STC #15 - May11 - May18 - Treasure Chest

[Tiros]

Originally Posted by Gregor

I'm interested but are we texturing BOTH models? Or do we choose one?

You choose one of them to texture within the timelimit of 90 minutes. Then when you're done and feel like you'd want to try another one or texture the same model again, then go for it. Multiple entries are allowed.

Some neat textures here. Glad to see someone actually enjoyed the theme I'll prolly give this one a go a bit later myself.

And aye, unfortunately Doylle won't be hosting the STC anymore, he got quite much to take care of as it is already. But I hope that he'll atleast join the comps once and in a while

Cheers!

[TwiiK]

Originally Posted by sampson

wait fleistad what's with your spec map. it's completely different to any other spec i've seen. explain?

I have no knowledge of texturing, but I'm guessing that by tinting your specular map you'll get specular highlights tinted with the same color.

[svelle]

my entry, kinda proud, think it's my best till now.

worktime 50mins

1. Painted the base color of the wood
2. Painted the base color of the chain
3. baked AO, overlayed it
4. took some wood, added the cutout filter.
5. overlayed everything
6. made the spec map (normalmap is unusefull i think)

[Lachtan]

Behold:


I get main wood texture in, idk where I got it from, after that I applied some dirt overlay.
Added ironwork, I got it from texture on cgtextures(section ornaments, cat. various).
Some croping stretching and stuff...
I did want to get pretty nice bumpmap so I have to copy my texture and make some adjustmenst to it just for crazy bump.
Specular made in photoshop.

[phaselocked]

I started with a base color (brown). Then I added several layers of images (dirt, wood, leather,metal,...) I added details with brushes. This took me about 70 minutes in total.
I am not very happy with the top of the chest but I didn't find a good way to make it different. I had to quit because I must go to family today

Regards,

Tim

[theQiwiMan]

So I first brought the obj into ZBrush and made a quick hi-poly proxy for the normal map. (If I had more time I would have seperated the chests out into pieces) After using max's render-to-texture to create the normal map, I made a quick lighting map and used that as the base for my diffuse map. I painted colors over it, then used some photos I've stocked up of metal and wood to overlay the ever-lovin heck out of 'em.
This was a fun challenge, since it helps me to get over my obsessive-compulsive way of working, since I know I don't have time to get everything just the way I want it.
I finally finished a comp! wohoo!

[A Sober Irishman]

Great work so far here, I've just got a question for the people who have entered already. How did you do the effect where there is metal banding around the edges/corners. I can't figure it out for the life of me, when I try and do it it turns out horrible and has that distinctive photoshopped look about it. This also happens to me when I try and do metal in general from scratch in photoshop. Can someone please help?

[S_L_A_V_A]

1) Diff
2) Norm = heightmap from diff + nvidia Normal map filter
3) Spec from diff
4) Diff = Polygon occlusion map(not per-pixel occlusion) + color diffuse

[Gregor]

I use Maya 2008 Unlimited, and when I open the .obj the shading is horribly wrong. It's really dark, and lights don't work on it.

How do I fix this? It's as if the normals are reversed but I checked the face normals and they're fine.

[phaselocked]

Originally Posted by A Sober Irishman

Great work so far here, I've just got a question for the people who have entered already. How did you do the effect where there is metal banding around the edges/corners. I can't figure it out for the life of me, when I try and do it it turns out horrible and has that distinctive photoshopped look about it. This also happens to me when I try and do metal in general from scratch in photoshop. Can someone please help?

Find some references of seams/bolts/screws/... and add them on your texture. Then add some filters/adjustments/layers... For mine I used the color balance alot to give the metal about the same look as the wood.