Need help with textures - For an Environment Scene in UDK

LeoCG

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum. I've been lurking for quite a while and found a lot of useful help from people so I have decided I'll join the fun and ask for some critiques and possibly hopefully get better myself

I currently have a Scene in UDK that looks like this. My goal is to have a good looking scene without normal maps, or specular maps, everything is purely hand-painted.



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Currently, I am just missing the trees that I have yet to export and import into the scene

Here is a sample of my barrel, and House Wood texture that I have in the scene

Barrel Texture - 512x512



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Here are the barrels in the UDK (No lighting yet, everything is still at early stage texturing wise)



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Wood Texture 1024x1024



Repeating Wood on the house



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and here is the texture for the well base that I currently have, it's missing so much, proper highlights, shadows I don't know how or where to start in order to fix this damn thing, please help me =( It's so barren lol.



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Please help me improve my texture work, I am missing something, I don't have 3D look to them imo, I don't know what it is or how to fix it

LeoCG

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jordan.kocon

Im only seeing 2 of your pictures, your barrel texture and the shot of them in UDK, none of the rest are showing up.

LeoCG

Weird... I can see the rest...

marq4porsche

Really the only thing I can say is just don't be afraid to push in and go into detail. Paint in your highlights where the light would naturally hit them. Make big easy to read shapes then go down and add detail as you want. Look at reference and see what details you want to capture.
Made a paintover for ya. Not much but I hope it helps.

LeoCG

marq4porsche wrote: »

Really the only thing I can say is just don't be afraid to push in and go into detail. Paint in your highlights where the light would naturally hit them. Make big easy to read shapes then go down and add detail as you want. Look at reference and see what details you want to capture.
Made a paintover for ya. Not much but I hope it helps.

Omg, thank you so much it does help, I will try this as soon as I get the chance, I'll be updating this thread as I make changes according to the comments I get. Thank you!