The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
Best Of
Re: Looking for Honest Feedback on My Stylized Game Environment!
Hi, cool project!
I would say if the goal is to support a moba/ rts style gameplay, the environment has to much contrast overall. Ideally have some units/ heroes in there throughout the creation process, so you can balance everything in a way so the gameplay elements read well. Perhaps you can add some parameters to your materials so you can dial it in in-engine. Generally vertical gradients can help to make things more readable (for example make trees stand out from ground).
Regarding style, I believe it currently looks more bumpy pbr than hand-painted, with some textures looking like sourced from photos.
The grass being distributes so evenly introduces noise/ contrast, especially with the colors being so different to the underlying ground texture. I would try having some groups of gras in select places. Particular where assets like rocks intersect with the ground, so the intersection appears detailed.
The paths currently seem backward to me: I would expect stone slates being placed in the middle of the path, where's frequently traffic. Perhaps look into mixing a mask into the blend (heightmap?) to achieve a more interesting/ varied transitions, currently the blends borders look repetitive.
For the final presentation, I would add some beauty shots without any OS UI. I don't know if you did this, but through-out the process, it can help to take screenshots and paint on top to quickly explore options.
Keep it up!
I would say if the goal is to support a moba/ rts style gameplay, the environment has to much contrast overall. Ideally have some units/ heroes in there throughout the creation process, so you can balance everything in a way so the gameplay elements read well. Perhaps you can add some parameters to your materials so you can dial it in in-engine. Generally vertical gradients can help to make things more readable (for example make trees stand out from ground).
Regarding style, I believe it currently looks more bumpy pbr than hand-painted, with some textures looking like sourced from photos.
The grass being distributes so evenly introduces noise/ contrast, especially with the colors being so different to the underlying ground texture. I would try having some groups of gras in select places. Particular where assets like rocks intersect with the ground, so the intersection appears detailed.
The paths currently seem backward to me: I would expect stone slates being placed in the middle of the path, where's frequently traffic. Perhaps look into mixing a mask into the blend (heightmap?) to achieve a more interesting/ varied transitions, currently the blends borders look repetitive.
For the final presentation, I would add some beauty shots without any OS UI. I don't know if you did this, but through-out the process, it can help to take screenshots and paint on top to quickly explore options.
Keep it up!
Fabi_G
2 ·
Re: portfolio critique needed!
Sure I was referring to the UVs of the latest character:
Some borders seem almost aligned with the pixel raster, but not quite, many others seems more relaxed (didn't mark all islands in question, but hopefully it's clear. I find tube-like/ cylindrical shapes and strips are very fitting for this). Perhaps it comes across as nitpicky
,but I think even when work-samples don't have LODs, it doesn't take much time during unwrapping and allows to show a habit of making assets "future-proof".
Here is a cool thread by @Neox on the topic: https://polycount.com/discussion/235489/uv-straightening-and-its-perks-on-lod-generation, with other users chiming with methods for other modeling apps.
Some borders seem almost aligned with the pixel raster, but not quite, many others seems more relaxed (didn't mark all islands in question, but hopefully it's clear. I find tube-like/ cylindrical shapes and strips are very fitting for this). Perhaps it comes across as nitpicky
,but I think even when work-samples don't have LODs, it doesn't take much time during unwrapping and allows to show a habit of making assets "future-proof".Here is a cool thread by @Neox on the topic: https://polycount.com/discussion/235489/uv-straightening-and-its-perks-on-lod-generation, with other users chiming with methods for other modeling apps.
Fabi_G
2 ·
Re: portfolio critique needed!
Yeah letting go of old projects is pretty difficult. Fortunately ArtStation lets you hide projects so you don't have to perma delete them or something. It may be difficult to land a job atm, it's difficult for everybody, but you have solid stuff in there. Good luck!
Ashervisalis
1 ·
Re: Sketchbook: Fabi_G
ha my fav as a child and now fav as an aged the equivalent of this. ^ 
iam717
1 ·
Re: [WIP] Clive Rosfield - Stylized
Sweet! I'm really down with the anatomy planar stylization. Would love to see more if that in the cloth. But it looks awesome!
Ashervisalis
1 ·
Re: Substance Painter mask driving me crazy
I'd suggest that you use anchor points to pull the existing masks into the mask stack on a new layer and blend them there, i find that a lot more intuitive
poopipe
1 ·
Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros
shheeshh i thought this was a well place (the unarmored version) and you just kept on going ;P this new update the tilted head down version if you look under where the "cheek "hole" would be kind of makes a serpent-ish eye hole with the head down like that and it stood out to me enough to mention it.
Otherwise yeah, pretty HQ stuff.
iam717
1 ·
Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros
Proportion work, hyphae, split the 'visor' in half to allow for spooky animations, partially inspired by Nidus from Warframe.
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
zetheros
2 ·
Re: Sketchbook: David Cruz
After playing with the Q3RTX code for about 3-4 weeks, i got around to fiddling with this thing and putting the previous ^ wip on a bit of a hold.
worked on something like this before but this is about 1.5 weeks on an off, reading the scriptures again to try to get a more "grounded" idea of the thing spoken of, this might come with the general idea of this thing, which i think i figured out, with the help of the one who gave it to the person who "saw" & wrote the scripture down.
"1/19" updated: fixed lowest wing positions, looked bad before, tryn to wrap my head around its proper positioning.
hopefully also fixed lighting issues, still wip last overwrite update.
The general idea was to "lessen" the busy-i-ness of the wings/feathers, idk which to go with yet and the palm/hand design was inspired by this drawing. The lower wing limbs are grabbing the shin areas and one index is laid on the floor. the original img i drew was 5k, its all hand on tablet and the only thing not 100% done by me was the brush i used that was premade in application for what seems to be grass i used for "fuzz/fur".
i messed up the original and saved over the name i think it was a robert, something or other, will try to get some time to find the original again... i made the wings based of it and "edited" the design in my version.
The upper wings wrapped around the "head" do have digits its just alpha'd cause i already made the feathered wings but they are just bases and i am trying to figure out what to do with them. i will also asym the alt, side of the wing limbs, this is just for a quick post.
Edit 3-24-25
Fixed hand reference img to give credit.
iam717
1 ·