Bike Transformer WIP

Patackular

Hi guys.

In between working on things like this vehicle/transformer, which I based on the Chrysler Tomahawk:





Gone for quite a simplistic-toon style but I think more detail is gonna help the overall look.....and hands.

Here's my progress so far, with a basic normal map. Any critique would be appreciated.

Patackular

Trying to set up this chrome material in UDK, which is explained at [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Zh3qDyXOY&feature=BF&list=WLBBC2B16734445401&index=1[/ame]

..but I'm not having much luck. I'm pretty new to this sort of thing and I don't get what the error is referring to.



Can anyone help me out?

KyleJensen

Plug the Multiply that is currently going into your diffuse texture into the emissive node instead.

Patackular

Thanks Shad0wForce, but no luck

Patackular

Someone advised me on setting up a component mask between the vector transform and the Texture sample, with only R G channels active, because it was trying to get the 3 value components to go through the 2 value texture.



Tweaked it some more (altering the settings for tangent/world) and got a cleaner result.



But I'm still getting some weird effect. Not sure if it's a cube mapping problem or not.

Snader

My first guess is that your texture is too detailed. Try blurring it some.

Patackular

Still seem to be having some issues with my cube map, but for now I've replaced it with a standard metal texture.

Got some diffuse texturing done. Not happy with the glow map, I'm guessing it's just a case of being too harsh, so brining the white down to a grey in the alpha would help.

Anyway, let me know what you think.

Patackular

Oh, and the tires really need work, too. Hoping that reducing the specularity will help.

Patackular

Update:

Patackular

Update:

Patackular

Thought I'd bring this to an end with a quick animation. Next time, other than working on things like modelling and texturing in general, focus on making sure there's enough detail in my design. I think this one particularly suffered in being too simple.