, and there we go.

So, this is now, the norm f for leaves.

So we also have this one done.

Finally.

You guessed it?

Our roughness roughness.

If we press space and out a gray, scale conversion over here, we can

plug in

Basically our Leaf like this and then we, this is quite easy.

Like, you don't need anything special.

Let's use a histogram range, most likely, so that we can like play

around with the range and position.

Like this or you can use a histogram scan.

That's sometimes also looks quite nice or even just like a levels.

No, I don't like those.

Let's see, go for a levels.

I think a levels gives me a little bit more control in this specific

case.

So the darker it is the more stronger or the more shiny it is so I

don't have to shine.

So I'm just going to play with my levels until I get like something

like this over here.

See.

So it's not.

Too shiny, but it is still looking nice.

And that is it.

Our first Leaf is now completely done.

And now, all we need to do is we need to replicate this.

I'm going to go ahead and first for Save My Scene.

Over here in our custom leave, Texas.

Let's just go at a safe.

And now that our setup is completed, we can pretty much just repeat.

So we basically go ahead and we grab all of these bits over here

except for a mask and we get simply press control, C control V and

then you just want to import number 02.

Turn off the bottom one and this one and just press.

Okay.

And give the second to import and then I did forget that I was going

to do this stuff over here.

So,

Go ahead and grab this ones.

Oh, hey, I'm Miss.

I'm missing something.

Yeah, here I'm missing this entire one over here.

Let's just do that.

Okay.

So now what we can do is we can go ahead and we can grab our

mask to get started.

So turn this into

a gray scale.

So it's really slow to select your mouth.

Your actual Maps.

I don't know why, but turned it into a grayscale and then we can throw

this into our blur and that often is already like the correct setting.

And all I need to do now is I just need to replace.

Looks like this one and this one over here.

And now for these ones, they should be fine.

So I'd like to double-check 0.65.

0.60.

No 0.65 0.67 hurt.

See?

Is this the 10 .60?

Let's do 73.

72.

71.

70-69.

68.

67.

Then.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, 67-65 so does seems to be like a mismatch, but that might just

be that I created a blurry picture and that I had to remove it.

So that's most likely the case in these type of instances because it

would be stranger if we just missed one, especially because we have

enough.

So I'm just going to go ahead and I'm just going to

Once again, set these up the same way.

Like this and again for the second one.

So, start at the top, oops.

and then,

Just move it down.

And you should end up with eight of them.

And if you don't, then something went wrong.

So now we can see over here here, see how quickly this to just

generate these pieces now because we already have all of the base

settings set up.

So now we also have this one done.

So we can just go ahead and we can grab all of this.

Let's just do a duplicate and let's just get rid of this one map

because that's one is not needed and then we can go ahead and just

import is 0-3.

So let me just move this down a little bit more.

So yeah, it does become quite

Two large calf quite quickly, but that's about it for the rest, should

be quite easy.

So, let's turn off the last one.

And let's pause, okay.

Oh, wait, that might be the case.

No, wait, no that I was thinking like maybe because the one that we

turn off, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, so let's select the bottom mask one.

If it allows me to come on.

For some reason, it does not allow me to select it, which is a bit

strange.

No way that we do not know.

It's allowed me to select it.

Okay, so we set this to a grayscale over here and now we pretty much

just like a very quickly, do a double check 84.

85 87 here.

See we are.

We always miss one for some reason, 89, but for us, it seems all fine.

90.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So for us, it seems all fine.

So I guess as long one, two, three four.

Yeah, as long as we have all of the maps then it should be fine.

So it might have to do with that one image that we keep.

Removing that that is confusing me in the numbering.

Because I just did not give these numbers.

I just left them for my camera.

But okay, so that one is now done.

And now we can do the same over here.

Just like that.

Okay, and let's have a look and see how this one came out.

See noise and flat, almost no lighting, little bit of reflection here

and there but for the rest, it is looking pretty good.

And of course the setup that I do is I did it fairly quickly.

So you can improve the lighting even more by placing your lights

slightly up.

So like moving it slightly upwards instead of moving it down.

I was not able to move it down because then I cannot control my

camera, but if you have someone to help you or you have some way to

control your

Like Bodacious like a click or something.

Then I would recommend always having your light come from a slight

higher angle.

But okay.

So this one is now, also done.

All we need to do now is one last one and then I will show you how we

are creating atlases.

So we have the last one over here.

So you have a for import turn off these last two and press.

Ok.

At this point, I'm not too worried about like the order because it has

not disappointed so far.

So let's grab a mask and throw it down here.

And then simply grab all these textures.

And we can nicely plug them in.

Like this.

Here we go.

And after we have created the atlas, I will show you how to actually

create sponge textures using speedtree and using these custom leaves.

Now.

I will not be using these specific ones because these are Ivy and I

need to create 1483 but it is the exact same concept.

It's just a different Leaf texture.

So we got this stuff done.

Let's have a look.

Yeah.

I'm happy with, that's awesome.

Okay, so now all of these are done over here.

So now what we're going to do is we are going to convert this into an

actual Atlas so that it is usable.

So, let's save our scene and now I'm just going to do this the old

school way because there are only 3 maps.

So basically I need to do is you need to add a transform or well four

of them.

Yes.

You need to add for transforms over here.

1 2 3 4.

And we can basically use the system for every single one.

So I will start with the base color.

So let's start with just plugging in your base color over here.

One base color, / transform.

Like this, and then all you need to do is you need to go into your

transform, and I'm going to set my wits over here to 50 by 50 percent.

Or I don't even need to do that.

I can just do this - 10, don't forget to set your tiling, mowed down

here to Absolute and no tiling, and I've got to do that on all of them

before copying.

So that's my bad.

So tiling mode needs to be set to no tiling.

Because elves will try to just keep tightening and I definitely do not

want that for an atlas.

Here we go.

So basically you scale it by minus 2 here, we can do it.

For all of them - two because we are working in 1024 and we are going

to go ahead and or we are working in.

Yeah.

1024 but these are all going to be 512.

So we basically are going to push them into the corner and then we are

going to convert them to 1024.

So you have these ones over here.

And now all you need to do is you need to set your offset.

Y and the X offset for this one 0.5.

0.5 for this one, you need to go -0.5 0.5 and you just want to

basically order it like this.

For this one 0.5 -0.5 and for this one -0.5 -0.5.

So now they are all in one corner.

After that.

It is a simple matter of adding a blend and you basically want to just

go ahead and blend these Maps.

And then odds, another Blends and another one.

And you're basically going to blend these Maps together over here,

like this.

So now these are all 512 by 512 and then all we need to do is I

believe at probably at like this point, you want to start forcing the

1024 and you can do that by going up here and setting the width 2 plus

2.

And then it should be come here 10 to 12 for all of them.

And that's it.

So now you just have created a very quick Atlas.

Which as you can see looks quite similar to like the leaves that we

have here, of course, these ones they are, they like remove the

background because they already use their masks, but you can see that

just like they've done over here.

You can just end up with like a bunch of different type of leaves.

Of course, it will take quite a while to do this many in our case.

But this is what we basically will be doing.

We will be probably grabbing like one of these or like one of these

and then we will go ahead and do the same thing.

But here you can also

See here, you can see like the little Reflections and everything.

So this is pretty much the way to do it that.

Well, there are many ways to do it.

But this is the way that I use to do it.

I basically now have the stuff and all I need to do is I just needed

once again.

Duplicate this tweet times for every map.

And then there's just a matter of going in here and using this one for

mine own map.

Let me just make this a lot smaller over here.

And finally, I can use this one.

For my roughness and it will automatically convert to grayscale by the

time that all of them are done.

So, let's just double check our work, as always.

So over here.

We have our roughness which does not seem too.

Work.

Probably, because it's odds.

These know that should not be the case.

Even though, well, you can just go ahead and set the mode to Arts.

I don't know why this time.

It's decide to ignore it, but not last time.

Probably because it is a grayscale.

Yeah, that's it.

Because it is a grayscale.

It's automatically turns it into black.

And then it cannot see that.

So then you want to set these pieces to Art to basically, add them to

it.

This one should still work, totally fine.

See, because these are using color and color.

Can read empty backgrounds like this.

So this is now all done.

They're all in the same locations.

So now you can just go ahead and go in here and you can set these as

an output and then you would be able to use them.

However you want.

So congratulations you now have all of your taxes or you created some

leave Texas.

If you want you can always out a normal strength or normal intensity,

which allows you to basically increase the intensity of your Norms a

little bit.

If you like, I want to just set it Like A Little Bit Stronger, but

this is pretty much it.

This is also the point where I will leave this.

So as you can see it might seem a little bit overwhelming the first

time you open it, but it's just a lot of copy pasting and you

with this nice little Atlas that you can see over here.

Awesome.

Now, what we will be doing in the next chapter is we will go ahead and

we will get a simple leaf over here just like an atlas.

And then I will show you how to actually go into into speedtree to

turn this into like a punch.

Like you can somewhat see over here like these type of branches a

little bit.

One thing I did forget is that you also want to do this with like your

mask, by the way, so you probably want to ask

Go ahead and like duplicate this, once more.

And then you want to go in here and you want to grab your mask?

For every single one.

Here, so this one, so that you also have the mask, because you will

need that one.

So, let me just choose to close this chapter of properly.

I'm just grab these masks over here, and over here.

And therefore, this one.

I tend to just press invert grayscale because this time we want to

mask them being white.

And there, you can just go ahead and you can press space out an

output.

I called the output identifier mask and then copy the identifier and

pasted into your label.

There you go.

See, so now you also have your mask ready to go and then of course if

you want to export it, you can go to custom leaves export outputs as

best as bitmap and press export and now they should arrive.

In here.

Tada.

Okay.

So yeah, let's go ahead and