How to make consistent textures?

universe

Hi,

Lately, I've been working on a character- simply orc with some pants and I realized that I have some serious problems with texturing. I'm quite happy with his skin but I have issues with making his pants look good with his body. It looks good without any textures or with diffuse only but I looks bad with all pbr shading on. Thanks in advance!

Here's the orc:

Alex_J

think about the material qualities of fabric a little deeper. seems like yours is a bit plastic like right now in it's roughness qualities. Looks like a figurine. Is it meant to be leather? Or burlap? Do you have reference you are working from?

universe

I'll try to think a bit more If I have enough time today, I'll send you results. I used this photo as a reference:

universe

Hi,

I added some fake shadows, made both of them quite simply (without too much detail) and adjusted colours, so they would fit colour theory.

Here's material:

Here's diffuse only:

And a sketchfab preview:

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/we-will-never-be-slaves-v2-cd8f77815e954012b9267032c7db85b5

Alex_J

are you using PBR shaders?

If so, also consider the roughness qualities. Notice in the reference how his skin reflects and disperses light, while the loin cloth reflects very little light. This suggest it is a rougher surface.

universe

I lowered roughness of the pants and made some render. I think he is done for now

Obscura

Please note that your reference is "unlit". Also, you should have not lowered, but increased the roughness. This will make the reflections (of the light source and other stuff) more blurry. Check out this article to further understand the concept of pbr:
https://marmoset.co/posts/physically-based-rendering-and-you-can-too/

Alex_J

That reference has lighting information within the color information though, right? As is common with stylized textures?

To the OP, I believe animal hide like that should probably receive almost full roughness. That would be pure white. Having even a light sheen suggest that it's like, fine leather or something.