1940's Gas Lamp

HashBrownHamish

Making a 1940's Gas Lamp for a scene i'm slowly working on.

Any ideas on how to handle the ceramic mesh at the top would be cool. What is there is just a placeholder atm. (i was thinking Zbrush's micro mesh but i've never used it)

Reference:

I chose to have the glass part a bit longer




Here's the current High Poly:







This is an afternoon's work i believe. I'm trying to improve my work speed is that ok for a model with this much detail?

Odeca

looks very good to me, just check the sharp edges I've seen a few spot where they could be a tiny smoother other then that I like it, good pratice.

Matt_Billeci

Looking cool so far. The only thing off to me is the scale of the top piece in comparison to your ref.

HashBrownHamish

Did some of the low poly and tried out some quick test bakes. Still haven't got my head around making micromesh work

HashBrownHamish

So i have started texturing this and everything that could go wrong seems to have done so. I have had to remodel some of it and the bakes were a nightmare because i lacked knowledge on avoiding waviness and ray misses.

I have a fairly poor model atm and i'm looking for help.

The top part is the worst. I can't get it to look good and i've remodelled it checked normals made a special model just for baking and it still looks off. The bottom and the pipes i'm ok with. They need touching up manually.

PS: i'm using only DDO atm for the texturing to create a good base to work off.

RobeOmega

Can we see the normal map? You seem to be experiencing waviness at the top.

HashBrownHamish

Voila