Texture work troubles.

Quokimbo

I am trying to texture this machine thing, and I am having some problems around the corners. I cannot get them to match up, or at least look like they flow together ind of well. I am going to post the flat shaded and textured version as well as the texture flat. Also I am working in Maya.

Flatshaded


Textured


Texture sheet


Problem areas


1. What the best way to get those looking like the sides should match up with the front?
2. Is the space for the gauges too much?
3. Should I not model them and put the gauges directly onto the texture map?
4. Hows it coming along?
5. I will ask questions as they come to me, hahaha

Tumerboy

The best way to make everything match, would be to give it all unique UVs and paint it to match in the first place. Using tiling textures you're going to run into issues like this. It's not necessarily a big deal, but yes, if you want to make this a showpiece, I'd redo the UVs/texture to be unique (or reuse sparingly)

Quokimbo

OK so I will re-map the object, what about the gauges? Should I just put them on the texture, and take them out of the model to save texture space?

Justin Meisse

It looks like your pixel density is all over the place

Quokimbo

Justin_Meisse wrote: »

It looks like your pixel density is all over the place

Do you mean the gauges?

Justin Meisse

well, the easy eye-balling way is to throw a checker pattern on it and scale the UVs until the pattern is the same on everything.

or if you modeled it to scale and your shooting for a 4 pixels per max unit scale (is that what Unreal 3 and the likes use now?) > box map it at 1/4 your texture size (then lay out the uvs)

renderhjs

yup pixeldensity is the key here:
Many texture surfaces are just way bigger scaled compared to other elements. Also in my oppinion the body surface texture of the base block are to huge scaled - I think that all those details should be way smaler compared to the 3d model.

All in all I think the texture work is to bold and rough - it needs way more fine tuning. Make smal details really smal - and not that big like now.

Quokimbo

Box map it?

Quokimbo

renderhjs wrote: »

All in all I think the texture work is to bold and rough - it needs way more fine tuning. Make smal details really smal - and not that big like now.

Maybe start with like a base coat, and wear it down?

Sorry I did not mean to double post...

bugo

I would use zapplink and use clone tool in photoshop

Joshua Stubbles

Quokimbo wrote: »

Box map it?

Noooo

You need to either increase the tiling on that checker, or create a grey bitmap and apply noise to it (making pixels visible). The overall density of your texels are very mismatched. This causes fillrate issues, aliasing/moire and other nasties.

The UV's just need adjusting. The gauges need less UV space and the body needs more.

Justin Meisse

OK boxmap a box per my previous instructions and apply your checker pattern to the box and your model. I don't know what it's called in maya but boxmapping is like a box made of planar maps.

The main reasoning behind the box mapping method is to get a consistant pixel density across all assets in a project not just within a single model.

Ryno

Minimizing seams by stitching some edges together in choice locations would also help you out.