spaceship heatshield tiles

For Robins escape pod and other DSEV spaceships I was tasked to create a set of textures. Our goal was go towards classic spaceshuttle materials, as seen on the Endeavour Spaceshuttle for example. The whole set consisted of these heat shield tiles & a flexible insulation fabric.

As heatshield tiles follow a very strict ruleset (text placement, number of dots, shapes etc.) I decided to work with static greyscale patterns for the tiles, texts & dots. The three main patterns offer a regular tiling pattern, a trim sheet and a circular pattern. The substance can still be fed with a procedural or user custom pattern, for maximum variety.

Art Direction : Pascal Eggert
Art Lead: Stefan Heinrich
Special Thanks to Allegorithmic for supporting us while switching to a substance focussed workflow.