My latest project, Tejas multirole aircraft and my first one where i did uv unwraping ,so far my models were either texture less or textured as box projection ,well i need a quite realistic material for the body of aircraft so any suggestion will be appreciated , i want to render it as real as possible , and this gallary above is should have it.
render so far
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Your modeling looks very good, abhimanyu! I don’t have a lot of experience with texturing, but you could try a “smart UV unwrap” to quickly prepare the model for texturing. If you want a fairly clean looking texture, you could use some basic layers in a program such as Photoshop or Gimp to create a texture image. If you want a dirter, grungier look to the plane, texture painting may be the way to go instead; it takes more time, but the results are more believable (instead of just using a single grunge/dirt image for the whole texture).
There is also the option of creating a “dirt map” for the model instead: http://mango.blender.org/artwork/shading-tests-dirtmaps/
I hope these ideas may help you. You’ve made very good progress so far!
Cool.
Thanks James,
Hi, nice start here ! I agree with James, but I do the whole textures in PS (or Gimp if you prefer). Maybe texture painting could also achieve the job, it is just a personal workflow. Keep it up !
I forgot that “Texture Painting” is also a tool in Blender. What I meant was painting the textures by hand, such as this- http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=373024
Similar names, but different workflows. I have not even used texture painting in Blender yet, as I feel more comfortable with the brush control in Photoshop.
Good model! Maybe this book will help you? (I think that looking on the pictures from the free version you will got the the general workflow. It describes a WW II fighter, but the methods are the same)
Looks really good! Are you using normal maps at all? Impressive.
i think , this is as far i will go in texturing , and it seems that this jet is ready to fly so my next renders will be final and will be under the sky
finished work is here
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?324339
please comment for my work
