Weathering

[Klinger]

I got some new brushes for Photoshop a while back. And I knew that they would eventually come in quite handy for weathering locomotives. I've never really been good at making a locomotive look dirty and used, but I decided to give it a try tonight.

Here is a comparison of before and after. Its on a "test" locomotive (cloned) so the original skin was not destroyed. Its not too bad, I still think it look's a little weird, but for me its a big step

Before

After

Does anyone else have any suggestions for another attempt? Or way's to improve from here. This is something I would like to do to both locomotives I have been working on, as well as other engines I am building (like the SDP40F's)

 

[AJ_Fox]

I would say play around with the opacity of different colors on different layers using different brushes. Do some some research from real photos to see where they usually dirty up and rust naturally.

Cheers

AJ

 

[rbar_164]

yeah, its a bit too thick, but other than that, cool You should also do a bit of light-ish, tan-ish brown dust onh the boiler:wave:

 

[Klinger]

Ill give that a try. I didn't pay around with the opacity at all, it was just straight onto the smokebox and other parts

 

[ad602000]

before you play with opacity of layers try playing with the property of the layer e.g. instead of "normal" try overlay, hard light, soft light, lighten, darken etc when you find one you like or looks realistic then fiddle with opacity to fine tune it and dont stop at one layer of weathering try several layer using different effects, layer properties, opacity and combinations, as dirt never confines itself to being one type or uniform. In the end, it will boil down to what looks real to you

cheers
pete

 

[RooRocz]

Rust overlays are good.. in fact, try this tutorial from GameArtists.net:

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/42-tutorial-hard-surface-texture-painting.html

It's very applicable to Trainz, though it does help to model in a program that does a bit of renderbaking. (i.e. anything that's not gmax...)