ArenaNet Internship [Environment] - Oniram vs. Paragon

Oniram

After taking notice of a few people posting their WIPs for the ArenaNet internship program, i figured since ill be graduating college this month, why not give it a shot. So Paragon and I have agreed to use this as sort of a friendly challenge (though essentially we would be competing with anyone else who submits for the program). The deadline is the day before our graduation and since we are finished with our portfolio demo reels, we could use the last couple weeks to work on something fun like this. So here's the guidelines from the website.





The structure should be less than 3000 polys and use the maximum equivalent of two 1024

Zipfinator

I just started working on this too. It'll be nice to see some other interpretations of it as I work on mine. If you don't mind I could post my WIP's in here too but if you want to keep it between you and your friend that's cool.

Oniram

ninja edit: yea sure.

Zipfinator

EDIT: Started my own thread here.

Oniram

i think im actually gonna go with as many zbrushed tileable textures as i can on this (i think there's like 4 that i could do). i want to use this project as an experiment for building a modular set off of preset textures. i think thatd be pretty fun.

Zip: how are you going to display yours? marmo, udk, cdk...

Zipfinator

Definitely UDK. I'm planning on storing overlay textures in the alphas that are unused so then I can just set those to a new UV channel, tint them and overlay them over the original materials. I'm only familiar with Source and UDK now and I definitely couldn't do something like that on Source.

ParoXum

Is it 3000polys or 3000 triangles?

Oniram

i copy/pasted from the website which says 3000 polys. i didnt even notice that because generally when i see poly's i default to seeing tris. lol. that maybe be something i should look up or ask about. thanks for pointing that out.

DavidBrumbley

I'm also doing the test right now and I'm going with 3k tris. 3k polys seems like way too much for building like this in an mmo.

Zipfinator

I'm pretty sure it's 3000 Triangles. I went to Futurepoly which is run by two of the artists from Arenanet and Jason always said polys when he was talking about overall triangles.

MatthewS

I am actually planning on busting this out over the next week as well... If you guys don't mind I will try to put up some WIPs of the major sections of work as I go. I think it will be good to see how everyone works it through.

Does anyone know if they are considering diffuse maps, normal maps, and specular maps as separate in their 2X1024X1024 maps?

Zipfinator

Normals, Diffuse and Spec all need to fit in the same 2048x1024.

Oniram

im going to probably be putting my speculars in the alpha of my diffuse maps. and if i use masking or something for overlays ill put that in the alpha of the normal. im planning out my map layout now. ill post it up when its done.

Nilix

I shot them an email to be absolutely certain and yes, they are talking about triangles.

Oniram

awesome. thanks for that.