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Alright! Finally took the time to get back on the hard surface prop.

First, here's where I'm at (UE5 render, vegetation and rocks are from Quixel, dirt material is from substance source):

Now for the technical part:

I really wanted to make this prop with the least possible textures, a single material instance but a decent texel density, so I've put everything on a trim sheet:

The trim is made of three textures:

• albedo/transparency
• Normal map
• A packed texture with Roughness (R), Metallic (G), a paint mask (B) and a paint texture (a)

Then I made a shader in Unreal which:

• Differentiate which material is metallic or not by thresholding the metallness texture
• If it's metallic, then Painting the vertex with a red color will add rust (using the rust texture that's also on the trim, UV-offseted correctly). See how it works here.
• If it's wood then: painting the vertex will either result in (B) blue paint, (G) green paint, (a) white paint or (R) wood with a clearer tone and a less fibrous texture, as in the concept. See how it works here.

For each paint you can choose two colors to make its texture come out, the noise mask packed in the noise paint mask (in the blue channel) is also used to get a more natural transition between painted and not painted wood.

A quick view of the shader:

EDIT: thinking of it I'm stupid, instead of making a shader with three differnet painting colors I could have used the vertex color to decide the color of the paint right away 😅

And the paint mask part:

Though I gotta say I think this is not the best way to add noise on a mask and am not too happy with the way it looks right now so I might change it, I'm opened to suggestions!

Everything is textured with this single material (even the bucket at the top and the nails^^), final details were added using decals.

Hope you like it and I'm open for feedbacks :)

Austin Healey Sprite Mk 2, ChoroQ style - 112 tris, most of them used to make a negative space and shadow - definitely room to reduce the count. Texture is 32x64. Could probably trade some texture space for polygons by modelling the arches.

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Ninja Character, Made in ZBrush, Rendered in Modo.

Started working on this guy a while back. and now Im more or less finaly done with the highpoly!
any crits or comments before I start on the lowpoly I highly appreciated of course

@PuuroMan as Simon suggested I would start with changing the exposure. I like to set the exposure to manual and then change camera settings to get a lighting level I'm happy with.

I saw the challenge late and had to give it a go after seeing the Hile and Fabis artwork. Just found tesselation got removed from UE5, not sure how to adjust my workflow when working with Substance designer height maps. Lots to do and learn!

Thanks for the help with lighting now my enviroment looks way better and realistic :) I feel like im done with this challenge. I learned what i wanted to learn. Now i feel a bit exhausted after working so hard with this enviroment hah :D I need to take few days time off from 3d.