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Texturing tips and night textures?

OskarGustavsson

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Hello!

I've just started a thread in the Showroom-forum with my project ESGL.
It goes quite well so far, but I have some questions!

1. Any good tips on how to make nice dirt on walls etc? See pictre:
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This is my model:
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It's not that important as no one will see this side of the hangar, but still.

2. Create good night textures using spotligts in Blender?
Is this possible and if it is, how complicated is it? I mean, I could do it i PS, but it would be nice if it was made in Blender. Then the light would be more realistic and line up well over edges and so on.

Thank you! :)
 
I'm gonna let someone else take a shot at the first question, since I pressume some people might have better techniques for that in PS or Gimp then I have and I'm also quite interested in knowing that. For the light however the following!

tut_1.png


I use cycles Render mode for this... just a habbit I have.
So I've got the wall unwrapped on a texture I called "untitled" (how inspired) and I've added two spotlights.

tut_2.png


For cycles render we need to make sure we've a an image texture node, doesn't need to be connected but still... (just go to the node editor, pres Shift + A and search for image texture. Within the appearing window you set "untitled")

tut_3.png


And then I bake shadow. I save the result and get back to Blender Render mode.

tut_4.png


There I set the resulting bake as a second texture with color disabled and emiting enable (this makes it an emision texture).
Now let's see the result.

tut_5.png


Day time..

tut_6.png


night time...

Hope this helps you! Sorry for the gainy textures, I baked it quickly so I've set my samples to a low amount. If you were to follow this you want to set your samples up, which avoids grainy textures ;)

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