PuiArt:: 3D Environment- Smithingshop

PuiArt

ok, after a weird series of unfortunate events, this thread is back.

All Progress image to this project can be found at:
http://puiart.blogspot.com/2012/12/wip-workshop-smithing-02.html


And here you can check out the initial Base-building before unwrap/optimization steps:
http://puiart.blogspot.com/2010/08/wip-workshop-smithing.html

Latest progress::



-the orange checkers are all in the building uvw map, other colors are just duplicates/module sets:


a couple of things left to pack:


The big square to the bottom right is gonna serve as the UVW tiling map for the walls to the three buildings:


Thanks for your time and all C&C are welcome!

Fwap

Looks cool.
If i may ask, why did you decide to do a unique unwrap for this as apposed to a texture atlas / tiling textures?

PuiArt

@Fwap:: thanks! ah, i didnt thought of full texture atlas/tiling now that you mention it. i only thought of a painterly-look. I'll try that approach on the project!

PuiArt

update on the Packaging::

uncle

I didn't make this one, only saved one time here on PC. Hope it will give you idea (and no one will call me names because of copyright ).

PuiArt

@uncle:: Thanks buddy! shifting over the curve ones to your example now! if you catch any other bad UVs up there, dont hesitate to shout!

PuiArt

Dig through a couple of tuts and scripts and finally find some better way to unwrap, things are looking alot better now, thanks guys! feel free to let me know if anything could be done better. ^^

hamzaaa

Hey I like your start. I am kinda new to low poly modelling and unwrapping, what tutorials did you do and how to get those UVs nice and straight?
I mostly use TexTools, what cool scripts do you also know? I am curious of the following progress! Subscribed!

PuiArt

@Hamzaaa:: thanks for Subscribing bud, Lets see, the various notable scripts and tuts i look up on are::

Perfect UVs by Pelt Mapping in 3ds Max by Todo3ds
http://www.todo3ds.com/perfect-uvs-by-pelt-mapping-in-3ds-max/

PolyUnwrapper by PolyTools3D
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/polyunwrapper

TexTools: Toolbox for the texture artist by renderhjs
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/textools-toolbox-for-the-texture-artist

hope it helps, and happy modeling, bud!

PuiArt

taking a few days off to work on other projects, will update progress on this one as soon as i can guys, cheers!

PuiArt

A short detour before getting back to the main dish. let me know what you guys think. thanks!

PuiArt

A cart is next::

PuiArt

hi hi guys,

A minor update of some Barrels and Crates. Very happy with how quick and clean the unwraps were, more to come soon with better texture work and UV updates!

PixelSuit

Hey Pui, nice start with the scene, the modelling work is looking good. I hope you don't mind a small crit but one thing I have noticed, both in your wip shots and your textures is that they are very busy.

For the wip shots it would help to keep them as simple as possible so that people can see and appreciate your work. Having 20 of the same or similar object in one shot, having multicoloured checker maps or having a tangent map set as the diffuse is very distracting and makes it difficult to crit your work.

The textures seem very busy considering how small they are and I think a lot of that will be lost at a distance anyway. The chest for example, I think it might benefit from losing the strips on the texture and sticking to larger, bold blocks of colour/detail. If you look at games that use small textures (smaller smart phone games for example) a lot of the textures are block colours and any detail is large and clear because anything else will be lost at a distance and confusing up close. If you take a look at this post for example: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64099 you will see that the models have detail but they are predominately one or two colours which makes it a lot easier for the eye to read.

It would be nice if you could repost a picture of your model without the checker map, maybe one from your blog? Looking forward to seeing this progress, subscribed!

PuiArt

@PixelSuit:: Thanks, i really appreciate the feedback. I'll try to revise the texture so that it can be more simple and focus. I am doing the crate and barrel texture now, so i'll keep those crits in mind.

i'll post a update as soon as i can, thanks!

Edit P.S. i pasted over the more simplifier view of the building so its easier to view as PixelSuit suggested, thanks!

PuiArt

Alright, so keep it simple and clean for the presentation, i should be able to do that.. right?

heres a update on how the crate and barrel texturing went. let me know what you guys think, thanks!