Dark Moon's Weave

Setting up dyeing and colorset system for FFXIV

In this live tutorial Shana will show the FFXIV specific approach to texturing assets (the normal&mask shader - no diffuse/specular) to make them dyeable and customizable. Including colorset rows blending. We'll work on our corset and try to convert it from diffuse texture approach to colorset one using Substance Painter and TexTools.

Porting and weight painting for beginners

In this live lesson Scherana shows how to take the prepared model, port/fit it to remaining Pythia sizes and weight paint it. Covers refitting, transferring weights and actually putting our model in game!

Today live lesson!

We will do the live lesson today again in Discord! This time we will take the model and port it to the remaining Pythia sizes and weight it! So this will show you guys how you can easily port things from one body to the other and do a simple weight transfer!

**Third Live Lesson Announcement: Porting and weight painting for beginners**

Date: 1st August 21:00

Recording afterwards accessible: Yes

What do you need for this course/ should have ready:

- Ble...

Texturing Lessons from Dark Moon's Weave: Easy Top texturing

In this tutorial Shana shows how to texture the corset using mostly basic tools from Substance Painter. We cover basics of scene organization, masking, using anchor poits and path tool for adding cloth detail.

Startup File for Female Hair Porting

A startup file I made to make the manually adjustments for the races easier to handle.

All female heads included + textures

(yes also Lala and Hroth)

Au'ra with all horns

Viera with all ears

Miqo'te with ears on face model + fur added for easier visibility

Texturing Lessons from Dark Moon's Weave: Substance Painter UI & basics

In this short video from Shana we'll go through basics of Substance Painter UI from a bird's eye view, so we can focus on fundamentals of texturing more during the actual video tutorial. It's not 100% mandatory but if you never seen Substance before it might help you a bit with familiarizing yourself with the software. If you want to see lenghtier video about the subject, we recommend Scherana's recording from live tutorial that you can find here: 2024-07-23 21:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Sneak peek for upcoming lessons

Shana's trying out some designs and techniques that we're going to teach in upcoming lessons, so please enjoy this little janky WiP! On thurday lesson we're covering texturing process of the corset in Substance Painter and lesson after that Scherana will finally show you how to put your own creation in game. We're thinking about showing the process to make it into whole outfit to showcase various method you can use to achieve your goal ^^

Live Lesson: Easy Top Sculpting in Blender

Live Lesson from 18th July on Dark Moon's Weave Patreon

Content: Creating a High Poly Body in Blender from a TT exported Base Body, Masking Basics and brush explanation, UVing and Seams adding

Held by: Scherana

Length: approx. 1 hour

Sculpting an Easy Top in Blender

Our first live lesson taught by Scher-sensei done! We shown modeling process for this cool top and in next week Shana will show you the texturing process to really make that model come to life. Livestream recording is going to be uploaded soon for all paid members.

Future contents poll

Hey guys, thank you so much for your support! To make sure we cover exactly the thing YOU wanna learn, we made a poll in our patreon corner on the server for paid members so you can vote on what topic you want to have covered in the upcoming courses.

First Live Lesson Announcement: Easy Top Sculpting

Date: 18th July 2024, 9PM german time

Recording afterwards accessible: Yes

What do you need for this course/ should have ready:

• Blender 4.0 (or 3.6)

• .fbx BaseMesh of the Body you want to use consisting of: Upper and Lower Body (Hands optional) (use the TT FMV to create the body and export it)

(Frequently Asked) Questions & Answers

Q: What software will I need to follow the courses?

A: For the 3D modeling we recommend grabbing Blender (it's free!) - it's what we both will be using during our tutorials, so it will be easiest to follow. If you have relatively strong background in other package (like Maya or 3DS Max) most of techniques we show should apply with little modifications, as, at the end of the day, it's all polygons. Shana uses Max/Maya professionally so if you're unsure please poke him.

Some advance...

We're officially open now!

Welcome to Dark Moon's Weave - Scherana and Shana's new educational platform.

We want to help everyone who wants to "truly" learn how to make models covering optimization, texturing, weight painting, importing to game and dealing with engine limitations. This means you will be able in the length of this course to bring your ideas to reality! Be it accessories, jewellery or even clothes! We will also cover a bit of porting, which means you will also see how professional game artists buil...

Road to Dawntrail: Converting old mods to DT shaders (Level: Intermediate)

We'll show on an example how to get started with using new materials and quickly create mask texture for DT shader.

Texturing Lessons from Dark Moon's Weave: Things we need from Photoshop (Level: Beginner)

All the bits and bobs we need from Photoshop for pain-free edits of game textures. Don't worry, pen not required!

Blender Lessons from Dark Moon's Weave: Workflow TT with Penumbra Bridge (Intermediate)

Workflow TT with Penumbra Bridge for Fine Adjusting colorsets, maps, and much more. So you have a live response in game to what you are doing in TT

Blender Lessons from Dark Moon's Weave: Introduction UI (Level: Beginner / First Timer)

First lesson - showing you the UI basics we are gonna use in the other lessons and where to click when we mention certain areas.