50 Ornament Brush and 3D Models — VOL 13

Most alpha packs give you a picture of an ornament. Volume 13 gives you fifty of them as actual highpoly geometry as well, which is what changes how you can use them: geometry can be kitbashed, cut with booleans, lit and baked, and a height map can only be stamped.

What you get

• ✓50 ornament designs
• ✓Highpoly meshes in OBJ, MAX and Blender
• ✓Alphas at 4K, 4096 x 4096, 16 bit
• ✓SBSAR for Substance
• ✓ZBrush brush, PSD, PNG and TIF
• ✓JPEG previews of the full set

The bake is the workflow worth setting up once. Place a highpoly ornament over a flat low-poly plane, cage it, and bake normal, height, curvature and ambient occlusion in Painter, Marmoset or Designer. You now hold a decal that responds correctly to light from every angle, including the shading a stamped alpha can never produce, and it costs one texture sheet instead of tens of thousands of triangles. Do it for a handful of designs from this volume and you have a reusable trim sheet for a whole environment.

Kitbashing is the other route. The meshes come in unattached, so they can be cut apart, mirrored, arrayed along a curve and merged into a larger piece — a panel, a frame, a crest — and then baked as one. Blender and MAX users get native files; the OBJ covers Maya, Cinema 4D, ZBrush and everything else.

When you do want the flat route, the alphas are the same designs at 16 bit, which is what keeps a deep relief from stepping when it is used as displacement rather than as a normal.