Making Scale Armour

**Maяcel** · February 08, 2009, 08:56 AM

ill add some stuff later, but for now,

making scale armour,

1)Create a new image with the dimensions 500X300px(transparent background)
now using a hard round brush of 50px paint a circle, like so

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we’re using 500X300px image and 50px brush, because that way we can have 10 circles in a row, and 10 in height(each circle being 30px lower than the previous)

2)open the layer style dialogue, and give this circle a drop shadow, bevel and emboss, and any other thing to make it look realistic,

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3)now make a new layer, link it with the circle one and go to layer>merge linked.

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and maybe add some details add some detail, i made a new layer, and made a tiny 6-8px dot near the bottom of the circle and gave it this layer style.
now layer>merge visible layers.

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and add some color,

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now go to filter>other>offset and position the circle like so,

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3)create a new set, and place your circle layer in it

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4)now duplicate the top layer layer, and offset it 50px horizontally, change the brightness slightly so it doesn’t look exactly like the previous

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5)repeat step 4(duplicate the layer you’ve just duplicated and so on) until you have an entire row

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6)now duplicate the top layer and place it in a new layer set, move this new set below the previous one.

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7)now offset it 30px vertically, and 25px horizontally, and repeat step 4 and 5 with this set.

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8)select a set, an go to layer>merge layer set do this for both sets.

duplicate the top layer, move it to the bottom and offset it 60px vertically and 100px-400px horizontally(so it doesn’t look like a copy)

then duplicate the 2nd layer from the bottom, and move it to the bottom and offset it like above, reapeat this until you have a full row

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9)now duplicate the top layer, and move it to the bottom. select the top layer and make a selection of the lowest half and delete it.

also create a new layer, fill it with black and move it to the bottom.
then flatten your image, layer>flatten image

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10)
now offset it 250 hor. and 150 vert.
you should now see if your image is seamless.
in my case i messed up, but no problem just smudge it with a soft brush

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you have now created your own seamless scale armour texture

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now when you use it for your skinning you will have to tile it, and scale it down to a realistic size. just don't forget to sharpen it, filter>sharpen>sharpen

good luck

example on a model,

and my seamless texture(i have duplicated the final image, desaturated it blurred it and set to overlay. flattened it and sharpened it 1-2 times)