Bed

Bed frame and mattress

Now that all the structural pieces have been made it was time to move back to making assets to fill up the room. As I was aiming to make the larger assets first I decided to start work on the bed frame and mattress that will go in the corner of the room. To start with I gathered a bunch of examples as reference so I could decide on a design. This piece will be an x2048 UV scale and I will aim for it to be no more than 2000 Tris although this can change depending on the design.

Process

Once I had an idea of a design and dimensions I started work modelling in Maya. To be efficient as possible I made the bed frame using lots of procedural parts. By doing this I can get the most out of the UV space as by duplicating the separate parts they will be using up less space. For the bed I made 10 separate pieces, then baked them out in xNormal.

For this piece I wanted to go for an old painted metal frame with chipped paint and rust. By using Substance painter and a combination of different techniques such as generators and free hand painting.

The next thing to do was create the mattress to sit on top of the frame. For this I created the pattern for the buttons in Maya and then took it into zBrush to make it less uniform in shape by making it more wavy and old. I then baked this out and took it into Substance painter to texture, by adding stains and dirt it was easy to add some age.