Rocket & Rocket Launcher skins

[Galaxy_Stranger]

Anyone interested in making decent skins for my models? I think the rocket is o.k. but could be really improved by someone that knew what they were doing.

[imgur]https://i.imgur.com/D1Lm2hQ[/imgur]

[HAL9000]

Unwrap it, bake Normal and AO, and load it up in Substance Painter.
You can texture it there with ease.

Also....fix those smoothing groups first before doing anything else

[Galaxy_Stranger]

Starting with the rocket. I un-smoothed the appropriate areas, but I'm having trouble exporting an .obj from Blender. Or, at least, Substance Painter isn't loading it correctly.

[HAL9000]

Starting with the rocket. I un-smoothed the appropriate areas, but I'm having trouble exporting an .obj from Blender. Or, at least, Substance Painter isn't loading it correctly.

Did you unwrap it first?
You need to have correct UV map before editing textures in SP

[Galaxy_Stranger]

Yeah, that was the first thing I made sure of - and I had to do it to get what I currently have. So I unwrapped it again and exported to .obj - and it's just not bringing it in specifically because of no uv coordinates.

[HAL9000]

Yeah, that was the first thing I made sure of - and I had to do it to get what I currently have. So I unwrapped it again and exported to .obj - and it's just not bringing it in specifically because of no uv coordinates.

Send me rocket and launcher model files on pm , I can check it out

[Galaxy_Stranger]

Well, it's better and I think it actually goes in-line with the existing classic doom style, but it would be great if I could improve the skin more.

[Galaxy_Stranger]

Ok - MUCH better.

[Pixel Eater]

Nice paint chippage. You couldn't even see the dents before

[Galaxy_Stranger]

Thanks. Yeah, the dents were added with a normal map later. Now I've reduced the skin size to 512x512. I can't tell an appreciative difference.

At 256x256, it starts to get pixely, but I'm not sure if it's bad. I certainly wouldn't go smaller:

[Pixel Eater]

The 512 looks great. Even the 256 is good enough it has an endearing quality

[Galaxy_Stranger]

Yeah, I agree. 256 kind of brings it in-line with the overall aesthetic of the classic game. Plus, you're not going to see a ton of awesome detail with those things whizzing by you.

[Galaxy_Stranger]

I'm redoing the rocket launcher from scratch. Before, it was a single mesh. Now, I've got 3 or 4 meshes I'm joining to create the final model. I assign the materials to the faces of each mesh, then join the meshes and then bake everything. This seems to work, but when I export to .md3 and run the game, the UV Map doesn't seem to match the model.

Is there something specific I need to do?

rocket_launcher_render.jpg

-=[EDIT]=-
OK - figured it out. One of my materials nodes wasn't referencing the uv map properly.