Audi Wheel "baking Test"
I decided to learn Baking "wether I like it or not"
So I started on this Audi Wheel about 2 days ago , "time spent = 7-10 hours"
I'm pretty satisfied with the result , and I finally realized that it's impossible to get HD details baked into a NM "you can aswell prove me wrong
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So gimme crits , alot of them , yess spam me with em
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So I started on this Audi Wheel about 2 days ago , "time spent = 7-10 hours"
I'm pretty satisfied with the result , and I finally realized that it's impossible to get HD details baked into a NM "you can aswell prove me wrong
"So gimme crits , alot of them , yess spam me with em
!
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You could also try 'dirtying up' the alloy some to help sell it more, make it look like its been used, as perfectly clean items look 'fake' in the game world.
The logo on the tyre wall can also do with some depth/height and a lighter colour, say a dirty white?
I hope this helps and would like to see what you come up with.
You're also using waaay to many polygons on the rim itself, they are not helping your silhouette at all so they're not needed. Especially with rims you can get away with keeping things simpler...
Personally, I'd try (it might not be possible to get it working nicely) to tile the texture a bit as well, make 2 or 3 spokes and then copy those (to avoid 5 identical ones) and only map 1/3rd or so of the rubber.
1- Rims Changed
2- Lower Poly Count
3- Minor texture Edits
4- Rim edits in normal map , More Space Too xD
5- Better Lighting Settings
Currently : Making a "Dusty Tire" texture
Notes: 512px texture Looks blurred << is that ok? xP
Wheel ref. :
Edit: Fixed The Normal Map
As for the texture, I meant reducing the texture without having to sacrifice quality. How about this:
It has as much detail on a 512 as your layout has on a 1024.
Texture update:
This was supposed to be dusty , but it ended up being screwed by dirt xD
And here is another shot after editting the normal map :
I don't think i'll change the rims again Since this was just a baking test , I'm pretty satisfied with what i learned today
I might have some updates but it depends on how busy I get the next few days
soo thank you people for helping me out , if you wanna crit anything I'd be glad if you post it
Cya "gone to bed
as for today i tried to make my first spec map ever , It seems to work pretty nicely on the brand new wheel but it messes up on the used one
I think i should fix up the dust part in the diffuse but i dunno in which way i should be fixing it xD
And yeah, you seriously need to stick closer to reference.
Updates:
Made new rims
re-unwrapped the whole model
rebake with 1024px Has Nice Details
Problems : smoothing group 1 isn't applied on the center of the rims .
sorry for the wierd pattern on the tire , I'll fix it when i wake up tommorow
@Mike5424 : Don't worry about it :P
Update :
1- smoothing group Issue Solved
2- new diffuse map
3- new specular map
4- AO map added
your reference rim looks white because they probably have a large white board reflecting light from behind the camera.
Better still, you could just make a 1/4 section of tire with tread on it, make sure the texture tiles correctly and then simply copy and rotate it a few times to make the entire wheel. That'll give you a lot more resolution overall. If you still wanted text on the sidewall, you can have 1 half of the sidewall mapped flat along one of the edges of your UV map, it'll take up hardly any room and also have exactly the same texel resolution as you have now.
Also that sweeping curve on the spokes didn't need to be modelled in the lowpoly and its good that you made it flat, but now the normals don't have that nice shape in there anymore? How come?
@ tda : I remodelled the rims on both high and low poly to avoid any further errors.
Thanks everybody for your help I've Learned alot from this model , currently I'm working on head Model And trying out sculpting with mudbox since zbrush's interface is driving me crazy xD
Here's The New thread : http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1245120#post1245120
It's a wheel I made some time ago:
It has 380 tris but you can reduce the loops on the center area and make it plain and add some extra rings on the whole wheel to make the outer curve even smoother if you want.
This is the texture I used (512x512):
// edit - check the posts below for some more info on better UVW layouts //
It's a slightly older version I had lying around so I just used it, but you get an idea of how the UVW layout is. I basically made a very small piece of the outer tire and used the rest of the space for the rubber side (where I forgot to add the tire brand name / model, d'oh) and the rim where I wanted some unique dirt for my wheel.
I'm no pro though, so I don't know all the tips and tools out there and therefore maybe I, too, made something wrong, but it worked pretty fine for me and saved lots of space.
Mik2121 - No offense, but that's hardly an efficient texture. You're spending a hell of a lot of texture on the rim and hardly any on the tread. You can almost cram this in a 256² without any loss of resolution(yes some small parts are missing):
Though I'd personally do something like I showed a few posts up and get a bit more tread on the texture.
I spent a lot on the rim because that part can be seen, whereas the thread is mostly hidden by the truck body (this is a truck wheel) so I didn't think spending all that much for the thread would be the best thing to do in this case.
Your pic is also missing the sides of the wheel, not just part of the rim. Don't think that would fit on the 256x256 texture.
I guess I could have made just half of the trim, rotate it 90º clockwise and for the side only make a small portion attached to the top of the thread piece. Then reduce it all a bit and maybe make it fit on a 256x256 texture, but then again the trim would be mirrored and I would be missing the center nameplate.
What do you think about something like this?:
Posted another variation. Which one do you think would be the best out of these two? I definitely wanna keep enough dirt detail on the trims so the repeat isn't _that_ obvious (though I would still need to touch up the diffuse to make the mirroring less obvious)