Then take the high-poly mesh again and make the geometry evenly distributed.
I only do this to areas I want to sculpt on. My example has pretty long rectangle shaped faces on the corners, but for just sculpting damage this works fine.
For sculpting the damage I added a Multiresolution modifier and exclusively used the scrape (for the edges), crease (for sharp dents) and grab (for larg dents) brush. Those were the ones I was most comfortable with as someone not used to sculpting.
Thank you for sharing your workflow, yes this what I’m asking for. I’ll sculpt damage on the oil pan and other parts on my project, so every tips is very useful for me.
THX
I first planned to make a closely matching replica of one locomotive model, but for the one I chose it quickly turned out that there are almost no interior photos available.
So it will be a Frankenstein locomotive patched together from 2 different models
Unfortunately there was a lot of stuff going on recently that kept me from working on this project.
But today I was ably to finish most the texturing of the cabin. Tomorrow I will to the doors and then maybe start working on some assets for the cabin.
@strapazie I love what you’re showing in this thread! Keep them coming
Question: how much Substance Painter has changed your work? Do you feel it just sped up the work or it’s a tool at this point of your workflow you feel you can’t work without?
I guess I’m trying to figure out if it’s something that can really push the quality or if advanced texturing is doable in Blender anyway. Oh well, I’m also waiting to see what happens with Quixel…
Expand to see my answer, turned out a little longer :)
Actually I never used Blender for complex texturing tasks, fiddling with nodes and growing node trees was never a fun task for me. So I cant really answer if it sped up my workflow, becauseI had none before. Finding out how this all works together was one of the targets of this project.
In my first project with a little bit more complex texturing, I used Quixels NDO and DDO, which was painfully slow, and crashing all the time. This was the reason I moved to Substance Painter and I don’t regret it so far.
Can you do this kind of texturing in blender? Sure!
…BUT…
building the masks an setting everything up as you want it, is a matter of minutes in Painter. I dont want to imagine how long it would have taken me to learn how to set up the nodes to achieve the same result. Would be way too technical for me…
making changes afterwards in Painter is a Drag-Drop job most of the time, in blender you would probably have to rearrange a ton of nodes depending on the change.
if you don’t already have grunge masks, brush alphas, textures etc you will have to gather suitable ones for your project first, whereas Painter already had everything I needed for my project.
I think the quality of you complex texturing work can and will benefit from using a dedicated texturing software (wheter it is 3DCoat, Mari, DDO, Painter). Not So much because you cant achieve the same quality in Blender, but because you can just focus on the texturing part, no need for setting up anything. Not saying blender is bad, it is just not the way I have fun working, and this is what it is all about for me, since its a hobby
Just start a trial and test it yourself, I used this tutorial to learn the basics
And yes, I am also having Quixel on my radar, I actually wanted to wait for them to release their succesor of DDO, but it took them too long and so I decided to go for Painter in the meantime.
Thank you for your thorough reply @strapazie!
I love texturing, it’s part of what I find really appealing in your renders. I should probably look at Substance. I’ll wait a little more to see if Quixel will finally come up with something interesting.
I’m really liking this project. I’ve stolen some of the images of the console to use as inspiration for a few of my own curtent projects. Not nearly as good as this!
Very nice detail! I am taking copies of some of your images for inspiration and ideas. I have been working on a steam locomotive for a while and this will help me.
