[CE3] Medical Facility [nDo2 single texture fun-ness]

A-N-P

Yo!

After seeing a few of the single texture environments being thrown around lately (especially Snefer's), I decided to have a bash at it myself.

I am using just a normal and AO which is generated in nDo2 ONLY!

I'm a nice chunk into the environment now so it's time to start a thread and spread the lurvv.

Couple of WIP shots below. Texture is of course still very WIP! The beauty of nDo2 is that I can add new elements to the texture in a matter of minutes.












Thanks for looking, thoughts/ideas are welcome! Just a bit of fun is all!

Daft.Eng

I'm a sucker for this style environment, so I'll be keeping a close eye on this. Keep up the good work, oh and by the way, I'm really digging the shapes of the curvy hallway.

JamieRIOT

It's looking sexy man!

A-N-P

Quick update.



Blocked in the other side of the room and started work on the other corridors.

To Do:
- Main 'reception' desk for the middle of the room.
- Make a decal map
- Props (benches, monitors, information boards etc)
- Continue to add more detail to my texture with nDo2.

LaurenceGEE

Looking clean dude.

KennyTies

This is really awesome! I as well have recently been inspired to create a clean modular environment. Keep up the awesome work!

leleuxart

This is looking nice. It's a good start. Could you post your texture sheet even though its a WIP? I'm curious as to how people start these one texture scenes.

A-N-P

@leleuxart: Sure, here's my current normal WIP... (downsized by 50%, of course)



Another quick update.

Added corridors to all other doorways and been playing around with adding decals.

[HP]

A-N-P

Super quick lighting WIP. Thought I'd throw something together so I have something to go back to and tweak at the end...



More progress shots soon!

Ged

ooOO looks interesting now with the lighting but where is the light coming from? will you have emissive panels on the cieling or something?

Brygelsmack

The only thing I don't like about this is how the Restricted Area text goes through the lines of the wall. The rest looks coooooool.

cptSwing

I'd do even rounder corners etc.. exaggerate the curved style. Very nice

JamesWild

I believe Cryengine uses a deferred renderer right? Never worked with it but you could probably use the normal buffer to skew the decal over the seam if you have that level of access.

A-N-P

@Ged: Thanks for the feedback. There will be light sources on the ceiling etc once I get to modelling props and stuff (hopefully tonight)

@Brygelsmack & JamesWild: Thanks guys, but since that pic I have started again with the decal map so it's no longer there

@cptSwing: I know what you mean, I may try playing around with the walls a bit, maybe add a slight curve so they're not so flat.

Arthur Ramazanov

Very cool, do you have a cubemap in the textures? or are those realtime reflections?

Minos

Not bad but I don't really get what's the point in making these 1 texture environments. Sure it's cool to have limitations but unless you are planning to finish this environment in a very short amount of time I'd say to stick to more "regular" workflows and use your time/creativity working on something more unique. Imagine all the cool stuff you could make using a few more texture maps...

If you are sticking to the 1 texture route though I'd say to experiment more with materials properties. Get some variation in there, otherwise everything is gonna look like it's made out of the same white plastic panel.

A-N-P

I know what you mean, and it's not very practical at all to make a whole environment out of a single texture. But as I mentioned in the OP, it's just a bit of fun to see how far I could take it.

It is supposed to be finished in a short amount of time :P Been working on it after work and weekends. The aim was to finish it within 2/3 weeks of after work sessions I'm about 2 weeks in now.

A-N-P

Update.



Here's my current modular set. Much more will be added but I thought I'd show it as it stands.

A-N-P

Update!

Added some closed doors, played with lighting, added some more props (more to come!)









I'm hoping to get the final props in tomorrow night, then it will be just a case of some particle effects, lighting tweaks and some post processing!

EvanL

The hallway looks pretty freaking awesome.

I'm also going to suggest adding some variation. Love the minimalistic style, but you've got a lot of empty space with repeating patterns especially the big room with all the squares everywhere. The hallway looks awesome, but I think the tiniest amount of additions would really take it up another level. I noticed one hallway had light fixtures the rest empty. The one with light fixtures I like better. Could be you're still populating assets.

I'd suggest looking at something like this...

http://www.philipk.net/portfolio/scifiinterior/scifiinterior_port.html
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97922

Minimalistic environments with right amount and thoughtfully applied variation

Also for the glass, it's a bit hard to see, but edges of glass are usually opaque. https://www.google.com/search?q=glass&rlz=1C1_____enUS372US372&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D6&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hMg-UK-dB8eayQGc0YHwCA&biw=1680&bih=965&sei=hsg-ULqTAuG8yAH41YCIBQ#um=1&hl=en&rlz=1C1_____enUS372US372&tbm=isch&q=glass+sheet&revid=1165722674&sa=X&ei=hsg-UP6vC6aFywHFtIDYCg&ved=0CIIBEIMW&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=d80c1df70ccbe9be&biw=1680&bih=965. They look like single planes at the moment.

God the hallways look good.

A-N-P

I've decided to call it a day on this environment (it was supposed to be a quick exercise after all).

The aim was to create an environment using a single texture created in nDo2 (well, a normal and diffuse). To add a little extra spice I made a decal map and some monitor display textures.

Here are the final shots after playing around with post in CE3 and the texture flats.

givemeajob

Thats a preety neat stylized enviroment you got there, what size textures are you using?

passerby

looks pretty good you could prolly farther decrease the amount of textures needed, by storeing everything in different greyscale colour channels of the textures, than adding colour in via the shader.

the AO is greyscale so you could store 3 more greyscale images in the same texture, and shove your decals into the alpha channel of a other image.

Notes

passerby wrote: »

storeing everything in different greyscale colour channels of the textures, than adding colour in via the shader.

the AO is greyscale so you could store 3 more greyscale images in the same texture, and shove your decals into the alpha channel of a other image.

DUDE THANKS!!!! freakin eh never thought of adding color through the shader set up . . .

A-N-P

passerby wrote: »

looks pretty good you could prolly farther decrease the amount of textures needed, by storeing everything in different greyscale colour channels of the textures, than adding colour in via the shader.

the AO is greyscale so you could store 3 more greyscale images in the same texture, and shove your decals into the alpha channel of a other image.

Thanks for the feedback, Passerby. I was aware I could do these shader techniques in UDK (which is what I planned to do before making the move to CryEngine3).

But I haven't seen anything to do with this regarding CE3.

passerby

@A-N-P ah too bad ce3 cant do that. will ce3 allow for custom hlsl code for shaders? or is it mostly hardcoded by crytek and you got access to just the parameters they exposed?

not too familiar with ce3, but know this is possible with udk, unity, and source if you put a little extra work into it.

A-N-P

As far as I know you can only play with what they give you (it's very similar to Max's material editor). They do have some clever alpha channel uses but nowhere near as versatile as UDK's node based system. I kinda compromised UDK's lovely editor for CryEngine's seamless workflow with Max . I had a ton of fun, nonetheless.

TigerGD

Notes wrote: »

DUDE THANKS!!!! freakin eh never thought of adding color through the shader set up . . .

I haven't used CE3, so I don't know how many of the tricks will work, but check out this tutorial on texture optimization.