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Another flower in development...
Faking "fuzziness" with R2 on the leaves. Very hard to find decent photos to map onto flowers.

Hatts I must say it is looking fantastic! The leaves look spot on.

Petals look great! Green leafs are lacking something......maybe too rough reflections and not enough bump.

Looks very good!

Wow very nice!

Very hard to find decent photos to map onto flowers.

How do you photograph a petal like that anyway..?

EDIT: duplicate post woops

@Tok_Tok I can't speak for "how to properly photograph a flower" but I am getting a better idea of how to deal with the photo once you've got one.

Here's a petunia made with a much better texture



Critical steps:
1. Have a large, crisp color photo
2. Generate a well-balanced black & white depth map from it
3. Generate a normal map from the depth map
4. Remove all baked-in shadows from the color photo using dodge/burn, this is new color map

Before - with baked-in shadows.



After (right) - with flattened shading

It certainly is getting better! Getting a more perfect flower.

Although I have to say that on a close-up like this I'm missing the thickness of the pedals a bit, their just too flat.

Edit: Or maybe it isn't the thickness but the curls at the end of the pedals..

looking great, Matthew.

all I can say is don't worry about the technical application of what makes it look good...... just make it look good