The first piece was done in a different texturing method and the most current was done with Racer445 tutorial. I think that I have to nail the base texture first of the kind of metal I want. I concur that the first one is far too grungy. I'll redo the texture. With the specular map, you would add subtle blues to get a pure…
Minotaur0 thank you. It means alot coming from you and the great work you have done with your tutorial. The dirt is in there, just very minor. I'll bump that up a bit. Yes I have a tablet. snow thanks. That center material does look too much like concrete, (not what I wanted), I guess I should do alittle more referencing…
The metal doesn't look right. Try to keep the randomness down, also the diffues is probably to bright for the metal. Take a look at this tutorial, really good for understanding how to emulate metal as a material. http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photoshop/how-to-hand-paint-convincing-metal-textures/
I think you should ignore specular and normal maps and concentrate on making a diffuse texture that you can actually understand, right now nothing makes sense, there is no reason to your chaos. Take a look at some of Philip's textures and tutorials: http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/materials/metalmatte/metalmatte.html What…
Your texturing is chaotic, you've got to tone it down. On the most recent images the metal reads like granite, and in the first, it reads like an acid trip. I would strongly suggest watching Racer445's tutorial on metal texturing, which I believe you can find at cg.tutsplus.com. Tone down the diffuse, and bring out the…
try out this tut, http://www.philipk.net/tutorials/materials/metalmatte/metalmatte.html also pull hte scratches out of your normals, and make them more faint in your diffuse, and push them in the specular, and also add some more variations and scratches and stuff to the specular so the specular has some of it's own…
you have definitely improved, it's good to see you're keeping at it. you don't seem to be using reference material. what is that material in the middle supposed to be - some sort of concrete? your cables also look like long strings of jerky. start off with flat colours, if you've baked an AO, overlay that. then work some…