Retro Sci-fi Astronaut

waracle

Hi guys,

This is a small personal project I did earlier this year. I was trying to get that retro sci-fi look from 2001, Dune and Alien. This is the concept I came up with.

About 14k polys and 2k Textures for suit and 512x512 for face.

I hope you enjoy.




With the HDRI

Highpoly and topology

peanut™

Looking good, looking good, texturing a character with 2k textures was considered a crime a while back.

waracle

I've been playing AC:Unity today. The industry's old standard is really changing!

peanut™

Yes i see, still you did a nice job with the backpack highpoly. Maybe change the design of the hoses ? I also like the fabric of the pants. Retro to some degree, you are right.

Brian "Panda" Choi

May we see texture flats ?

waracle

Sure.
head albedo

head normals

head spec

head gloss

head AO

head translucency (quick and dirty)

waracle

And,
body albedo

body normals

body specular

body gloss

body AO

BARDLER

Your spec and gloss maps could be a lot better. For your spec map you are basically saying that his eyes, mouth, and some of his skin is metal. Anything over a value of .3 in the spec map starts to getting into a metallic range. Your spec determines the brightness of the material, or lack of albedo contribution, which is why if you make your albedo black and your spec white you will get a bright chrome/aluminum look. If you make your albedo bright and your spec bright then Marmoset will automatically reduce the albedo contribution to maintain correct balance. You could simply clamp the specular map inside Marmoset using the multiplier to make sure it doesn't go above .3 if you wanted a quick fix.

Gloss determines how sharp or blurry the reflections of a surface are. Skin is oily, and this guy is probably a bit sweaty, so he would have more detail and a much brighter base value. By making his base gloss value that dark his skin wont get any reflection information.

On a side not, you should bake in AO into an albedo. Put the AO into the separate slot Marmoset has.