Doorway

Serp

My aim was to create a next-gen doorway, something you might find in Unreal 3. I made a height map (bottom left image)so I could run it through the Nvidia normal map filter in photoshop to create the normals. I also used an emissive for the security light.

3 x 1024 maps
147 triangles (82 polygons)

warby

looks great but did you have to use the N***-*** word ? ^^

noritsune

looking good so far, but a couple things: you have a massive amount of wasted space in your UV map right now. I would assume that these are separate maps, except you have a horiztonal piece that extends the whole width at the top. I think one of the many ways you could use the extra space would be to model and texture a stoop for the door - doors never open from ground-level.

also, I dont know how much photo was involved in making this, so for all I know the following suggestions could be counter-reality. but first, the zigzag pattern around the inside of the door frame looks very odd. I would suggest looking up some actual classical decorative patterns such as egg-and-dart or leaf-and-dart.

the decoration inside the main insert panel above the door looks likewise a bit too oversimplified and geometric. again, might be straight out of a ref-photo.

lastly I think there is a layer missing from the strips of moulding at the top of the doorframe. this came out horribly, but it's what I mean:


great start though! I think the spec mask is working especially well. could you show it to us with a dramatic 3 point-light setup?

motives

is that the only normalmap you have?

it looks a little weird to me and i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that u have no other surface informations then the actual decoration.. As far as i know, stone is not totally polished and flat

work in more information in the normalmap.. surface of the stone, little cracks etc. etc. I think it will read a lot better.

nice start though, keep at it and you will have a nice piece of "current-gen"

ebagg

As motives said, you could take some of the layers from your texture map, run them through the nvidia filter, and add a little roughness to the normal map with that, so the normal map is roughed up like the texture.

Otherwise, pretty damn sweet texture and overall piece.

Jeff Parrott

Like noritsune said your UVs are a bit inefficient. Otherwise it's a solid piece. I think it's really smart to do portfolio pieces like this, a room, a small vehicle, etc instead of a full level that isn't real polished. I think the red glowy thing is out of place. If it's a keycard reader, that's real cliche. It also would need a larger housing I'd say. Overall though nice job on this.

GLandolina

well its meant to be stone but it looks metal, thats my main issue maybe too much specular?

SHEPEIRO

i think the specs the wrong colour. the yellow in it gives it that coppery feel, try overlaying a blue