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II've been asked how I mapped my Buddhist Armour to the various figures, and how I got over the problem of matching seams.

It's really simple - by-pass …

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II've been asked how I mapped my Buddhist Armour to the various figures, and how I got over the problem of matching seams.

It's really simple - by-pass the issue and let a clever, free piece of software do the hard work for you!

This 10 page 891K PDF guide assumes you're familiar with the basics of Blender (i.e. you can load the figure mesh, position it and delete all the vertices except the area of skin you want to tattoo yourself) but haven't yet found the steps for this particular task. If you don't use Blender the same principles may work in whatever software you use.

It really is incredibly simple - maybe 50 keystrokes/mouse moves and less than 5 minutes to do a figure!

I found the key to it  in a post on one of the blender websites, but can't find the link.It can be summarised thus:

1) Project the tattoo image orthogonally onto your figure's mesh.

2) Bake the projected texture onto the figure's UV map.

That's it! For those who want a bit more detail you can download the PDF.

Happying baking and tattooing!

Pete Williams (aka 3DCheapskate)

30th October 2013

Edit: Two very useful links for anybody who wants to make their own tattoos using an unusual script - omniglot.com (a fantastic resource) and lexilogos.com (select the Multilingual Keyboard link, centre top)

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