Small game-art book.

Mr Significant

Shalom! Some sculpt I've done. I'll don't bake it for LP, I change project to something much more thought. Metal and wood. It's not PRO yet, but it's closer with time and practice

Sorry for PRO english.

Mr Significant

Ok, guys, something I worked on few days ago:




Sculpt and textures I'll show tommorow, now I'm tired as hell

This will be for small "EPIC" scene

Mr Significant

Mr Significant

Updates. This will be the mountain wall texture.

Clark Coots

nice looking sculpts Damian! did you use the MRGBZ grabber trick for the tiling?

Mr Significant

Yes, and for making custom alphas, I also used MRGBZ grabber

Mr Significant

Tommorow I will post sculpts and tekstures:




marmoset render.

Mr Significant

Updates: pine tree done. After 4 days :D:D tommorow I'll do 2 variation of this tree. Propably I'll make some diorama

Skrinzzz:

Mr Significant

Mr Significant

Learning UDK!!



WIP: I'll make more ferns, maybe 3-4 with different textures. Is there way to get rid of that black shadow on this? I already change the envirnment ambient in world properties, but on the model it's still exist.

ivanzu

That is shading issue,most likely a problem with material.

Mr Significant

Yeah, today I just learned about materials and shaders creating so I'll make another shader for that. Thanks!

Fozwroth

You got some nice textures going on

I like the second trees better, they have more defined shapes and some good spacing between the branches. the first one looks to solid and there are some crossed planes showing, I would try to match up some reference on how to shape your branches and the spacing between them, trees needs some air in them so they don't appear solid

I would check this out for creating a vegetation shader in UDK, he covers how to get good shading inside UDK and to get some wind effects in them

Keep up the good work ^^

https://www.3dmotive.com/f102101

Mr Significant

aww yes I forgot about his tutorial thanks

synergy11

What was your process for doing the Pine needles/branches?

Great work!

Mr Significant

Ou, it;s called Pine needles? Finally someone tell me how to say that "pine leaves " correctly haha

So first find some reference of branche ( empty branch ) that you will follow, and make the shape of them with lines. ( spline in max.) Map them if you want, you can change texturing to screen mapping ( In Max.)

Then on every end of that spline I make a needles by hand. Very creative and boring. The needle is simple cylinder with 4-5 sides and welded end vertices. I'm telling about this:



And to proper looking ( no weak looking center of tree.) you have to make a solid center of texture (sorry for PRO english ). And I just made 4-5 different groups of needles ( 15-20 needles in group), they must very different. And just copy-paste there. Remember to make it solid in the middle.

Then, when you have all needles on branches, you have them all on the one z axis: They itersecting with others. So you have to take that intersecting ones, and move them little forward (that also gives you nice AO ).

It's long and boring, but it's my method. You can try ACtree, script for Max, or use Object Paint, by I just hate generators, and Object Paint is so unintuitive, and it's making all needles very regular, even with size randomizer.

Then Bake it with RTT (render to texture). Maybe I should do a tutorial, so you can better understand what I'm trying to say

Fozworth thanks for looking to my thread Appreciate.
In 2-3 days I'll post some ferns, because I just finish making alphas and textures. Now I have to make models, edit normals, and make shader. With my poor resource of time it takes 2-3 days

Update soon.

Shuaws

Hey just wondering if you followed a tutorial for those rocky mountain terrain sculpts I have been trying to make something similar but mine look like there's something wrong. If you have any tips I would appreciate it. Looking forward to your scene

chrisradsby

You probably should spend some more polys and at least bend those branches once or twice.



Use reference to get the shapes right.

Mr Significant

@Chrisradsby I know I just look at Skyrim and I saw ~500 tris, so hell, I will do the same. And I see then how straight and bad it looks in Unity. I know. Also thansk for the reference pic.

@Shuaws make a thread, even send me link to it, so we can check what you doing wrong I don't follow any mountain tutorials, I just mail to few people, they tell me something about sculpting techniques. Then I just grab one rocky surface texture, make it tileable, square. Then reduce noise via PS filter. Next bring it to Crazy Bump to make height map, and decrease the strenght/depth by half of it value. Export, and bring into ZBrush, and sculpt. I used trim dynamic, hpolish, and orb cracks. And this was the base for the normal map. Then I have to make details on it, so I choose another rocky texture, repeat all steps including sculpt, but for now, when you choose MRGBZ Grabber, and you take an alpha from this sculpt. Then use this alpha with Standard Brush/Drag option And just drop this details into base of your sculpt.

It's lot of work, now I have many, many rock alphas, so I just make the base, and then details with alphas. I just want to learn how to make detail alpha via ZBrush.

Hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say Updates soon.

Mr Significant

First scene in UDK finished:

Mr Significant

WIPs. 2nd and 3rd sculpt will be leaved for bake, rest will be done from scratch, maybe. It's for the new scene I'll making. Rest of the "stone" will be on the texture.

Mr Significant

Propably going to retopolgy and baking.

Mr Significant

Testing testing:

Mr Significant

Messing around with World Machine. Just test, nothing epic/planned

Mr Significant

Updatezzzz: Propably I'll do foliage in few days. Any crits or propositions for texture work?

Mr Significant

Update:

Mr Significant

Testing CE3:

Mr Significant

Rock, maybe even for cliffs. I have all maps baked from xnormal, on weekend I'll texture it, and making terrain for ce3 and udk (propably )

sltrOlsson

Great sculpt. Very clean and readable! Your problem though is that your diffuse are fighting with you normal. It does not look very good in engine.. If you can, take a look at what last of us do. Very calm textures were they let the normal work very well, with a soft calm diffuse. Look at the breakdown here on polycount. Then if you look in the game, that same cliff texture is used trough out the game. Very impressive stuff.

Keep at it! I want to see more!

Mr Significant

Cool, thanks sltrOlsson. But my friend tell me that will doesn't work for the cliff. hmm... I'll texture it and duplicate few times for make the cliff. Then I'll look if its looking good.

I need many environment artist to get a lot of feedback. Updates soon.

Mr Significant

Ok, I finished the cliffs Now I'll do maybe something small.

Mr Significant

I started Unnofficial Witcher FanArt WIP: still need make brighter texture for the wooden beam, now it's blending with the walls.

sltrOlsson

I have no idea what your friend told you and what wouldn't work. But the cliff you got now is not good at all, you just slapped a photo on there?

Here, it wasn't that big of a search. This is the Last Of Us dump I talked about. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122359&page=2 Look at his cliffs and the textures. Analyze what makes them nice. Like I said, calm diffuse and settle normal.

I have no idea what you'r trying to accolpish here, but I would stick to one project and try to get good feedback on it. Then finish it before I start an other one. I won't get better if you just jump around..

Mr Significant

The goal for now is to make an Inn from the first village in Witcher: And I know, I'm jumping from flower to flower with those projects, but... I don't even know how to explain that

So updates on the textures: I spend soo much time on it, so I don't wan't to change it. I like the result. And this will stay in the project.

Mr Significant

Updates: Almost done:

Mr Significant

The Inn is finished. I'll not made for this anything more.

Mr Significant

And going to Zbrush with it!

Mr Significant

SCulpt of the rough concrete walls for the medieval house. Similar to this from Witcher 2:

RobeOmega

Epic work, why is no-one seeming to reply to this?
Also how do you make your textures?

Mr Significant

Maybe because I dont finish my projects :D:DD:D:D:D:D:D:D:D It's terrible.

Thanks. Glad you like it. About textures: It's photosource mixed by bake's from Xnormal. Photoshop blending layers like Overlay, Hard Light, Color Burn are propably the best of them. Also Brightnes and Contrast and Hue - Saturation: These two I used a lot. Especially for the wood and Rocks. It's pretty standard, like everyone else.

about Sculpts: those are heightmaps mixed with TrimDynamic (best Brush in ZBrush ). Then alpha created from photo to get surface.

Also You can make a folder with your reference images. When I found on the internet something thats I like, and I'll propably want to see this in future, I save it to folder. That's very helpfull, instead of searching Uncle Google for thousand times: sculpting rocks ZBrush, sculpting wood ZBrush, etc,etc.

And also speak with a lot of people about their work (Darren, Simon, Fozworth ). That's it.

Mr Significant

First part of the wall for the house done:

NegevPro

Looks great, keep it up!

Mr Significant

Update time!:

Mr Significant

Sculpt for the stone walll this will be around the village:

without surface

with surface

wooden floor

Mr Significant

Textures done. This is more blue'ish; it's looks very colorfull now because of lighning setup in marmoset. Time to bring it to UDK/

Mr Significant

Speedsculpts, just for test and practice.

Mr Significant

Today's sculpt: I'm making mayan temple interior from Monthly noob challenge (I know, its out of time, but I'll post work here). I have more work done, but I'll post only this sculpt, so I'll dont get discourages.

Oniram

i really like all the rock sculpts.

Mr Significant

Thanks Sean!

Mr Significant

And another piece of shit I made Normal maps only (detail lightning view). Maybe I'll add vegetation later, if the scene will look kinda empty: Friend told me, that this scene looks like scene from Uncharted I laughed.

Mr Significant

Shalom again! I finished enviro !! I cannot finish it on UDK because UDK dont have realtime lightning and GI and bilion things like CryEngine. Maybe with UE 4 I can do something, when it's out?

There's a ton of pics Sorry

Concept by Adam Baines - http://adambaines.blogspot.com.au/2009/10/some-environments.html