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@Renzatic, good ole buddy.
For the last month, maybe 2, I have been arguing with myself over which landscape material I should be using in my project. I thought I had one picked out but then ran into another that I really liked the guys textures. However it only has 3 textures, and while I could get by, I think a landscape should have 4-5 textures for variety in the landscape part. I've been playing with adding 1 or 2 more textures to material, which is not that hard, but it's possible I've overlooked something.
Anyway that's not the reason for the post, but it could be related to the issue, me editing materials.
There is one texture I really want to use it's a Rooty ground texture I used back when I did the Forest Road. When I insert this into the material and then apply it, it looks bleached out. And honestly when I used it in the original Forest Road project it looked like a nice chocolate brown, but if you look at the Albedo.jpg image it does not look as nearly as dark.
So I've tried playing with the material. This particular material does not have settings to add colors from a palette, but it does have darken settings. Yes they do darken but they also tend to make the image look more like night and monotone, instead of a richer darker brown. The other issue is that there is green weeds growing on it, and when I apply a color like dark brown to the entire image, this adversely effects the green in the weeds.
So I suspect there is a way to do this via a photo editing program. I almost started an Affinity Photo trial, but first I played with Graphic Converter a Mac program I usually use to change the type of photo such as .jpg to .gif, but it also has brightness and contrast setting, and so far my results are not that great.
I figured it would help I picked your brain first.
I watched a video on
Dodge, Burn, and Sponge: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/301196403/. This might be what I need to do, but would like to get your opinion.
Please take a look and tell me what you think. These are 2k.jpg images.
original (megascans designator: tb3hfg2g_2K_Albedo)
My edits so far- not impressed...
What I'd really like is dirt and maybe roots with less red in them and I'm happy with the green plants, I'd just like to make the dirt and roots look more like a rich, chocolate brown. And see the roots look like they are on the dark side, this is because I have been applying bright and contrast to the entire image, not isolating just the say the roots or just the dirt and working on that alone.
Your advice would be appreaciated!
Update:
I went back and looked at the original material and damn, It is not chocolate brown, and the roots are gray.
This is not my goal.
The Rooty ground is where the roots are. There is grass painted around the roots.
There are seperate twigs scattered in this area too.
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However I predict I’ll be looking into blender tree design, but this seems to be like a large edition to the work load. I may buy a tree for now.
I am starting to make digital progress on my project. Today I finished figuring out and executed the creation of a pawn with the ability to toggle walk-run, and zoom from 3rd person to 1st, and then I migrated it from the tutorial project to the actual project. Migration can be a real pain...
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