Week 3 Hard Surface Challenge

3DS Max render.

Rendered in Keyshot

Smooth and Unsmoothed Wireframes

I think this challenge will be something I plan to do for the foreseeable future!

Weekly Hard Surface Challenge

Rendered in 3ds Max 2012

Rendered in Keyshot 3.3

As part of the weekly challenge, stayed up with a few guys doing this challenge from Polycount and had a great time and some laughs. Onto the next challenge!

Doctor Who Shenanigans

Tweaked the graph network for the Dalek and brought the Tardis I created awhile ago into Substance for a small environment piece that smacked my imagination last night while working between the two. Thanks to the Tardis, I experimented with more aspects of the numerous material filters and have a better idea about baking height and normal maps within the program.

Dalek Study

Posting a shot of the progress with the Dalek texturing through Substance Designer. I'll have to go back into the model to fix the seams with the spheres, mostly going to rotate them to hide 'em, then rebake the maps. At this point much of the graph is set up but still need to work on a few areas and spend some time immersing with how to create some proper specular in the program.

Substance Designer Study

Rendered in UDK

Rendered in UDK

Rendered in UDK

Generated Textures from Substance

Graph Network for Railcar

After tutorials and experiments with Substance Designer I think I have some idea of how it works. Besides having to bake the normals within Max from a high poly, the AO, diffuse, spec, world normals, and other maps were generated via Substance designer. There was a point I was going to make the leather, rust, and wood graphs by hand but saw that Substance already had graphs that were available and saved me time and pain from doing.

In hindsight I would've done a few things differently but I am eager to move on to another WIP and use Substance for that puppy. This is only Substance 3.7.1 but the ease of consolidating the majority of the texturing process into one program makes using this program for future projects appealing.

Railroad Handcar

Rendered in Keyshot

Took a model from the Fleeting Memory environment and gave it the Keyshot treatment. This particular model will also be the first in a series of forays into Substance Designer; figured go small first to learn the program before applying it to a whole environment.

Fleeting Memory Mk2