Scifi Crate
Trying to improve my textures. All maps were created with Photoshop only.
Diffuse Map only
Normal, spec and AO maps only applied.
All Maps applied.
No textures
Diffuse Map only
Normal, spec and AO maps only applied.
All Maps applied.
No textures
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I would suggest working off existing high quality concepts to improve your texturing skills, and continue to push yourself conceptually as well.
1. All of these pictures would've fit in one image.
2. I'm fairly sure a picture of a simple 6 sided box is fairly useless. Unless it has the wireframe and would show mistakes like the usage of too many loops on a plain surface or something like that.
3. Like it already was mentioned, you should maybe just ask yourself what this crate is made for and what materials were used to make it. Try to give it some sense.
You seriously just posted a picture of a cube and want feedback?
Umm? Try something a bit harder? Work on your materials (textures).
Do some tutorials.
Another person. Member since 2009? What have you been doing? Are you in school? Trying to do 3d for a career? How long have you been doing it?
start out generic and nail the fundamentals before moving on to something more complex. This just looks like a crate with some fuzzy textures..
Next time, try to make a high-poly crate and bake normals maps instead of generating them with crazybump, ect.
Keep posting your work! Start a general WIP thread and keep updating it constantly! and ask questions!
Definitely go through the polycount wiki, try out some tutorials, etc...like everybody else is saying. Also, it would probably benefit you to try to base your models off of some concept art or something.
For an example of a badass Scifi crate, take a look at the thread Axios started recently: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92740&highlight=phantasy+star
Also, when you post images, use the image tags, or the "insert image" button. Its nicer to have the picture show up in the thread instead of clicking the link.
Like stated above this is to work on my texturing. I placed a 6 sided cube to show you that the textures are faking the geometry which is used often when working in games.
I do not have the hardware capability to bake normal maps. I am working on a 2007 laptop with a low end video card. I'm using Maya 2011 but I can't use High Quality rendering. This is why I only use Photoshop to make a normal map.
For example:
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Also the cube you've shown didn't realy show off anything close to what you're seeing in this tutorial here. Wich makes me wonder even more, if you have a detailed tutorial like this, why didn't you just try to recreate the texture he's showing there? This would've been a much more interesting texture.
Otherwise, just keep learning. It's obvious that you're in school. You have a couple of promising things to show. One thing I noticed is that your UV layout skills need work. Think efficiency and texel density when laying out your shells before you texture anything.
Do you like art? It's hard to tell if you even take pride in your art work, or even care. I know you're experimenting with textures, but seriously you have squares and rectangles...
It has come to my attention based on your art test that you could be struggling with UV maps? You should go through some tutorials on the subject.
The UV maps on your blog have a lot of wasted space. Make it more compact. It's like a jigsaw puzzle trying to get all of the islands to fit. I would also try and make the islands bigger if you can. You will get more texture resolution that way.
Also your normal maps on your blog... I would take those grainy bumps out. It doesn't add more detail, it's really bringing the pieces down. It makes it all look like it's made out of stone.
Gotta say that your not really faking much. Photosourced normals aren't going to make a box look like not-a-box.
You should still be able to bake just fine. Baking is CPU intensive, not GPU. Also, if you use xnormal to bake instead of maya, it will be faster and wont slow down your computer as much.
Maya says: //Warning: High Quality Rendering mode is not supported by the graphics card. Switching to default rendering mode.
I'm following this tutorial:
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These are the results:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yz2mJvnPWuQ/TxyOqC2wMtI/AAAAAAAAAME/sH4YJFMFdKw/s1600/sampledNormals.png
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GQDDjNigJeU/TxyOqahjisI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/ufLCT7zVVaY/s1600/doorTest_NmlMap.png
That helped a lot I switched the filter type off and turned the bump options to Tangent Space, then I switched the rendering to Mentalray.
This is the result: