Arma 3 civilian off-road vehicle

TomasV

Hi guys, I recently had the chance to work on this civilian off-road vehicle for the upcoming Arma 3 expansion and I'm excited to be able to share it here. 

It was modelled in 3DS Max and textured in Substance Designer and Painter. 

You can see the model in Marmoset Viewer with some more screenshots on my website. Cheers!

http://velebny.net/offroad.html

airage

Very nice work!

lotet

Im not really a vehicle guy, but that is a damn good looking car  : P

dzibarik

Does Arma 3 support PBR? I thought it was using the old diffuse/spec/gloss workflow.

cookedpeanut

Arma 3 doesn't support PBR, no - but you can fake some of the effects, just need someone who can understand the god-complex SDK tools. They've added a Jeep! This made my day, awesome model... As an A3 player myself I'm really looking forward to this!

Yuri

It looks fantastic although (I don't know if it's just me), but the door seems a little small. It could be longer imo. 

Edit: Now that I look at it again, it does look okay.

TomasV

Thanks guys! Yes you are right, Arma 3 currently doesn't support PBR but I found it easier to work in Substance Designer and then tweak the resulting textures for use with the Arma 3 shaders.

Gaurav Mathur

Love the proportions and the chunkiness!

Bek

Nice work and an excellent use of proxies / hiddenSelections.

I'd be interested in hearing more about what tweaks you did from Substance to RV4 — what I've been doing is using adjustment layers in photoshop on my exported maps from Painter, as well as adding (Lin. dodge) the PBR-roughness map to the _SM maps G channel (specular) with a low opacity, just to get some of the roughness into the otherwise bare spec channel (as well as doing the SpecPower calculation in TexViewer).

littleclaude

Thanks for post this, great example of a flawless bake! love it!

TomasV

I'd be interested in hearing more about what tweaks you did from Substance to RV4

I based Arma's SMDI green channel on the PBR glossiness map, tweaked the contrast and added metallic map on top. The blue channel is mostly areas of flat color with baked lighting on top (for which I used Substance Painter's filter). The blue channel should have different value (specular power) for each surface type, what really helped me with this was to reuse all the nodes I had set up in Substance Designer for texturing based on the ColorID map. 

I reused already existing shaders (rvmat files) that were fine tuned by the great artists at BIS. It also helped a lot to see the existing textures, so that I could tweak mine to look the same.

Hopefully this screenshot can shed some more light on this

dzibarik

Thanks for the breakdown. I was eyeing Arma to do some modding. Does it still roll with FBX 2006 exclusively?

Bek

Interesting stuff, thank you for the detailed reply Tom.

dzibarik said:

Does it still roll with FBX 2006 exclusively?

While I haven't tested extensively you can probably get .obj to work well enough, as long as you're content to flip all faces and scale in -100% in X or Z on import. That might get tedious quickly. I at least haven't had any success with any FBX version other than 2006.11.

Rabbit35

TomasV said:

I'd be interested in hearing more about what tweaks you did from Substance to RV4

I based Arma's SMDI green channel on the PBR glossiness map, tweaked the contrast and added metallic map on top. The blue channel is mostly areas of flat color with baked lighting on top (for which I used Substance Painter's filter). The blue channel should have different value (specular power) for each surface type, what really helped me with this was to reuse all the nodes I had set up in Substance Designer for texturing based on the ColorID map. 

I reused already existing shaders (rvmat files) that were fine tuned by the great artists at BIS. It also helped a lot to see the existing textures, so that I could tweak mine to look the same.

Hopefully this screenshot can shed some more light on this

It'd be pretty sweet to see a full tutorial or write up on this, SMDIs are honestly the most confusing and difficult part of modding for A3