Zbrush Textures

Pennywise

Trying to figure out how to make decent textures using Zbrush. Here is my first attempt so far and a more hand painted style. I still have a lot of work left to do on it but decided to post what I have now in case I am doing something way wrong. I messed around with poly painting on them a bit just to see how that would go also.
If any one has any comments or suggestion on ways to make this work better or anything please let me know.

PixelSuit

Hey Pennywise, nice start so far, I think you might be making more work for yourself than you need to with such a symmetrical design. You could take just a quarter of that texture and tile it. There are multiple ways of making textures using Zbrush, hopefully at least one of these links will help you out:

This series of tutorials by Sean Marino is great, shows a similar technique as to how I would tackle it: https://vimeo.com/35545046

This video series from Pixelogic is great: http://pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/lesson/environments-with-tate-mosesian/

These video's will show you different 2.5D workflows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNgs2DcAsF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-libMCXyNaA

You will probably find this interesting too, Faf showing off fantastic World of Warcraft art: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125737

Hope that helps you! Looking forward to seeing your progress

Pennywise

That's great, thanks for the links.

I kind of figured when I started this one that it was not going to be very production friendly, but I was OK with that. Figured the more Zbrush time I had the better to get used to it. I am hoping that after this one I will have learned a lot.

Pennywise

Figured I would post an update of what I have so far. I got about half the cracks and broken stones done. Its been pretty slow going so far. After I get this pass done I will start adding the small broken stones in and then get to work on the larger round and center stones.

tomenjerry

hmm, tryinh out this technique too, doind the sculpt is a lot easier than doing the texture work though