Crash Bandicoot N.Sanity Beach

AzzaMat

Hey everyone this is my first thread, I have been browsing polycount for ages looking at the talent, skill and dedication that is on here and I wanted to show some of my stuff and get some feedback on it.

I am currently working on a little project that I started up a while ago but havent done much on until now, my aim is to recreate the first level of crash bandicoot but with todays level of detail and graphic quality in UDK.

AzzaMat

This is a material that I made for some of the props. To make it I modelled a load of bricks in max, I then took this into zbrush and sclupted in some cracks and edge damage, After that I used polypaint to create the diffuse. to create the normal map I baked the hi poly onto a plane. I then took the textures and made them tile.

Joseph Silverman

That is such a charming texture, i dig the colors a lot. I think the tans could almost be browner and more saturated. I want to see it on a plane!

AzzaMat

Here you go, this is the material in UDK

AzzaMat

This is the metal crate used to trigger some ghost boxes in the level. The shader has a reflection cube on the metal but I used an alpha in the diffuse to make it not appear on the exclamation mark. The background is the sand and dirt material I created.

Joseph Silverman

On seeing it in 3d i think the spec is almost too high contrast -- i expect more of a uniform sheen over the tiles or bricks, the way that only the lighter bits catch the specular makes it look almost metallic. The crate shows the same problem, your colors are very good but the materials aren't quite that well defined.

AzzaMat

Alrighty I reduced the contrast on the brick spec and increased it on the metal crate, they look better now =D.


Made some grass... it moves in the wind GO SHADERS.. not that you can see it in this image

AzzaMat

This is a wood texture that i'm working on at the moment I still have a few improvments for it. Currently Its just one wooden plank tiled but once its finished it will have different planks to make it more distinct, I will also be drastically closing the gaps between the planks, probably should of referenced for this =/

As much as possible on texturing please its something I really want to get good at, though i'm really enjoying painting stylized textures =D

Alemja

Hmm for the wood you say they are planks but they look rounded, you need to reduce the amount that the shadows gradate towards the center. These could help a bit:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1259024#post1259024


Also for the first texture you showed, the stones, it looks like they are all too noisy and there is just too much going on all over the place. If you smooth some of them out I think that will help your texture greatly.

AzzaMat

thanks for this I will make sure to make this change while i'm finishing the paintwork

AzzaMat

Updated wood texture on the boat Need to put some nails in it and stuff to make it more planky

AzzaMat

Thought I would post an update on the boat. There isnt much more left to do now, just one more base texture then its on to editing

AzzaMat

Created the tree, it runs on two materials, one is the bark and the other is the palm leaves

chrisradsby

kudos for that plank texture, looks awesome on the bridge, wouldn't recommend reusing it on the boat, doesn't really fit there.

AzzaMat

bridge? there is no bridge =P

AzzaMat

So I created a fern using the palm tree foliage and created a shader that changes the colour of it according to a custom colour pallet. I thought it might be something that people might find useful so I wrote up a quick tutorial.


Link to development blog
http://crashbandicoothd.blogspot.com/

AzzaMat

Forgot to add this

AzzaMat

screen grab of the environment so far.. still got a lot to do =P

AzzaMat

WIP Aku Aku still got a load of texturing to do

AzzaMat

does anyone have any tips on doing stylized feathers?

toxic_h2o

Hey AzzaMat, thanks for sharing that shader stuff. I have a question about it though.

I wanted to use this shader to create some variation in the grass alpha cards like you did for the ferns. I have a problem though, the color only seems to change on the side that the light is hitting the mesh. The back of the cards that are in shadow stay the same color as the original texture.

Do you or anyone else have any idea why this is happening? Thanks.



Also I am a huge fan of crash bandicoot so I am really looking forward to seeing you finish this.

AzzaMat

My guess would be that you have plugged in the texture sample into the emmisive as well, this means that your texture is essentially bypassing the other shader work giving you the original texture on one side. if you want to keep the emmisive channel then i suggest you make it look like this

Hope this helps =D

Hellfire

very nice grass texture

use Lighting Model: MLM_NonDirectional

toxic_h2o

AH Thank you Hellfire!!!! that was it!
Also I'm going to try out what you said too AzzaMat.

Thanks guys.

AzzaMat

Just a quick update on Aku Aku

AzzaMat

need an extra life?

AzzaMat

Finished Aku Aku Any Crits appreciated

AzzaMat

WIP Crate, you can also see the water im working on

AzzaMat

Finsihed Crate any crit?

myles

Hey Azza fun looking scene so far,
If you want crits on the crate I'm not sure about the borders at all, Its very different to the crash crates I remember, a little to much so. Personally I'd stick closer to the original,

AzzaMat

Hey Myles thanks for the crit I think ur right with the crate, Im quite happy with it model wise but il redo the textures and if ur still not happy then maybe il change round the model. I originally modelled the crate to look the same but I thought it looked to basic so I vamped it up a little bit =P

Any crit or advice on the other pieces would be useful as well thanks =D

AzzaMat

Better?

ParoXum

Definitely better, some highlights on the edges of the crate's wood would be a good plus still.

AzzaMat

Added some highlights to the crate, thanks Paroxum and Myles going to move onto the other crates now shouldnt take long as I have the base for it

AzzaMat

Update on the crates, I have finished them all but im not happy with the Mask and health one Might redo them

whats_true

Man, I loved this game. Your stuff looks great. Reminds me of the game alot.

Worried about the wires overlapping the graphics on the boxes. It looks a bit unreadable.

megalmn2000

I just want to notice, the scaling of the wood texture on the boat looks a bit off. If you put a wooden crate on it, you'll see the difference of proportion. Try to tile it more, so it looks better.

AzzaMat

Thanks guys

Whats_true - Your right I'm going to be changing some of the crates a bit so that the graphics read better. Will post an update in a bit.

Megalmn2000 - Il work on the tile as I still have a lot to do on the boat.

Thanks guys =D

AzzaMat

Any better guys

AzzaMat

Another bit of foliage, any crit?

ChristianB

the leafs seem very plastic/rubby

AzzaMat

thats wat i was kind of going for but I dont know if it really works =P

AzzaMat

UPDATE =D
Better?

AzzaMat

I quickly made this today will get around to texturing it at some point

AzzaMat

Update on the broad leaf any crit?

Using the Colour changing shader that was used on the fern I edited the texture so that it doesn't change on the Stripes giving all the leaves two yellow stripes. To do this I pasted the current texture into its red channel in photoshop, then painted the stripes on top into the green channel leaving me the blue channel spare for the alpha (which could of been placed in an alpha channel to give me another level of depth). I think this could be beneficial to saving texture space, having three grayscale textures instead of one full colour one. Hope this is useful (and correct =P).

Gusti

Looks great
I do love stylized stuff, and Crash had a very nice style to it to begin with.

Given how clean and clear cut the wood texture is on Aku, I´m wondering if simpler feathers more closer to this would be more suitable and less noisy. But roughed up a little bit more, but not quite to the level they were in the original game or on the model currently.

Snader

AzzaMat - it's quite common to divide a texture into RGB(A) channels and use those for alphas, speculars, decals and whatnot. So what you're doing is perfectly fine.

gilesruscoe

This is so ful of win, i loved crash bandicoot on PS1 :P Looking forward to seeing how this comes out, digging the textures so far!

richwderby

The logos should be in front of the crosses like in the original

Mgoblue412

I do not understand why the planks of wood on the boxes changed from dark to light from left side to the right side. In the reference the planks go light then dark then light and so on but the whole plank is light or dark.

I also agree with richwderby about the logos, they go infront of the crosses and that should fix your readability of the logo on the crates.

Andreas

Go back to the original plants, leaves like that are quite specular/plastic looking. Great work so far, loved Crash back in the day