Tusk's Barrel of Beer

JackyBoy

Hey all, I have posted a couple of times in the August comp thread, but would like some more feedback now I am moving closer to texturing. I originally posted this



But it was suggested that I take the metal rings off and just have them as texture so I could use more tris elsewhere.

I now have this with 70 tris to play with





Ignore the texture really, it's just basic colours and AO to help visualise.

I also wanted to ask a few tech questions. Am I able to have the whole thing jiggling on his back? Originally he has a basket with fish that jiggle, but only the fish (I believe) and could I have the mug jiggling too?

Also am I able to have a water drip particle effect coming out the end of the tap?

Thanks for any advice!

mihalceanu

If you bind(skin with 100% influence) the mug to the bone of the fish , It will act as it did ; we cant add effects to the items ( they will add if its a mithical and up rarity when accepted .
I would recomend making the tap of the barrel into a more medieval one .( it looks kinda modern to me )

ex : http://www.vcoins.com/backoffice/upload/product_image/48/4/6/4Hyrq8bGZn3B3Pr5Jd2Z7QaaNmt9f6.jpg

good luck .
And if you intend to make more stufs , I suggest making a thread with all your updates in it so you dont have to create a new thread for every new item.

JackyBoy

Aaah sorry, I didn;t realise, I am happy for it to be changed to JackyBoy's Workshop thread if a Mod is able.

Thanks for the ref on the tap, that looks a lot better, I have a bunch of ref for antique and wooden taps now. Will re model

Ok, thanks for the help on the jiggle too.

JackyBoy

Updated the tap to an older one. put his little logo on top, will this be allowed?

Mainly worked on the wood texture so far, let me know what you think.



It's sitting at 380 tris atm, so need to take some out for it to get to Lod1 (300), but can add some more in for lod0 (500). Was thinking of adding some little notches in the top of the wood at the top between planks. Feedback welcome!

vlad_the_implyer

You may want to get rid of those hard blacks, right now they're too contrasting and really, making it more cel-shaded that it should be. The noise on the rope is unnecessary.

JackyBoy

Thanks for the advice vlad, I have adjusted the colours and removed rope noise.

I have 2 different colours for the wood, one slightly lighter and the other darker.





which do people prefer?

I think it's pretty much there unless anyone also can add any suggestions?

Starmony

I cant see the second one but this is turning out great

Pipotchi

Second looks better I think. Have you taken a look to see what the model looks like from in-game view? Also Im just wondering if the barrel would benefit from having a very slight gradient from bottom to top to make that bottom a bit darker.

JackyBoy

Thanks for the input. I will try and refine the second colour better then. There is already a gradient running down it, maybe I need it to stand out more. Here is an in game shot I have, but with the brighter wood.



I also plan to put a little logo on the side for "Whale Ale" . But I'm not sure if you are allowed words? So I was just trying to think of a way to get that across in pictures... Possible a pic of a whale then "XXX" does that signify alcohol to people?

Thanks for the input

branch

It could also signify whale porn

Coyo.Te

the top could use some clear color, so its more readable from the rest of the barrel.

JackyBoy

branch wrote: »

It could also signify whale porn

I was afraid of that! I'll try a few different ideas

What do you mean by clear colour? As in make it stand out from the edge planks more?

Coyo.Te

yes

Neox

it looks really nice, but is deinitely still way to busy/noise for the games camera distance, i'd tone down the cracks on the individual wood planks, so the contrast is only between those planks and not allover the place

JackyBoy

Thanks for all the help guys. I have decided against the whale logo. It was hard to get it readable in game because of the rope etc going over it. It just looked like a dark splodge on the side.

So here are a few shots of it in game. I think I am pretty much done now, unless anyone has any other suggestions?

Spudnik

Maybe add a little bit of painted-in AO where the ropes lay over the wood if you dont have mirrored UVs there. But it looks great already, big improvement from where you started at !

TrevorJ

Yeah, from first shot to last is really nice improvement, great job.