[WIP] Lowpoly handpainted cave

Xelun

Since I started 3D modeling, the rocks were always an horror to me. So this time, I tried to make a cave, starting to work with normal maps and making a lot of tests with rocks and lights, so, this is the current process:

(The lights are placed random currently  )
This is going to be part of a scene in a game, so I have to keep the polygons count low.

The next step is to add some glowing plants, but it's a start!

jaker3278

That is definitely a start! Keep up the good work. Are those had painted textures? 

Xelun

Yeah, all handpainted with normal maps

Xelun

Well, now the cave have some plants and mist.


Now I want to add some "human items" like rails, minecarts, etc. and maybe I have to make the cave bigger

Xelun

And moar! This time with human items and changing a little bit the cave: 

Next step: Create a bigger cave! And play with some water zones

Xelun

And a new progress on the cave! I start from zero making a large cave, with more rooms, some light entries and a lot of objects and rocks!

The next step is adding it to the game, so you can see a better look of the cave ingame





I started to upload the making-process of the cave here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRnRQYLZgPE 
starting with the shape , take a look if you're interested (I would greatly appreciate it if you could kindly subscribe to my Youtube channel   ), I'll upload a new video of the cave once a week

joshmtyler

I love the props. The first thing I notice though, is that the cave walls and floor are lacking color. They look like base grey lamberts with normal maps applied. 

Xelun

Mmmm I want it to make the walls and floor simple to highlight the other elements like the plants and the colored lights, but maybe I was too simple
I'll try to add a little bit of variation, maybe some moss, sand, little rocks...