Texture Art

[eezstreet]

hi,

 

I'd like to get a bit better at the artistic elements of my development skill tree. Here's an example of a texture upsizing project. It's a texture of a revolver that will have quadrupled texture size and better overall texture quality.

https://jkhub.org/images/Wh6gWCV.png

If someone could give me some pointers (@@DT85 perhaps?) that would be of some assistance.

[DT.]

@@AshuraDX & @@Psyk0Sith would be best suited for this, I'm not as strong in textures as I'd like to be.

[AshuraDX]

what exactly would you like to know ?

I never really had to upscale textures perhaps I can help you though

[Vulcan]

When I create textures I always start out 4x bigger than I need to.
I create everything then, try to generally detail things, and then downgrade it.
Even though details will blur a bit, it will ironically work better for the eyes.
So that's a tip I can give you

[eezstreet]

Does my texture look good, first off? It's a model of a revolver, and that particular piece is the side of the barrel. Does it look better than the original textures?

[Psyk0Sith]

Is this purely hand textured or you have access to baking high poly AO or at the very least low poly AO?

 

In response to your above question: it looks blurry. Show the map displayed on the model too.

[eezstreet]

Hand textured. I have no access to AO maps as the model is from ~2004. Just to be clear- the portion I textured is the yellow-gold part. This was originally a 512x512 texture that I upscaled to 2048x2048. I've already applied one Unsharp Mask to the texture, but I can apply more.

I hand-textured by using a gradient, followed by dodge and burn with soft brushes to increase contrast a little bit. I then applied low levels of burn with smoke and grunge brushes to give a bit of dirt. I then applied higher levels of dodging with a grunge brush set to make it appear as though the gun was improperly cleaned.

 

This is a gold skin of a Colt Python. I will also do a silver skin. This model is considered a "suspect weapon" for a mod project. There will also be SWAT weapons, including an UMP 45 which will appear cleaner. There's a specular shader applied to the barrel, but not the other silver bits. I will post a picture of the original gun and skin once I get home. I have no idea how to proceed with the grip, which is a matte black, wooden or ivory grip, depending on which skin.