Metal Texturing

TicoTaco

Hey everyone, I am in the process of texturing a model, and I need to make a metal texture. I have a bunch of metal texture pictures, but I want to do this one from scratch so i can have more control over it. I have watched racers painting metal tutorial, but mine always seem to come up cruddy. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how to get a nice generic metal base going. Thanks

r_fletch_r

post what you got! Then people can suggest improvements.

TicoTaco

Right , right , sorry.






Basically the other tries revolve around what these two look like. Don't pay attention to the extremely over sized scratches on the second picture, just look at the underlying base. :P

Basically, I get stone, and then something that is too dark with no real color variation when put on my model.

Perfectblue

http://www.nextgenhardsurface.com/index.php?pageid=racer445

TicoTaco

Awesome ! I didn't know he had a new one out, thankyou Perfectblue.

Visceral

From your first example i would say, less contrast, in metal the base texture is really really low contrast, just very vry subtile differences that crates a barely visable texture. You dont want it to look like stone.

And i would tone the scratches waaay down.

cw

For both there is a similarness of size of details, if that makes sense. Try to get some variety in the kinds of marks and grunge there are, and tone down the contrast a bit.

gsokol

Yea way too much contrast...especially the first one. You need to be super subtle with the layers you add.

Also, having a good metal material depends a lot on your spec map.

megalmn2000

Put the brush to a very low opacity, like racer445 said on his tutorial. Even 6-7% you can see something. Your scratches are too big, they looks way prettier when it's tiny and subtle. This is a good tutorial too : http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/42-tutorial-hard-surface-texture-painting.html