⚫Setting Up Sollumz Shaders

Setting up proper Sollumz Shaders

For your textures and materials to work correctly inside of GTA V, you will need to use 'Sollumz Shaders'. these are simply materials that are set up correctly for use with GTA V assets.

To get started, within the Sollumz Tools found in the Toolbar, navigate to Drawables -> Shader Tools

Sollumz Shader Tools Panel

Here you can find a list of all usable shaders within GTA V. you will quickly notice just how many shaders there are, and you might be intimidated by the amount, but around 80-90% of these shaders are not used frequently or at all for props.

Next, we will need to decide which shader is right for our asset. some key things to keep in mind when deciding which shader to use are:

• Does my asset utilize a normal map?

• Does my asset utilize a specular map?

• Do my textures contain an alpha channel?

for this example, the asset uses a normal and specular map, but no alpha. so for this shader we will use "normal spec".

Creating the Shader

So now that we have decided which shader we will be using, we can now go ahead and create the shader. To do so, you can either press CTRL + F within the shader list and search for "normal_spec", or you can scroll manually.

Once you have located the shader, select it by clicking it. it should now be highlighted. next, select your prop model, and click the "Create Shader Material" button.

Sollumz Shader Tools Panel

Applying textures to your new shader

If you now navigate to the Material tab on the bottom right panel with your prop model selected, you will see your newly created shader.

Material Panel

another thing you will notice is the "Sollumz" tab within the Material tab. Within this Sollumz tab is where you will be controlling everything related to this specific shader.

If you expand the Texture Parameters panel, you will see the 3 different texture slots:

• DiffuseSampler (Diffuse / Colour map)

• BumpSampler (Normal / Bump map)

• SpecSampler (Specular Map)

you can go ahead and click the folder icon on the right to open up the file explorer window and select the corresponding textures for each.

Once you apply each texture, ensure the BumpSampler Color Space is set to "non-Color" otherwise it will look incorrect within blender, but will be fine when you export.

Color Space