Trim Sheet Assets

chrisevansart

Hey guys. 
I wanted to show off some things I've been working on. All these assets were made utilizing the same trim sheet. I wanted to show that you can push assets without having to bake highpoly info. With this workflow you can make a ton of assets.

I have been thinking about making a tutorial for this type of workflow. Please let me know if anyone is interested!

SO to Jonas Ronnegard for those super sweet alphas. https://www.artstation.com/jronn

Also, here is a link to the ArtStation post : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P0P1r

pixelpatron

YES! This is super awesome and actually practical! I all too often see nothing but high poly sculpts and baked out sheets and in actual practical production cases this is how most assets are made. Bravo! Seeing your process and approach would be welcomed for sure!

pixelpatron

Your bottom link didn't work for me..... 

PixelMasher

yea most assets in open world games (or any game really) are made with trims and tiles, unique unwraps are only for mission specific hero assets or something super complex usually. This method is a lot faster and extremely efficient. 

chrisevansart

@pixelpatron @PixelMasher
Thanks guys. Yeah, its weird going thru the industry and you tend to see that some places dont utilize this method. I also dont see this method used as much in peoples workflow. I want to get more exposure of using trims for props like these.
BTW I fixed the link, but if it doesnt work, i pasted it here too.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P0P1r

Ged

really nice work! I often don't find the opportunity to make stuff this way because I make mobile games where we dont have any post processing and realtime lighting isnt great, so unless we bake some lighting or ao into textures stuff sometimes looks rather flat  Perhaps this technique could be used in mobile games but would require a really good 2nd uv set that can be used by baked lighting in engine.

Larry

Super awesome.! Yes please, make a tutorial for trimsheet because I cannot make it work in my workflow at the moment. Too many unanswered questions actually. Did you create a high poly over a flat plane and baked the information? Did you bake a height map? Did you model the ornaments or did you just find some vector pictures online?
What is the process people use for trim sheets? xD

pixelpatron

Ged said:

really nice work! I often don't find the opportunity to make stuff this way because I make mobile games where we dont have any post processing and realtime lighting isnt great, so unless we bake some lighting or ao into textures stuff sometimes looks rather flat  Perhaps this technique could be used in mobile games but would require a really good 2nd uv set that can be used by baked lighting in engine.

You basically just described our workflow. (mobile) Baked lighting isn't in engine but rendered AO from maya.

OBlastradiusO

Im trying to do this now with zero luck. I cannot get the normal map bevels in the trim to line up properly.