本视频教程是由Digital-Tutors机构出品的MARI游戏角色材质贴图视频教程，Digital-Tutors Texturing Game Characters in MARI，时长：3小时58分，大小：2.69 GB，MP4高清视频格式，附工程源文件，教程使用软件：MARI 2.0v2，共21个章节，作者：Eddie Russell，语言：英语。

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Digital-Tutors Texturing Game Characters in MARI

When texturing game assets, often times there are several challenges to overcome and variables to consider. In this tutorial, we will talk about some of these as we walk through texturing a character for the current generation of game consoles.

After setting up our MARI project, we’ll get started painting the diffuse color map for our character. Using a combination of image projection and painting, we’ll focus first on his clothing but eventually move to the other areas of the character including his skin, hair and a pass of dirt to make our character feel more natural. After finishing off the color map, we’ll move on and learn how we can quickly create a specular map for our character by repurposing many of our color textures.To wrap this course up, we will learn how to paint a transparency map that can be used to mask portions of the hair geometry for our game character.

After finishing this course, you will not only have a fully textured game character but you’ll also have a good idea how to overcome many of the challenges that come with this type of project.