More exercises. These are helping a lot. Decided not to use Gaussian blur and trims on these, I'd rather rely mostly on my hand rather than on filter and marquee.
I'm up for a reset. If people really want to keep the existing stuff, we could trim the world, and set a limiting fence. But a reset would be fine too IMO.
Love the design as it stands, and the texturing so far :) Could do with more details - trim, chainmail underneath, runes perhaps, emblems of an army or country, idk.. Think maybe?
I would say a this could be acomplished mainly with a couple solid different tile and trim sheets filled with various panel lines and details, and then tint thing with different materials.
Here's a large radio array I'm gonna work into the castle: Heavily inspired by this: http://i.imgur.com/QZwkDRq.jpg Here's some normal maps I've made for the walls and trims:
The pipes, walls, trim, and floor shouldn't look they they are the same material and color. It looks a lot better now that they seats stand out, but there's still lots of detail getting lost.