The random model thread!

Wow, those look really cool, you're sticking to the concept's style pretty well. I think the wood could possibly benefit from sharper/stronger highlights on the plank edges to really get the shapes to pop.

Wow yeah, that looks great

Wow, Minecraft 2!

haha, yeah it's still very blocky atm, just more of a texture test, to see how they work in the engine. Actually it would be kinda fun to see how an all normal mapped, 2048² res textures minecraft could look like.

@Jenno:

yeah, I've already tried to work on that a little, so thats how the planks look like atm:

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Still no strong highlights and shadows on the edges tho, just some more shading. Maybe I'll get back to that (and the other textures) once I got better in doing that kind of a style.

dude, you sir, are nailing it BIG time, that's so nice

Yeah, that's look a lot like the concept

My turn, I'm on the way to finish the diffuse of my shotgun :

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Bump !

This is the Spas12 with Diffuse, Normal and Specular map (looking for a gloos map but I'm not really aware of this) I think it's a bit to dirt /damaged.

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I think you need to make it more scratchy on the top there carved holes are. Very clean. The rest is good - I prefere dirt that shows somehow a history of usage, custom upgrades by user (with tape or cutted) and so on. Nice job! I'm stuck with my hipoly rifle, no time to make it The handler looks very unused for me and the colors are like from different palette I mean ther are far away from each other - that blue metal don't fit with the green parts. Maybe use one blue metal?

I guess it's because of the specular color. Should use the same blue on the handler than the rest on the dark metals parts.

Bump !

Here another one :

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Now it's time to make a good render.

Nice! How about paiting some AO? You can make a second mapping channel and use it for AO. There's a need to overpaint a bit the lighting render from 3DSMax...

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This...

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Became this :

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sweet man !

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Nice! How about paiting some AO? You can make a second mapping channel and use it for AO. There's a need to overpaint a bit the lighting render from 3DSMax...

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why would you use another uv channel btw?

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why would you use another uv channel btw?

Yep, there are few ways to get it done:

1 - 2nd UV channel with no overlapping faces to get a nice AO and additional mask for some details and stuff (4 channels to use)

2 - AO bake to vertex painting - requires additional edges to make it less shitty but still it's away

3 - diffuse overpaint if there's no collision with overlapped faces that will cause artifacts

UV seems to be heavy because of another texture to the memory but it can be diff_size/2 texture so it's not a tragedy. As I already wrote you can use few channels as masks for details to blend stuff, add mesh painting layer or something.

I don't think I need a channel for AO in this one. (update soon)

Edi : Ok so some update today. i'm reopening 3D coat and it's fun

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i would chip off more of the paint on the handle, where those holes are

I finished texturing the last of my car props. Are there any tutorials for texturing cars out there? All I can find are just for editing skins for specific racing games rather than making them from scratch, which I'm not good at.

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looks slick, and clean if you are goint for that look, but now you need to work on material and definition

Agreed, cars require more work on materials than on textures.

When i was in internship, i don't even remember seing the lead vehicule tweaking textures, but i do see him working on nice shaders.