Work In Progress - The helmet gets more love (Patreon)

Hey there Habsburgs and Bourbons :)

As I announced yesterday, there is another simple project on the way alongside the Tudor Gown. I really got inspired by this decorative helmet (originally by artist Jon Harris).

I really liked the form of these concentric openwork panels. I also browsed some nice historical examples of armor decorations circa 1500-1600. I picked these picturing dragons and other creatures (which you can see in the base diffuse texture image) I also decided to do some openwork out of them. Therefore, I had to create a new alpha channel (opacity texture) and I'm doing this by hand ;)

You can see some first results in the images attached. The new opacity drawing also affects height and creates an illusion that the openwork actually has got some thickness. Additionally there is also some bump taken from the original texture to make it more rough.

That should do the trick.

Well now back to clicking. Hope to make some further ingame tests soon :)

K.