[WIP] Splash Damage Canister art test
Looking for crit, be harsh - i love it! 
- and also hello poly-count community!
concept:
WIP (Now with 100% more normal maps :P):
Normal+Tex:
disassemble it :thumbup:
- and also hello poly-count community!concept:
WIP (Now with 100% more normal maps :P):
Normal+Tex:
disassemble it :thumbup:
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It definately needs a specular map. It's suffering without it.
There's a noticeable seam on the middle grey part.
As far as the texture goes, I'm not sure whether or not you should try and match the minimalist style of the concept. I feel you've broken away from it quite a lot. I've never done an art test myself, so I'm not sure what studios want. Hopefully someone with experience can chime in on that.
You should check out more metal reference and try and study what sells it as metal, and try and replicate that in photoshop. Also, i don't really see any specularity, adding some spec should help bring it to life a bit. Keep at it, the model looks pretty solid
the texture is quite noisy it looks strangely almost as if you applied a couple of textures over a plain diffuse : o
loose dat noise apply it where it shud be!
imo i would boost the ao or rebake the ao it seems to only be filling in the small crevices.
texture wise scratch that bitch up! needs grunge and wear m8 and also is the wip without a normal.. its hard to tell.
hope that crit stings ^^
glhf
now it looks just a bit boring but i think thats mainly because of the colors and the lack of spec.
also. Wires! we all like to see them so post them
other then that, looks that.
I've now got to focus on a nice texture to accompany my bake for a 9pm GMT submission.
Non the less, the body is now both wider ("needs to be a bit wider") and the larger camera facing sides ("middle part is a bit small") have been pulled out a bit to give them more depth and curve.
Looking at that im thinking: is there even a change? ..
thankyou paintforge, Thanks for slapping this back to my attention, i just moved on and ignored it as the geo was not visible -
There they are! Culled. thanks!
Hello Hexidine! - No wires or polycount on polycount?, nuf said.
Polycount: 7980/8000
Model, Model+Normal, Model+Normal+Wires
finally, mr_ace, Hexidine, paintforge and hayden.
paintforge said it best with: "the texture is quite noisy it looks strangely almost as if you applied a couple of textures over a plain diffuse : o"
now... and i feel a little dirty saying this but..
as many people have noticed its just a coloured diffuse with literaly too grundge textures set to overlay.
But ive gotten what i came looking for! Direction. Hayden Im going to side with you for now, try and make it as much like the concept as possible with only a very little added... things. mr_ace! thankyou - ill make sure to focus on material definition, lets add some metal and spec map.
Ill be killing that noise paintforge! Had some trouble backing the AO so atm im just using screenspace. IF i have time this evening - i WILL go back
Here are your wires Hexidine and next will be metal and spec!
thank you all for commenting! BRB
I asked for wires and i got them :P
I feel like the cylinders could use less sides and still remain its shape, and the little thingis on the corner beams? why are they so detaild you could easily use a alpha map on a plan there, or if you want depth just thicken it, but i think modelling the hole in it i to much, but thats my opinion.
I wanne see it with metal and spec!
good work
The high poly detail is not sloped enough:
Post your high poly source so we can see where your bake was derived from.
Also, I'm not really sure what kind of smoothing groups you are using. There doesn't seem to be much (if any) Binormal correction in the Normal Map.
The low-poly geometry looks a tad sloppy. I mean that it does not look completely 100% geometrically uniform. Particularly in the corners, the edge-flow looks wonky rather than smooth.
The UVs should be uniformly straight snapped at 90 degrees when possible, and you should allow edge-bleed padding by at least 8 pixels from each texture island.
The textures are off. For some reason, it looks like there are Normal Map artifacts in your diffuse. I would almost suggest baking in a little more Ambient Occlusion (possibly with a ground plane in the bake-scene).
BTW The Concept does not look grungy at all. Have you even SEEN Brink? The game is pretty clean with small scratches here and there. It does not have multiple grunge layering.
It really doesn't seem like you researched this very well (I don't see grunge in the concept, and I don't see a lot of grunge in the screenshots from the game):
By the way, you're missing both the Edge Map, and Cavity Map.
Read this tutorial by Arshlevon. And apply this to your textures:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52183
You also missed the text that says '5A', and I can't seem to see some of the rivets (I see them in the normal map, but can't see them in the final 3D model).
And the material differentiation is WAY off. For the metal scratches, you need a dark diffuse with a bright spec/reflectivity, and wide gloss:
The rest (what looks like acrylic paint to me in the concept) should have moderately high spec, a little more glossier, and quite a bit darker in the spec.
Keep at it though!
I didn't know the company responsible for the concept made Brink. good to see you ditched the dirt and are going more in their direction.