Space Turret

Kibbles26

Hey guys! So close to finishing this piece off, need a bit of feedback would be greatly appreciated. So I started from a concept art piece found on Deviant Art. Modeled, unwrapped, textured and rendered. I feel like there is something missing with my texturing and the renderer needs tweaking a little. What do you guys think?


Original Concept

Deforges

Can you post your maps? you definitely need to tone down the roughness to make it look more like metal, it's really only looking like you have a diffuse map on there. Did you make high poly?

Kibbles26

Deforges said:

Can you post your maps? you definitely need to tone down the roughness to make it look more like metal, it's really only looking like you have a diffuse map on there. Did you make high poly?

Yes of course I shall post the maps on here. Though there will be a lot of them. Each part is it's own seperate model and so seperate texture maps. But shall post them below. And yes this is a high poly.

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Base Turret Maps

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Body Turret Maps

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Turret Guns Map

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Holder Turret Maps

Deforges

Those are some strange textures - a lot of errors from what I can see which means if you spend the time to fix them, you'll improve a lot in a short amount of time!  That normal maps has almost no information on it at all - mostly just artifacts. The render won't be able to do anything with that map.



If you look at these maps which you can see how the end result should end up looking like.

Kibbles26 said:

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Deforges said:

Can you post your maps? you definitely need to tone down the roughness to make it look more like metal, it's really only looking like you have a diffuse map on there. Did you make high poly?

Yes of course I shall post the maps on here. Though there will be a lot of them. Each part is it's own seperate model and so seperate texture maps. But shall post them below. And yes this is a high poly.

What I had meant was if you had a high poly that you had baked onto this model. In a typical workflow you will create a blockout model, then a subdivided highpoly, and then an optimized low poly which you bake the high poly onto.

I think you would really benefit from following some tutorials and then coming back to this project. Tim Bergholz has some nice paid and free tutorials, particularly the grenade modeling / texturing and the ultimate weapon tutorial -  https://gumroad.com/timb

Kibbles26

Deforges said:

Those are some strange textures - a lot of errors from what I can see which means if you spend the time to fix them, you'll improve a lot in a short amount of time!  That normal maps has almost no information on it at all - mostly just artifacts. The render won't be able to do anything with that map.

If you look at these maps which you can see how the end result should end up looking like.

Yeah for some reason all those errors are from how Substance painter works, between each UV island it has the stretched errors, which in no way effect the actual teaxture. Weird I know. 

Deforges said:

What I had meant was if you had a high poly that you had baked onto this model. In a typical workflow you will create a blockout model, then a subdivided highpoly, and then an optimized low poly which you bake the high poly onto.

I think you would really benefit from following some tutorials and then coming back to this project. Tim Bergholz has some nice paid and free tutorials, particularly the grenade modeling / texturing and the ultimate weapon tutorial -  https://gumroad.com/timb

Ah I understand, no nothing was really baked from the High to a Low, its just a High Poly, yeah the normal details are very suitable indeed.

What I was going for is a high poly finished render, and not really a game ready asset. Maybe I should rethink that and make it game ready.

Definitely will change the roughness and metallic maps.

Kibbles26

More of a metallic look and less roughness on it. FeedBack please

Kibbles26

Changed the Red to a dark grey, which looks better?

Kibbles26

Not sure which is looking better? the top one has a roughness of 0.4 where the bottom has roughness values of 1.5 for the grey and 2.5 for the blue. What are you thoughts guys?