Double O Seffers: Basement Tileable Texture

After getting a semi-final blockout for the old watermill I decided to start attacking the tileable textures in turn to start getting an idea of how everything looked together. The largest unbroken piece of the watermill is the basement so I thought I should start there.

I liked the look of the thin shale/sandstone brick in this reference so I decided to go for something like that.

First I looked at the shape and feel of the stone structure and did a quick paint over to get a bit of a feel for the construction and scale of it. After that I highlighted some of the items that break up the noise of the stone for future reference as I dig deeper into modeling later down the road. Also because I need to do more paint overs because they're fun and I'm a horrible 2D artist :)

First I built a tileable template in Maya, paying close attention to my resolution because I planned to sculpt in Zbrush for a normal map and then transfer map and build my diffuse and spec maps from that.

And then a tiling test

From there I imported into Zbrush and began sculpting...it was a lot more pieces than I thought :)

After a couple tedious hours I opted to export what I had and duplicate some stones to save time and get on to transferring maps and setting up my color selection map for PhotoShop