whaaaaoooooo- tooo much contrast (lighting) in your diffuse and not really utilising normals IMO. try keeping the diffuse in the middle range and use the normals/lighting to gain contrast. also some of your normals are confusing, the diffuse makes me thingk they are metal panels while the form in the normal makes me think…
The normals look very soft and squishy - is this a style you are going for or did you just run the straight diffuse through crazybump? Sometimes I find creating a greyscale version of your diffuse texture from scratch will give the best results, especially for hard surfaces such as these. To touch on the lighting - the…
Thanks for the feedback SHEPEIRO! I remade the normals, and I think this looks a lot better! I made the diffuse greyscale and enhanced the contrast in it and then used that for making the normals, and that lead to a lot cleaner normals that reduced the padded look. Please let me know what you think. It's not a HUGE…