Yeah, that's definitely a noticeable improvement. Start messing with custom messy brushes for large scale discoloration and texture (think along the lines of using a sponge to paint roughness on a canvas) and keep plugging away at various scuff marks and edge wear with a small sharp brush. I find keeping sharply defined…
This is probably a stupid question. But what do you mean with soft and sharp layer in this img? Do you mean a layer where a hard brush us used and the other a soft brush? http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1340077/Misc/stone-paintover-anim.gif
The reason it looks like wax is because you've painted in very sharp highlights and mixed them with very soft gradients across the rock surfaces, which makes it look like light is not only bouncing off but traveling through the surface. Right now they are looking fairly blobby and rounded on the surface, to fix that you…
Hand painted? I'm done trying, at least for now. That being said, those are incredible to my eyes. I like the version before the most previous more, though. The offsets make the map look really interesting, but I would also require a second more uniform one - using the one with offsets only now and then in the uv set. I…