Help with setting up a material for my creature's skin

[zanzio]

I answered someone’s question concerning mixing colors in another thread yesterday. Maybe the examples I made in that post can help you:

Simple Texture layer with alpha values doesnt work

Those aren’t “texture layers”, those are material slots. Each material can use multiple textures, so you’d only use more than one if your object has multiple materials. You can use nodes to composite multiple textures together in the same way photoshop does with layers: [mixRGB%20Node] When the node is set to mix mode, blending between the two textures works the same as opacity in photo editors. You can also switch this to modes like screen or multiply to get the same effects you can get fr…

Basically with the emission socket, it needs to
be black where it shouldn’t glow, and a color where it should. The brighter the color is, the more it will glow. You use the texture as a mask for the mixRGB node, and place whatever glowing texture you want for the second color. If done correctly the output of that mixRGB node should be something where you see black where it doesn’t glow, and the texture where it does glow.