BEAT-EM-UP! | Kharn
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Right lets do this!
Ill be using UDK to create a Dwarf mine envrionment, but Im going to try and keep away from the typical stone tunnel.
I want to try and use the lighting to give the environment life and ambiance.
Im working on designs right now but as I cant draw my way out of a paper bag Ill be working in max.
Challenges:
-Keeping within the texture limit and still have an interesting environment.
-Useing modular elements without it being obvious.
-Acctually finishing an environment with post-processing etc.
-Making and interesting design that is coherent.
good luck to everyone
Ill be using UDK to create a Dwarf mine envrionment, but Im going to try and keep away from the typical stone tunnel.
I want to try and use the lighting to give the environment life and ambiance.
Im working on designs right now but as I cant draw my way out of a paper bag Ill be working in max.
Challenges:
-Keeping within the texture limit and still have an interesting environment.
-Useing modular elements without it being obvious.
-Acctually finishing an environment with post-processing etc.
-Making and interesting design that is coherent.
good luck to everyone
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So Iplaned to make a two part level with a corridor like entrance to start with followed by the lava cave but that might be a little ambitious with the limitations, texture wise.
This is a max render with some fingerpainting on top.
Im also looking to add a blue colour in their somewere to contrast the huge amount of red/orange. Maybe some crystals on the side of the brige that would be like lights and have a light blue colour.
The grey part at the top would be carved stone with decorations (if I can fit them in the textures) and the bottom is rough rock.
I was also considering having the heads in the background have water rather than lava again to balance the colour but thats a hole new texture just for one element. Plus most the lava in the pit wont be visible from the players point of view.
Good luck to all who enter, looking forwards to seeing all the awsome ideas that come up.
Do you plan to involve more elements on said bridge, or perhaps expanding the area before the bridge?
The first will be a snowy foggy mountain top, followed by an entrance hall then the lava pit will be the final objective.
Im just worried about texture space at this point and Im not shure how to keep the entrance hall relevant comparied to the stong blue outside and the strong orange lava.
Ive made this part alot wider as a contrast with the fairly compact inside. The red strip will probably be painted stone rather than fabric (would get to muddy anywayz
Im going to try and keep a running theme of copper/brass and stone though out the level and also keep the statues that represent the ancestors of the dwarfs.
I have a cunning plan to reduce texture space, Im going to sculpt and bake the statues as one "character" rig him then pose lots of them that way I can have a normal map and AO but lots of diffrent poses.
Ive started working on some of the shaders, this is a test of the stone, copper, tiles and snow.
I would be intrested in any recomendations for a lava shader.
tomorrow Ill work on the statutes and stairs and generally start putting together the first part.
EDIT: Thanks Shiv mate :thumbup:
did you add them?
I also added custom normals and AO for the hard surfaces under the snow.
The last picture was too small, so these are too big
And that will be the outside bit done for now. I need to block out the inside part to see how my trig count will hold up.
Their are two set of stairs and three flat parts.
Gsokol : Yeah Ill give that a go tomorrow, should be easy enought
Cholden : yep I found some dwarf concept on WarhammerOnline.com , its awsome^^ but what gave me the idea for the stairs is the new trailer for Dragon Age2. (btw awsome job on War I honestly think it should have beaten WoW)
At this point I think the lighting needs an overhaul, its way to bright for a night scene and probably a bit to saturated but Id rather stay away from a too monotone next gen look.
Plus the lights are hardly making the contrast I wanted . Still have a few textures to add on the door, steam machines(that will open the door).
Also give those lanterns a larger/brighter light radius, that should give you more color variation than the monotone blue that you are trying to break away from.
Other than that this scene is coming along nicely, I also dig the snow. Keep it up
finish those steam machine thingies, add smoke particles, maybe some billowing foggy clouds in the background, make a proper background to tie it all together and everything else can be just bonus.
looking good!
luke: Yeah Im thinking about adding mesh for the snow, I ve been useing the alpha chanel of the vertex color to paint WorldPositionOffset but that really only works on the flat bit.
Ben :Thanks for the link, thats bit about the sky and ground seems pretty logical but Id not though about it xD.
I took your advice on the lanterns and I think it looks much better now. Probably less realistic but more intresting.
Divi : yep just did the stairs , stuborn they were.
Steam things pretty much done, smoke might be possible depending on the TriCount.
As for the background Im not to sure what to do with it at this point.
Thanks for your answers guys!
BTW: the weird bit around the chimleys is a heat haze material on a cylindar....it looks good in motion
If you don't want to change the camera, you've wasting tons of pixels on details tiling across a locked camera. Look at that floor tile for example, it's obviously tiling FIVE times across almost EXACTLY 256 pixels of screen space. There is absolutely NO reason this entire floor should be tiling. You have to screen detail for it to be completely custom, and you'll be forced to stare ad a major technical flaw should you leave it as is.
Thanks for your comment, I was going to have the camera quite a bit closer but just to show whats going on I made the screenshots backed out. It was just to save time and not have 20 screenshots for the entire level.
Ill keep in mind the amount of detail compaired to screen space though, not really used to thinking about thoses things.
Thanks!
Unfortunatly, I missed the deadline due to getting stuck in the strikes here in France :poly127:.
So Ill post my screenshots anywayz, it can still go in my portfolio.
Its about 145k tri. Ive not used up all the texture space, I basicly used the alpha slots of the other textures to add black and white "AO" maps to overlay on individual opjects.
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