how to create your own custom textures

N@uralBornNoobist

I was wondering how id be able to import the rifle .obj file and texture into marmoset so i can create my own customized texture.

in an ideal world having access to the HP and LP would be great so that i can bake out the AO and Cav maps etc.

id just like to see the spec and gloss maps customized abit.

if i have access to the hp i could ruff it up abit in zbrush with scratches etc...give me something to do as im quite bored atm.

to use my own customized texture ingame would be a nice feeling.

Archie

I only had a few minutes to make this but it should help you get the gist of how people are making all those dumb camo texture mods below, i don't know what maromoset is and i can't be bothered googling, is it easy to use?

You create a mod with launchpad(located in ns2 folder) click on source and follow steps below

Using the same folder structure as the NS2 folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2

1.Click into modelsrc
2.Create new folder called "marine" we're using the name based on the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\ns2\models\marine\rifle
3.Open marine folder and create a new folder named rifle
4.create a text file named rifle.material and put step 5 inside (or if you are lazy like me and everyone else simply just copy and paste the one from inside the rifle folder above
5.

shader = "models/marine/marine.surface_shader"
albedoMap = "models/marine/rifle/rifle.dds"
emissiveMap = "models/marine/rifle/rifle_illum.dds"
normalMap = "models/marine/rifle/rifle_normal.dds"
specularMap = "models/marine/rifle/rifle_spec.dds"

6.Download a generic camo image like most of the skin mods you see on the ns2 store in this case we're using this one http://i.imgur.com/Xi4KaYT.png
7, you're need to convert it from what ever format you have to tga/psd (the builder.exe we use to build the mod needs it to convert to a correct .dds file that is readable by natural section 2 (can use this https://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-tga
8. name it rifle.tga
9. now we create illumination map which is the one that glows in the dark or in other words that is illuminated, in our case open up MS paint or what ever your favourite image editor is and maek everything that you don't want to be glow in the dark black, in our case we can use the same file as the illumination map.
10. specular maps http://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ you can convert some here as well as the bump maps and give them the same names as the ones inside the .material file.
11 once everything is in the folder you can go back to launchpad go to builder and build>build
12. once it has done building go back to launchpad simply publish and click publish
13. go into steam workshop and find your modification
14. go into ns2 and subscribe to your mod
15. enjoy.


there are much faster ways to prototype but i don't have much time to show..

also good to note if you are testing without workshop you'll need to go into C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Natural Selection 2\ServerConfig.json and change

consistency_enabled true to false and save


Here's a quick video of what it looks like in game (mine doesn't have any spec/bump/ maps correctly and it's only classified as a world model(everyone but you can see it when you play),to change it for your view you would need to change rifle_view.dds