Temple of Alduin (Skyrim FanArt) IMHEVY
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So I wanted to learn a bit more about UDK, and terrain art. In my experience if you want to learn a new tool, make something you love... and I happen to love that old Skyrim!
This is the very start of something that I have planned out. It's still ruff, and about 1/3ish/less done, so please take that into account. Also, I made all the assets and fx, whatever you see. So if something jumps out at you as being horrible let me know! Its my fault
Still, I thought I would post some stuffs.
This is a brief idea of what I have planned out- I wanted to start the player out in a dark forest that leads to a small clearing. A treacherous path will then take you to hidden ice caves leading deep through the mountains. After making it through the caves, you'll see a tall spiraling stair case reaching into the heavens, up and up you'll go to finally reach the Resurrection Temple of Alduin. The doors to the temple are massive, and much like Alduin's Wall, tell a story. The doors shows the truth; the false hero of Skyrim only managed to destroy a vestige of world destroyer. Each panel of the door will tell a certain tale... and the end how Alduin will return for his vengeance.
dark forest (blurry hard to see until you make it to the clearing)
Here is a really crappy youtube video, (if anyone can tell me how to get a good video capture, and through it up on the net with some HD action I would really appreciated it) The compression/frameRate/Colors are super bad. IF you watch it please do so at its highest ratings, (full screen it to see the trees move and water splashes below the waterfall. Thanks
Please HD... or its going to be even worst!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1T9HozSK-8&fmt=22
This is the very start of something that I have planned out. It's still ruff, and about 1/3ish/less done, so please take that into account. Also, I made all the assets and fx, whatever you see. So if something jumps out at you as being horrible let me know! Its my fault
Still, I thought I would post some stuffs.This is a brief idea of what I have planned out- I wanted to start the player out in a dark forest that leads to a small clearing. A treacherous path will then take you to hidden ice caves leading deep through the mountains. After making it through the caves, you'll see a tall spiraling stair case reaching into the heavens, up and up you'll go to finally reach the Resurrection Temple of Alduin. The doors to the temple are massive, and much like Alduin's Wall, tell a story. The doors shows the truth; the false hero of Skyrim only managed to destroy a vestige of world destroyer. Each panel of the door will tell a certain tale... and the end how Alduin will return for his vengeance.
dark forest (blurry hard to see until you make it to the clearing)
Here is a really crappy youtube video, (if anyone can tell me how to get a good video capture, and through it up on the net with some HD action I would really appreciated it) The compression/frameRate/Colors are super bad. IF you watch it please do so at its highest ratings, (full screen it to see the trees move and water splashes below the waterfall. Thanks
Please HD... or its going to be even worst!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1T9HozSK-8&fmt=22
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1. mist of the waterfall (the location of the effect seemed a bit off at the lowest level).
2. speed of the river below given its proximity to the rushing waters of the waterfall...
I'm no waterfall expert. I've never even seen one in real life. But those two things seemed odd to me.
It's most noticeable in the far shots. Up close they look pretty great. Other than that, looks great!
You don't have to go this extreme, but you can see in the redder areas of the rock how there is more variety in the tones of reds, greys, and browns.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/DirkvdM_rocks.jpg
I really like the snow and ice. I've never tried to set up a snow and ice shader. How did you do that?
@dtschultz: i think its the vertex painting with upvector blending. Not sure if thats what zombiewells is using.
nice rock ref Dtschultz! (and Rurouni Strife) It shouldn't be too hard to get some better break up in the mat or the shader. As for the shapes of the rocks; well sadly I only have the long rock group, and some rock pile groups. I am planning on making broader rocks, stacked or layered rocks. and some heavy erosion rocks... I know that's a lot of rocks. As for the snow, you could use an up/z facing world position and use it in a lerp as the alpha. That with one of your normal map channels as shrink and grow mask should do the trick. I didn't do that though.
Can you show some sculpts of rocks or something else? I just please
Ps. Sorry for my english.