Marshall Stack

[rrguitar]

So I decided to model and texture my guitar amp cuz there's a lot of interesting texture on it and I thought it'd be good texturing practice, here's what I have so far, it's definately not done, i just have the basic textures and colors, i still have to add all the little details and wear and tear and such, just thought i'd get some opinions so far.

[sampson]

it's very dark. is the first thing that springs to mind.
- work on the textures and lighting a bit more but its a good start

[grooveholmes]

It looks like you have some funky hidden edges which are causing your normals to have issues. Check the sides of the amp.

[rrguitar]

yeah I'll definately check on those faces, I think it might've been how I made clone for the wireframe render though, because I never saw those problems until i rendered the wireframe.

sampson: thanks, for the comment, I know its still pretty dark, if the wear and tear i add doesn't add a little more contrast tan I'll probably have to lighten up the main plastic parts of the amp so the front grill thing stands out more

[showNOmercy]

This prop is just begging for a specular map to make it stand out. You could lighten up the texture a tad and make sure you add some decent lighting in your scene before rendering.

[rrguitar]

yeah i know it could deinfately use a specular, the contrast of the metal to the plastic is a lot and i think a specular would really make it stand out, i still have to do that and the normal, but i still have to add a lot to the diffuse first

[rrguitar]

Here's the render with the almost final diffuse map, any comments before i move onto specular and normal?


Diffuse Map

[svelle]

it's pretty dark, you should brighten it up to a dark grey

[Scribbles]

Originally Posted by rrguitar

yeah I'll definately check on those faces, I think it might've been how I made clone for the wireframe render though, because I never saw those problems until i rendered the wireframe.

I think it's a bit more than that...it looks like you have a 5-sided face on the right side.

[rrguitar]

Originally Posted by Scribbles

I think it's a bit more than that...it looks like you have a 5-sided face on the right side.

ok yeah your right, i checked and both sides were 5 sided faces, easy enough to fix though, as there were a couple i could weld together without doing any damage