@orangesky Thanks for the comment. Glad the write-ups have been enjoyable and informative. The short answer is: it depends. Context is really important because, even from a broad perspective, there's some significant differences between organic and hard surface modeling. While there's definitely some overlap in the…
Material study: model tank road wheel. This is a quick overview of a recent material study for real-time vehicle models. The primary goal was to create a simple PBR texture, using a visual style that blends a few detail cues from reference images with some stylized painting techniques for weathering scale models. An…
Texturing breakdown This write-up is a brief overview of the processes used to create PBR textures for a hard surface model with subtle weathering effects. The documentation for most of the popular texture authoring tools does a good job of covering the technical side of things. So the majority of the focus here will be…