Looking for some crits on a tileable stone texture

kreso

Hello folks! As this is my first post on polycount forum I think I should introduce myself. I am a 16 years old artist from Croatia. I have been modeling for about 1-2 years now but it was not really serious mostly basic stuff. Recently I have decided to push my skills a bit forward and make a full Medieval Castle environment. Here is my first tileable texture I have made for this enviro. It is an old stone floor with some cracks on it. I hope you guys can give me some advice if I did anything wrong and correct me.

lotet

the actual stone texture is really nice, but the bricks are waaaayyy to uniform and straight, you need to rough up those edges.

kreso

Thank you for feedback lolet. When we are talking about edge rougness I did some research on Google and came up with this.
http://kevindaweblog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/13477593/1076560_orig.jpg
Is that a good example?

Count Vader

Hey, it looks really nice, but one small thing that ruins it for me is that the fractures in some of the bricks just kind of fall-off as they get to the edges, which never happens IRL - a fracture in piece of stone (or anything reallly) goes from edge to edge and never just fades out. The most egregious example if the brick that is second the top, in the second column from the left.

Also you have A LOT of unecessary noise on your diffuse, i would say dial down the AO for the micro pores/details in the stone.

Also just for presentation/aesthetic purposes (and i see A LOT of ppls doing this on here for some reason), there's no reason to post a massive image if it's up-sized from ur original and looks all pixelated and compressed.

DWalker

I'd reduce the contrast of the cracks. Cracks in stone are usually thinner and shallower than the gaps between the stones, so they should appear lighter.

Sean VanGorder

I think it's coming along nicely, but agree that the edges of the stones are way too straight and perfect. You don't have to go overboard with the damage (that image you found is too much), just get rid of the uniformity so that it appears more natural. Even very subtle shifting or warping of the edges will help.

If this is a floor I would also suggest adding some sort of grout or dirt in between the stones. It would help sell it as a floor and also give you another way to break up the uniformity and make it appear more natural.

cps

stone texture
http://www.shutterstock.com/language.en/pic.mhtml?id=151239662