Visual Development: Lesson 3

Visual Development (VSD)

Lesson 3: Shader Project

Give it Texture

Make it Pretty

Still the same scene from the last project, now we're

just trying to make things look a little more real. Continuing

with layered textures and other new techniques in the

hypershade. We needed to take the object(Scraper or Gear)

and give it texture, not just the image we placed on it before

but an actual texture you might be able to feel. Rustic, used,

while still keeping some parts clean and shiny.

Once more we needed the box, but again we needed to give

what we added to it texture. The sticker needed to be shiny and reflective

while the stains needed to have a fitting texture, whether it was

meant to be paint, oil, dirt, etc we had to correctly texture it

with what we chose.

The final part of the project was just evil. Not sure if

it was because we were working with glass or that we 

needed to make clear glass but then find a way to cover it with dusty 

fingerprints all while giving it a shiny label. Took many layer textures

all with alphas and bumps and proper colors. It took a couple

tries to finally get it all to work, but I'm rather pleased with the result.

After the bottle we had to make a liquid based off of our own choice

of soda. I picked Baja Blast, one of the few mountain dew flavors I

can enjoy, mostly I like the color of it. It wasn't hard to get the

liquid to work right, then again our teacher was great at explaining

what we needed to do and what to look out for. It's hard to see but there

are bubbles added into the liquid to give it the appearance of

carbonation.

Over all I was most proud of how this project turned out, other than the

massive render times when it came to the bottle, I think I did rather 

well in creating my items and their textures.