Soda Vending Machine
Hi guys. I've been a lurker for far too long here so it's about time I post some work! 
I've been working on a soda vending machine for a concrete city environment I'm doing. It's 140 tris and the textures are 1024x1024. I'll be making two more variations of this and I was hoping for some crits, especially on textures and presentation.
I've been working on a soda vending machine for a concrete city environment I'm doing. It's 140 tris and the textures are 1024x1024. I'll be making two more variations of this and I was hoping for some crits, especially on textures and presentation.
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Bit of a shame the lighting in the top image seems to be coming from behind the vending machine, it's making the front look quite dull. But aside from that it's very nicely presented too
Digging the colours, the only thing i would work on is the screen, maybe using illumination map on it or something, just looks like a sticker right now.
Seconded.
C&C: It looks unique, for sure. The only recommendation I would voice is to add reflections to the outside of the machine. The outsides of those machines are usually more than smooth enough to give a nice glossy/reflective appearance.
Good job
although am i the only one who thinks thats 1024x1024 is a bit big for a vending machine?
I'll look into using illumination and reflection/gloss. Might even animate the screen if I'm feeling adventurous :poly121:
I had some problems with the lighting in marmoset, every time I tried setting the light at the front of it, the white got completely blown out, making the whole side almost completely white. I tried to fiddle with the settings but couldn't fix it so I went with the light setup shown in the picture.
As this will serve as a stand alone portfolio piece while I'm working on the environment, I opted for using a 1024. Might lower it once I get it into the environment but I'm afraid I might lose too much detail, especially for the screen/keypad.
but yes very pretty!
The first one feels the most real to me, with "Lemony" second and "blu burn" third best. I think they're probably all fine, but I just get more of a video-game-asset vibe from blu burn, if you know what I mean.
Dot-fades are sweet though, can pretty much never go wrong with them! And these are all nice, I'm just nit-picking.
I like how clean the designs are now, but maybe even just a logo or fine print in the bottom right to tie them together as belonging to the same company could go a long way. Something like this. (Not the "holiday spirit" stuff, just the coke logo at the bottom.)
You could have probably symmetried/mirrored the top parts and possibly other areas to gain a little more textel density for the screens/buttons. Also, if your texture had to get crushed to a 512, the buttons would prob. be fairly blurry.
Either way, like I said, it looks nice. Definitely didn't expect to see something like this either when I saw the thread name.
I wish we could get away with those map sizes at work..
Darken your diffuse textures. Marmoset's lighting is a bit overblown so you've gotta use darker diffuse to compensate.
I'm not sure if this can be done with a shader or not, but perhaps go back into the diffuse and make the center of the logos brighter. Then have them fade out as they approach the edges. Just a suggestion if you want your machine to look lit and on.
i don't know, maybe i'm nitpicking too much and need to see it animated and whatnot