Flora Model

Voodoo

Hey guys,

Been awhile since I made anything and I've always wanted to get up to speed with normal mapping. Decided to make a stylized flora model that I could go to town on for practice.
I think the model needs something more but I'm having trouble figuring out what so any crits are welcome. The shaders are just place holders to get a feel for what colors I'm going to use. I'd like to do most of the fine detail with normal maps.

Also, I'm wondering if I should just use planes for the petals instead of what I've done.

pliang

Besides several edge loops on the large petals...keep those and do alphas for the little ones in the center.

The rest of the details you can keep but depending which flower species you based this one it seems like vines and other more "harmful" vegetation like bramble would go nicely around it.

Voodoo

Yep the small ones are just planes since nobody will be able to see their back side.

I agree with the creeping vines. I wanted to make it a more "little shop of horrors"-ish but wasn't sure how. I'll get working on that tonight.

Voodoo

Updated with Vines and turned on AA so the screen grabs look like total ass.

Voodoo

Got the uv map done, took awhile but came out pretty well.

Voodoo

Starting to texture, nothing is final, things will change.

Max Render w/ Bump and Spec


Max Screen Grab

pliang

Looks like the vines can use a little bit of gloss as vine's aren't always rough surfaced like that.

Also it's be nice to have little bit creases on the petals as well when you get to it.

Voodoo

Still working on this during the weekend when I get a chance. Sorry about the lack of a screen grab, I'm using a self illumination map to get the petals to pop more and I'm not sure how, or if it's possible, to get the SI map to show up in the viewport.