Trying to achieve XCOM: Enemy Unknown style

LlamaRider

Sup bros
Last week our team decided to completely change graphic style of our game. And here comes problem, how should I texture my model to make it look like those from XCOM?


I hope you guys will help me and my team. I will show some screenshots of models soon.

osman

That's a pretty broad question, can you be more specific? Do you perhaps have some screens of your current style?

Stefan_Martens

Well, because characters are fairly small, and the screen is densely packed with object, I'd suggest you go easy on wear and tear. Think about the larger, more recognizable shapes in your models and accentuate those.

I know it's a completely different style, but Valve had some very useful style guides for their Dota2 workshop community.

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterArtGuide.pdf

also their texture process (looks pretty sweet):

http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterTextureGuide.pdf

The points they mention in their styleguide are applicable to characters as well as props, weapons, etc.

LlamaRider

Thank you very much Stefan, these pdf's will help us very much
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For about 6 months we have been making stuff in this style but then we understood that we won't be able to create realistic looking game in Unity. So this is why we are migrating to a different, more approachable style.

PyrZern

Are you talking about environment ? or props ? or characters ? or equipment ? or all of them ?

LlamaRider

Now about props and environment.

LlamaRider

I started making something what will be very important- the forge. Idea is simple, a forge made by player, created using materials he gathered.
An anvil (needs retexture):

Blockout

High poly of the fireplace