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Daz3D How to Create Custom Clothes Textures

This Daz3D How to Create Custom Clothes Textures Tutorial explains how to export UV Textures of clothes, modify them and bring them back into Daz Studio. We already explained that you can find textures on the internet and easily apply them to any object that you want inside the Daz Studio., in our Daz3D Texture Tutorial: All about Textures, Materials and Shaders article. In this article we will look into a bit of a different thing. To be exact, it will be about how you can create your own custom textures using the images that you found online.

Daz3D Creating Custom Texture

Exporting and Importing the UV Map

First of all – open the Daz Studio and add an object that you want to create a texture for. 

daz how to create custom clothes texture

Now change to the UV View that can be found amongst other types of view at the top right corner of your viewport.

daz3d uv view

There you should be greeted with the plane white screen. It is okay. You need to select your object in the “Scene” tab and change the view mode to be “View by Node”. After that you should see your object’s UV map.

daz studio uv view

As you can see – the object comes already fully unwrapped. Almost any object should be already unwrapped in the Daz Studio. I can easily notice the two separate parts. They are the sleeves of a t-shirt. 

With the unwrap ready, I need to export this as an image. Sadly, there is no way to extract this map as an image right from the Daz Studio, so I will export the whole object as .obj file and then use some another software to export an image. 

daz export texture

Specified the path to where I want the file to be saved. In the appeared window set the Preset to the default Daz Studio one and left everything else untouched.

daz3d texture export options

Now about the software that you need to use to extract the image of the UV map. I will use Blender, because it is free and easy to use. We also have a Blender Basics Tutorial and other tutorials on the theme. But you can use any other software. For example another free software – UVMapper.

After a quick and simple Import without changing any settings – i have my object in the Blender.

daz studio to blender texture import

In the UV Editor, that can be found in the UV Editing workspace preset – I can find the same map that I have seen in the Daz Studio. This time I can also see the textures behind the UV map too.

blender uv editor

Still in the UV Editor at the top you can find the “UV” drop-down list and there “Export UV Layout”.

blender export uv layout

In the appeared window you can choose the file save path, what exactly to export and how. What is important is the File Format and Size. We need a PNG image as the format. Size you can leave as is, but I have changed it to be 1024 to match the quality of the object better.

blender export uv settings

When the image is ready – time to use the Image Editor software. I will be using Photoshop, but I am sure that a lot of other software can be used here. Something like free GIMP or even the Paint 3D.

photoshop uv map import

Daz3D Adding Texture to the UV Map

UV map is good and ready to be worked on. When I added an image that I wanted to make a texture with – it covered the whole UV Map. That is because they both match each other’s resolution. 

photoshop texture image import

It is fine and you can even save and use it. Though the result will be basically the same as if you applied the texture image right to the object in the Daz Studio without all these manipulations. Same as we did in the Daz3D Texture Tutorial: All about Textures, Materials and Shaders.

daz3d custom texture clothes

While this is not bad at all and you can leave it at that. We are here to create something custom. I want the sleeves to have another texture. And to do that I have scaled the image and moved to cover only the main part of the T-shirt.

photoshop how to create custome clothes textures

But it still covers the part of the sleeve UVs, so I have used an Eraser Tool to erase the overlapping part and fix it.

photoshop editing textures

Then I added another texture image, again scaled it and moved to a proper position and then used an eraser to erase overlapping parts.

photoshop combining texture images

(Opacity lowered for visibility)

It is time now to export this image. I have used the regular “Save as” method that is available practically in any software and saved in the PNG file format.

After that opened a Daz Studio, selected my T-Shirt object, opened the “Editor” of the “Surfaces” tab and changed my “Base Color” map to be the image that I have just made using the “Browse” button.

daz studio using custom textures

The result turned out to be exactly how I wanted it. The main part of the shirt has one texture image and the sleeves have completely separate one: 

daz3d how to create custom texture

The advantage of using this method is that besides the basic Color Map you can create other maps yourself too. For example by simply adding a Black & White filter and boosting the Contrast to the max I have received a pretty good Roughness(Glossy) Map that can also be used as a Bump Map

daz how to create custom rougness map

Daz3D Texture Products

Here comes the big question. Do you really need to make your own custom textures? There are times when you can use what other people made. And these things can be found on the Daz3D Shop.

The quite new dForce CB Haze Alpha Clothing Set for Genesis 8 Females by Daz Originals & CynderBlue. It is a clothing product that aims to give you clothes such as boots, dress and so on. But also products like these often come with a bunch of textures. In this case it comes with 232 different texture maps.

daz3d cb haze alpha clothing

Source – CB Haze Alpha Clothing Set for Genesis 8 Females by Daz Originals & CynderBlue

Another thing that you should note is that if you already have some clothing product. Let’s take as example the Summer Hill Outfit for Genesis 8 Female, then you should try to search for the additional textures that can be usually sold separately. Just like that I have found the Summer Hill Outfit Textures by Moonscape Graphics & sade with 5 new textures for the original dress.

daz studio summer hill outfit textures

Source Summer Hill Outfit Textures by Moonscape Graphics & sade

Alternatively to all this you can find the textures exclusive products. Meaning that they include only textures that you can apply to anything you want and you don’t need to have anything else to use them. The Marbled Textured Fabric Iray Shaders by Nelmi is exactly like that.

daz marbled textured fabric

Source Marbled Textured Fabric Iray Shaders by Nelmi

Conclusion Daz3D How to Create Custom Clothes Textures

You now learned that you can create custom textures in Daz Studio for clothes. The same technique can be used to create texture for other objects, not only clothes. Besides this way of creating textures allows for you to combine different images, rotate the textures, scale them, which can lead to handmade seamless textures. Additionally you can create your own maps, such as Roughness map and Bump map based on the original.

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