Old Warehouse
polycounter lvl 11
Hi Everyone it will be my first real thread on polycount, so I say hello to everyone. Now I will present you first part to my scene called Old Warehouse. First part is an destroyed pillar. I did it using 3dsmax, Zbrush and Photoshop. It have 821 tris in this more then half for "wires". Textures are 2048 x 1024 but textures on the bottom have 1024 x 512, because 2048 x 1024 files will be loading to much time. I look forward to your criticism.
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Ye maybe I should give there more geometry, I will do it on next project.
I like that edges, and I don't wanna change them.
Maybe it's haven't enough sharp places, but I don't wanna backtrack same about parts about what Wonkey told.
I have idea, but now I think it's not a good idea
That room seems like a pretty nice environment to try out. would need some variation on your pillars though.
Refining sculpt and textures right from the first asset is dangerous to loose global scope and waste too much time on one single asset when its polished look is not that important actually.
So you'd rather settle for a mediocre looking pillar that's going to be repeated throughout your scene?
Here's the major issue you have - you are not getting the hard edge on the concrete damage. There is no water in here, there is nothing to slowly erode the edges.
You need to take the hPolish brush and run it along the outside of your damage to firm up the crack, or run a pinch brush around the edge - right now you've got it soft and that DOES NOT HAPPEN.
look at the reference you posted - see how the original outer surface is flat and has a sharp line differentiating it between it and the soft, rocky innards? You need that line, right now it looks like it's melted and that doesn't happen unless there is serious water erosion (not the kind a dripping pipe would cause).
if you do something wrong several times and then refuse to do it right, you've learned nothing.