Matt makes Mats

shadacer

Hey all,
After the tragic loss of my alleyway scene, I decided to bust out some PBR textures I'd been working on to refresh myself. They're sculpted in ZBrush, but I may pop into Substance Desiogner once I get my own license.
Rendered in Marmoset 2, critique would be sweet

Here's some outdoor stone:


And a brick wall:

Magichobo666

oh these are lovely how long did these take you?

shadacer

The cobbles took me about a few hours for the sculpts and about 1 1/2 hours for the textures. The bricks were a bit longer as the mortar made it more complex.

Magichobo666

well i say good job at least you don't have to worry much about UVs with bricks and i like the variation in the red bricks too

shadacer

Made some rough wood next - I feel this one is lacking compared to my others, still need to master getting this material right.

MattyWS

Another zbrush one? Looks pretty good!

shadacer

Floor stone, had tom educate myself on good rock sculpting for this one:

Auldbenkenobi

Looking incredible Matt, keep it up.

shadacer

Made some mud next. Organic stuff is cool

shadacer

Hey guys,
Got some colleague feedback and managed to improve my bricks. The last ones were too light and looked like clay - needed a better specular too.

Jonas Ronnegard

some really nice materials impressed

nastobi123

Hey man, noob question. do you texture these with polypaint ?

_Kratos_

Cool stuff Matt

shadacer

Hey all,

I tweaked the cobbles:


Nastobi: I don't use polypaint. I bake colour masks in MAX and use Photoshop overlays to add variance. Polypaint is a bit too cumbersome for me I use the heightmap/ao and maps generated from normals in Crazybump to help with details and create masks.

Jonas and Kratos, thanks guys! I try my best

Spiffy

"I use the heightmap/ao and maps generated from normals in Crazybump"
Why not just bake out the AO and Height along with your normals?, any advantages?
That's an odd process but I can't argue with the results.

shadacer

Hey Sppiffy, glad you like
I do bake normals alongside the height, AO etc, but for detail normals, such as gravel and microdetail, I use Crazybump. I then mask out the detail normals and combine it with the baked normals.

shadacer

Hey guys, updated my rock texture. Added more lichen, little sticks and redid the smoothness. Now the surface looks more varied:

shadacer

Hey guys,
Made some sand next - the base normals for this one was a little complex, so I'll explain if it helps anyone;


So I did a sculpt of dunes and tried baking it, and despite the symmetry being on when working on the edges, it looked bad with HUGE seams. so, to solve this, I baked out a heightmap, quadded it and made the edges tile in photoshop, and then reprojected onto a plane in Zbrush to be sculpted and refined again
The process still left some seams, but I think I got rid of the worst areas.

nastobi123

@shadacer thanks so much bro, do you happen to have resources and tutorials ? If not its cool, ill dig in some cause your way of doing this is very interesting. Again, thanks

shadacer

Hey nastoibi, I don't currently do tutorials, but message me and I can explain my process.

xaser3d

Very interesting how you created a normal map. What is your secret?