[FREE TUTORIAL] Sculpt Tiling Bark

steve0

Hello Polycounters!

As promised, here is my sculpted bark texture tutorial. I hope this helps anyone who has had some trouble sculpting tileable bark.

I would like to thank all the artists out there who take time out of their busy schedules to make tutorials like these. Artists like Scott Homer, Damien Lazarski, Alexandre Stroukoff, Andy Davies, Aaron Kaminer, Hayden Wu, Nghia Lam, Ryan Hawkins, fellow Polycounters, 3Dmotive,Vertex Bible, etc. I owe huge gratitude towards. It’s part of the big reason why I love the game dev community and making tutorials like this.

I know this is a brief tutorial, so if anyone has questions, I will do my best to answer them on here or shoot me an email! I have been thinking of doing a gumroad series on foliage..If I receive positive feedback from this tutorial, or requests in general, I’d love to record a video series that goes more in depth about my vegetation workflows!

Cheers,

Steve 0

Link to Tutorial: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4y80hxi5ekwVlVGY0dTQWR6Wm8/view?usp=sharing

JaySmitt

AkiRa

Thank you SO much for this, this will be super helpful! Thanks a lot for taking the time and effort putting this together!!
I would definitly pick up a foliage series from you, just name a price!

bcarter

Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial, it looks great! Can't wait to test it out on my own More vegetation stuff would be sweet too, I always love seeing how everyone goes about making trees/plants. Thanks again!

E.Coe

Helpful and well written my man! I would love to see your hand at stylized alien trees or somethin. Thanks and best wishes amigo!

Mistry10

Thanks for making and sharing this!!

Villain

Thanks a bunch. This will help me on my current project.

Dmellott

Awesome stuff dude, looks great! Thanks a ton for sharing your process!

joe gracey

Thank you!

Thaiauxn

I love it when a little bit of Science gets thrown in the mix. Great tutorial images. Love the presentation. Though it's always nice to see the tools being used, because seeing a picture of a brush and then a finished image is a little bit like, "here's the brush, and here's the finished texture! " Maybe showing how each stroke builds up layer by layer would be nice. Just a thought.

josh_lynch

Solid tutorial all around, great presentation and information!

Kord

Really nice tutorial! I like the way that you show whole process. Thanks.

Brygelsmack

Is there a way to view this in full res on iOS devices? Can't get anything to work.

tach

Curious to know how you pair this type of tiling with your vegetation assets.

Trying to figure out what's the best choice when texturing a tree. Whether to go with bark tiling, photo scan (like the ones you posted recently) or some other method that pairs the two that may scape me.

Zer0Naught

Great stuff. Do you mind if I pin it to my pinterest account? I'll be sure to link the image to here

jdp092

Thanks for creating this well presented and concise tutorial, will definitely be giving this workflow a try!

Winders

Thank you very much, this tutorial will acelerate my process of creation on trees in future proyect! ^^

Winders

Thank you very much this will acelerate the trees i will sculpt for my future proyects

godejon

Steve, your work is amazing, and I'm sure everyone would be thrilled to get a video series out of you.

felipealves

Wonderful! This tutorial will be really helpful, thank you.

vezinav

Thanks! i was looking for a tutorial to sculpt bark for a while !

owaaan

Great tutorial. I'm not sure how you used the picker to create that terrace effect. Can someone shed some light on this for me? I couldn't find any tutorials on the picker.