TWahl Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Josh said: If you go the PBR route the new raytracing stuff I am working on will make those metal surfaces look really good. Yes I will definitely be using pbr materials - I'm particularly excited about raytracing though! I've seen it implemented in a few games on youtube and it looks pretty amazing. Looking forward to that Josh. In other news, built the pc and got it up and running. It is a beast. Previous renders that took multiple hours only take a few mins now! And I don't have to worry about choking my pc when modeling anymore. I can't wait to do more with it. Currently I am taking my old files off of my laptop hard drive and organizing/decluttering them. I have another laptop I have to take the hard drive out of as well to do the same thing but it is not with me. Next step is a monitor, looking at 1440p or 4k IPS. But for now I am going to go out and buy a cheap one to hold me over for a week or two while I finish up some more cad modeling/basic rendering tasks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 Played around with substance painter a little bit today. Not a final result by any means but I was just experimenting with colors and layers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I like it, looks like Quake 6. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted April 25, 2020 Author Share Posted April 25, 2020 Some more pictures from today. Mainly worked on finding the best and fastest way to create some material ID maps for more specialized textures, as well as figuring out how to best take advantage of substance painter's masking capabilities within layers, etc. Substance is great because I can tweak on the fly as well (change colors, remove certain paint sections, and more). Screenshots from the viewport: Things are really beginning to come along, although I am still in the process of trying to optimize my workflow with painter in conjunction to my toolset. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TWahl Posted April 25, 2020 Author Share Posted April 25, 2020 I will also be including a nice selection of detail textures, like this expanded metal texture (baked from a real cad model): I have many more of these, ranging from vents to pressure plates, bare/painted metal, rust, mesh fences, slotted grates, etc. They were very simple to model and render. The above could also be used in more modern settings as well, which is nice. Overall I am going for a gritty and industrial look so it fits nicely. I can see this being applied to dividers, walkways, or fence railings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted April 25, 2020 Author Share Posted April 25, 2020 Sometime in the very near future, I think I will move all work in progress updates to a thread on polycount. Once I make that thread, I will post a link in here. Main reason is that there are a lot of talented/known CG artists who work on there and I would like to have their critiques. However, that does not mean I will cease any updates here on the leadwerks web site. I still plan on doing blog posts, in fact that was something I have been planning for a while to get this project a tiny bit more publicity. Instead of intermittent updates I want to do a monthly/biweekly blog post where I can hopefully present more and richer content. Any replies to this thread I will still answer to for the time being, but I wanted to let you guys know about this so it does not seem like I am abandoning this project. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted May 10, 2020 Author Share Posted May 10, 2020 Almost done modeling and baking 40 of the 50 ish trim textures. I will be using these to aid in creating modular environment kits. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 Just a couple more shots I felt like posting for fun. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TWahl Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 Creating ID Maps in 3ds max for use in Substance Painter, using a multi-subobject material configured with HTML web colors: I will have to do this for all textures, does not take too much time for each one but it is tedious. The above I did in a couple of minutes, other more detailed textures will take longer (but not by much). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 Played around more in substance trying to make a master material. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TWahl Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 Might sound funny to some people but I am still not entirely happy with the results I am getting in painter. Thinking about going ahead and making some custom grunge to use instead of the stock options. Also I probably need to go into substance designer and start making some dedicated smart materials. On the other hand, further down the pipeline I have thought about doing some "cleaner" variants, so you could have a medical lab setting or something as well. Luckily substance painter allows me to inject this type of variation pretty quickly and easily. Still going to work on one type of look at this time though At the bare minimum I will be including different paint variations for each map where applicable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 Starting to get closer to what I am looking for. Rebaking all the curvature maps with better settings really helped with edge wears and other effects. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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havenphillip Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 You got them sharper dude I can tell. They look real. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 5 hours ago, havenphillip said: You got them sharper dude I can tell. They look real. Really itching to get these into any sort of game engine at the moment, still have a lot more work to do though. I'm getting closer and closer. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Current progess: *Began modeling all the wall textures a few days ago. Currently have around 10-12 done. 40+ more to go. *Total 54 trims at the moment, 55 floors, 57 walls. *ID maps for floors/walls still need to be generated. This will be done after all the modeling is done. *Need to model 10 ish more detail textures (not shown in excel below). Above figures are missing about 20 or so textures (some a,b,c variants for floors/walls, also do not have detail textures represented in excel sheet). Total number of textures is likely to exceed 200 unique maps before the diffuse painting process begins. Quick peek of a model I created today: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Josh Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 One thing worth considering is designing textures to support interesting geometry. Instead of just thinking of a texture as something that covers a flat square, a good texture set can influence the level geometry. This makes it much easier for the level designer to create a good scene. To make doorways and trim details that can be cut to the geometry, you want to make sure those features line up to a power-of-two size or combination of power-of-twos, i.e. 32, 48, 64, 192 etc. If you have a set of textures created this way, your levels pretty much design themselves. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWahl Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 34 minutes ago, JMK said: One thing worth considering is designing textures to support interesting geometry. Instead of just thinking of a texture as something that covers a flat square, a good texture set can influence the level geometry. I already have some textures like those, just not pictured. Most of my textures look "square" but I try to incorporate areas of modularity within them so they can be cut up and used in different ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Yeah, when you have different floor textures you can place next to each other to make a bigger design, it really makes the level flow. Having a corner trim piece, for example, looks a lot better than just slicing it at a 45 degree angle and having a visible seam. Alpha discard is also a great feature for floor panels and fencing, you can do a lot of interesting things with that when you are building a scene. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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