Creating a blacksmith-looking base texture
Hello all, and thanks for letting me join polycount 
I am at the moment trying to get better at creating game assets, and while my modelling techniques are somewhat decent, my texturing abilities are not.
Over the last few days i've been trying to create a base texture that looks like this:
But i've been failing horribly.
I need the texture for a hammer i've been modelling in Max and ZBrush, so i've got a highpoly model with all the details and the lowpoly model where i can use the texture.
My initial idea was to bake a bumpmap in max, and use that as the base color, but most of the bumps and dents proved to be too shallow to be found by max, and increasing the contrast in photoshop completely destroyed the render.
I've since then baked out a normal map, which shows the dents and fractures just fine, but i've been unsuccessful in using this map as a base for a bump map, because of gradients.
So please help me, i'm at my wits end with this problem, and i really dont want to paint every single dent and fracture in photoshop as that will take days, if not weeks, to complete.
Thanks in advance.
- Setes
I am at the moment trying to get better at creating game assets, and while my modelling techniques are somewhat decent, my texturing abilities are not.
Over the last few days i've been trying to create a base texture that looks like this:
But i've been failing horribly.
I need the texture for a hammer i've been modelling in Max and ZBrush, so i've got a highpoly model with all the details and the lowpoly model where i can use the texture.
My initial idea was to bake a bumpmap in max, and use that as the base color, but most of the bumps and dents proved to be too shallow to be found by max, and increasing the contrast in photoshop completely destroyed the render.
I've since then baked out a normal map, which shows the dents and fractures just fine, but i've been unsuccessful in using this map as a base for a bump map, because of gradients.
So please help me, i'm at my wits end with this problem, and i really dont want to paint every single dent and fracture in photoshop as that will take days, if not weeks, to complete.
Thanks in advance.
- Setes
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I know how to create the textures from scratch, more or less anyway. What i am looking for is a way to create a similar texture from a highpoly model with a similar looking surface.
I know how to create textures in Photoshop, bumpmaps, diffuse, specular, and so on. The issue i have is with zbrush/photoshop/3ds max, where i'm trying to bake a bumpmap from a highpoly model to make a texture like the one above which you've kindly shown me.
Your post isnt wastesd, its always nice to see how people do stuff ^^
Thanks wichemroder and johnnyraptor, i'll take a look at those cavity maps