Creating Rocks

Today I am going to be using Mudbox to create a rock, because my landscape is at such an early stage I am not yet sure whether or not I will be using this rock in my level however if it goes with the theme of my landscape it will incorporate it into it.  I started off by creating a simple cube in Maya which I then simply exported it over to Mudbox, from there I was able to make a rock out of the various tools that Mudbox offers.  Mudbox has a lot of useful sculpting tools that can be used to sculpt a rock however it also offers tools that allow you to make it look more like a rock, for example I was able to paint on a texture that made it look like a rock, I also used the knife tool, this allowed me to create dints or cracks on my rock.  Here you see the finished product, I am quite happy with how this rock turned out simply because I think it resembles an actual rock.  If I decide that it fits in with whatever landscape I create I will make a variety of rocks in different shapes and sizes with I would implement into my map.

Update:
Now that I have decided to create an deserted Island landscape I am going to create some more rock variations, I basically just repeated the same process as I did for when I created the first rock and then exported them into Maya.  Now that my rocks are in Maya I am going to give them colour by assigning Lambert materials to them.  I am going to assign a burnt orange coloured texture to them.

Here you can see my outcome, I am not at all happy with this outcome, I was trying to create rock that would fit into a tropical environment by avoiding grey, dull colours which is why I chose the burnt orange colour for my rock.  However this looks more like a rock from Mars to me rather than a tropical rock.

I have decided to revisit my rocks and apply a new texture to them, this time I have gone for a colour which is still bright however it is also a lot more subtle.  I am using harvest orange this time.

Here you can see the result, I am extremely pleased with this outcome, where as the last colour made the rock look to bold and not fit into a tropical environment this colour has done the complete opposite.  It is not to bold and it I think that it would look great in a tropical environment.  I am now going to apply this colour to all of my rocks.

Here you can see my completed variation of rocks:

I am very pleased with this outcome, I wish I had the time to create some more however as I still need to create other assets I have decided to have 6 rocks and if I have time later in the unit I will come back and create more.