Texturing my
Environment | Part 7 - Small Rocks
Now that I am fairly happy with the
bridge I want to move onto texturing something that isn't a rope or wood,
therefore I chose to continue onto the small rocks that are situated in front
of the temple stairs. Of course, as usual, I have collected a small number of
reference images so that I have some recent material to refer to when texturing
my rocks.
From these reference images (as well as
my early project research) I can see that the smaller rocks are often quite
dark in colour with patches of light rock peeking through between moss and
other vegetation that grows on the rock such as lichen. I will make sure my
rock textures are quite dark and take special care where I put moss and lighter
patches of rock. The textures I used were as follows:
Using only one or 2 of these textures
created a really bland and boring rock. The rocks also didn’t feel inspired by
my environment research which defeats the object. So, using a large mixture of
all the above textures, I was able to edit together and paint myself my own
custom rock textures which had more personality and reflected the research
images and communicate what the environment is about (vegetation, overgrown,
abandonment, scavenge etc).
As you can see, I have taken care to
include details such as luscious emerald moss growing over the rocks, small
lichens that have formed over time due to environmental changes and weather
conditions as well as the changes in rock shape, tone, hue, pattern and colour.
I
still haven't set up any lights in my scene which is why the environment looks
dark and quite flat at the moment, these are just WIP’s!!
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