techs mechs art prototype thread

Rhinokey

changed the title cause i'm gettin away from just barrel

also a heap of other barrel related props, made this prototyping the enviro art style of Techs Mechs, all pieces are 200 polys or way bellow that, it all uses one 256 texture.
still gotta work on the gold a bit i guess, not all that happy with it.

bounchfx

I expected a crate. this is close enough. looks good, dude. I agree the gold could use a tad more love, but the wood and stuff looks awesome.

samgriffiths

these look good, I expected as said above, a crate, metal barrel, or those wooden crossy things magigs ss.

Tom Ellis

The more I read P&P on Polycount, the more I'm beginning to think I'm the only one who can't hand paint textures.

Looks great! Careful you don't lose the stylisation by pushing the gold too much, while I too agree it needs changing a little, it's not far off!

LoTekK

I think the gold needs more contrast (plus a healthy spot of spec), as well as some hue shifting. As is, I actually thought the barrel contained... I dunno, mangoes or something. The rest looks fab, though; love the oversized TNT sticks, and the destroyed barrel.

Joao Sapiro

could use more highlight definition on the materials and some darker tones to separate stuff :P dig it

System

Nice! Not sure why your not happy, looks like handpainted goodness to me. Are you going to chop off a few chunks for a broken version?

ps: I thought the gold was potatoes lol, doesn't really look like gold, imo if you made them rectangular bars and added some nearly white streaks it would be easier to tell. By the way, this may be of some use?http://area.autodesk.com/downloads/shaders/realistic_gold_shader_for_use_in_scanline

Rhinokey

well as mentioned the gold is still in progress, just ptu it in unreal so i can work with spec an such, and they are gold nuggets not formed bars, so they will remain bar shaped. will post update in a bit

Disco Stu

+1 for thought of crate but great barrels none the less.

System

Rhinokey wrote: »

well as mentioned the gold is still in progress, just ptu it in unreal so i can work with spec an such, and they are gold nuggets not formed bars, so they will remain bar shaped. will post update in a bit

Oh, ok, thought that this was just going to use diffuse textures, no specular was mentioned. Seems you don't have much to worry about now

Zwebbie

While I normally wouldn't make an issue about this, I think that it is important in such a realistic game as Techs Mechs to distinguish between TNT and Dynamite. TNT is used for shells, Dynamite is the big red sticks that were used to blow stuff up, for so far as I could gather.

John Warner

I would say rough the gold up a bit, so it's got that rough, ripped out of the earth look. right now it looks like gold bars or something, which i think is throwing it off.

gorgeous stuff otherwise though. really fantastic.

P442

aside from what everyone else has said about the gold, I think you could add some extra geometry to the exploded barrel, have the metal ring bent out where the wood is missing, know what I mean? And it looks like you have room to throw those UV's into your texture you already have.

Rhinokey

thanks for the paint over but i like the barrel as is, tryin to keep the pieces chunky as possible and avoid thin bits when i can,

P442

whatever's clever

Vailias

Zwebbie wrote: »

While I normally wouldn't make an issue about this, I think that it is important in such a realistic game as Techs Mechs to distinguish between TNT and Dynamite. TNT is used for shells, Dynamite is the big red sticks that were used to blow stuff up, for so far as I could gather.

Either can be used for demolitions, and T.N.T takes up less texture space


Nice layout and texture re-use Rhino. Will look good once you get the spec and such tweaked on it, maybe a particle effect with the in game gold assets to make them really sparkle.

Rhinokey

good idea bout the sparkle f/x val,
worked on a prototype of how i want to do the rocks, may not be the final style. this pic is just one rock cloned a lot, in game it would be much more varried.
more liek teh view of the game

SubPablo

Looks nice. The exploded barrel could use some nice cartoon blackening, but I realize that'd need a new map. -though if you slap in some more broken pieces, you'll have a nice smashed barrel.

Rhinokey

i plan to make a plank pieces from the same map to have strewn about, and i may do some blackenig vi a blend with another material, since theres goina be a decent amount of things exploding.

pior

Looking good!!! Loving these sharp boulders.

However ... be prepared for a Poop paintover transforming them all into a field of penis heads. Just sayin'.

Rhinokey

working on the mine entrance, going to see can i work a way with he texture to use a tiling piece for the general color and a overlay /multiply or something to do the more detailed lighting and more details

Rhinokey

well after some workin i'm not liking the previous boulder i made, not happy with how it matches the barrels also not liking the way the forms are painted i started doing the mine entrance with a diff texture style not all the way done now, but i'mliking it better. doing it more as i would paint a concept with the forms being seperated more by differnt colored planes, ans less with the thin white like seperation technique

still a bit blurry as i'm blocking in shapes with planes

Shogun3d

Looks great! Reminds me of Toontown in Disneyland

Stertman

looks great.. love the textures..

Rhinokey

ok pretty much done at least plenty enough to know what direction i will be taking the stone.

here is the angle it will be seen in game, and a wireframe

lefix

loving the art style.
well done!

Rhinokey

here it is in game with simple lighting, this is the camera of our game at the momment

i tried changing the subject to "techs mechs art prototype thread" since i've xpanded it past just
exploding barrels.

divi

loosk nice im not too sure about the striation - looks more like camouflage than actual stone. loved the rocks in post #22 but it#s still very kickass.

bbob

Stonking great!

I love the style, keep going..

MoP

Nice stuff. Although I kinda preferred it when the rocks were more red, it was a better contrast with the other stuff. Now the rocks are the same colour as the barrels, I dunno if that works as well IMHO.

I changed the title for you. Still no idea why users can't do that for their own threads, it used to be possible in the old boards software...

Rhinokey

i went in and changed the hue of the barrels to make the wood on it more like the wood beams on the mine entrance and less orange as they were, the red pink rocsk were not feeling deserty enough for me.

Devin Busha

Looking great man. I love the texturing and "chunky" modeling style. Keep it up!

Rhinokey

oh no, this thread can go away since we started posting the cool stuff in the main tm thread!