Trey McCool

A material study of the Normandy from Mass Effect 2.

My goal here was to stay out of Photoshop and 3ds Max as much as possible. Its a bit heavier on the triangles than I’d like, but I don’t plan to use it for anything other than exercise. The two small rocks (seen at right) are from Unreal 3.

Here are the notes I took while creating:

• Sphere quick scuplt, cloned twice, moved around and booleaned from the parent (for making intersting edge loops and getting rid of the sphere’s poles)
• Paint over with existing rock texture in drag select paint mode
• Then,  New Texture from Polypaint and clone it as an alpha texture
• Mask from alpha and then begin playing with some deformations like size and inflate to bring out the color map details
• Decimate
• Paint UVmap seems, unwrap
• UV welding in Max
• Render-to-texture in Max
• Import to Unreal
• Time: 40 mins

This started with a herringbone brick mask I made in Photoshop.

Some one-day previz work done in Max.