I like your reference a lot. What strikes me is that the house looks a bit flat. Maybe you could add more geometry to make the silhouette more interesting. Making stones and wood beams stick out. I read this great article about housing, i'll have a look if i can still find it. It also talked about adding geometry to define…
1. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_Map_Modeling#Low-Poly_Mesh 2. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture_atlas 3. Several ways to do ambient occlusion for games: a. Create a 2nd UV set for static baked lighting. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Light_map, http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Ambient_occlusion_map. b. Bake AO…
^^^Hah, yep I thought as much (about the blue hue). I've been trying to plan out the textures for the walls and floors. I'm probably over-thinking and should just whip something together to at least take the places of the blue checkers. And yes, I do read this thread a lot:…
Hi man, saw your work it looks good but its all short tech demo stuff would suggest looking at industry artists who do environment art. Since that is where you want to be. Some links that might help you, last link is more about CV. http://www.thiagoklafke.com/modularenvironments.html…
The normal map turned out okay I guess, but I think I may have to size it up to 2048 pixels instead of 1024. I should propably have tried to build this modularly from the beginning, to get better texture res. If there is time over I might redo it, but I have to move on.
Terrain for the ground, with a lot of meshes added. Pretty standard method. Lots of info available if you want to dig in: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Landscape http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Modular_environments
If I'm understanding this correctly, you only used a albedo/diffuse map for everything here and no normal/roughness/metalness? If so, I would learn how to texture properly in a PBR workflow as that is what will be used in a AAA production. You never want to handicap your work with excuses when presenting. If you are aware…
Start from the flat plane with your tiling texture on it, and start to model the cracks and holes to match the texture features. For example: http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/modular_rocks/modular_rocks.html http://wiki.polycount.com/ModelingRubbleIntoAPath