VG Remix - Advance Wars: Dual Strike

klamp

I've always loved turn based tactics games, and Advance Wars is one of my favorites. It also seems perfect for this competition.

Just wanted to set this thread up real quick. Hopefully I'll have enough time away from work in the next few weeks to finish this!

Next post will be a gathering of image references.

More to come!


****LATEST PROGRESS****

Final submission materials!

[SKETCHFAB]6973f0bc978543008ec193369552b37e[/SKETCHFAB]

Beauty Shots:




Textures:

LANKUS MAXIMUS

Awesome idea. Perfectly suited

klamp

Gathering reference...



Those units are gonna be so freakin' fun to make. UGH. Also love the character design in this game.

Can't wait.

D4V1DC

Whoa looks like you have a lot ahead of you can't wait for more nice choice.

SentryTheGod

Dude! Yes!!!

klamp

Started blocking out the units:

Shendoo

I love this game! Good luck

adam

Oh man, I am very excited for this entry. I loved these games on my DS.

klamp

Couple more units blocked out.

polymator

Wow! This looks fantastic! Already want to play this version of the game

deadpixl

Can't wait to see this entry when it's done. I loved this game.

sdmitchell

Oh, man, I love this game, this is going to look superb!

klamp

Started working on making the terrain tiles.



Right now these tiles are all from a single 64x64 texture. The original pixel art in Advance Wars seems to look like the purple "dirt" area is just a solid color, but I'm probably going to add in some noise to help it match the grass and make it look less plain.

Back to work!!

Lando_Mange

Damn, you totally nailed the look of the game with that base alone! Looking forward to following this!

klamp

@Lando_Mange - Thanks!! I love this game, so I really hope I do it justice.

Another small update. Started working on the water texture and experimenting with how it will look when positioned next to land...



Also got some ideas on how I'm going to handle beaches and transitions into water.

klamp

Decided to switch gears a bit so I could figure out my process for texturing the units. I used the APC for my test run:





Took a bit of tweaking here and there, but all in all I think I've got a handle on it. If anyone is interested in getting a closer look and tumbling around the model, I'll probably put it in sketchfab soon.

Taking a little break for the night. Hope you guys enjoy!

PogoP

Looks really nice so far, great work!

Grindy

Yeah, great work! The textures are spot on so far, keep it up!

Shiv

Love the little dude on the apc with his casual arm

Callesw

holy shit! This is one of my favorite games, and you really seem to do it justice! Will surely keep my eyes on this one.

Anthricus

This is freaking awesome the apc looks amazing

LANKUS MAXIMUS

Beautiful pixel art. Following for sure.

All the best with it!

klamp

Thanks guys!! Made a couple more assets and started throwing everything together in the same scene to make sure things aren't completely disparate.



Gonna work on trees next, then go back to texturing the other units I've modeled.

klamp

One last small update, then off to bed.

AdamE87

Omg, as a massive Advance Wars fan this is looking freaking awesome. I actually want to see a game like this get made, damn!

Hannah

Oh wow, I love the look of this! The colours work really really, great work.

Baj Singh

This is looking mint mate. Nice work so far.

Irene

looks really nice! well done

huwagpo

wow really nice:-)more!

glenatron

This is looking beautiful!
How are you doing the shadow under the bridge? Is that part of the terrain a unique texture, with the shadow baked in?

D4V1DC

Juicy results loving the colors, this is going to be great.

klamp

Thanks everyone!! I started blocking out the map I'm going to put all this stuff on, so I should have another update to post tonight.

@glenatron - The shadows are faked - I've put them onto planes and placed them into the scene as needed. I'll make sure to post my texture sheets tonight when I post the updated environment.

klamp

Here's the update I promised. Been filling out the map, and in doing so finding out what environment tiles and textures I still need to make. Here's what I've got so far:



And here are my texture sheets so far:



Still on my to-do list:

• A few more water textures
• Beach terrain tile and texture
• Buildings with textures
• Unwrap and texture other units
• Finish fleshing out map with assets

AzzaMat

This looks amazing!

Callesw

Yes! make this a real game already!
Also, it would be cool to see this in sketchfab!

klamp

Thanks guys!

@Callesw - Yes, my plan is to get this into sketchfab this upcoming weekend. That way I should have the entire last week to fix any issues that might arise from that import process.

a3sthesia

so dang pretty. Can't wait to play with it Sketchfab!

klamp

Did a test run of the import process:

(see first post for sketchfab scene)

As expected, I had to do some messing around to get the alpha to work. Not sure if anyone else ran into this problem, but I was having an issue where, when I applied an opacity map to a texture, the opaque parts were still strangely translucent. I ended up putting all my objects with transparency on their own separate texture.

Anyway, this is what I've got so far! My updated checklist now stands as such:

• A few more water textures - DONE!
• Beach terrain tile and texture - DONE!
• Buildings with textures
• Unwrap and texture other units
• Finish fleshing out map with assets

klamp

Guennor wrote: »

It's probably a z-sorting problem. I was having it too with my objects with alpha - still do. I'll gotta have to redo some stuff to get around that annoying problem... :poly127:
Did you manage to solve it? I tried everything I could imagine. I even tried to use different materials for objects with alpha but it didn't work. I googled it and apparently there's nothing about sketchfab issues with zsorting...

Anyway, good job man! it's starting to get its shape and it looks awesome!

Weeeeeird. Yeah, I couldn't ever figure out why it was doing that, but the workaround I ended up using was putting all the textures that involve transparency - the shadows, and the foam around the rocks in the water - on the same texture sheet. It didn't really solve the problem, but this way the opacity maps aren't affecting any textures that are supposed to be opaque.

Lemme know if you find out anything else about that issue, and I'll do the same!

tcw295

That is looking AWESOME. Cant wait to see more units. Your sketchfab looks like its got a little grid around each tile where the texture is tiling,1 pixel thick that I cant see that in your WIP, is that intentional? Did you turn off texture filtering in sketchfab? Makes it look even more aliased and crisp.

AimBiZ

This is turning out pretty sweet. I especially like the palette.

klamp

@tcw - Thanks dude! I like how your Commander Keen stuff is coming along, too. As for the dark outlines, that should be taken care of now. It looks like sketchfab takes a thumbnail screenshot as soon as you import a new model, and it hadn't updated to the new one.

Added a few more things to the map:

(see first post for sketchfab scene)

Now there are cities! You might also notice that I've added in the HQ building. It's unwrapped, but the texture is only blocked in at this point. Next up is to finish the HQ buildings, then move on to factories. THEN texture the other units.

Also going to keep my first post on the first page up to date with the latest sketchfab scene so people don't have to dig to find it.

minorthreat

absolutely amazing color choices, i love how you've handled shading so far!

klamp

@Guennor - I'd really like to add a variety of units. It just depends on what I have time to do between now and Sunday. And thanks, dude! Man, a 3d remake of Advance Wars would be SWEET.

@minorthreat - Thanks!!

@AimBiZ - Thank you!! I'm glad you like it!

William3DArtist

I had the same problem as you with the alphas. I just switched them over to jpegs and gave each there own texture sheet. I used a black and white alpha because instead of a deleted background and white alpha. It turned out the best this way for me. I am not sure but the 1 bit transparency tut on the transparencies allowed forum does not say you cant use jpegs. But since you can use .png I would stick to that to be on the safe side. I wish I could use them but they are not working even since I separated them like the Sketchfab FAQ said. I posted in the Q and A Forum here on Polycount. Check it out if you have not worked around it.

klamp

@william21984 - Interesting. I had a feeling that using both black and white would work better, but I wasn't sure if that would be breaking the rules. I found a workaround that seems to work well enough, so I'm going to stick with that. Thanks, though!

Made another update! I now have all the cities, capitol buildings, and factories for red and blue armies, as well as their neutral versions. I'm going to hold off on making any other building types for now and move on to texturing units.

I updated the first post with the latest sketchfab scene, so check it out there!

klamp

*Phew* Just made it in, right under the wire! I wish I had had more time to add more units and whatnot, but between work and a friend visiting from out of town, it just didn't end up happening. That being said, I had an enormously fun time working on this and would like to come back to this after the competition is all finished up.

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone for the kind words and encouragement. I've always been a big fan of the Polycount community, and your posts just reinforced that belief.

Check my first post for all my final submission materials. THANKS!

hobodactyl

Just saw this in the finished thread, great job! Really perfect for the competition and well-executed

klamp

@hobodactyl - Thanks!!

Amatobahn

This is how they should remake the game. Awesome.

Afrodiet

Amatobahn wrote: »

This is how they should remake the game. Awesome.

I thought the exact same thing, i'd totally play it