Beat-Up Aged Wood Pallet

Firefly · Sep 2013

First attempt at ZBrush. First attempt at hand sculpting wood. etc

I wanted to make the wood look really aged and to have some kind of a purpose prior to becoming a pallet. (battle)

Hopefully I will get better at sculpting along the way of doing it.

I plan on baking it down to low poly game ready object. For now this is the High Poly Sculpt.

All comments are welcome. Don't tear me up too hard. ha. Cheers!

Boozebeard · Oct 2013

I think there is too much denting and no chipping or cracking. While wood can dent it will also chip off with hard breaks that follow the grain. I would also expect wood of this quality to have a lot of knots and less uniform grain.

More like this, but maybe not quite so old if you don't want.

Also the grain along the ends of the planks shouldn't cut straight across like that. It would be curved with the ring of the trees.

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Yilativ · Oct 2013

I think it looks nice. Keep it up.

SpeedyB · Oct 2013

The boards across the bottom should have sloped sections. This is so that a pallet jack can roll over them to lift it.

DougClayton4231 · Oct 2013

Good first attempt

The only thing that I would say is to add more variation to jazz it up a bit.

Firefly · Oct 2013

Thanks guys for all the feedback! I'll try to take those into factor.

Also, I forgot to mention that I was aiming for a fantasy type pallet. etc

I appreciate the comments! Cheers!

Firefly · Oct 2013

Hey guys. I did some test baking. I have some problems with the baking. It seems I made my low poly too sharp and it shows in the normal map, and in marmoset? Look at these pics below. I used xnormal for the bake. I think the problem is the low poly? Maybe some of you guys can help me on what I'm doing wrong here. Thanks in advance.

Sean VanGorder · Oct 2013

Make sure you are splitting you smoothing groups along the UV seams before you bake. You'll also want adequate padding between your UV islands to prevent any bleeding.

Firefly · Oct 2013

I'm still new to this but what do you mean by splitting your smoothing groups along the UV seams?

Just assign different smoothing groups? I never understood smoothing groups and this is probably why this is happening. lol

And about the padding do I raise the padding level? I think the padding was on the default setting on xnormal.

DougClayton4231 · Oct 2013

Everywhere that you create a UV island (a.k.a. a seam) you should create a hard edge by selecting the polygons on the other side of the seam and setting them to a new smoothing group in the Edit Poly modifier. The padding for your islands should depend on your texture size. For example, on a 1k map, I usually use 16 pixels of padding.

Beat-Up Aged Wood Pallet

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