Tight Deadline and Help Needed Texturing Astronaut Character for Animation.

Cortes

Hey there guys. I am in a super tight deadline crunch and I wanted to know a good fairly quick (few days) workflow for texturing an astronaut character with beaten up armor. This character is to be animated. I am finalizing the Mesh and comfortable with UVing, I am just at a loss to figure out what to do next.

I would hand paint it if I had the time, but the deadline is looming and I want to crank something out in a few days.

I am really liking all the nice PBR style materials I am seeing from apps like Substance Painter and 3d Coat, and there seems to be a million examples of painting these hard surface things, but I haven't one a single one that points me in the right direction and isn't a teaser. I would either use Substance Painter or 3dCoat for this. Think of a chipped armor look like in Iron Man etc.

I would like to bake a PBR material to this UV mapped Animated Character.

Any help (links, tips) would be appreciated.

Synaesthesia

If you're willing to try out Quixel SUITE, you can follow along with this tutorial from Blair Armitage: http://quixel.se/tutorial/ddo-painter-for-characters/

musashidan

Sorry Jonathan. Have to put S Painter forth and plug my own tut at the same time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_x-YYMkQ5g

huffer

I suggest Substance Painter, you can be done in a day. You do need to bake out a high quality cavity and occlusion alongside your normal, as the mask generators work on these inputs. Also you need an ID map to separate different materials, and you can bake directly in Painter the rest of the needed maps (object space normals, position map). Start with the preset materials and tweak those, you should be done in no time.

Cortes

Thanks guys! I am going to do it in 3dCoat in the end because I'm more familiar with it.