Off The Coast - Cryengine 3

sgv3dmax

Hi. I am working on a sci-fi + realistic environment in Cryengine 3 SDK. The idea is to make a portfolio-ready piece. The concept I am using is the one by madspartan013 in Devianart. Here are the specs:
Final rendering engine: Cry engine 3 SDK
Game play: Very little gameplay elements, but mostly for environment display
Modelling / Uving: 3ds max 2012
Hi-poly sculpting: Mudbox
Texturing: Adobe Photoshop
Normal map generation: nDo2, XNormal

I would like to get crits from the community. If you see anything that could be improved on, please feel free to comment. Thanks

This is the concept by madspartan013. He has open ocean behind the building, but my scene will be more closed with mountains behind.

Chris Bruin

Are you intending to stick to the original concept? In the original, the structure is out in the water, there are no puddles. I would highly recommend building the piece as closely to the original concept painting, from the same camera/distance, and just focus on that one building. Adding in all that extra land will detract from the final quality of one to two smaller pieces. Focus on one thing and polish it up to a portfolio quality.

sgv3dmax

Nope. I am using the concept just for the building. I want to make a small playable map. It includes an interior of a mine and the building. I will be doing it in sections, each one a complete map.

sgv3dmax

Changed the mountain texture and here is an update. I will be using crysis textures for the blocking out and changing to my own textures when i go forward

sgv3dmax

ParadoxTLH wrote: »

Are you intending to stick to the original concept? In the original, the structure is out in the water, there are no puddles. I would highly recommend building the piece as closely to the original concept painting, from the same camera/distance, and just focus on that one building. Adding in all that extra land will detract from the final quality of one to two smaller pieces. Focus on one thing and polish it up to a portfolio quality.

I decided to go with the original concept as suggested by paradoxTLH. One of the reasons being that it was getting too large and difficult to get done. Only difference will be the areas not seen in the concept like behind the camera view point. There will be a door on the left hand side (as in concept, but a little different one). I used vertex blend material for the rocks. I got a strong silhouette for the rocks and going to make this the final design. Still lot of work to do on rocks. Details will be modelled in mudbox, and normal map used as detail map in the material. I can use the tiled normal map in bump slot.

sgv3dmax

I haven't shown this side yet. I expanded it to accommodate a dock. There will be a modified version of a silo to be used as a power station beside the dock. It can also provide as a place of interest for game play. Dock is using a proxy wood texture for now. I am just blocking it in. You will see detailed textures soon. I need to get an overall idea of the area.

rockguy

I like the textures on the hills, although in kinda get blurry in some edges making them look weird, like you have this nice rough rocky surface and suddenly some bubbly corner appears, dont know if I making lot of sense.

Quack!

Very neat concept to work from, can't wait to see this develop.

whw

Phew! Glad you're following the concept since your first post. It's a really beautiful piece and to ruin it with brown mountains would've affected it as a portfolio piece.

This is shaping up nicely now except the scale seems a little off - the column of rock beneath the tower is larger in the concept. I'd also be wary about tinting the sky light yellow (mid-afternoon) as the concept has a bright sunny day feel.

Azkur

man i hope you really nail that concept!

sgv3dmax

Hey after a long time I am updating this thread, mostly because there was not much content to show and my progress was slow.

silver_hoodlum

although i like the concept i think u should reduce ur choice, otherwise it will become a huge amount of work for one person, try maybe to focus on one thing

sgv3dmax

Yeah i thought of that too, just making the island as in concept, but the scope was too low for a playable map. But I won't go crazy and expand this to an enormous one But sure I will take your opinion into consideration.

sgv3dmax

Added some rocks along the coastline. This mine is very dangerous and emits toxic materials. The liquid flowing out from it is very hazardous

BI0PREDAT0R

looking really good man

mrWiLYAlvarez

Dat's amazang. the models. jus out of curiosity, What texture res are you using for environment textures? i'm learning to use ce3 as well, and i'm not sure whether to start with 512 or 1024, or go cray with 2048.

sgv3dmax

mrWiLYAlvarez wrote: »

Dat's amazang. the models. jus out of curiosity, What texture res are you using for environment textures? i'm learning to use ce3 as well, and i'm not sure whether to start with 512 or 1024, or go cray with 2048.

I only have a few textures at the moment that are properly done. Terrain uses two diffuse and one normal @ 1024 x 1024. Rocks are 2 diffuse and 2 normals @ 1024 x 1024. Plus some trees on the island. The building is now just a tiled simple metal texture that will be replaced.

sgv3dmax

working on foliage

Jimmg

silver_hoodlum wrote: »

although i like the concept i think u should reduce ur choice, otherwise it will become a huge amount of work for one person, try maybe to focus on one thing

Always make it a point to push yourself, even if you don't finish the project you'll end up with more experience overall.

Havoc89

Hey buddy,

This is starting to shape up quite nicely. Orange water seems too illuminated, I'm guessing it is supposed to be polluted dark brown dirty water of sorts.