What to do for a smooth transition?

a-k-m

Hello,

I have a brick wall and a concrete ground. Now I want to have a smooth transition between both.

How is this usually solved? Should I attach both objects into one and then paint the texture so that it transitions nice, or is it possible to have a nice transition without having both objects as one?

Also this is a modular piece. How can I make the tiled texture more interesting without having to assign each object its own new texture? decals?

Ah, and the last question: I baked the Normalmaps but the bricks still look pretty flat. Should I use tesselation or parallax mapping? (Never used these before). Is it possible to use these in 3ds max?
Later I want to export my objects to the CryEngine. What should I use therefore?

Here's the image:


Thanks for help!

Greetings

.morph3us

vertex painting will help. but you'll do that in the cryengine itself as a shader.

also, add ao to your post effects, will make edges like this a lot more believable

a-k-m

ok, thanks... so vertex painting and decals should be done in the gameEngine itself. In the 3d application you just do the basic model and tiling textures.

Do you know of any vertex painting tutorials for the CryEngine?

.morph3us

take a look here: http://bit.ly/yVoYXY


i'm sry, cant be of more help here...