what you think of my texture

[crackhead]

hey what do you think of my texture. this is pretty much the first thing ive textured. naaier talked me through some techniques. also how would i make a specular map of this to make it look shiny ingame. what areas of it would need to be white and what areas black etc.

 

[armanguy]

needs work man but its pretty good for your first texture the render is prety bad stupid xsi so i dont know really lets see it ingame

 

[crackhead]

thats cuz its not a render lol

 

[archvilell]

Looks good crackhead. How did you do it?

 

[The_One_Free_Man]

now that is one dirty knife

 

[naaier]

crackhead, here is a link to a video tutorial about specular mapping in photoshop. its aimed at maya, but you'll get the idea
link: http://www.digitaltutors.com/digital_tutors/display_video_store.php?vid=585

 

[crackhead]

thanks guys. archvilell i basicly render clouds add noise blur. then evened it out a bit with dodge. then i may have added some effects to it but i cant really remember. then i went over it with the stamp tool from a picture of a dogbowl that naaier sent me lol.

 

[mindless_moder]

hey crack (whats your real name?) a good practise while texturing is do refrain from using ps filters. you should start out with a base layer of 50% grey and then keep defining details with dodge/burn . after you're satisfied with the shading then add texture with noise or overlays .

 

[crackhead]

thanks for the advice. my real names luke.

 

[cold_Fusion]

That looks pretty good for your first texture. My suggestion is to increase the brightness/contrast on the edge of the blade to give the appearance of sharpness. There's probably a better way to do it than that, I'm no texture artist... But whatever the method you use, the result should make it look much better.

 

[crackhead]

well its the bottom of the blade thats the sharp bit and from the angle the character will hold it you wont see it so i dont think it matters.

 

[Stormy]

Looks nice, only problem is its a little flat. I think all it needs is abit of defonition of the sharpe bit of the blade if you know what i mean.

http://latakia.dyndns.org/~ruhl/images/knife.jpeg

See, only decent pic i could find in 30 seconds. You can see the tone chance where the knife comes in around the sharpe bit of the blade that thats a pritty much universial symbol of a sharpe knife. You could probly get it in with abit of dodge and burn.