January 20th 2024
A series of prop assets complementing the Bomb Squad character set, to be used as accessories and for kitbashing.
Some of the raw geometry and UVs of these assets is outsourced based on the provided concept sheets. Then UVs are furthered tweaked and texturing is done. Here the modeling of the keypad, yellow grenade, dynamite pack, claymore, modem and LCD unit were outsourced.
Detailing is conveyed through soft and hard edges on the raw "mediumpoly" geometry, and a round edge pass is baked to the normalmap. This gives a clean TF2 look without having to model a high poly source.
Further texture details are then added : dirt pass, vertical gradient, paint chips, leaks, graphics. Metalness and Roughness maps provide material separation.
WIP models with simple flat colors applied :
Round edge effect applied to hard edges, and baked to normalmap :
This shows the difference between the raw geometry (left), and the round edge effect applied and rendered in Cycles (right) :
Also shown here on the keycaps and grenade :
Baking it down is a one-click operation.
Diffuse textures :
Realitme preview in Blender Eevee :
AO pass baked in FAO gen :
