Model Texture

[afagundes 70]

Hello guys,

This is me again

I was looking at some community work to understand better how to create good textures for my lots ... then I saw the lot below and wondered how and which technique was used to create that roof texture. The roof texture really looks like the real one. I wonder if a picture of the real roof was used somehow to create the model texture. Can anyone tell?

 

 

[Jasoncw 11,840]

To make that roof I first modeled the building. Then I took a screenshot of the roof from the top viewport, and I pasted that screenshot into photoshop. Then I cropped the screenshot to the outer bounds of the roof, so that I had a roof texture of the correct size for the roof, plus all of the roof junk and stuff shown in wireframe. I have a tutorial about this in my thread. It's the same as my normal techniques except instead I have an aerial of the roof in addition to everything else.

And then, yeah, I took a screenshot of the real life roof in google maps.  After that I edited the texture in Photoshop to remove parts from the real building. For example the real roof junk, shadows cast by other things, and anything else that was not pure roof texture. After that I made a few more changes, because if I recall correctly, the patterns as-is looked weird so I changed it. I don't remember the specifics about that. I think it also had to do with the fact that my version was longer in one direction in order to fit the lot better, so the exact roof wouldn't have fit anyway. And then I changed the hue and brightness and stuff like that because the tan color looked kind of weird. I remember that was the hardest thing about the roof. 

The signage is all from google maps street view, except for some of the logos which were taken from the company's websites.

Here's the final version:  

 

220 West Congress and Anchor Bar are also from screenshots except those were much more heavily photoshopped. If the roof is really obscured then it takes a lot of work to make a clear version of it, but I think if you can it's a good way of doing roofs.

 

 

[afagundes 70]

Awesome Jasoncw. Thanks for the information!

Can you provide the URL for your tutorial?

[Jasoncw 11,840]

To be honest I have no idea where it is, and come to think of it I don't know if the links to the images even work. :| 

But here's one that does work.