How do you create stone textures..

StevenZer

I was just thinking about How do you create textures for stuff like these.



Do you hand-paint them using softwares like photoshop or first sculpt them in zbrush then bake different textures and paint over in photoshop?

Jerc

You can use a sculpt or paint everything by hand, you can choose one way or the other depending if you need a normal map or not and depending on the time you have to create the asset I would say.

You Could bake a cavity/curvature map and AO out of a sculpt in ZBrush and composite them with a few noises or rock-like surfaces and get a pretty good result very quickly.

You may want still to manually paint over the result to get a more painterly look if you are aiming for the style pictured in the image you posted.

Justin Meisse

Hand paint, all the way. It seems like sculpting is just extra work if you want an end result that looked like you didn't sculpt it. But that's just my opinion, maybe a character with a lot of complex parts and materials could benefit from sculpting.

StevenZer

I tried this method and sculpted a bunch of tiles i created in maya then I used Xnormal to bake AO, cavity map and Normal maps and played around with the textures in photoshop.
Painted some extra highlight there are the results.

I don't think so if this is perfect but some tips will be Welcome!
Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag.

Eric Chadwick

Lots of tutorials here that might help you
http://wiki.polycount.net/TexturingTutorials#Painting_Stylistic_Textures

StevenZer

Well I found the tutorial for creating this kind of stuff created by the same guy.
here's the link!
http://bitgem3d.com/post/33152272790/3d-hand-painting-workflow-01