Viking Shield

Jack Ryan

Here's something I've been working on, I'm kinda calling it done now as this was more a project for me to learn about working with the different kinds of maps - hence why such a simple model, too.

Let me know what you think, criticism is happily received!

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High Poly Model





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Hang10

I like the front of the shield, but the outer metal trim looks too noisy. maybe break it up and add some variation along it so it doesn't look like 1 overlay.

Bigjohn

Yeah, the metal parts don't read well. I would make it less noisy, make it darker, and give it a stronger specular. That way you'll get the contrast between the darkness of the metal and the brightness of the specularity.

Snader

Jack Ryan

Yeah I was having problems with the metal rim, I actually redid the unwrap at one point because it didn't have enough UV space and was very low res in comparison to the rest.

Thanks for the comments, I'll look into it some more

Brygelsmack

Maybe it's nothing to care about, but I could easily recognize the scratch mark from one of your pics as a brush that I also have in my library. Perhaps cover that up a little better? Nice shield overall.

Jack Ryan

Brygelsmack wrote: »

Maybe it's nothing to care about, but I could easily recognize the scratch mark from one of your pics as a brush that I also have in my library. Perhaps cover that up a little better? Nice shield overall.

Which scratch in particular are you talking about? I should probably look into making them look a little less obvious, thanks