hi guys, I guess i should post my entry for the eat3D challenge "old & damaged", thoughts I could get some comments, as apparently i'm not getting any on the site in question...
you should make a decal sheet to help you marry some of those assets to the wall. right now everything looks like its floating. If you put some stains or just some simple faked ambient occlusion on flat sheets in between the wall and assets things will look a bit more real.
also, maintenance boxes usually have more accessibility/functionality than you have.
yeah well the challenge is over now :P there is one thing I should note though: due to poor time management and a series of unfortunate events, what you see here is done 90 % within a period of a mere 7 hours, including the high poly, normal baking, and texturing... which impeded my critical view at the time, therefore diminishing the eventual outcome of the concept
okay, those were a lot of big words :P what I'm trying to say is that it was done a bit rush rush, and i'm aware of the fact that i've made a lot of mistakes :P
that said, i'm still grateful for you taking the time to look at it and commenting on it maybe i'll finish the texture when I have the time, but I don't expect it to be soon...
thanks (dank u wel :P ) i'll look into it when i get some spare time to work on it at the moment i'm completely slammed with school work... if I do eventually edit it, I would want it to be an actual finish of the concept, not just a quick edit. i'm sure you understand that
hi guys, I guess i should post my entry for the eat3D challenge "old & damaged", thoughts I could get some comments, as apparently i'm not getting any on the site in question...
yeah.. same with me. lol.
i liked your entry. the realtime view in max came out very well, but the engine shot (which i guess is the one that counts for the contest) is very plain, and you lose a lot of the color, as well as the normal mapped detail due to the shot being from an unlit mode.
as far as crits go, i think it would really benefit from an AO pass from your entire set, not just the bake (i.e. shadowing from the wires and pipes), as well as a quick fake ao from some of the normal info that does not show very well without lighting (the cracks on the right hand side). when i was doing my textures for the contest, i tried to make them look almost like the final result without the AO.. then the AO just enhanced it.
also i took notice of your normal map (the image on eat3d). it looks like you overlayed the AO on top of the normal.. any reason why? i think ive seen that done once before but never really tried it. how do those results compare against just a regular leveled normal?
they are posting up results today so im really excited for that. good job on finishing and gl to ya.
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also, maintenance boxes usually have more accessibility/functionality than you have.
okay, those were a lot of big words :P what I'm trying to say is that it was done a bit rush rush, and i'm aware of the fact that i've made a lot of mistakes :P
that said, i'm still grateful for you taking the time to look at it and commenting on it
yeah.. same with me. lol.
i liked your entry. the realtime view in max came out very well, but the engine shot (which i guess is the one that counts for the contest) is very plain, and you lose a lot of the color, as well as the normal mapped detail due to the shot being from an unlit mode.
as far as crits go, i think it would really benefit from an AO pass from your entire set, not just the bake (i.e. shadowing from the wires and pipes), as well as a quick fake ao from some of the normal info that does not show very well without lighting (the cracks on the right hand side). when i was doing my textures for the contest, i tried to make them look almost like the final result without the AO.. then the AO just enhanced it.
also i took notice of your normal map (the image on eat3d). it looks like you overlayed the AO on top of the normal.. any reason why? i think ive seen that done once before but never really tried it. how do those results compare against just a regular leveled normal?
they are posting up results today