Tutorial: How to make quick and realistic basketballs

fixed link to template:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/u618m ... ited-1.psd

ok havent seen this techinique used on the forums yet so i might as well post how i got these.



this tutorial is very basic and every new modder should be able to pick it up right away.
take any front facing picture of a ball off of the internet. in this case i used this one

you want to make sure that you have a template for the basketball outline already. if you done i have uploaded one.
make sure you get rid of everything in the picture except the actual basketball you want to use. By the end of the processes you should have something like this
most of the time basketballs wont work and you'll have to edit manually like the Nike elite ball. the lines are to spread apart for the game to comprehend.
(ignore the messed up wording. that happened while i was first editing the photo at like 3 am.)
in game:

so go back into gimp or in my case photoshop and re-arrange it to match the lines in the template

now all you need to do is make the green texture and your good to go!
final previews of the balls:


post your outcomes down below!

Last edited by zz21 on Thu Jan 30, 2014 2:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

For green normal map
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In photoshop take your regular texture

then resize it to 512 x 256 (or whatever you need)

Next select Filter > Nvidia tools > Normal Map Filter


A menu will appear, apply these settings
(Play around with these to get desired effect)

press ok

texture will look purple


to get green color go to channels and paint red and blue channels all black


then click green channel, select all (ctrl+ A), copy, and paste it to the alpha layer


now click on the RGB channel, it will now be green


play around with contrast and diffrent effect to change how the ball looks in game

Last edited by TGsoGood on Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

Here are 2 I created but don't use these JPG version it has no alpha layer

me too...hehe

me too...hehe

i thought it was easy XD. pretty much find a picture of the ball on the internet. fix it so it matches the pattern on the template. then boom! crazy realistic ball

Added to the Tutorials section. Thanks for the guide!

yea ill make one tonight

you ball template link is wrong, looks like an awesome idea though

well... thats embarrassing XD. thanks for finding that. im sure thats why everyone was having trouble.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/u618m ... ited-1.psd
here's the actual template.
Edit: and heres the PNG just in case

can you upload one of your balls with the blanked out stubble/green stubble textures?

you mean these?



i actually dont even use these normally XD. im sure it could definitely add to the balls but im a very lazy modder ill give one a try. but i mainly only edit the green normal map and ball texture.

posts on this topic pls

im rendering. its no commentary because its 1 am but i think you can still see whats going on.

phpBB [video]

Note: I did NOT follow one of the most important instructions. You HAVE to reorder the image to match the template. I didn't do that because it was 2 am and i had things i wanted to do before i fell asleep.

heres the trial for elements 12: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index ... nts&loc=us
elements 11 came with my laptop. the only time i will ever buy anything off of QVC.

don't do green texure?

you have to do the green texture. follow the tutorial posted under mine.

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-tex ... -photoshop

there should be a text file that has the instructions.

why i failed

i dont know.
try finding some more tutorials on how to make basketballs normally and it might give you a better understanding of how this tutorial works.

How do you "rearrange" the lines?

Same problem here with KevinParker13. How do you do it? any tool to use?

How do you "rearrange" the lines?

Same problem here with KevinParker13. How do you do it? any tool to use?

you have to cut it up and re arange it in a way that matches with the template, then in photoshop use the spot healing tool to fix the texture.

Bro can I request for this 2014 Fiba world basketball? http://sport-parquet-floor.blogspot.com ... loors.html