Painting mah textures

wasker · Dec 2009

Hey fellas. I've been trying to handpaint some textures lately and decided to put together a small scene (3,5k polys) to show them off.

All textures are painted from scratch. In this scene I just use diffuse, no spec (lol) or normals. The textures are sitting at a whopping 5x512 but I can probably squeeze them in on a single 1024.

merry xmas and hugs!

Rhinokey · Dec 2009

the wood looks nice, if not a bit too straight and polished, the stons on the other hand seem much more cartoony, the cracks seem almost pure black, teh scene looks almost fullbright perhaps some lighting would help pull it all together

DarthNater · Dec 2009

I agree with Rhinowhore here. The wood is too straight and the stone and wood don't match styles. Don't get me wrong, its great painting, just need to mess it up a bit

Make those lights orange and yellow and pull back the fall off so you get some shadows where the light 'stops', it will give it more depth.

Devin Busha · Dec 2009

Great start Wasker. I'm going to keep an eye on this one! While I'm just starting out myself, I'm feeling that your floor could use some adjustment to fit the overall temperature of the scene. It's kind of clashing (to me) with the rest of the textures. Keep at it man!

GoK · Dec 2009

Cool start! the floor stands out way too much to me but it may be the lack of shadows...

wasker · Dec 2009

Rhino: thanks for the crits man. I hear you about the stones and the wood. Do you mean both the stone tiles or just the floor by the way?

DarthNater: thanks Darth. I'll pop some warm lantern glows in there

Devin Busha: Alright, thanks. I'll fix em!

GoK: Thanks for the comment and crit Gok, I like the space ships you've been doing lately by the way!

ZacD · Dec 2009

Floor doesn't look flat, its too 3D for its own good. Back wall texture is too large.

wasker · Jan 2010

zacd, yeah, it came out abit too 3d. I agree about the backwall. thanks for the crit

here's a wip for the new floor,

not quite satisfied. too desaturated?

ZacD · Jan 2010

looking good, I'd like to see it in that scene before I make any suggestions.

myles · Jan 2010

I think we definitely need to see the scene lit because the colours will really bring the scene together.

crashoveride · Jan 2010

wasker wrote: »

zacd, yeah, it came out abit too 3d. I agree about the backwall. thanks for the crit

here's a wip for the new floor,

not quite satisfied. too desaturated?

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Saint Seiya Lost Canvas ... ^^

wasker · Jan 2010

zacd - thank you, will replace the current texture with the updated one when I can.

myles - yupyup, thank for the comment!

crashoveride - I dont get the reference

I googled it and it seems its some anime series. thanks for dropping by though!

I was fixing my ground tiles yesterday but since I have the computer on the floor and it has this nice little shelf cut in the front, which is an excellent area to rest your feet on when working. Unfortunately this shelf is also inhabited by a small reset button and while toying around with my toes while dumbly painting away I managed to turn the computer off before I managed to save any textures I'd done during the day

I blame whoever designed this thing!

and so, because I couldnt ass myself to spend another 2 hours on the same texture, here's another texture I did for the exterior of the scene. Again, handpainted from scratch.

closeup

the whole thing!

achillesian · Jan 2010

seems a bit busy to me, i would go a little simpler and then a bunch of grass tuft polygons also with hand painted goodness laying in different areas

roosterMAP · Jan 2010

Where can i find video tuts on how to paint textures? I mean like a "making of" video.

Micah · Jan 2010

roosterMAP wrote: »

Where can i find video tuts on how to paint textures? I mean like a "making of" video.

I don't know if this is off topic but i have some sites saved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnIz-2Xyh4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.polycount.net%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D41232%26page%3D108&feature=player_embedded thats from JFletcher

theres also this tut of making ice.
http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2838&start=40

also textureing Florpf by JFletcher. it has 5 parts.
youtube.com/watch?v=hY3vOLy_OM0&feature=related

and im sure there's more

Micah aka Spikes15

Michael Knubben · Jan 2010

Micah: I'd advise against taking any advice from that thread on Runic Games, especially how he shades with black and white. Instead, I'd advise you to set a palette of colours (really give this some thought) and paint using those. With the technique outlined in that thread you'll end up with a very bland texture, without any colour contrast to speak of. Jfletcher's videos already teach you much more from the very first second, by showing you how cool his coloured shadows look!

wasker · Jan 2010

achillesian: you're probably right mate. here's another one. I tried it keeping it less busy.

roosterMAP: you should check out the dominance war winners blog, he's got a couple of videos of him painting a girl. I think he's called slipgate central or something on the intrawebz.

Micah: yup, Jfletchers good!

MightyPea: I agree.

Dont mind the fence it's just a placeholder for scale.

uneditablepoly · Jan 2010

i like that pale stone texture, except it doesn't look like it would tile very well

wasker · Jan 2010

uneditable poly: thanks, here it is tiled for ya. there's a small seam that i havent got rid of yet but other than that I think it tiles ok.

uneditablepoly · Jan 2010

Ah, nice. I spoke too soon. That actually looks like it works pretty well. Good job on that one.

Steve Schulze · Jan 2010

Some of the stones leap out as being not very natural shapes, particularly the large one in the lower left. It's all kind of fit neatly together like a jigsaw which isn't terrible likely to happen in reality. Aside from that it looks like it'll work pretty well.

Rhinokey · Jan 2010

not bad rendering but the stone looks more like illcolored cracked mud, like from an old river bed

http://www.keithv.com/blog/photo/africa_scans2/cracked_mud_nimb.jpg

the grass texture i like, tho would be nicer to see it on some more interesting terrain with some lighting, the full bright hurts it

wasker · Jan 2010

uneditablepoly: thank you

Jackablade: yeah, you're right about that. I fixed it in this version I think.

Rhinokey: agreed, Rhino. I'm not very good at lighting my scenes in realtime though . I'll see if I can dig up some info on lighting on teh google.

here's the stone again (x4) with some moss. Tried to get some colours going.

JasonLavoie · Jan 2010

I thought moss grew around the edges of rocks (or through cracks) its a bit confusing cause right now there seems to be no "originating" point of the moss, and I know that may sound silly, but right now its a bit confusing without it...

Sirdelita · Jan 2010

I agree on adding a little more personality to it. I definitely love the look, except for the blue floor, feels very out of place.

wasker · Mar 2010

Jason, you're right as ever :> Gotta fix it up. thanks for the crit.
Sirdelita, thanks for the comment. I fixed the floor in this scene. Got some wierd pixelation going on at the tiles though.

LoTekK · Mar 2010

Ooh, that floor's coming along very nicely. The variation in detail level is what sells the painted look for me, and I think you could extend that touch to the bricks and wood planks. Right now both of the latter are quite even and lack variation (though the bricks /do/ look spiffy).

ZacD · Mar 2010

I didn't even realize that was the same scene, sooo much better. Everything actually fits together now.

MainManiac · Mar 2010

Would you mind briefly going over how you hand painted those wood and brick textures, or link me to a good tutorial? Those look really good.

roosterMAP · Mar 2010

those look sweet! remind me of WoW.

griffinax · Mar 2010

Floor loving, chyeah!

felipefrango · Mar 2010

Looks great, everything came together now. As said before, if you give the wood planks some variation in the same way you did with the floor I think it'll really stand out. Congratulations.

wasker · Mar 2010

Lotekk - Thanks for the crits, yeah the bricks and wood or atleast the wood could use another pass and I'll probably give them one when I find time.
I too appreciate the spiffy look of the bricks.

ZacD - I agree, I didnt change much in it texture and modelwise though besides the engine. Just removed one wall and extended the bricks some
more.. and tweaked the lights... thanks for the love

frell - Sure, I just slap some browns/oranges (or whatever colour you want) down, paint the fibres and then detail it up. As in my concepts I try to block everything out as early as I can. Paint with the largest brush possible for the stroke you are about to make, for example, if you are going to lay down a large flat colour then use a large brush and make a single stroke instead of making several small ones. Your paintings will be much cleaner that way. Think about the shapes you need to finish the painting/texture and start work your way down from the largest possible to the smallest (large>small). I might make a tutorial when I find the time. Glad you liked my stuff

roosterMAP - Thanks Roostah! They've got some rad textures in wow. can't wait to see what they cook up for the SC2 ingame cutscenes and their nextgen mmo!

griffinax - Thanks man!

felipefrango - Yeah I know, I'm thinking of how I'll make them pop. The floor alone brought up my scene from modest 3500 triangles to a whopping 5.2k. I'm afraid that if I break up the wood too much I'll land around 10k. And I want to keep it fairly low poly. Thanks for the crit, I'll look into the wood.

Here's a gui I made ;o also handpainted. I'm not sure if it fits superwell for a third person/first person view.

felipefrango · Mar 2010

Nice UI, I like it! The brick wall texture caught my eye though, as it overlays everything, even the sword. The whole thing is looking solit though, I really like the icons.

As the the wood I really don't know whayt you could do to improve it while using just a few polys. Maybe hanging some sort of prop on the wall, but that might differ from your intention entirely. You could try adding some detail to the texture, some wear and tear on the individual planks, something like this:

http://www.my-green-home-project.com/images/Old-plank-wall.jpg

Painting mah textures

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