Finally found some time, been toying with photo/textures and some metal like look, and thank God, I found a fitting normal map setting I think. Found an okay texture which I have on overlay, paired with the _n it looks pretty solid. Ty for the help. <3
I'm actually pretty pleased with the outcome, the game doesn't do it as high res as I wanted it to be, but it's okay. I'll def post a screenshot update today, just want to finish some dirty errors I've spotted first.
Though, I gotta say, somethings still strange with the right brightness of the texture ingame, it's definitely darker, even with extremely bright normal maps and whatever. I wish I could see it with different colors in game, gotta check if NOVA has the resources to craft one.
Edit:
Alright, update time!
This time I said, screw the original texture, I'll just do it the way I like. I reshaded some parts, especially the big middle plate at the back of the head, the front mouth guard, and the cheek guard just as an example. As I mentioned above, also found a somewhat suitable photo texture of scratched metal, and to correct what I said earlier, it's soft light, not overlay, so it isn't so extreme. One thing that's bugging me out, I can't seem to remove that stupid shadow on the upper middle part, it's there for the antenna on the other side, but it does little on that side and only ruins the other, but I'll keep looking.
There is still some stuff that obviously needs work, but the main stuff is done now I think, just some line corrections, plus the cord thing and antenna. Also the cheek area is kinda bothering me still atm, I'll probably refine it a lot more, so it looks like the ear, in terms of fineness. Another thing that I'll try to make way better is the visor.
Original, my last update, this update:
DDS
If I went in the wrong direction with it, please let me know, otherwise I'll do the rest of the armor the same.
P.S. The frontal view shading is kinda weird on the mouth/nose, the top won't highlight right in game, I don't know why, yet.
Edit: Just noticed I forgot a highlight/scratched edge on the side of the nose/mouth guard.
Edit 2: Got another little update soon, I'll try to get it done tonight (Friday). Need feedback on something too then.