Vehicle Texturing/Shading with Blender

[William Miller]

@baukepost No, it just looks like you did.  You should project your own logo on to it.

[Kaj Suominen]

@baukepost looking good. have you seen this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk_YRkDsJrQ a very good tutorial of making good material.

are you going for high poly renders and not game asset?

[Bauke Post]

@louhikarme I’m just going for some renders, this polycount (currently at 430k while texturing) would be a bit high for games :). That’s indeed a great tutorial, I used it while creating my metal material.

[Kaj Suominen]

@baukepost cool. yeah, for game that would propably be around 20k-30k depending on how close go in game.

[Bauke Post]

WIP day 3

I wasn’t satisfied with the green stripes and their color, so I played a little bit with the color scheme. I also made some tweaks to the model, so that also took a while to get back into Painter (even with the help of the Substance course here on CGC).

And a quick render test from earlier today:

[Kent Trammell]

@baukepost AHHH YEAH!!! This is looking greaaaaat already. Thanks for starting this thread too!

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@baukepost Looking great so far !One comment, it’s also personal taste so feel free to discard it: I’m having tiny “concern” with the yellow stripe on the engine intake area. It’s probably my OCD striking but it doesn’t seem to fit in with the other stripes, by its angle to start with and also its purpose. Maybe if it was a clear separated part (with a gap) it could help, but here it feels like it was just randomly painted.

So to fix this either add a gap or later with decals indicate that this part is yellow for a reason. 🙂

Regardless, your work is awesome !

[Bauke Post]

@tbrbn Thanks, you’re probably right. I think I’ll either remove it or add a seperating line in the height map.

[Thibaut Bourbon]

Let’s contribute to this thread! I’m working on liveries idea for the cabin, here’s the first one:

And some correction planned with the grease pencil:

(the texture is lowres for the moment to save time).

[Thibaut Bourbon]

Looking much better now, with a subtle vintage touch thanks to the decal on the doors 🙂

I don’t have a lot of idea on the front grill and bumper (especially the MACK logo), should I leave it as is, i.e only aluminium or do you think otherwise ? Any suggestion is welcome 🙂

[Bauke Post]

@tbrbn This is already looking so cool :o! The white area behind the letters looks a bit too much like standard diffuse imo, I looked up some real MACK trucks and from what I’ve seen the logos look different. You could consider making it black and glossy, like this one.

[Kent Trammell]

@tbrbn love it. love it. LOVE IT.

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@baukepost Thank you! 

My original idea was to combine the most recent Mack trucks (the “Granite” model actually) with some older version to get this vintage truck. I think the current grid model and the brand font, as you show on your post, is too much modern. The old ones look like this:
It’s fun that they changed the design from broad vertical frames to horizontal ones. I choose to keep the horizontal bars more visible as the current models, but more dense as in the old one. That’s for the grid.

For the logo you are completely right, I will use a dark background with metallic letters and change the font to a bolder one. Thanks for the feedback!

[Aaron Rudderham]

HHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG THAT’ S SOOOOO GOOD

With that… episode out of the way, how long have you been using Substance? ‘Cause materials and textures are by far my weakest area and I feel that piece of software will push me to the level I want to be at. Both the question and the freak out compliment go to @tbrbn  too haha.

Edit: What on earth is up with that @?

[Thibaut Bourbon]

(something’s indeed strange with the @, I’ll put the blame on the site update)

@thecabbagedetective Thanks for the compliment ! I personally don’t use Substance at all (yet?) since I’m not in a hurry with that project and I wanted to at least have a better grasp on the texturing side of Blender.  I mostly use the tips and tricks provided on the sci-fi helmet shading course, it covers a lot of the possibilities and I’m happy with it 🙂

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