Medieval Camp Environment

Shyralon

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Hi!
So I decided to start a new project, a medieval camp environment.
Not really sure wether to use UDK or Cryengine, but I think it's going to be a UDK scene. Main purpose of this thread is to get critique and to keep me motivated.
So lets get started:
I don't have much yet, but here are 2 tent models:



And here a quick test in UDK:

brandoom

Give those tents some more polys, they're too perfect.

For instance, have a look at the shape/outline of this tent compared to yours.



Not a bad start though. Just need to give your tents some character!

Shyralon

Thanks, nice image
Okay, I remade the tent with an eye to silhouette.
Don't look at the texture right now, only trying to make more interesting shapes.
550 tris right now.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

Give the cloth some bending inwards, who cares if it doesnt match the ref, it would look much better.
Just my opinion.

Shyralon

Needed a little break from making tents, so I made a table and did some in-engine tests with udk grass and smoke/fire (planning to make my own, just to see how it might look like) and experimenting with different compositions.

Shyralon

Small update
Just added more stuff..

hamzaaa

I really like your start! I too think you could work a little bit more on those tents but you already know that. Looking forward to more! Sub'd

chrisradsby

Try to get rid of the superstraight line on the overhang-thing, try to bend it , like it's weighing down in the middle. Good work so far!

Shyralon

Yeah I know, I'm already working on the tents.
Somehow the picture in my previous post was gone, hope it works now.

Shyralon

Very small update
Just made one or two new models (this fence thing and a little chest), still working on the tents.

ayoub44

hi i dont really khnow wath style you are going to . are you trying to make a hand painted environment ? or some really good looking env , try to use some zbrush to get some details or normal maps .. try to work on chris crits about straight line . your new assets are good just try to work on texture more add dirt and stuff on it and make those wood have low contrast because they are not your really what you want people to look
hope this help and keep it up

ASGUARDVIKING

Hey there

Looks real cool, ya are doing well. one thing i think needs to happen with the textures is give them a little more vibrance or depth.

Shyralon

Thanks, I never thought about Zbursh for creating textures, I'm definitely going to try this out

Shyralon

Took a look at Zbrush and made this little axe, but having problems with baking good normal maps right now...


Before that I tried to make a landscape for the scene, but I am not going to use it because..the scale is off, colors don't match the scene and many more things..but it still was a good learning experience to make it...

Shyralon

Made a few new assets, a banner with two texture variations, a sword (wip textures), a new tent (also wip textures) and an axe..
Also added normals to most of the textures to give them more depth.

Elod.H

Hey Shyralon,

I can see that you are working hard on this, a lot of effort is being put into this project, well done .
The very first thing that popped into my mind when I looked at all the pictures is that I think you are using way to few polygons. Nowadays, you can put much more polys/tris into game engines, so I would use that to give everything a more irregular look.

There are too many vertical lines in the scene right now, a lot of things look too perfect. I'd say don't worry about the textures at all right now, instead just throw on a greyish material maybe and focus on silhouette. Once you've nailed that down, you can start texturing.
That's my opinion .
Keep us posted, I really want to see what you make out of this .

Shyralon

I was very busy the last month so I had no time to work on the scene, but now I continued remaking the tents. Still having some problems with Zbrush and not 100% happy with the look of (especially) the folds, but here's what the current highpoly looks like:

And here are a few little changes I made before, changed the lighting an made these hamthings, they are supossed to hang on some kind of string up there, still missing. plan is to build some kind of kitchen/cookplace.

Shyralon

Worked more on the tents, but having a weird problem with udk now, maybe anyone knows how to fix it?
Every time when I try to import a model, UDK says "failed to parse FBX file".
Makes no difference if I usw Maya or Max to export, already updated UDK version, the FBX file itself doesn't seem to be corrupted because I can still import/export it between Max and Maya. And it's with all models I create right now, so I assume it has something to do with my UDK... Any ideas?

Shyralon

Here's some kind of final presentation shot while i'm trying to fix my UDK problems and moving on to other projects.