Subway pillar esque thingy-magingy

Rated Rrr

Hadn't posted in a while but I recently took a break from some other projects to try my hand at a real simple pillar (with a bit of battle damage). It's still a work in progress but I would definitely enjoy another pair of eyes on this. So any comments, critiques, concerns you might have let me know. I greatly appreciate it. Anyhoo; the pillar and texture.

Its about 1300 tris right now and I'm using a 1024 as of the moment might shrink it down.




As you can see the texture is still WIP but any suggestions are appreciated.


Again thanks pals and I look forward to seeing what you think.

JesterBox

Very nice, but is the hole from wearing down or did it get smashed?

The tiles on the edges of the hole could be busted, worn and dirtied a bit I'd say.

IronHawk

There needs to be more evidence of what really happened. whats the story here.? I'm sure you dont think a few tiles just sorta fell off all clean and revealed a hole.

The size of the damage makes me think it needs to get the rest of its ass kicked around a bit.

vj_box

Looks neat,i would prefer to have the reinforcing steel bars,to be modeled and show them like penetrating from the inner concrete.Might add more life to the pillar,right now,its kinda pretty clean in shape and more Dirt and leaking pal!

Vj

odium

I'm seeing rectangle tiles on a square tiled pillar, except for the one bit where the tiles don't know what size they are?

frubes

I think you need to think about it a little more in the pre planning stage. At a guess im gunna say you havn't got any ref of damaged pillars, if you have you havn't looked at them very much. The pillar looks like its been hit by something, a car or the like but there is no evidence of this other than some clean tiles which appear to have miraculously fallen off revealing a large whole.

Even though this is a singular assett in a large environment it should still contribute to the backstory. Maybe a tube train came through this environment, derailed and hit your pillar. That would give you a basis for developing the rest of the environment with a cohesive backstory to work from.

i will start you off with some ref.

http://eat3d.com/pillar

Also try to sort out the texture stretching like odium says.

Rated Rrr

Thanks everyone for the comments. I had a few minutes to go back and rework some stuff.

I added some alpha'd rebar to the hole, also messed with the material to add some color variation to the pillar. I'm going to try and dirty up the tile around the destroyed section a little more (but I'm still playing around with what I want).

Anyway here's a small update, tell me what you think:



Again thanks for your time.

sampson

a few of those tiles seem like "what the hell how are they staying on." those 3 facing the camera look like that for me.... i dont really see the need for the valve on the pipe but thats your decision.

SHEPEIRO

looks like a really nice first pass... but....
a bit neat feeling, some cracked tiles would be nice, also some material distinction is needed, the spec on the tiles is too un-focused while the metal is too focused, basically everythings coming out somewhere in the middle which is plasticy. if you can split it into two shaders one for the tiles and one for everything else to acheive that glazed look.