3D Reflection 46 - Painting Walls and fixing tiling

I began texturing the walls, but I encountered an issue with the tiling. The way that I had packed my unwrap prevented me from doing unique designs as it repeated on the bottom half of the wall. However, with a quick adjustment in 3DsMax this was quickly fixed.

I used my hieroglyphs from the book of the dead, as well as my trim patterns to make walls for the L room. I wanted there to be a focus on ancient egyptian mummification process and burial rites.

I did one wall with an image of an embalmer taking part in the mummification process, and four walls of a scene from the Book of the Dead - the weighing of the heart ceremony, which is a crucial part of entering the afterlife. I wanted to depict pharaohs in this scene to emphasise that this is a royal tomb, rather than of common people. 

I used my base sandstone texture but I scaled it up after testing it in engine, making sure that the bricks were slightly smaller for a more realistic size.

These were my final storytelling walls in the tomb room. 

Having the engraved walls was a start but I wanted to add some type of paint. At first I tried doing solid fill paint, but I did not like how this looked when placed into the L room. It clashed with the detail in the rest of the room, so I tried a simpler version of the painted walls. I used strips of gold paint instead to highlight shapes and left the rest as engraved sandstone, which I thought looked more appealing.

Next, I needed to paint the panelled wall and the door wall. As these were being placed in the corridor and main room, I wanted the theme of these walls to fit with plant life. Therefore I created another lotus leaf pattern in photoshop and placed it onto the wall using alphas.

I made the central panels embossed with images of a pharaoh and Osiris, whom the pharaoh character likes to be associated with. I tried a gold frame around the panels but found that the reflectivity was too distracting. 

I changed the colour and roughness, and made it into matte white paint, which I liked a lot better.

The bottom half of the wall was a challenge as I did not know how much to paint. the first attempt at stripes covered the wall too much and looked out of place. I liked the second attempt better, but once again thought that the paint covered too much. therefore on my third attempt, I reduced the amount of stripes and increased the space between each one, using a combination of engraved stripes and painted stripes.

The door was similarly decorated to the panelled wall, apart from a different image I used of the god Ra for the engraved areas. I used the white paint for stripes this time as I did not want there to be too much colour around the door trim.

I also noticed that the view from the corridor room when looking up revealed the undressed edges of the building from outside. I decided that I could tidy this up efficiently using ceiling edges and wall dressings on the side

Painting the walls was challenging but I found that it pulled my project together a lot better.