[Dota2] – Doom Bringer – Tainted Seals

GxD11

Hey polycount people; I'm pretty exited about this contest im gonna try to do my best here. Ill be working with a co-worker of mine who is making the concepts for the item set we had in mine while i work with everything else.
The idea behind this armor set: He broke the seventh seal of the end of days, and as a results the lives of all sinners were absorbed into him. He is a walking apocalypse and wears the broken seals to send a message to his mutilators in heaven that nothing can stop him.



posting more updates to the concepts real soon.

Starcofski

REALLY dig the shoulders man. Just plan to do those three pieces?

GxD11

Thanks Actually I'm hoping at least a 5 piece set including the helm and weapon. Here is an update with the helm added.

GxD11

Here is an update towards the concept and the silhouettes of the model of the shoulders, belt and part of the bracer. Did some changes on the color scheme to break off the original. Crits and comments welcomed.

Okoo

hum, can't wait to see this concept finished

Your shoulders are awesome, just add a bit more of red =}

Morscor

Looks sick man, i love DB and this fits him perfectly!

foeffa

Holy shit this looks badass

GxD11

Another update here on the concept finalized bracers concept and the lev 0.




probably gonna start on the helm next or start testing on the binding so i know it loads in game alright. also any advise for the uploading process is greatly appreciated since its my first time actually trying it out hopefully it wont be too difficult. Have a nice day.

GxD11

asking for a lil help but im trying to test out importing the shoulder armor into the game and when it finally got accepted the armor is floating above the character almost out of the screen. does anybody have any idea how i can fix this im pretty much out of my element here. thanks for the help

D4V1DC

Their is an issue with the importing files at least I had issues with It.
Someone posted a helpful guide in the pimping part of the DOTA2 Workshop thread.

Basically just get the SMD importer here:
1. wunderboy PROPS!
2. Import as you normally would then xform scale your object to fix back into place
3. reset your Pivot to 0,0,0
4. Skin to bones you need, export both shoulder/pauldrons and the bones you skinned them to .fbx
5. selecting options:
[x]smooth groups
[x]tangents and
[x]triangulate

Export button, DOTA2 process.

I'll also post the direct link to how i got it to work from the original poster.

Here it is:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1666576&postcount=1542
Good luck.

\/ thanks but the original founder of the process deserves all the credit.

DanBe

Really digg the new color pallet your working into the character! Overall nice clean big shapes, which suit the game and character. Not 100% sold on the detail work. It might get a bit to noisy. But wont judge until you have a more final state of it. And then its just my own preference.

$!nz oh wow this is awesome info you just shared, thanks for that! Really cool of you helping a fellow comrade in need!

KICKER

Looks great, but all that detail is going to get lost. Try broader shapes for better readability.

GxD11

Thanks you @$!nz for the link. I checked it out but it seems its focused on 3ds max, i use maya though but ive been looking for a maya plugin for that, yet no luck on that and equivalent instructions but heres hoping i find something.

@DanBe and @KICKER thanks for the advise guys. I thought this might be a problems so its gonna take me a while to rework the details on the texture but at least add the base colors of it for now.

unfortunately i made some mistakes with the poly count so i need to rework geometry since i was looking at face count and not tri count *epic facepalm. Really hope i make it to the deadline though

D4V1DC

Oh maya, idk why i thought u were a maxer, theirs been a video floating about thats why i didnt link that one thought everyone knew about that one.

Maya to DOTA2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pTAxfvKwc

GxD11

@$!nz thanks man totally forgot about this i only watched it for the mask 1 and 2 textures part I thought the rest was the usual till this exporting problem happened.

This is the final look of the actual concept but some of the smaller details might get omitted since it might not appear because of the small texture sizes

GxD11

Hey guys posting some progress on how the models import in the game. The bracer and shoulder went in alright , but i keep getting the import of the belt all messed up, not sure why. Any ideas?

Shoulder


Bracer


Heres my error with the belt


Appreciate any help.

D4V1DC

Reset Xform
collapse
set pivot 0,0,0
re-skin
export with bone

Give that a shot, looks good btw, your using maya, so alternative from max, I don't know what those would be.

Starcofski

wrong order $!nz, you want to set the pivot to the origin, reset Xform, and collapse to it (by placing it between the mesh layer and UV modifier/skin modifier). Then export.

If you reset and then move the pivot, the reset is pointless.

GxD11

@$!nz: hey thanks for the help. Well I tried it a few times but ended up with the exact same result though.

D4V1DC

Starcofski wrote: »

wrong order $!nz, you want to set the pivot to the origin, reset Xform, and collapse to it (by placing it between the mesh layer and UV modifier/skin modifier). Then export.

If you reset and then move the pivot, the reset is pointless.

ok, thnx.
Sry man tried to help i wouldn't know what the prob is, happen to my shoulder but somehow it fixed It's self. Maybe try Star's process? I'm out of it this week so, sry I couldnt help.

GxD11

@Starcofski & $!nz: Thanks again for the help guys i really appreciate it
I tweaked a few fbx export settings and it fixed itself right up actually used the settings from this link.

http://agentfx.blogspot.com/2012/11/dota2-simple-riggingimporting-tutorial.html

GxD11

Heres a look on the shoulder with finished textures. Critiques and comments welcomed.

bn20

so sick!

GxD11

Thanks!

Starcofski

The Geometry looks great, and it matches the concept quite well, but I'm a little worried about the severe lack of color.

I liked the original design (post 1) because it was great styling while adhering to the base colors. Personally, I would use a higher saturation and brighter shade on the super-dark red and keep the rest as is. But currently the metal styling is lost to the lack of contrast with the material beneath it.

GxD11

@Starcofski: Hey star took your advise and added back a bit of the color from the original to compensate for the lack of color.



Happy with how its turning out.

Spudnik

I'm loving your design but the textures are too noisy in my opinion, the shapes get lost

GxD11

Reworked the texture and removed some of the smaller details but im kinda liking both, not sure who to use though. again critiques and comments welcomed.

GxD11

Think im done with the belt textures.

Pina

I have to agree with Spudnik, I like the shape and design, but the patterns get a bit lost. Maybe it is the compression of the picture that creates all the extra confusion. Anyway, I would chose the right pic for the shoulders.

As for the belt, does the hanging piece of cloth move?

GxD11

Actually its not cloth its another metal piece. About the compression at some point i started editing the textures on the actual size for the requirements, 256x256 instead of a bigger one and then resizing, maybe that's why its looking a bit blurry.

GxD11

Final look on the bracer textures as far as i can tell. gonna see if i can work on adding the helm i had in mind.

GxD11

Finally finished the geometry for the Helm and did some export test with some blocked out textures to see if everything dropped in properly and don't see anything wrong with it so last thing to work on is helm textures. hope to hear what you guys think.

GxD11

Finished Helm.

GxD11

Final look on the armor set. Made some last minute changes to the belt and edited the textures so the colors come out a bit better.

bounchfx

I really dig it man, but I feel the helm is too saturated red. I thought I'd doodle just to suggest an alternate, though I think simply desaturating it a little (at least towards the base) and have the color ramp as it gets towards the tips alone would help.

here's my doodle:

GxD11

@bounchfx: hey man thanks for the tip really loved the looks and went straight work on it and loved how it makes it stand out more.

GxD11

Thought i had enough time till the deadline to add a weapon so me and my friend worked on these concepts. Decided to go on the last one on the right.

GxD11

Heres a colored version on the picked concept for the sword. Was thinking how it might look with the default effects the doombringer sword has in-game, so made a red hot version and the other lit on fire to have an idea of what it might look like.

GxD11

Finished last night doing a bit of overtime on the sword. Heres the update. Finally finished the textures and uploaded them in game and i happy with how it turned out . Hope to hear opinions from you guys.

GxD11

Final look on my armor set. Here is the link to my steam workshop files.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197994561633/myworkshopfiles/?appid=570
I really enjoyed working on this project and had a lot of fun with it, hope to work on more in the future