This, exactly. I never said the texture I posted was a work of art, just a quick 2 minute fix to show how he can strip more lighting information out. I would agree that it looks flat and even plain ugly - surprise, your diffuse may not look as amazing when going through a PBR workflow! Your normal, height and AO (separate…
Typically a detail map is a smaller texture (say 256x256) that tiles hard across the surface of your model with a high texel density. They are used in next gen-shaders togheter with a bigger size diffuse or color map for variation. u blend the two textures togheter in the shader (say multiply the diffuse on the detail)…
I have a spec map creation question.... What is a good standard work flow for generating a spec map from a diffuse? Obviously just creating a gray scale from a diffuse is going to give poor results because it wont accurately interpret the materials (metal vs wood etc). Is it best to start with black and just paint till it…
Update on my photoscans - this was remeshed in Zbrush with dynamesh then decumated and cleaned up in Blender. For texturing I de-light the diffuce scan in photoshop and texture in substance painter
Messing around with a werewolf style beast, lots to figure out still, and planning on doing a diffuse only model. Final Submission! Closeup/Thread header image: Full Frame: Full Frame (Wires): Closeup(s): Wolfie Texture - 4096 Diffuse: Pedestal texture - 2048 Diffuse: Background: "Wolfie was banished from his homeland so…
Hey guys, i have a question for everyone. Basically i am trying to create a mobile game which has all of its lighting already baked into the diffuse textures of the meshes. This game is set inside a building so therefore i need light sources to light up the corridors, but since i've already baked my lighting into the…
Yeah, with the metalness workflow, the albedo map is both the diffuse and specular map in a way. For metalic surfaces (white in the metalness map) the specular intensity and color comes from the albedo map, and the diffuse color is set to black (because pure metals reflect nearly all the light that hits them and…
i guess, the usual way to create textures is just the other way around: dont start with the diffuse. if you want to use the scene as a portfolio piece, you probably want to do the high poly-low poly-bake workflow to get nice details in a normal map. with some other bakes you can then start your other texture maps. if you…
Here's a few examples.. unfortunately I don't have any low poly stuff which is actually any good... but it shows it works! The plant pot is to show how it handles transparency. That's a 128x128 png. The KemekoDX character has a 128x128 diffuse, and the crate is just a box with a 32x32 diffuse... which, as you can see, is…
PBR is not really a definition and is more like a framework. There are several PBR models. They are physically more accurate than older models (blinn/phong...) but also more costly to calculate. Their main feature is that diffuse and specular reflections are mutually exclusive. rough object = high diffuse and low spec…