curb, sidewalk and asphalt in zbrush

David1983

hey community
I'm looking for some tips and tricks or tutorials for making nice and realistic curb, sidewalks and aspahlt meshes and textures. I just saw a bit of the dead island 2 gameplay and i noticed this real cool looking streets and curbs.
Would be cool if anyone cane explain how to achive this grade of detail.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNeC2sZu9r0"]Dead Island 2 Gameplay from Gamescom 2014 in 1080p - YouTube[/ame]

Eric Chadwick

Create good tiled textures, and blend them together nicely. Add mesh details, decals, and foliage cards where needed.

Some tutorials here:
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/MultiTexture
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/EnvironmentSculpting
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/TheLastOfUsTerrain

David1983

thank you for the links, very informative! read somewhere that rage is using "megatextures" what about engines like UDK, UE4 and cryengine ? Is it possible to use that kind of "megatextures" with this engines?

Eric Chadwick

People have created various mods/plugins which do similar things.

For example, Amplify Texture for Unity.
http://amplify.pt/unity/amplify-texture-2/

Do some googling for Megatexture, you'll find some interesting things.
http://www.noxa.org/blog/2009/11/29/megatextures-in-webgl-2/