Asian Gate [image heavy]
polycounter lvl 12
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My entry for the Eat3D contest - not sure why I didn't make a thread for it before
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I will just dump all the pictures I took. Because I'm lazy like that.
messy wireframe!
My plan is to make a nighttime shot of that as well, since I experimented with glowy lanterns at one point and it worked kinda neatly.
I will make some renders of the final highpoly models and post them. later... probably.
My entry for the Eat3D contest - not sure why I didn't make a thread for it before
.I will just dump all the pictures I took. Because I'm lazy like that.
messy wireframe!
My plan is to make a nighttime shot of that as well, since I experimented with glowy lanterns at one point and it worked kinda neatly.
I will make some renders of the final highpoly models and post them. later... probably.
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i would rework either the HP or/and textures of the floor so that there is more wear around the door from feet etc soften the edges add a touch more grease from human contact...could do the same with the woood
the metal could do with a touch more texture
the edge brightneing seams a bit over the top on the stone and the wood (stylistic?) but i think it would be a better if its toned down a touch
the spec could be pushed a bit on the tiles and stone
a bit more larger scale wear and damage could really help eg:
- gradient the plaster colour slightly
- more UV damage on the wood where its exposed, more saturated colour in the shadows
- larges water drips/stains at certain points
Its a really solid piece as Ged said just think it could have a touch more interest in the mid range frequency
As SHEPEIRO said, the floor could use a bit more wear&tear, at the moment it's a bit strange cause the walls are busted up, but the rest is actually fairly clean.
Considering it's for the Eat3D contest, I really think you can push your shaders a bit more to make each material type pop out more, the specularity seems pretty uniform overall at the moment.
i like it alot !
for some reason i made this thread after the deadline was over which was probably stupid. :-/ could've gotten a lot of nice feedback beforehand.
i know that it's not really an excuse but when it came to making the spec i was already working on it for 12 hours or something and just wanted to get it finished -> far from perfect spec
i will definitely re-do the floor completely. figured i could save tris by keeping most things straight since i was nearing the limit rather quickly but now that i can re-do it without a strict budget (no intention to go over by a lot though) i will give it history and make it tie in with the wall better.
the metal parts do have a reflective cube on them but not very visible in a static image. spec map definitely letting it down too.
here's the door with just the reflection on the metal parts. the cubemap is blurred because i didn't want a chrome like surface but more of a cast iron kinda thing.
render of the wall part which was originally planned to be using vertex color to blend between a damaged and an undamaged version which was scrapped due to it being ridiculous on such a limited scale.
roof
diffuse texture (sorry for it being so big)
You have some leftover space on your textures, I would use that for the pavement where it reaches the doors and walls. You've eluded to that its old and worn, so I would Google some images quickly and get an idea for what else you could put on there.
If you do garbage, don't go too far with it as it will immediately throw this in an urban area. It very well might be an ancient temple surrounded by a rural landscape, but I think more natural debris would best suit the feeling of the piece. I suppose the gist of my feedback in this regard is to put some more bits & pieces on the ground to help sell that area a bit more. Ancient, modern or what have you.
I second a lot of the material feedback. The simplicity of the approach is great, but the materials on their basic level need to be sold. Metal has shine, plaster holds light, and so on.
Bonus points if you can add some translucency to those lanterns.
One detail bothers me: the Chinese characters are upside down and flipped horizontally.
Did you use photo-manipulation, hand-paint or mix the two? I'd love to know how you got your textures to look like that in your diffuse
slowpoke is slow...
thanks everyone
i've redone the floor. will have to take another stab at the texture for it though, maybe a higher res bake. havent touched the metal, started messing with the spec and gloss maps, reduced the edge highlights in the diffuse, maybe a bit too much on the bricks in the wall.
adam, i like the idea and am definitely gonna do some remnants of pavement or a walkway leading to and from the gate. still undecided whether or not i should place it in a proper environment with sky and maybe rolling hills - would certainly help to hide some of the lowpoly silhouette edges.
next up would be re-doing the lampions ( and doing the characters right this time :P ), paving stones, more material and texture tweaks and starting on proper lighting. thinking about sunrise or early morning and a nightshot ( maybe flaagan will do some fx for it, yay! ).
G3L, the texturing is based on the AO/Convexity maps used to mask damage and stain maps layered over base textures and then some painted in variation and details here and there. i'll post an animated gif showing all the different layers getting combined in the next days.
hope to have a bit more time for this now. thanks for the great feedback guys