Fleshing out the environment - Textures

The task of detailing and texturing the environment seems quite onerous...

Deep breath... one step at a time

Initially this was an exercise in UV layout, sourcing and preparing textures and creating Arnold shaders (with believable material properties).

Other considerations would soon surface:

• The use of tileable/ seamless textures for large areas
• The application of wear and dirt to support the environment's story
• Organisation of multiple textures images in the UV space 
• The use of advanced material properties and production of supporting maps - Bump, normal, transmission, emission and specular.

In this working example render, a few problems can be seen.

• The brick texture does not align across UV boundaries (i.e. at the quoins)
• Although dirt has been applied to the floor texture, it appears uniform without signs of wear through footfall and age.
• The lampshades do not display the transmissive attributes applied. This would prove to be a problem converting materials between Arnold versions.

In this later iteration, the material transmission problem has been fixed by replacing the legacy shader.