Oak's Crossing

Rhoutermans

Hi all,

I've been working on this concept from Jonas De Ro called "Oak's Crossing".



This is my first project trying to create a good looking terrain.
I'm sculpting the terrain in Mudbox and using world machine to generate a diffuse that I can paint over in UDK.

Color Diffuse:



Working on the rocks now:



I did have a quick test before that I didn't like, started over from this point a couple days ago. I like the current rocks better, but now I atleast know how not to handle the grass;



Any advice/tips for this project are more than welcome

Zelenkov

really nice start man! Like this a lot

danpaz3d

Great concept and good start so far.
Perhaps a bit more grass in between the rock/cliff textures.

MeintevdS

Good start, but I think you might wanna have another look at the proportions and distances between the buildings. In the concept the two buildings in the front seem to be across the street from each other, but in your block out they have a pretty big gap between them. As for the building I feel like they aren't the right size, especially the one in the background with the towers.
The concept feels like a tiny village with a small cluster of buildings in the middle of no where, but at the moment your block out feels like three random buildings and not so much a small community.

I love the bright and colorful style you're going for though!, keep up the work.

Rhoutermans

Thanks guys! Working hard on this... Been following Choco's tutorials, such awesome work

danpaz3d > I know what u mean, it's noted Think I wanna see how it looks with painted grass models first before I start painting some more grass up the hills.

MeintecdS > Yea I think ur right about the proportions and space, I defo don't want it to feel too open. Once these buildings are in I might expend the number of buildings / add more props like a well or something, whatever would feel right for the scene. Also adding the trees will probably fill it up a lot more.

Thanks for the feedback ! Coming up soon, rock models blending into the terrain and the background mountains.

Brygelsmack

Looks nice so far!

Are you doing the mountains as a separate mesh? If not, won't it be a pain to go back and add those in since you have the texture's already applied on the terrain? Maybe it's a quick fix and just a matter of rendering out new textures from WorldMachine... I'm not sure.

Rhoutermans

I might just do that Brygelsmack!
painting the textures isn't that much works tho I was suprised how fast this can go But getting this down first before moving on sounds like the way to go~

AlbinLundahl

I feel like the road in the concept is moving up a hill, and in your render resembling the concept perspective, it looks like the road is sloping downwards from the camera. That's my main concern, otherwise I think it's a really good start, nice terrain work!

Rhoutermans

AlbinLundahl > I'lll paint the path uphill and see what happens
Added some rock models today and reworked the terrain textures a bit.



Still working on blending grass in a nice way with the terrain..

PhoenixWolf

can you show your rock texture?

Rhoutermans

Of course;



Using a color overlay material in UDK for both terrain and rock model

Rhoutermans

Having some issues with the rock texture stretching on the terrain, UV's are just messed up. Anyone have an idea how to work this out the correct way?

Otherwise, moving on with other stuff, the terrain is worth the attention but can replace textures easily

Rhoutermans

Working on some grass, still having some issues with the rock texture stretching but the smooth tool helps a bit I think..



And started working on the background mountain (Mudbox):

Rhoutermans

Anyone know why this is happening? Some patches are just dissapearing depending on the angle looking at the terrain, LOD settings are default btw. Not sure how/when it started...

Rhoutermans

Bump

Rhoutermans

Fixed it by moving the terrain to 0,0,0 then pressing ctrl-z till my landscape was on the correct location again and it was fixed...weird..

Rhoutermans

Still hating the terrain rock texture stretching..can't seem to get it right with the landscape tool, might just model it all out instead..



Getting a bit tired of the terrain so started with a rock wall texture, plaster and wood materials. Got the vertex painting working with tesselation which I'm liking so far

mats effect

Subscribed, enjoying following this one

The tesselation is looking pretty cool in that last screenshot.

PacoCasares

Damn, this is really nice. I would love to ask you a question or two on how you are doing this. I am starting a new UDK project for my portfolio and I am burning with questions! I still have to figure out what to ask do haha, but that terrain looks lovely. Did you paint that concept too?

Blubberblase

you can fix your texture stretching by using a world aligned texture, or a worldcoordinate3way (you will need to use a texture object instead of a texture sample for these, just search for it in your material editor and you will find it)
hope it helps

Rhoutermans

mats effect > Thanks Will update some more now that I'm working on it every night

PacoCasares > The concept is from http://jonasdero.cghub.com/ . His work is awesome Ask any questions you want I'll try to answer them~

Blubberblase > Thanks I owe u for that one, was looking hard for tutorials but I guess my google skills suck. Stretching is mostly fixed now



just a couple more materials to create and I can build one of these houses Hopefully a start on that this week. Thanks for the kind words and advice so far!

Rhoutermans

first house blockout, blocking out the other two soon and adding tree's, filling it all up and hopefully getting a better idea of what the final scene might look like!

Rhoutermans

And some wood and small roof tiles materials

Rhoutermans

working on the first house

djoexe

Really sweet stuff...following this closely !

Rhoutermans

Still working on the first house..
Gotta find a better way to handle the moss..

Rhoutermans

The first house WIP.



The above result is still a bit weak, so decided to just sculpt out the entire second house as a test. This just might turn out better, more highpoly stuff tomorrow! Below just the stairs for now~

Reventius

The stairs on the side of that house are looking enormous right now in terms of vertical spacing, especially compared to that character mesh you have placed on the bottom. Just looking at the concept you originally posted, I'm counting about twice as many steps as you have placed currently. Seems like you'd have to jump to get to the next step if you tried to climb them like you have them set up.

Rhoutermans

Reventius > ur right about the stairs, fixed it~

Worked on the lower portion of the house, slowly liking where this is going

Envart

nicecream!