Minor Project: Environment Modelling #12 - Further Asset Texturing

Minor Project: Environment Modelling #11 - Glass Vivarium Texturing

Texturing all glass panels around the room, as well as all the black plastic elements of the glass vivariums. 

Minor Project: Room Modelling #9 - Lighting & Texturing Advice

I also spoke to Alan regarding lighting and texturing my scene, specifically asking about the glass that will feature so heavily in the scene. Had a look at a few different types of lighting and which would be most useful in my setting, a sky dome being key with directional lights to create the needed shadows and possibly a few point-lights within vivariums just to ensure everything can be seen. I have a lot of notes about an array of questions I had re:texturing, including alpha channels and how to properly bring in and set up images to work that way, as my leaves within the vivariums are being created this way. I now feel a lot more confident going forward. Below are some screen grabs from explorations into a few things earlier. 

Maya Tutorial - Texturing and Shading 1 - Shading Networks: Sampler Info Nodes

1 - Double Sided Shader

Textured front of page

Textured back of page

2 - X-Ray Shader

 Translucency (X-Ray Lambert)

 Added Colour

 Adjusted Ramp

 Added Ambient Light

Added Glow to X Ray Lambert

3 - Rim Light Shader

Grey Model (first 4 renders I forgot to render through shot cam whoops) 

 Original

 Ramp plugged into incandescence on blinn

 Swapped ramp black and white

Ramp black set 0.5 

 Grey model colour set on ramp white

Softened Light

Colour Model

 Original

Coloured ramps plugged into incandescence, but not hair, shirt, jeans

Shirt, hair and jeans ramp colours plugged into blinn incandescences 

Shirt colour gain increased, lighting refined/smoothed