Sci Fi Door texturing wip

maxivz

Hello guys, i am making this as texture practice and i tought the best way to achive the best result it would be to post my wip on here so i can recive some advices and critics about what i am doing wrong.
Right now i am facing serious issues in defining my metal material, so advices would be great Heres the viewport capture

Sean VanGorder

Spec, spec, and more spec. Most material definition comes from it's specular properties and metal is no different. Adding details to the spec that are barely in or not included in the diffuse at all is a good way to sell metal. Depending on the type of metal, adding a cubemap reflection will go a long way as well.

Refer to these links for some great metal textures.

http://polygoo.com/

http://youtu.be/m8oC1HsjOgk

http://www.brianburrell.com/3dper_mi27r.html

http://wiki.polycount.com/TexturingTutorials

maxivz

Thanks for the links, they helped me undrestand how to setup the specular for it. Heres my try:

Critics more than welcome

ZacD

first think you should do is bake out an AO pass for that texture, it looks very flat right now.

maxivz

Baked an ao as you suggested, it didnt came up very well i think, i always get messy ao´s so i had to fix it by hand, some more progress:

maxivz

Update:

still not happy with the brushed metal in the coloumns

AlexCatMasterSupreme

Too many similar colors, no excitement, kinda boring.

Overlord

Maybe I'm nit picking, but what is the reason for those rods? Throwing on greeble for the sake of greeble just confuses the eye. It's a door and it does one thing, divide one space from another. Every other element should work to sell the idea that it's a door. Keep it simple, keep it functional.

Rockley Bonner

your key shapes are kinda blah, bro. not very sense making either.

maxivz

Is this any better? I removed the rods that didnt make sense as overlord suggested and added some more color in a try to save this model. What suggestions would you give me to make better shapes for sci fi stuff?

aaronmwolford

I'm a little confused as to how this door actually opens. I assume it splits at the yellow/black strips?... but you have this blue shape at the bottom which wouldn't be able to move in my mind. It is more of a handicap to the functionality of the door.

I think some more contrast would make this pop. You have a little of that with the concave indents at the bottom, but maybe the actual door should sit back further to give an overall shadow and act as a frame for the door itself.

Figure out a solid shape and then we can push further with textures. Keep it up!

maxivz

The blue aprt at the bottom is supposed to be a lock, it goes down and then the door opens. I tried to add some more depth to the texture, not a big deal of changes

mole420

Your design looks a bit confusing at the moment theres lots of different parts and it isnt really clear how it would open. I would go with a much simpler design then add details, Did a VERY quick and nasty paint over while having a coffee break, really simple generic sci-fi door design and it looks terrible as I didn't bother plugging in my tablet. It looks like shit but even so you can tell its a door easily. Not saying your should look like this but just a quick doodle to give an idea of a simpler design.