Green and Yellow Rusted Fire Hydrant

sketchfab

A year has passed since I created a fire hydrant for my school portfolio project. Since then, I've gained valuable insights into improving UV layout, grasping texel density, and utilizing cage files when baking details onto low-resolution models. I also learned more about optimizing geometry specifically for real-time rendering. Therefore, I decided to rework the hydrant, maintaining the same style, and created my first true "game-ready" asset with 3,406 triangles. It relies solely on one texture set and a 1k map, which I'm extremely pleased with, as that's an exceptionally lightweight texture call for Unreal or Unity. The models were crafted in Maya, while the textures were developed in Substance Painter, leveraging generators to streamline the process.