Environment Art - Term 2 Project - Week 13 Blog

Texturing!

This week I worked very hard on all the textures I needed to do. Not being very confident with texturing I was able to get an understanding in how to do it after a long time of self-research. I first started off with creating the detail uvs in substance painter like the signs. This was fun to do as it was just like colouring in. I was able to experiment with the materials and colouring to see what suited best for the overall design and what I liked as well.

These are all the texturing I did for all of my pieces:

However, I did have problems with 2 pieces on my building. First one was my door. While in maya my door looked fine in substance painter there was this long streak that appeared along my door, and it was hard to paint around. This didn’t show up at all in unreal, and still I am confused in why it did this. The uvs are fine in maya but in substance they changed for some reason. I couldn’t figure out the reason for this as I tried to change different ways in doing my uv but nothing worked, but it didn’t affect the end result so it didn’t bother me too much.

My second issue was my big glass window on the balcony. In maya the uvs were fine and even in substance painter it was fine but sadly for the result a bit of texturing didn’t go through. I still have no idea what happened, and I was running out of time to get it fixed and I tried to, but nothing was working. It isn’t really that noticeable, but I know it might coast me some marks, but I honestly tried everything I could and couldn’t fix it in time.

For the brick texturing it was the easiest one to do as I made the brick texture in substance sampler and then just exported the textures into unreal and then made the material 'ball' and then dropped it onto the building.

I did this with all of my substance painter textures:

My theme for my colouring of my building I went with this Victorian design of black and matte dark blue/green. I thought it was fitting for my cafe and its different.

My overall final look:

Week 13 - Sunday 7th May 2023