Maluch JBeam rebuild

Looks like it is a good candidate to a six speed manual swap, when released hehe

 

Gud

 

that looks pretty nice

 

Big brain

 

The texture of the carpet really is awful, would it be possible to take one from a beamng car and slap it in there ?

 

Attached is just the carpet, you need to probably resize it, also is PBR texture, just tell what sizes and colors you need, also if fabric pattern needs to be smaller or larger, it is only few minutes in Substance painter for me to do this and then you need to put other textures to top of these combine and setup in game.

Other solution could be to export as middle gray color which you could then color, but because gauges etc are in same file it is bit annoying, maybe separate carpet to be own map completely and it should be easy to do colorable then in game.

 

For proper recoloring, I think I need to change color of this to middle gray as now it is quite blackish.

Also being 2048x2048 it might be bit large, UV mapping might be messed up and resizing in Substance painter will make it just better resize.

That file really is just an preview, if you can point me to some images of original carpets of IRL vehicle, then I could try to match it much closer, but I'm really just beginning to learn substance painter so can't do all the cool things that it can do yet.

 

Thanks!

Carpets are well shown in two images or so, but it shows that there was two kind, one with kinda hair/fur and another without. I see what I can manage to accomplish, have no idea how to get that fur kind of effect yet, but it is interesting to learn new things so I try

 

Try with attached texture files, you should be able to make it colorable as attached ones are using gray color, also should be same size and place as original texture carpet so in theory should be smooth replacement, but needs just new carpet material to be set in blender for all body types.

Then say if it looks ok or bad

I could try to figure out making fur kind version, but it takes bit longer, also I'm not sure how swapping texture would work, wouldn't it need different body and material for that then?
Of course there are different bodies already, so maybe that type of carpet would go to one of those bodies.

 

I wonder if separate carpet could be edited a bit, I noticed two things that might improve way how texture looks in game.

First is sharp triangle, I changed left side to what I think might provide nicer look as there would be not so sharp angle:

On left side I changed how that edge between those two triangles selected on right side is set up, looking photos of the real car, I think carpet could be closer to what my edit on left is, but there might be better way to do it.


Related to that is sharp edge, arc where I did add another edge loop on left side to smoothen that transition as in game it looks bit sharp now compared to IRL photos.

Way Substance Painter works is that it uses UV map, but such changes would change UV map, so I might need to redo texture if you make changes to UV of carpet mesh. Also as for baking I use game model as I don't have higher poly model to bake with, change like I suggest changes a bit of baked maps, here I think it might be improved looks then.

Third point I noticed is that there is some stretch with UV map, in Blender there is possibility to minimize stretch of UV, but in practice that might require redoing UV map and whole texture of carpet, it is not huge amount of work though, but just something that is best to do when carpet mesh is final form.

Here is test I made without modifying mesh or UV map, you can notice how that sharp edge is kinda jumping up, also at wheel well and floor nearer to seats there is difference in texture pattern size because of UV map stretch I believe.


It becomes more noticeable when one sticks nose to the floor, but of course we are talking about free mod for the game so I'm not sure how much trouble it really is worth as this really is some less important area of details, during normal driving I doubt quite few are even noticing it:


However if carpet is going to be separate model, then I guess it might be easier to adjust such detail if that is needed.