X-TAON: The Art Car Texturing Contest

[Vincent Gault]

Step into a car designer’s shoes and show us your texturing skills in this contest by using Substance Painter to create your very own version of the X-TAON show car. You’re in the driving seat now!

The contest runs until Tuesday, December 18.

The contest blog post: https://www.allegorithmic.com/blog/x-taon-art-car-texturing-contest

New to Substance Painter? Or want to brush up your skills? We prepared a tutorial right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTdOPQ8-sg0

[maximedotremont]

I'm a little bit confused.

Do you have to choose a famous artist and texture the car with his art? For example, I choose Picasso and I make a Picasso car?

Or do I just make a cool design with my own ideas, my own art ?

[gary_12]

Based on the fact they provided a Pinterest link  for inspiration which isn't art cars depicting famous artwork, I'd say it's a case of you doing your own art.

[Jeremie Noguer]

Yes, the goal is for you to create your own art car, you can of course draw inspiration from famous artists if you want though.

[tomaw]

Is it ok to bake new mesh maps?

[Jeremie Noguer]

You can bake new mesh maps to fix some issues if you find any but not use a custom high poly mesh.

[JanHosenfelder]

What about rule #4? Does that mean we cant use the Substance logo?

[Jeremie Noguer]

The Substance logo and logos from the sponsors are allowed.

[maged.eg]

the mesh is very laid out in substance, uvs and etc are very efficient to let us constraint on make art

[korhonen.gposti]

Probably related to maged.eg's post: How can I paint across two texture sets? e.g. If I would want a long stroke of paint from the hood to the back.

It's been a while since I used substance software and I'm hoping someone could help here or link a good tutorial for that.

[Jeremie Noguer]

You cannot, you'll need to do it in 2 steps. Try to keep the camera steady, project/paint one part on one texture set, switch texture set then project the rest.

[korhonen.gposti]

You cannot, you'll need to do it in 2 steps. Try to keep the camera steady, project/paint one part on one texture set, switch texture set then project the rest.

That's what I thought. Thanks for replying!

[Ohfive30]

Probably related to maged.eg's post: How can I paint across two texture sets? e.g. If I would want a long stroke of paint from the hood to the back.

It's been a while since I used substance software and I'm hoping someone could help here or link a good tutorial for that.

according to the rules we're allowed to adjust the UV maps, if you change it to something like this . . .


you can fit the UVs of Body A and B on to a single material at a scale of 75%
you'll lose some quality, but at least be it will enable you paint & project across the whole body. It depends on if you're willing to make the trade off in texture resolution. screenshot of the difference between the 2 below.

Original UVs at 4k . .


UVs at a scale of 75% (so 3k i guess . .  is there was such a thing)

[maged.eg]

Probably related to maged.eg's post: How can I paint across two texture sets? e.g. If I would want a long stroke of paint from the hood to the back.

It's been a while since I used substance software and I'm hoping someone could help here or link a good tutorial for that.

maybe it can be if its a procedural paint with fill or generators you can link one material with other texturset
if hand painting i think the other technique is pretty fine (Y)

[maged.eg]

so custom stencil / stamps are allowed ?
like flora or maybe alpha for art i did in Photoshop ??