Loove this, you're definitely the master of painting metals, I just noticed the subtle reflections on the legs! Do you paint straight onto the flat texture map in photoshop or use a program like BodyPaint?
Add some irregularities to the screws, don't make things even, otherwise you are in the right direction. SuperFranky - Justin uses BodyPaint to aid in texture painting, the OP needs to keep it to just Photoshop. :)
IIRC Bodypaint had a way to assign a bunch of different effects to one brush, so it could be painting diffuse + reflection + bump all at once. I wonder if something like that could be done, except with Clone?
Not to shure if c4d has bodypaint in an version that old plus it depends what kind of bundle it is. C4d is pretty nice meanwhile but i cant really tell you how good 9 is its pretty old.
I painted the normal in bodypaint to get rid of the seam, ( i cant view just the R,G.B channels in the aplication thou ) and there is no seam in the texture, but the normal map still displays weird . I checked the normals of those faces and nothing seems wrong to me
I think people in film and game industry often use cinema4d for bodypaint and its painting toolset but I dont think most people use it for modelling and animating unless theyre at a small studio or working on macs :)
Thanks mate. Yeah, it's basically a hybrid of bodypaint/zbrush/photoshop. It's the software they used on Avatar and some cinematic studios like Blur have switched to it lately. I've been looking into it this week and it looks freaking incredible.
maybe you guys should start looking into alternatives, Right Hemnisphere seemed to stop developing or investing much more into DeepUV/3D. Alternatives these days are Mudbox, zBrush, Photoshop Cs4+, BodyPaint and 3D coat.
Would love to hear about your workflow in 3DCoat. I'm curious if I should make the transition from Bodypaint to 3DCoat. Then I could retopo and texture in 3DCoat, probably save me a ton of time.
Awesome model! I know Bodypaint's used a bit by people but I didn't think it was still that widely used - a lot of people have said 3D coat's pretty good for low poly painting. Sweet work anyway :)