Urban Environment texturing practice. CnC needed

Kyuzo

Hi all,
atm i work at Urban Environment scene and finally i started texturing(didn't ever think that it's so time consuming to texture some props... about 4-5 days for this few props).
I'v never made texturing work before(except 3DMotive contest), so any critics and advices would be great.

Texture maps:




Props in UDK mesh viewer and Maya:









Scene in UDK:
<-- strange light effect on wood crate middle plank


as you can see here are much overlapped UVs, so second UV set for UDK lightmap was made.

Normal map was made by nDo2, hope i made it not so bad :S

Thank you for viewing

Kyuzo

While importing next piece in udk i got same issue with side light on reversed/inverted UV shells. Is there any way to fix or avoid it? (except not to use reversed UV)

Here are the problem with side light:


and same mesh with front light


texture maps:
Diffuse
Normal
Specular

And one more question. Is it good to make single big map for multiple unique props or better will be to make multiple smaller maps?

nick2730

What does your lightmap look like? If you left the UV mirroed and each island doesnt have its own uv space you will get lighting erros

Visceral

The problem i think is the normal maps. Especially for the box assets. They look good, but they are way to weak. They barely show. I think making a highpoly mesh for theese would be better. maybe mix in some of the textre from the preview normal to give it some surface noise.

Kyuzo

2nick2730: lightmap was a question i wanted to ask about, but decided to google a bit and found this http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/udk/udk-lightmaps-01-basics-and-important-principles-for-creating-using-lightmaps.php so lightmap was made properly(unique unwrap with proper distance between shells(for choosen lightmap resolution))

2Visceral, yep, thank you very much, that's it +_+
I supposed to make this environment for texture practicing without highpoly.. but looks like it fails a bit... at least with using generated normal map.
And what did you mean with "way to weak"? too low poly or what?

Is there any way to make good normal map without using hi-poly?

16bit

Weak as in they don't pop out very much. Just multiply it in the material editor to make it a little stronger.

And don't be afraid to add a few more polygons on some of the rounder objects like the fire extinguisher.