Props and Textures
polycounter lvl 17
Hi there Polycounters! I've been lurking here for awhile and decided this might be a good time to show some of my work since I just started doing some texturing for models. What I usually do is world textures for level designers. I didn't want to be a one trick pony, so I decided to try my hand at skinning some models. So please, if any of you have any feedback or crits I'd love to hear it to make my work better.
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JkMakowka: No idea why they don't look as detailed. I just started using 3D Studio Max and really have no idea to get the best results for this kinda of thing.
Marine: I do get a little carried away with the detail. I think I need to tone it down a little bit in some areas of that lantern there.
Steady: Oog-e-mick-taag. It's from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, it's Klingon for Super Intergalactic Intelligence, or so they say.
Where they all hand painted?
Rooster: I've heard of something called baking the model to better view the shadows on the model itself. I'm pretty new to this whole thing so I'm pretty noobish when it comes to that kind of stuff though. Thanks for the tip on supersampling.
On this texture you've relied heavily on a crack overlay to portray proper cracks. What you've posted looks decent, but unbelievable. In the green area that I've highlighted I simply flipped the selected surface horizontally. What this does is breaks up the continuing cracks that go from slab, to indent, to slab, to indent, to slab again. Breaking the cracks up in such a way will keep it more practical. Also, there's some heavy cracking going on here but very little high or low lighting - were you planning on doing normal maps for these?
Good job on this one man, I like the wood you've chosen and it's particular state. To me, it's very realistic. The only thing lacking some more realistic details are the edges of the crate. Rather then darkening them up (green outline), try painting an edge in like I have done (red outline). Normally, when crates are built the flat narrow surface at the end of the planks of wood are showing on one side of the crate.
EDIT: I've noticed your planks are very straight. Normally wood that is as old and used as this has rough edges. Using a 1 pixel size brush is perfect for what you've done, but adding in some breaks here in there to break up the straightness of the woods edges would help a lot.
This texture, when offset 256 pixels has a very noticable seem running up it horizontally (red outline). As a texture artist you should be checking for seems as you go along. In Photoshop, go to Filters > Other > Offset then imput some numbers to offset your image vertically or horizontally.
Be careful of repeating items within your texture. If you're going to do something that is 512x512 try and use the space as efficiently as possible. Having it repeat this much within a texture isn't needed. If you can't get away with not using the same bricks within a texture a 256x256 might be better.
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Your dark bricks repeat quite noticably when patterned. Although a texture like this wouldn't be repeated in-game as much as this in all directions, it is still good practice to check your work out at about 25% to see how it is repeating. Dispersing the darker bricks more evenly throughout this texture would have gotten you more loose repeating.
Well Oogh, like I said before you definitely have the process down - I'd say some fine tuning is in place and you're all set.
Good work man,
-Adam
I shouldn't of uploaded that grey wall picture, it's an old one I was showing team members before I made it seamless. It's fixed in finished product.
The things you said about the brick texture are great. I'll fix those as soon as I can.
I was planning on putting a normal on the concrete barrier. I just need to figure out how to get them to show up in max. Thanks for the slab/crack info. That'll look a lot better now.
Good stuff, Oogh.