Stairs

  My stairs are finally textured. After holding them off for fear of being super time consuming it turns out they were. But not for the reasons i thought. I found i took most time trying to balance the colour pallet mainly because they touch the very black and white lower floor and extend to the more orange and yellow upper floor. This Created a problem because colouring it so it fits one part meant it looking off at the other end. I started with sandstone colours and quickly scrapped that as it looked far too orange on the floor, next i tried the dark wood but it brought the lighting down drastically. I finally settled for this cool white colour not unlike the base of the pillars. I felt i had to have some colour and essence of its surroundings so added the red carpet and wooden railings.
  When unwrapping these i found repetition was going to be a problem and looked into ways of fixing it. The addition of the carpet helped hide the stairs down the middle and the exposed side planes were over-layed on the bottom steps that would not be covered. I made 4-5 actual stair textures and over-layed various uvs from each step now no two are the same, and it used up hardly any uv space.

Here you can also see the que dividers at the front of the main desk. These are still being tweaked because the gold is far too strong.