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Last night I also reworked the base color on my Dakria for practice, feel like it came out a little more realistic. I was originally using a heavily modified image texture as the base ‘color’ which required a lot of messy node work and slowed down my rendering unnecessarily, so I switched to using a bunch of layer masks to build up several different colors and make a sort of chipped look. I was also originally using a procedural noise as my bump/reflectivity which looked a bit odd to say the least. Swapped that to an image texture which matches up with the wear. Honestly looked a lot better in Eve but muh transparency. The last thing I tried to improve on the model is the edges; I realized my edges are a tad bit sharp on some parts, so I tried using a bevel modifier which wouldn’t work properly on anything outside of the tracks. I’ll try to keep compatibility in mind moving forwards. Probably redo the field shot with this guy too.

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Last night I also reworked the base color on my Dakria for practice, feel like it came out a little more realistic. I was originally using a heavily modified image texture as the base ‘color’ which required a lot of messy node work and slowed down my rendering unnecessarily, so I switched to using a bunch of layer masks to build up several different colors and make a sort of chipped look. I was also originally using a procedural noise as my bump/reflectivity which looked a bit odd to say the least. Swapped that to an image texture which matches up with the wear. Honestly looked a lot better in Eve but muh transparency. The last thing I tried to improve on the model is the edges; I realized my edges are a tad bit sharp on some parts, so I tried using a bevel modifier which wouldn’t work properly on anything outside of the tracks. I’ll try to keep compatibility in mind moving forwards. Probably redo the field shot with this guy too.