looks very nice :bounce:
The trash can must be darker.
looks at [http://www.electricwomen.com/hunterspoint/images/7-trash-can.jpg](http://www.electricwomen.com/hunterspoint/images/7-trash-can.jpg)[](http://www.electricwomen.com/hunterspoint/images/7-trash-can.jpg)
accidentaly, it’s also a crate around there 
Fanton was asking about texturing the models with a 512x512 map in cale_oglesby’s thread, so here’s the example I was talking about. It’s the texture sheet for the garbage can, burger and fly.
It’s still unfinished, but it’s coming along nicely. Now, I must be off.
how do they do the transparency then? and the glowing effect. since this is but a model with a skin.
i have something simmilar, except i’m working backwards. i am doing the unwrapping first, then i’l copy it into photoshop and do the painting there.
yours its pretty small though. i have so many elements.
I’ll tell you exactly what I did. This is from Lightwave (7, I really, really, really want to update soon. sigh), but there should be very similar stuff in Max.
For each part that I knew I wanted to have a specific texture for, I created a new surface. That is, I colored each part that I wanted to have a separate image for differently from the rest of the model. (see the early progress screens for examples) Each one of these surfaces I then selected individually and unwrapped onto the same UV map, one surface at a time. To make sure that I’d only need one image for each surface, I made sure that no polygons on the UV map were separate if they were on the same surface.
[img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/uvtut.jpg[/img]
Feel free to ask any questions you want regarding my method.
Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention this. You definitely want to do it so that you unwrap it and then paint it in Photoshop. In fact, I really don’t know of any other way. You’re not doing it backwards.
thanks swizzle stick. it took me two one day to figure it out, another two days to find the right way of unwrapping. i think i have it right. i only have about 5 pieces, before i had about 50. and i’m puttin the texture on. right now is afternoon, i think i will be done by tonight, just a demo. tomorrow will be there.
thanks very much for the small tutorial. nice. 
my questions: is there a way to export the unwrapped map directly to an image. i had to print screen. it worked, but its not professional. i’m using 3ds max 7 without foreign plugins. RAW 3ds max
hey swizzle stick this game has a cool concept… superb! i would definately buy it, when you are ready with it 
very fun idea, although for the homeless its no fun to be homeless…but thats another thing.
you garbage can looks a bit flat. how about some normals? btw. you could realize the ripples on the side of the can only by a normal map! this would save you plents of polys for the inside stuff.
hi once again, i couldnt hold my fingers to show you the advantages of a normal map!:
68 triangles:
here a wire:
you could even leave out one of the two middle segments for polyreducing.
here you can have a look at the texture. it was created in photoshop, your texture as source.
btw. i also used the diffuse texture for the specualrs in this case. because the diffuse tex is nearly all grey for the can.
here your texture:
and here the normal:
I’ve not really been concerned with normal mapping because I know what I can achieve with the texture and the bump map. I also don’t need to save a lot of triangles because everything is so simple. So what should I do? Should I investigate doing a normal map for the can just so that I can put more polygonal oomph towards the hamburger? I don’t even know if there’s something out there that will work with Lightwave 7.
So, what should I do?
you want to know what to do?
well…do what you want to!
if you are seeking for some confusion i can tell you is what i would do. 
go for less polys on the can and more normal map in every aspect…also on the burger…(perhaps the flesh in the burger itself could be out of normalmapping?! think of a x-axis tileable normal map which represents the burger profile)
putting some papersheets and junk in the very surrounding of the can.
model the booze and some half empty french fries “paperbox”(sorry dont know the word) as items to pick out the can. try to achieve some “deeper look” through the junk from above inside the can.
go away from the cartoonish look…
thats what i would do…
and try this link for a photoshop plugin to produce normal maps from (best greyscale) textures. this is always a good helper!
Well, I decided that I’m not going to do a normal map–mostly because I haven’t been able to get them to work! 
The normal map that sascha henrichs made was very useful as a bump map, though. I’m going to incorporate it into the final bump map since the color seems to make the bumps more pronounced (or maybe I’m just going crazy, whatever).
I’ve started to make the texture for the can really grimy and disgusting, perfect for a big-city back alley trash can. Supervlieg’s suggestion of searching for dirt on Google was great, so thank you.
I can’t upload any pictures right now, but I have some good ones and they’ll be up in a few hours.
Ah, I just love sharing a computer with other people. Makes timing posts just wonderful, even more wonderful if you get your browser window closed on you.
Anyways, here is the current texture and bump map applied to the good ol' can.
[img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/newestcan.jpg[/img][img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/newestcan2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/newestcan3.jpg[/img][img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/newestcan4.jpg[/img]
In that last picture you can see the seam of the texture. I’m going to take care of that momentarily. I’ll probably have pictures of the lid’s texture and bump up tomorrow, as well as the finished burger.
Another brother came up with yet another idea: some sort of greasy liquid oozing out of the bottom of the can. Thanks Ben! I’m going to put an alpha-mapped plane below the can for a shadow and the liquid is going to be part of it.
Bwahahahahaaaa! Hamburgerage! Bumpage! Specular… -age? Specularness? Specularism? Ah, screw it.
After taking the last week and basically throwing it away to real life (lunch with a friend, swimming, drawing, yeesh! What am I thinking?!), I finally decided to take one last crack at this can and get it completely done. Well, I failed. It’s only mostly done. Luckily, I’m used to getting up early so I’ll be finalizing everything early tomorrow morning.
Here we are with the finished burger, the finished can and lid, and the flies. We loveses the flieses. I was unable to do liquid spilling out of the bottom of the can since it would’ve looked terribly blurry, but the shadow is there on an alpha-mapped plane.
The texture and bump map need polish and the specular is kinda boring. That will be remedied tomorrow morning. Until then, goodnight!
hey it comes out pretty nice! and the flies are lovely.
perhaps you could do something on the contrast of your diffuse texture. but anyway.
thumbs up!
Say, I’ve been wondering about that. I’ve looked at it on a few different monitors and on some it’s really light and others it looks more “normal”. Think I should darken it?
Here’s a straight copy 'n paste from my entry:
Since this is so late it probably doesn’t qualify, but what the hell. I finished everything early yesterday, but “family issues” prevented me from posting mere moments before I was going to hit the ‘submit’ button. Here it is for posterity if nothing else.
[b]Game description:[/b]
This is a garbage can and its contents for a third-person game in which you play a homeless person trying to live in a big city. I haven’t really worked out what sort of genre that is.
[b]Concept Sketch:[/b]
[img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/concept.jpg[/img]
[b]Progress Screens:
[/b][Screen 1](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/cans.jpg), [Screen 2](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/garbageburger.jpg), [Screen 3](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/xkostolny/thecan.jpg).
[b]Final renders and texture sheets:[/b]
[img]http://www.cowlook.com/presentationlow1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.cowlook.com/presentationlow2.jpg[/img]
The diffuse texture has an included alpha. Note that the hamburger would only be visible if the can got knocked over or something.
And that's it. As I said before, I'm probably disqualified for being so late but it doesn't matter to me anymore.
Edit: Heh heh, exactly 1,337 views.
looks very good. you did a great job!
i see a lot of trash inside, very cool. i like it.
the meat in the hamburger looks kind of flat, and too shiny. the meat and the bread should not have had any reflections, only the sesame seeds. the meat should have almost NO specual map, and the bump map shuld be very bumpy, like meat is, not flat. the meat is not really shiny. only the juices are. you only see juices if you byte a pice. laying flat you won’t see so much shininess.
but it looks good though. and one can see you worked a lot on the trashcan so i enjoy it
try to add submit it.
I was trying to make the meat look nice and juicy like a good hamburger should be, but maybe I failed at that. I was also trying to get it to look like a patty of hamburger meat off a grill, but maybe I kinda screwed up the texture somehow. I dunno. If you look at the spec map you’ll notice that there are a bunch of dots; those are the sesame seeds. The bun has no specular highlights at all, though the bump map sometimes makes it look like it does.
Eh, it’s over and I’m never going back to this project again. I’m going to hide it deep on the hard drive and try not to think about it or the events that led to me submitting it late.
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