3D Pillar - looking for crits (Help Texturing)

reMatt

Im fairly new to modeling especially in Mudbox and need criticism on areas i could improve on.
Pillar made using 3Ds Max and Mudbox.











It would be awesome if someone could give me some advice on how I could go about texturing this aswell

- Thanks

PS: you may not get a reply in the next few days as im away but i will still try and check.

MattyWS

I fear your uv islands may not be the same scale relative to each other, but I don't know if you did that to fit everything tightly into the uv space.

Your render is a bit dark and you have all smoothing groups turned off so it's kind of hard to see it properly.

Also, about your brick work.. If it's a pillar I dont think it would be made in that way, it simply wouldn't be possible unless the bricks were actually thin slabs pasted onto a surface if that makes sense.. Have you got references or was it this all from you own mind? I would have just had massive blocks stacked onto each other but I don't know what you're going for in terms of culture or even scale.

reMatt

Thanks for the quick reply, now you pointed it out i see what you mean about the brick work. If you look at the wireframe you can see i had a sharp 45 degree corner but i forgot to reinforce it so that Mudbox's sub division wouldnt smooth it

As for the dark render I should have tuned off the light *facepalm*

Thanks for the help next time Ill make sure the UV's are the same scale too Cheers

Do you know anything at all about texturing? Any info would be super helpful.