Floors & Boards for HS2 (Patreon)

It has always been my quest to help you maximize the quality of your studio creations per unit of your time invested, so in keeping in line with that goal, I have a new gift for you today.

I have been discovering more about materials and UV maps. Here are some assets that I created along the way which may come in handy when setting up your custom scenes. Enclosed are 8 different flooring options and two types of walls with different variations.

Most of the best materials present in the studio are locked behind static maps which enclose the entire scene from all six sides, and I find that lighting these environments can be very tricky. I personally prefer the simplicity of using dioramas (a floor + two walls like an old sitcom set) as they are much easier to put together and light. The problem is, that most of the single wall and floor items available in the studio are really low resolution, so they make for poor renders. I still have a lot to learn, but hopefully these new assets will help you if you like making dioramas for your renders like me.

Here are two dioramas that I quickly threw together using the enclosed walls and floors. All other assets present are by other community creators and are not included:

 
You may notice that some of the floors have repeating patterns where there would naturally be none, such as on the marble floor, or in the one with the pebbles. This was due to the tradeoff between tiling the texture for maximum close-up detail.. or not tiling the texture for no repeating patterns, but also no fine details. I do not know how to get the best of both worlds without making the texture 4 or 8k which would be a ridiculous waste of your GPU resources. The good news is that in your actual renders the repeating patterns are not likely to show, as you will typically only see one corner of the floor or have most of it hidden behind DOF.

That issue aside, all of the materials should present nice details and hold up to close inspection because they all included their own normal and specular maps. To find the assets, simply search Freelancer604 in the item search. I hope you like!

Oh and thank you, Lurki, for spending hours to coach me on the basics of it all.