How to Texture Your MLO in Blender: Step-by-Step Guide

hello hello hello welcome back it is Q we are diving right into today's video um we are going to texture our

mlo and in the video you're going to hear me talk about um we're going to do window we're not doing the window today

we are going to be saving the window and doors for like the final things that we do but we are texturing so I'm really

diving deeper into um how to texture your materials and how to get you know good quality

materials for your um MLL we're also going to we're going to be adding multiple materials so that you know you

know how to add multip material multiple materials not just one um but so that you can you know add as many as you want

okay um I hope you enjoy the video I hope this has been helpful for you if you're new here go on and subscribe cuz

we will have more videos like this coming in the future um if you you know are enjoying the series please leave a

like on the video share with your friends help more people learn how to make mlos I know so many so many people

out there who've been dying to learn I won't talk anymore unless I'm teaching okay let's get started see you in

blender all right y'all we are coming towards the home stretch of this series today we are going to texture and

add texture to our interior um I have texture saved already hopefully you have had time to go and

look um using the websites that I gave you you know find yourself some textures

there are other websites you can use too but um that one's pretty easy to uh pretty easily accessible so that's the

one that I gave you my if you want to find other textures you can Google uh blender materials blender

textures free blender materials free blender textures and you'll get a quite a few

websites that'll pop up um there are some that are free there are also some that are paid obviously you get what you

pay for so the more when you pay for texture materials it'll probably probably be might might be better but I

found some really good textures that um are not are not paid um so you know and then with GTA it all depends on what you

are trying to create honestly um but I have the website up I already have textures but I do want to

go through the website just a little bit um for you I have about three textures that I am going to apply to the intera

not including the window so this is the website if you um have not gotten the link to the site check the description

box of this video for this site check the Discord and the resources Channel or um check the Discord Channel where in

the Discord where the videos are posted for this series uh the link is posted with the actual

video this video so if you go to Discord you go to video tutorials you find this video that you're currently watching in

the comments um you will find link a link for this website as well as a link for the um PNG to DDS

website okay you you will need this converter because PNG textures do not work for GTA

5 so make sure you have this website also but once you get to this website all you do is Click explore all 201415

assets you click and it'll bring you to this page you can search you can type in um the search box and find the texture

this is really nice these kind of look these are slightly different but that's really

nice um find whatever you want this brick is nice keep in mind we are making like a

little hacker Hood oh this Mater this is nice I'm creating something else I like this

floor I like that what is this what is this metal

okay but just find you something that you like this is nice it's really nice find you something that you really like

and uh once you click on it say you chose um let me see something say you chose this floor this

this concrete right here basically I typically use the two download 2K the 2K file first um you can do 1K 2K I always

start you know initially I was starting with the higher but obviously the the higher your file the higher oh my God I

cannot talk the higher your file size the higher the quality the higher the um file size and you know if you're doing a

2K PNG this is how big the file size is this isn't the just one image but these are all the

different um files within this zip folder um so just you know if you do go 2K just know you will probably have to

size down eventually to make to optimize your textures I always go big first I don't

go the like the biggest but I go 2K just so I can see the um Quality for myself and then I can

decide okay where where I want to um minimize my files so that I can you know better optimize it for um performance

when you're actually like sending it out to other servers and whatnot so that you know you don't have crashing and things

like that or Texture issues for you know some people whose PC isn't you know the strongest or the most powerful will have

difficulty loading in large file size or if your server the server that you're um that has your mllo maybe they don't have

a whole lot of ram don't know much about Ram so on and so forth um but I always start here first

you can start at 1K it won't look too much different but you know I am I love quality so I always start with 2K so you

get your um just click on it it will download it I already have mine downloaded but I

just wanted to show you you you will have to unzip it

um in order to access the files all right uh and then you also have to convert it so I already have some have

my my textures I have two that I want to um use so I want to use this I want to try this out maybe for the floor and

then try this black brick for the wall I got I don't remember where I got these textures from so um but I'm sure

like if you want to F use the same textures to follow along with me um you can I'm sure you can possibly type in

the search feature and get it get the same texture um by search I mean like up here

or get something similar um okay or just use whatever you want

I'm also going to make make a texture um in canva also so I'll show you guys

that all right so let's go back to blender what we're going to do is hide this exterior shell so I think it's this

right here you hold down shift where it says form shed yeah we going to hide that so that we can

see just the interior we're going to we're not going to move it yet um we're going to leave it here okay so now that

we have this here we are going to utilize a different viewport to help us texture our interior so we're going to

utilize the shading viewport and we are going to utilize the UV editing viewport but to make things easier so you don't

have to click back and forth between all three we're going to basically open up those viewports here on this one screen

okay okay so in order to bring that up the UV editing or and shading what you're going to do is bring your mouse

over here to the left hand corner and once it turns into a Crosshair you're going to left click and

drag okay we don't want to drag down so if you did end up dragging down like me you can just come over here

um somewhere and you can right click okay this this part right here this doesn't really bring it up so we're not

going to right click here but if you come over here closer it'll bring up uh um like next to object mode it'll bring

up a different menu and you can go to close area and it'll close it for you let's try that again actually not don't

drag down drag to the right so when it turns to the Cross to a Crosshair drag over to the right okay so now we have

something different um or we have a double double um what is this the layout viewport okay so we're going to change

this one this view viewport from layout to to

um UV so come up here to the left hand corner um go down to UV editor and UV

editor and select it right here okay now take your mouse and go back to the left hand corner left click and drag

down now we got like a duplicate of the UV editor we're not going to have this one as you this is going to be our

Shader editor going to come over to the left hand corner click and go down to Shader editor boom and then like you can

get rid of this um menu right here by pressing n just like we do in this viewport if you press n it'll bring out

this menu press in again and go away n n okay and uh we don't need this just yet so

you can like just drag come right here when your mouse become mouse cursor turns into the the line with the two

arrows you can just drag it over out of the way

um now what you need to do is bring up the solemn's tools menu by pressing in yours probably might look like that um

what you're going to do is go into drawables and then click on Shader

tools and we are going to create a new Shader um material I don't typically use default you can

use default if you want a flat image texture if you just need a flat image texture then you I would use default uh

sometimes you might use a flat image texture for maybe a photo frame a photo within a

frame um that's when I use it so when you see unless I have created um a normal map for actual maybe I want

something to look like it's a painting a real painting if I want that then I'll use a different shade of material but if

it's just a picture you want to put create artwork for a museum or a a painting or photo that you're going to

hang on the wall or maybe you want to put a photo in a Furniture pack artwork in a Furniture

pack I would typically use default Shader um the default Shader I'm not going to use default Shader for this

interior because we want a little bit more detail to the material so what we're going to do is go down to normal

spec and this is what and this will allow us to create more more detail for our material and you're going to click

create Shader material and your interior should turn black um if it did turn black then just

go back and make sure you have it selected and then click you know create choose normal spec and then create sh

material okay all right now that we have it selected because you created the Shader

material now you should have something over here in the Shader editor you can zoom

in this is where we this is where we are going to apply our textures all

right so let me pull up my textures I will do the the brick first I'm going but wherever you extracted

your texture this is where I'm in my folder the folders that I extracted my materials and I am going to create a new

folder within this folder and call it DDS cuz I have to we have to convert these images to DDS um from this package

I'm only going to be using three I'm going to use the base color which is also the diffuse sampler I'm going to

use the roughness which is the spec sampler and I'm going to use the normal map which is the bump sampler

okay with that being said I'm going to pull up this this is where I'm going to convert the photo the image texture

so let's see let me grab this address so that I can just type it in here on this website

right uh paste it there and press enter and it'll bring me to what I

need so I'm going to start with the base color open after you click choose file I chose the base color DDS Target format

it should should be DDS then 100 image quality convert okay okay so it should have

converted it then you click the download button then this link right here will download it for you okay so there it is

there so I'm going to do is open this back up open up my DDS folder and D okay Le I normally do this on two screens so

let me see I'm just going to do it like this there we go and then put it in gallery

mode so I can see and I'm just going to name this okay that's not what I was trying to do rename it to

uh blackcore brick uncore diffuse when you're naming your textures

make sure you don't double name your textures cuz you might have like maybe you have two types of two types of black

brick um in your and you're using both types in your interior ml creation and if you

are make sure you name them something different don't name both black brick diffuse

because it will confuse the actual game and the game is just going to choose one and you're going to wonder why okay this

texture is not what I need to be make sure you you know you different diff differentiate what

you between the two in your in in your naming okay all right so close out of this window we are going to go and grab

I always exit out of this so I don't accidentally download the same file you don't have to do what you want to

do going to go and grab the normal same thing convert I am walking you guys through

this I wasn't going to walk you guys through this section cuz I figured you can do you can figure it out but you

know sometimes you just need a little extra help and I'm okay with that okay that should have

downloaded okay we're going to call this blackcore brick score Norm normal you can write normal or

Norm doesn't matter I just you know the I'm naming stuff for my convenience and you should do the same next start of

this go back to that page and let's choose the last one which is the roughness and then

convert and then download click the link to download where is it here it

is uh okay blackcore brick underscore what is this

spec I changed it from R from from it saying roughness to spec because the and blender these if you zoom in this says

bump this says well I didn't change the normal I I sometimes I get confused between which one is the normal and

which one is is the spec the roughness is the specular samp sampler okay um that one's pretty the

diffuse is pretty easy to remember and then the spec is roughness the bump is is the normal

map which will make it look three-dimensional like it's real more realistic all right so now that we have

name those um we are going to apply the texture this is going to apply the

texture to my whole building which is okay it's okay we you you it will it will do it every time and you will have

to go in and um re texture your walls and everything which I'm going to show you how to do

that now okay so let us go on and start adding the textures you can get rid of that menu we don't

need it right now press in to get rid of it let's apply the diffuse the diffuse sampler which our B which is our base

color [Music] um right here in this little box you're

going to click on the folder or it says open image and I'm just going to paste

the address from where I saved it like cuz Ain nobody trying to be trying to search

and find it like if you want to search and find like go find where you you can do that but it's so much much easier if

you just copy the address and then paste it here this is our diffuse sampler this is what we're going to choose and it

says open image boom it's there okay nothing has changed here yet next we're going to go and grab our spec sampler

same thing click the folder paste the address here spec sampler is our roughness or

um the file image that we named spec Okay click open image boom it's starting to change start

look at the inside something happened see if you undo that see I'm so silly I'm put it back I'mma put it back

okay okay so something is changing it ain't what we need want it to be just yet it's going it's getting there okay

so now we have our bump sampler which is our normal map let's go get it boom click it open image and that's

it we have applied textures so a couple of things have to happen to this you probably this is probably what most

people see when they apply their textures and they be like why it I did it but it's not changing it's it's just

one color well two things one being which is probably the most important is we have to rename this UV

map and you would come down over here to the right hand side of the screen toolbar menu outline

this upside down triangle with the three dots you click on it and then you go down to where it says UV maps and we're

going to rename this one okay we all all we're going to do is just put a space and then the number zero and press

enter that's it now your texture is actually showing up you can actually see the brick but it's not right it's not

quite what we we still it's still quite not quite not quite right okay um go into edit mode tab into edit mode

okay then we're going to press a to select everything here in our view we have to unwrap this

model UV unwrap it so basically you're going to come up here to

UV and we're going to unwrap you can I do a couple of different things or I really just do

what what makes sense to me whatever works best what allows me to get my texture to look what I what what allows

me to get my textures to look the way that I want them to look so um sometimes I'll use Smart UV project and then other

times I'll use Cube projection today since this is basically a cube I'm going to use Cube projection okay so we click

Cube projection and now if you tap back into object mode you can see the texture and then you probably like well it still

ain't you know you know it's still like who wants their brick wall to be that big like

nobody you're right nobody so tap back into edit mode now this is where our UV editor um section comes in handy now we

have to edit our UV map so over here in this viewport you are going to you know again press a to select everything here

and basically we're going to resk resize it by um scaling it um if we make it bigger right it'll make these bricks

smaller so let's just do that let's make it bigger here so you press s and then scale um let's see what it looks like

right there You tab you can press tab to go back into object mode so you can see like this isn't bad this ain't bad this

ain't bad um I'm not going to change the shininess

of this just yet um we we'll test it out in game I'm actually going to leave

everything as it is but um I'll show you where you can edit um the parameters so that it's if

you don't want it to be shiny then you can change it okay but yeah this is this look like I needed to look this look

like it all right um um maybe a little smaller maybe a little smaller let's scale it up just a little

bit more okay yeah we'll do that size this is quite a big I mean it's a nice size

space make sure you are saving along the way all right how much time okay we're at 25

minutes so honestly you could leave it like this and it'll be like this the whole whole way through we not doing

that we're going to go a little further and add a different texture what other texture did I say we're going to

add this to the floor maybe maybe we going to add this to the floor we are going to do it let let me

just I'm going to quickly convert these over I'm going to walk through it again um converting these files to DDS so let

me add a new folder and we're going to call it DDS let's minimize well actually let's just

bring up the browser ex said out is you can follow along if you have another texture you can do it while I'm doing

this [Music] um all right let's start with the color

sometimes when you download you might get a whole bunch of different things different images just know that we want

the base color we want a normal map you can use whichever one of these you want if you have two different kinds and then

we want the roughness so we're going to start with the base color boom 100% convert

now download click the link grab

this DDS let's open that up and we're going to name this black tow I don't think I

have anything named that no this is a new file so black tile yeah

underscore diffuse we we'll go with that exit out of

that rid of that choose file we'll choose this normal map again it don't matter okay

download click the link come on you can do it then I got to make the graffiti

also cuz we're going to put a little bit of graffi little graffiti on the wall normal map let's basically same title

same thing black tile Norm there we go and exit out of that

get rid of that open another one and now we need the roughness which is also the spec convert now

download click the link drag and drop boom name it again black

toore spec okay let's spell it right doesn't matter if you misspell it

it is it don't matter all right let's go back into blender okay now that we have done that

we're gonna press in let's move this out just away just just a little

bit we are going to okay we'll probably end up redoing the frames too I will um but I won't for

this tutorial I'm just going to leave everything brick but you can you can change I'm going to after I show you how

to add the second texture you'll know what to do to you know go and change the frames also uh eventually I'll end up

changing the frames but for the sake of this video and the length of this video uh we're not going to do all that um but

just press in we're going to add a new Shader um you just create go back just create Shader material and if you go

here you will see is there's a new one here so this is the first one you can name it

black brick and then you can name this one

blackcore tile all right so this is the one that we've already you know made you see over here

there are names in each section and if you click on the new one there's nothing here it just says texture all right so

you hide that menu press in and we're just going to I'm going to go on and add these uh

textures all right crl V the base color diffuse texture we added that our spec let's go get our

spec which is which is our roughness let's go and then let's do our normal boom okay so you see nothing has

changed like well why why hasn't anything changed I added a new texture cuz we have to assign it so what you

need what you need to do is tap into edit mode all right and I just want to make change my floors whatever you want

to do you can do but I'm changing the floors so I am selecting the floors okay you can do it by selecting individual or

you can select and box select and choose them all all

right now that I have the floor selected I'm going to go and select the second um material that I made create and with

the floor selected I'm going to click on assign and the floor should be different

now and it is do I like it it's

decent we'll leave it for now should I leave should we resize it any or should we leave it like

that let me look at the image so I know cuz I be sometimes I'll go along go try to make it you know what makes

sense okay okay okay H let me just see go in edit mode I'mma size it down just a

little yeah I like that better yeah okay so it's just two textures um save make sure you're saving make

sure you're saving and I hope I'm I'm speaking through the mic cuz sometimes I be looking to the side and I don't know

if my voice be coming through or not um so those are our two textures now I'm going to do the graffiti and I'm

going to change this wall this wall right here I think that's the wall I want to change I might change them

both or maybe I change the back wall nah I'm going to do that one well let's okay let's not waste any time cuz

this video is getting long I use Campa to create like get my photos um to like when I'm making like you know photo

frames artwork these are some textures that I'm working on creating um this is the

artwork that you saw in Flawless Salon I made it through canva um you will have to you know experiment with Dimensions

so cuz when you bring it into blender if your photo frame your artwor isn't a square if it's like a long rectangle

this isn't going to work very well so you want to make sure you set up your Dimensions like you should um if you go

back here it says you can create custom size you would choose your custom size and figure out your Dimensions what you

would need um so I'm going to start here cuz I feel like this wall

is if we look right it's it's kind of like a square right this is more like the rectangle this is like the square so

we're just going to stick with the square shape so this is what we're going to go

with I'm going to go down to photos cuz I want some graffi I found this one that I I kind of like I can set it as a image

background like yeah I like that I like that a lot but you can type in like I had typed in graffiti it was some really

cool ones um here and I have a PID subscription so I can get I have access to like uh like these are really cool I

have access if you don't have a PID subscription you probably won't have access to this um and I don't know if

you have access to this so let me see if I can find it yeah this one is a paid one too I PID $12 a month for canva and

I to get access to everything um this one is interesting that one could be

interesting too oh that one is cool it's so much so many um so many

different I know somebody was asking I don't know if it was in Discord on YouTube video I can't remember but this

is where like you or you can get them from anywhere any image that you find can be

uh turned into a texture for your mls's just keep in mind like be careful cuz there are stuff that

that's stuff out there that is copywritten and you can get in trouble if you're using somebody else's work so

be conscious of that this one is really cool too yeah that's fire

like between this one I don't really care for that let me delete that one and this one these are really nice like

that's so cool I don't know which one to use let me see I might go with the black the white cuz it's

like if you come inside and boom then boom um that

one oh or maybe that one cuz it's like giving this deeper yeah we're going to go with the orange it's Pop I think it

might pop a little more or we could do orange on this wall and then the other one we can put on that

wall let's see let's whatever the case may be let's get them both so basically once you've created your image simple

did it easy easy work you going to come over here to share and go down to download no transparent background we

are going to keep it PNG it doesn't I wish it already had DDS but it they don't so we're just going to keep it

PNG OMG PNG click on select Pages we're not going to do all we're just going to do one at a time done

[Music] download and before we even um create create create somewhere

where you want to save it honestly I'm just going to save it here just for now okay I'm just going to save it here not

yet we're going to go on and convert it first um it's in my downloads uh

100% okay download there I'll just save it here just for

now boom okay we're going to call this orange orange underscore

bricks diffuse this one is not going to have all the extra you know diff normal and and and roughness to it this is what

I was this is what I was telling you all that some stuff you don't need it you just don't need it

so we're going to basically give it to this wall before we do that we need to add a

new Shader and we're just going to do a default shade of material you can create a normal map and all of that but we're

not going to talk about that in this video if you wanted to that your image to have more detail to maybe even stick

out from the wall um but we're not doing that this time all right now do it you have to do it in object

mode so to know um create Shad of material okay so this is it this is it expand this so you see that this

looks a little bit different a lot of bit different than the other one then the other one looks this

material cuz we're only using one image um if you're familiar with blender you probably don't even need to use you you

don't need to use this to add your materials cuz you are already know how to do it

um eventually I I'm hoping like um in a future video I will be showing like going into more detail on how to create

better better materials um but this we'll just go with this for now okay so it does look

different so what we're going to do is just go grab our texture um this is the one that we

converted um we're going to assign it to that wall let's rename it orange

bricks okay U we're going to assign it to this wall so click assign and what do we we have there it

is in tab we're going to resize this because I mean look at

it if you notice right let's go on the outside and look at it it's like tiled so this is the image right

here and it it is tiled we don't want it to be tiled so let's see if we can fix it um

come up by coming over here oh shoot go back into edit mode um I don't

know wait should scale it up Je I'm not sure if that's what I wanted let

me look at the image again is it was it that big let me look at it again where is it I mean I guess it is a

big texture it is Big oversized bricks all right so we'll leave that okay so that is

that and let's do the other let's do this wall next okay let's go back to canva

Let's download the second image PNG page six done

[Music] download let's come back over here okay let's should be in my

downloads now yeah grab it click convert okay now

download click the link to download it we're going to drop this one here too and then we're going to call this one

red I don't know graffiti let's just say graffiti I don't know you you can name it whatever you want graffiti diffuse

cuz that's more like red though right it doesn't matter name it what you want to name it okay we need to add a new

texture material okay let's do that this is about to be a fire little hacker spot

like hello look at this stop playing oh my God okay um we're adding a new material St object mode press in

we're going to create another default shade of material and you just call it I don't know since I named it graffiti

it's horrible nameing right I know let's just call it graffiti I don't have

time come over here to texture choose the one that you want okay perfect now you can go into edit

mode select this wall make sure that's the only wall That's select SCT it graffiti assign same thing we're just

going to resize it oh wait wrong way and then just move it oh shoot uh G to

move like is that good enough like that stop

plan what let me look at it cuz I feel like it might be off a little bit no that's it it like this is down on

some like it could be taller let me see I to edit scale on the Y

way no I don't want to do that I just see okay we'll just leave it like that this is just a

tutorial that's fire stop playing look at this I've been getting too excited make

sure you saving a loan away all all right let's let's do the window cuz we need our window and we also have to get

the material for it too um I like it stop playing okay I can sit

here and spin around this cuz I just I love doing I have such a huge passion for doing this I can just sit and spin

around this and admire this like it's complete like it's completed and it's not okay let's unhide The Sheds just so

we can look what it's just going to be so like Incognito so

Incognito stop playing okay hold on yall all right so let's

move this out way let's you know I said we could leave the this the walls and stuff shiny I don't necessarily want the

walls to be shiny so I'll go on and show you how to change it now um if you come over here to the right hand uh side of

the screen to this out this is not the outliner but this toolbar here um if you come over here um you're going to go

down to material make sure that is selected and then go with um down to solns and expand if you don't already

have it expand it uh is it value the value parameters and we are going to basically we're going to change the

specular intensity the fall off and the Fresno so we'll put the specular down you really have to just experiment with

these numbers but I'm going to give you some numbers um to try out I'm going to give you some numbers to try out for

yourself let's turn change the spec specular intensity to some almost close to zero but not quite or you know if

that's your what float your boat then do that we're going to change it to like 0.2 we'll move the Fallout this is just

something that I've seen like in in a in a different video um to five and then we'll

change the Fresno to 0.94 again this is just something I've

seen in another video um tutorial I'm still experimenting with these shaders too um I don't have any specific numbers

that I just you always goto um again I am just experimenting and just using the numbers that I got or

remember from the video that I watch so I'm going to change the floor the tile texture too to where it's not

[Music] so um where it's not so shiny I think it was

[Music] 0.2 because this is like just a hacker lounge every nothing really needs to be

super duper shiny and then if you hide the shade again so you can hold on not I had to shade again shift and then now

you can see it's not you don't see there's a slight gloss but we're in blender and you know sometimes you just

can't get rid of everything in blender from the eye especially in this viewport in this viewing if you go into render

mode and then you turn on some lights and all that you can see stuff a little bit a little bit better so we'll leave

it there um um this brick are we going to I I can see that it's tiling I'm not I'm not sure um if it's going to be much

of a issue it is tiling I might change the size of this brick just a little I just

can't deal with tiling y I just don't like it make sure we select everything so

every make sure when you're editing your um your your UV map just know that whatever you have selected over here

will pop up over here even if it's not all highlighted over here um you can't press a over here and expect to get this

whole building you need to have this entire building selected first in order to get everything over here okay so with

that being said I'm just going to size it down slightly and see

that h that's bothering that's going to bother me until it's not doing that

anymore oh shoot it messed up the floor let me undo that contrl z contrl z contrl

z okay all right so actually this is going to wrap it up for today's video um I'm going to save the window for one of

the the last things that we do um for we we put the door we're going to put the window and the door on the same on the

same video I think I'm just going to save it towards the end because there's so much more I have to do we have to do

to create that window and um this will end up being a 2hour long video I really really really hope this

video is helpful y'all um our next video we will be creating the collisions turning this into a draw B making it

into the actual ml so that we can test it in game so next video would be you could say by the by the end of next

video the molo will be basically done um the only thing that we will need to do is obviously add our door our

window and and get rid of the occlusions we are almost finished y'all

and then we're going to go and grab you know already made models from GTA and furnish this interior with it okay

so I hope your this has this series is been helpful has been helpful for you um I'm trying not to go too fast

cuz it can be overwhelming I'm going keep saying that it can be overwhelming and practice makes perfect

anyhow [Music] um so yeah I will see you in mon on

Monday for the next video okay love you I will talk to you so