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Re: Metal Making
[ QUOTE ] so i should try adding blues/ orangish browns for my highlights? and then add a color for shadows? [/ QUOTE ] Whatever's appropriate, really. If the model's intended to be outdoors, mostly, a blue base color would make sense. In Quake style hallways, yellows and oranges for highlights will fit in well, and so on.… -
Re: Metal Making
Yeah, that's definitely pretty impressive for your first try with these techniques. Great start. The problem with dodge/burn is that it just ramps up/down the value -- no color changes. You should keep this in mind, and maybe try painting over with a low opacity brush, or one set to Color mode, and see if you can get some… -
Re: Metal Making
Why can't you make good metal without a spec map? You can, but like every single one of those examples, you need to paint in the highlights and lighting. If you need dynamic highlights and specularity, to make it look like metal and not a painting of metal, you need a spec map. You simply cannot make proper metal without… -
Re: Metal Making
@HarlequiN , its a 7 year old game called Rune Halls of Valhalla and it uses unreal engine 1. @SupRore , well, thank you so much for going into detial and giving me lots of examples and tutorials for metal, im sure those will help me a lot! @Professor420 , thanks for explaining spec maps to me and telling me where to find… -
Re: Metal Making
Why can't metal look good without a spec map? I've seen hundreds of game textures with incredible painted metal, and, for that matter, it's been done quite well in still paintings for hundreds of years. Rick *is* right that it's all about surface properties. Layers of highlights, reflections, shadows... But metal's pretty…
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