Treasure Chest - First hack at hand painted textures

Shogun3d · Nov 2009

Hey guys,

A lot of the hand painted pieces such as Erics and CerisierEnFleur has inspired me to get my feet wet and practice some hand painted metal and wood. I've never done it before (always been working on realism) so figured it would be great to take a stab. Here's my results .. feedback is appreciated. Thanks everyone

Viewport Shader - Xoliul

vcortis · Nov 2009

Nicely done, I myself haven't really done too many hand painted but it's always been a very appealing style to me, and I may have to try it myself soon.

JasonLavoie · Nov 2009

I think if aanyyyything (it does look really nice by the way) maybe get a bit more colour variation in there, I'm seeing some nice purples in the shader, also... maybe tighten up the lines a bit (for each plank) cause right now it looks too muddy.

dv8ix · Nov 2009

Very cartoon like. good work

Shogun3d · Nov 2009

JasonLavoie wrote: »

colour variation, tighten up the lines a bit (for each plank) cause right now it looks too muddy.

Agreed, thanks Jason

achillesian · Nov 2009

im confused, it looks like the chest is made to ingame specifications and the chain is not...

Shogun3d · Nov 2009

I would typicaly bake the chains down to alpha's but for the sake of time and practice I didn't. It's not being used in game anyhow.

DnS · Nov 2009

Nicely painted.

One crit: The knot in the wood on the front of the chest looks strange to me. Maybe it needs a little more love in the diffuse.

Shogun3d · Nov 2009

Thanks DnS, yeah I tried to imitate a knot in zbrush but didn't look natural, going to paint some more detail there.

Autocon · Nov 2009

Looks nice Will

Although if this is something you are going to put on your website that is trying to get you a job in the game field I don't see why you don't put in the little extra time to optimize your chest mesh and turn those chains into alphas to make it a game ready object.

Doing little practice pieces like this are nice but when your looking for a job and your showing it on your website which should showcase your best work it gives off the wrong impression.

Think you should optimize it or take it off your website. And I didn't even notice the eye patch on the skull there till I really looked hard at it, should make that darker or have it "painted" black to make it pop more.

pior · Nov 2009

I dunno, I think the diffuse looks great but on that second screenshot it starts showing that it is not exactly working. As if the dynamic lighting starts looking odd and fights the highlights painted in the diffuse?

I am all for a hand 'pass' on normalmapped assets but I think in that case it wouldn't look to great ingame. Maybe it would work better if the normals were actually generated instead of painted. Maybe sculpt some wood plank surface on a flat plane and use that?

Interesting experiment for sure!

wester · Nov 2009

This looks awesome man.

I'm having some problems with the skull. The chest is supposed to be stylized and hand painted, as the skull is fairly realistic. I would tweek with it's proportions abit more (the skull) and maybe give him a big cranium or something exaggerated.

also it looks like there's a piece that the skull is covering over, i see it in your texture map but dont see it in on the model. I'd say scrap that. If you arent going to see it and this is just for show, then iwouldnt even put it in. You could remove it, and you'd free up alot more texture space for the skull.

Looks good though man, that first shot looks really neat. I like it.

Treasure Chest - First hack at hand painted textures

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