How do these tiles look? Any crits or comments would be very helpful.

Are any of the tiles going in the right direction?

I'm still figuring out what brushes work best in Zbrush.

Eventually this would be used as ground texture for a cellar/dungeon type scene.

As always, thank you for the help!

all you really need is trim dynamic and hpolish, you've gone alittle crazy using clay buildup. If you're going to use clay buildup, use it very subtly. i would suggest not doing so much ware and tare and all sides of a tile. definetly get the corners, but keep the ware and tare inconsistent, your tiles look too uniform for me.

Thanks, I couldn't agree more. The clay buildup is out of control.

Would you use the malletfast brush to do the trim dynamic and hpolish?

Another try at it.

I feel like my base tiles are a little too wide apart and shouldn't have such wide or deep cracks. I don't know.

Hey,

Good start but I would advise looking at some more reference. A quick Google search can give you a great start. At the moment I would suggest lowering the height of the tiles and the gaps in-between them. Make them a little less square and add some grouting between the tiles.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sto...=1009&bih=1054

Thanks Paulod. More reference should have been something I did right from the start, but I guess I had a bad case of tunnel vision.

Also agree with lowering the height and closing the gaps.

Still too noisy.

Too much general wear and tear as well.

How do these tiles look?

I'm still trying to figure out how to make grout properly, so that will come.

Hah ... those remind me of the ground tiles from Super Mario Bros on the NES. Especially the second from left in the bottom row.


For the grout: Try making it a separate subtool that you can embed your tiles into. That way you can play with sculpting, noise and textures separately without needing to worry about your tiles. Depending on how tilable or unique you want the thing to be you can also make single tiles stand out a little or be covered in grout.

The most important thing is always looking at reference. Preferrably real one if available.

haha... awesome that they look like SMB bricks, and at the same time... not.

Thank you for the help with the grout, I didn't know where to start really, and now I do.

Appreciate the help motionblur!

The cracks on the tile pieces look drawn on because everything is still on the same plane. The broken off chunks of concrete should be rotated to face the point of impact.

The first set of stones has some nice character. There is some nice detail and scratches in the first set of stones that the second set is lacking. The second set of stones look smoothed over a little too much and has lost a lot of detail. I would suggest adding more gouges like the first set to the second set because the second set of stones appear to have a nicer edge flow.

You're totally right AlecMoody, the cracks don't look real at all. I need to go back and make up a little story with the tiles. I think less cracks would be better.

@Animesh... maybe I'll try combining the gouges of the first set with the edges with the second?

How about this?

Here's my first attempt with grout.

Maybe you has seen that,pretty cool reference

Tiles for normal map in Zbrush 3.5 - YouTube

Keep going joe!

try out the clay tubes brush

Try to change the alpha of the ClayBuildup brush, the default square one is very harsh and it's very obvious you used it with those little hatchings that come with it. You can get some very different looks to your surface by using a different alpha. Experiment with it a bit.

Oh wow, I didn't know about changing the alpha! Thanks Fingus

You're welcome, always a joy to share information.

Thank you Joan7

I'm still having trouble with the grout. I feel like it's either too noisy or too flat. I need to find the happy medium.

Happy Medium you say?

http://eat3d.com/free/zbrush_stone

If you haven't seen this ^ Take a watch. He uses a Morph target > Over details > Then uses the Morph brush with a Spray stroke to reduce the detail to get that Happy Medium

I'm trying to create a tillable wall piece, what do you think?