Brumbleton's Forest

DavidBrumbley

Here is a scene I have been working on for a couple weeks. Currently I'm building up a small area of the environment to test all of the assets and materials. Eventually this will be a larger level with some old broken down cabins, flowing water, and a cave. Lots to do :P

I'm going to start on a new tree bark and root texture tomorrow to get rid of the placeholder one. ALso need to stop being lazy and actually make my ground shader.

Thanks for looking :poly142:

Klash-120

Gtfo Brums.

Mr Significant

LOL ^^

Nice. Nice sculpts. How did you get this second ? Any scattering in ZBrush/Mudbox ? Or it's generated in Ndo/DDO ?

DavidBrumbley

for the textures i just sculpt a couple rocks in zbrush and then scatter them inside of max using the paint tools + hand place.

DietChugg

It looks very pretty. Is this for a video game by chance?

Bevvill120

Needs more DINOSAURS! *rawr* <- Weakest dino roar ever.

http://vimeo.com/67608281#at=0

Looks useful. I should probably give it a try. !!

JamieRIOT

Nice. Looking forward to seeing where this one goes. Subscribed!

DavidBrumbley

Dinosaurs could happen :P

Here's the start of some rock wall textures. These rock walls are going to be pretty small. Maybe 1 or 2 players tall. :poly142:

DavidBrumbley

Some updates. Still havent made my real tree textures :poly142::poly142::poly142::poly142:

Twister3

That looks really nice! I think right now the contrast is a bit too high. Maybe a few lights with low intensity or bumping the GI might help to get rid of the dark shadows.

The rock sculpts are amazing! How did you do those? I'm having a hard time to create that layered look. I'm looking forward to seeing these ingame!

Ulwaen

Nice work, keep it up!

DavidBrumbley

thanks man!

Yea twister I'm still figuring out lighting in UDK. Looks so flat compared to Cry. Ill post my rock sculpts tonight

DavidBrumbley

To get the layered rocks I mask off an area, invert the mask, and then pull that area out in move mode(not using a move brush). I do this at the very start of the rock sculpt and use dynamesh to make sure it has enough geo everywhere. TODAY I SHALL MAKE TEXTUREEESESS:poly142::poly142:

Snafubar7

This looks great

Are all the rocks in that scene made of those three you posted?

DavidBrumbley

Yea its just those 2 rocks plus some smaller ones.

Here's ma tree bark

chrisradsby

It's looking good man Really nice work so far! Can't wait to see what you've got going.

Snafubar7

I'd like to see the texture sheet, especially for the left tree just curious about the unwrap.

Klash-120

Can't wait to see some WIREFRAMES.

DavidBrumbley

whats a wireframe

Twister3

DavidBrumbley wrote: »

To get the layered rocks I mask off an area, invert the mask, and then pull that area out in move mode(not using a move brush). I do this at the very start of the rock sculpt and use dynamesh to make sure it has enough geo everywhere. TODAY I SHALL MAKE TEXTUREEESESS:poly142::poly142:

Awesome, thanks for the explanation! Keep the good work coming!

DavidBrumbley

little bit more work

DavidBrumbley

Here is another part of the environment I'm working on. Just noticed the roots on the left are messing up the scale of the tree so gotta take them out

nathanbarrett

This is sexy!

DavidBrumbley

thanks nathan

SinisterUrge

Looks great and don't have any criticisms, seems like you know what you're doing. Just finish it.

DInusty

mmmm its coming along nicely. really like the small plants your adding along the roots of the larger formations near the ground.

DavidBrumbley

some updates. I'm gonna start on my architectural elements now or a character or the skybox. Need a break from splines :poly122:

AndroidBebop

Did you do the roots in max or Z brush? Whats your work flow like for making the trees and roots? I'm a newb so i'm curious how you went about it.