Help with achieving this certain look!

AgelosAp

In the image below is a cropped concept for the forest of our game(left=normal/ right=brightened) ..


And this is what i have now in Unity.

The models are rough the textures aren't. So what are you thinking i'm doing wrong?
Also here are my textures.

n88tr

I think the textures you're using are too dense. Look at the painting, the wood bark is longer and less intense.

Mark Dygert

The reference is a lot more simplified, it looks more like charred wood rather than noisy untouched bark. If you want that look you will probably have to give up on using photo reference, unless you heavily paint over it.

JohnnyRaptor

what above posters said.

you could probably run a quick surface blur in photoshop and remove the finer detail to test the outcome with low frequency detail only before you do a proper normalmap.

AgelosAp

Okay, thanks a lot for the pointers will update soon!

AgelosAp

So I threw that previous texture away :P
kept a little normal detail and made this.
I think it works a lot better, thanks guys!

passerby

personally I would make a base mesh, take it to zbrush to sculpt, the big detail with concept as reference, than use a photo for a detail normal.