Michelin Starcross MS3

avenali312

Hey all,

Threw together a quick little project over the past few days to feel out UE4 and get some modeling, baking, and shading practice. Back in my day of motocross and racing, this was my rear tire of choice; not that that has anything to do with the art haha. All feedback is appreciated!

Reference image


Started by building 1/16th of the high and low mesh


Duplicated it around and merged it all together


Normal and occlusion maps


Unreal material


Unreal editor preview

avenali312

Feel like I need to tweak some more in UE's material editor. I'm getting a better result in the 3ds Max viewport. If anyone can give me some advice to get a closer match to the 3ds viewport, it would be greatly appreciated.

3ds Max viewport screen grab

Shrike

make your roughness map or color darker and you get about the same as in 3DS

avenali312

Shrike wrote: »

make your roughness map or color darker and you get about the same as in 3DS

Thanks. That is what I was thinking as well. I might add just a bit of noise to the roughness as well.

I think part of it is also how the different shaders are previewing the occlusion map.

Vailias

Also, if you want to actually match your reference material, you'll want to set up a similar environment in Max and or Unreal.

Its hard to match materials when you have completely different lighting setups between reference and what you're actually viewing.

avenali312

Vailias wrote: »

Also, if you want to actually match your reference material, you'll want to set up a similar environment in Max and or Unreal.

Its hard to match materials when you have completely different lighting setups between reference and what you're actually viewing.

Thanks, totally agree. Maybe some sort of studio lighting setup.

avenali312

Just a bit more playing around with this asset, but this time in Substance Designer with a spec/gloss workflow and an HDR image without color.