What makes dirt look real?

[Carm3D]

Image maps are always going to look better than procedurals.. But you could try using one procedural (esp. Dented) to be an alpha of another.

[blaqDeaph]

How close up must the dirt be? I suggest a few additive proceedural colours of brown-blackish color, and use the Bump to create some depth.

[gerardo]

Is dirt due to fingerprints, oxide, scratches, powder, fluffs, grease? much depends on what type of dirt you are trying to achieve and how so near is your camera shot.



Gerardo

[HowardM]

this dirt/mud is all procedural...not incredible, but shows that something decent is possible...using a few layers you can get decent cracks, rocks, etc...
http://www.3dink.com/image6.gif
(http://www.3dink.com/image6.gif)

[Eclyps19]

you never cease to amaze me howard. That's pretty much what I was goin for just with a lighter color. How did you get the rocks?

[Anti-Distinctlyminty]

If you're looking for a savanna type look, there is a also a tutorial out there somewhere that uses hypervoxels to create some shrubbery which looks pretty cool.

[slipster70]

Nice dirt, Howard!

Also interested in how you did the rocks?

How many layers is that?

(On a workflow question, do you prefer fprime or Viper for previews as you build the texture?)

Thanks,
slipster70

[HowardM]

cheers guys! :D

the dirt is made up from a few bump maps and color layers and the rocks are actually VEIN textures!.. Each layer is displaced using a Texture Displacement layer to break up the normal look of the procedurals....

TD is a very useful method to getting more random and customized procedurals! :p

ill have to look when i get home this weekend, but i think that surface is at least 10 layers in color and bump....I like to use Fprime as it gives a much better representation of what the final will look like...

[sllink]

cheers guys! :D

the dirt is made up from a few bump maps and color layers and the rocks are actually VEIN textures!.. Each layer is displaced using a Texture Displacement layer to break up the normal look of the procedurals....

TD is a very useful method to getting more random and customized procedurals! :p

ill have to look when i get home this weekend, but i think that surface is at least 10 layers in color and bump....I like to use Fprime as it gives a much better representation of what the final will look like...

Well thats clear as dirt. :twisted: Just kidding. I always wanted to know what the texture displacement layer was good for. I've never used it before sounds interesting. :)

[HowardM]

here ya go guys....feelin in that holiday spirit still, so enjoy :D

as with most things, one scale works, others wont, so you will have to play with the textures to get them to look right for your objects most likely...but at least you can see what I did and hopefully learn from it. :D

[HowardM]

just for the heck of it i started zooming in and out in fprime ... what a great tool...
some cool textures all from that one surface :D

sorry if im hijacking youre thread ;)



http://www.3dink.com/proceduralove.jpg

[Eclyps19]

If anyone hijacked my thread, I would hope it would be you =) Thanks for the zip my friend!

[HowardM]

youre welcome! lets see your results :D

[Eclyps19]

it's actually just a test scene i'm doing. It's a cartoony giraffe, cell shaded, with a few trees, and basic skytracer. i'm trying to figure out how to get good patches of grass.

[Eclyps19]

yeah it looks like crap and yes that's from dan alban's tutorial. but the ground sure does look cool!
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/646/giraffescene3kv.jpg

[HowardM]

cool! but too much grass covering up the rocks ;)

[PixelInfected]

when you do a dirty map is important to apply also like diffusion be cause dirty lower diffusion on surface.
i did a good work with grit3 baked and modified with photoshop. that help me to add dirty layer more stronger than original grit3 pass

grit3 is a free plugin you can find it on flay.com

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