Modular Turret Assets [WIP]

Andy Horns · Nov 2014

Been working on this modular turret set, still got work to do on the high poly, wouldn't mind hearing some crits or thoughts...

Andy Horns · Nov 2014

Have added some more details

TAN · Nov 2014

Nice !

Dethling · Nov 2014

Really nice.

They looks a little bit like some plastic miniatures

Andy Horns · Nov 2014

Thanks hey, here is the last of the high poly updates, think i will move on to the low poly versions now

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

Here is the start to the low polys this is the base, 240 tri's, normal map and still have some work to do like add dirt map, and fix some issues on the spec map but happy with the progress for now...

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

Update

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

It's been a while, it might not look like much progress but i learnt heaps about substance designer and finding my own groove regarding a texturing workflow. I am really getting comfy with substance designer and wanted to be able to change turret colors without having to go back and edit a psd etc. This is an ingame screenshot from Unity with substance applied. I am happy to finally progress with the rest of the turret and modular pieces...

Thaiauxn · Dec 2014

Excellent. I love seeing cool modular solutions like this.

MeshMagnet · Dec 2014

This turning out to be pretty cool. Mind showing a screenshot of your substance workflow?

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

Thanks guys, much appreciated. Here is the substance workflow, the inputs from the left are just 4 instances of a metal substance i did which was literally a clouds node with a grunge overlay and a color node, and the metal plate substance which was just an instance of the metal substance with a mesh pattern to a normal node. Then i used a color id mask which i baked out from 3ds max and hooked the various colors to the various pieces using a multi material blend. The rest was just so AO, baked in substance, curvature map also baked in substance and added a height map for the rivets which i then combined into the baked out normal map and i blended the normal from the metal plate into the main normal map. Its really basic. I didnt create a spec map, i used the curvature map to create edge blur and baked some edge highlights into the col map.

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

another update, still need to add some dirt and some vents in the bottom gaps or maybe some sort of light or something, not sure yet

Then time to finally move onto the next pieces, progress should speed up a bit now that i'm happier with the result

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

A little update...

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

Another update, am not entirely happy with the result, think there might be a bit too much wear and tear on them, am going to play around with the values a bit and see what i can get...

michalczyk · Dec 2014

Nice work on the model. I think a dish on a turret is a bit out of place. The wear/scratching on the textures looks overdone, as it's almost everywhere.

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

Thanks for the feedback, i agree with the wear/scratching, its too much, am going to tone that down and not have it everywhere. As for the dish i tossed it out when i made the low poly models

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

Have dropped the wear and tear down a few notches...

Dethling · Dec 2014

Much better.
There is still something "odd" compared to the clay-version, but I can't nail it down.
Maybe it's the amount of colored faces or the color shemes.. not sure.

ross185 · Dec 2014

You got rid of the panelling on the four turret shield? why so? they could easily be done on the normal map and in my opinion makes the shield a little more interesting.

Just curious why, thanks

Ross!

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

Hmmmm, lol, erm .... i have no excuse, i think i just have a lot of different versions from things i tried and it got lost along the way. The current one is a normal map too, it was probably just convenient at the time. tut tut tut! Thanks for pointing that out, i did quite like that original shield too, i will most def bring it back.

Brian "Panda" Choi · Dec 2014

There is way too much edgewear. Not sure why there is edgewear on the gun housing. What bothers it all the time? Operators?

Andy Horns · Dec 2014

Valid point, makes sense. No i didn't think there would be operators, you are right there is still way too much edge wear. I just didn't want it looking too clean and new.
Thanks for the feedback will make more adjustments...

Andy Horns · Jan 2015

OK i am going to call these done, thanks for all the feedback, i have learnt a lot from this exercise, i would def do a lot of things different. It is time to move on to a new challenge.

Modular Turret Assets [WIP]

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