VG Remix - Dragon Age Origins

MLewallen

So! I'm excited to do this contest; I don't usually work quite so low poly, so this'll be a fun challenge.

Anyway, after a lot of debate and something of a list of possible games, I decided on Dragon Age: Origins. Specifically, one of the scenes I remember best - fighting the Archdemon.

This is just the environment at the moment.

Other pieces:

Catapaults
Archdemon
Warden
Alistair
Zevran
? I can't decide on my fourth character! Leliana or Morrigan??

Reference Images:



Here's a screencap, starting to block out the Denerim rooftop:

danielletaureau

Love this game! I'll be watching this.

PS. LELIANA.

MLewallen

Progress:



And showing the tris and all:

(second numbers; the first also have the pedestal thing included.)

the-regressor

Great stuff so far, look forward to seeing it come together :]

the-regressor

Do you have any idea what your final poly-count will be?

MLewallen

Oh goodness; no idea what my final count will be. I'm trying to keep in that 'not main objects around / under 100 tris; and big stuff @ 500'. Right now most of the buildings are easily within that. The small tower things are all modular, so each piece is well under 100.

I'm hoping to get some of the detail work going soon - nothing major; some railing stuff so the edges aren't so flat.

Also! Haha, bigger asset piece: The Catapaults! There's two of 'em, one on either side.

MLewallen

Environment WIP! Catapault (444 tris) , and detailing in. Trying to figure out something to add in around the bottom to give more of the 'rooftop' feel.

All total, the environment itself, right now, is at 3736 tris (not counting the pedestal turntable thingy. Or the catapults.) Might have to knock the railing down some.

the-regressor

Looking good! Please tell me you UV-ed it all XD?

MLewallen

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xD Yeaaa. Everything but the catapult is UV'ed now.

I'd cry if I didn't have it all UV'ed at this stage.

MLewallen

So, was away from the computer yesterday, didn't really get to work on anything. So today I tackled the archdemon! First time trying to really model a dragon ( as I mostly work in environment / asset pieces...) So this was fun, and, like the rest of the contest, a challenge!

Here it is:



So this crazy beast, when I originally finished modeling him, was almost 1k in poly. I managed to knock him down to 656 - I was trying to stay as close to the suggested 500 as I could, and not wanting to go over 700 if I could manage.

MLewallen

Sketchfab testing! Kay, so. apparently the sketchfab embed there doesn't like me all that much. Hopefully I'll get it figured out. Help?

Denerim_Rooftop_Diorama_notexture.obj (click to view in 3D)

MLewallen

[SKETCHFAB]21ad6a17690c4e73b4d29ec247d6eea2[/SKETCHFAB]


Aha! Got it to work correctly.

MLewallen

[SKETCHFAB]1ea56937e8854adbb2351927b67c887d[/SKETCHFAB]

Archdemon, modeled and UV'ed. Texturing is going to be fun!

MLewallen

Characters Modeling time! Here's the base for my Warden.

After a lot of debate, I decided to go with my Dalish Rogue Warden. ( It was a toss up between her and my Elf Mage Warden.)

The base itself topped out at 518 not including the weapons.

*Some tweaking will occur, of course! Final numbers later.

Tyche Laughs

Woooo! Dragon!

..it looks hungry.

MLewallen

Dragon is ready to nom on some Wardens! Alistair is probably exceptionally crunchy in his plate.

MLewallen

So, after not looking at it for a night, I decided I did not like the original version of my character base. So, some redoing and tweaking happened!



Much more satisfied.

Alistair, Warden, Zevran, Morrigan.

MLewallen

Texture work!

MLewallen

Oi, getting a bit down to the wire! Here's another texture update. Yea, the toons are popped in there for a 'lets see how big they are in comparison....size changes will have to happen!

Just missing my dragon now.

MLewallen

Today's work:

The floor:

So, even with not sticking exactly to the design, I felt these circle-designs were important to the floor, and wanted to keep them in. (Ya know, when trying to figure out the design, for some reason it seemed very Lolth-like and spidery.)



Fire:

Ya know...I'm just not sure about the fire. I thought 'Denerim is burning beneath the party's feet while they fight the archdemon'. So, fire!



Eh. Maybe it needs to be darker or something.

MLewallen

So, Here's another sketchfab of the environment. I have my textures for it all resized and ready to put ON it (some changes happened, sadface, 'cause of resizing. )

Anyway, I just cannot seem to get it to work. I have my materials all named, and my objects named, and my textures are all separate , as a friend said needed to be done. But when I go to apply them in sketchfab, it just slaps the one texture over the whole thing.

Help? Please?

[SKETCHFAB]cf511c43d09d47bb8a6cde3b5567ffef[/SKETCHFAB]

D4V1DC

Hope this helps let me know:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1891549&postcount=63

MLewallen

Thank you! I've been looking to see if they have a plugin for the 2013 version of maya, and all I keep finding is 12 and 14. Hopefully I can find one and get this straightened up.

MLewallen

Full scene, untextured!

[SKETCHFAB]d26facb7f09847239ac721f8d6e8a935[/SKETCHFAB]

Maya shows a grand total of 10.8k tris for the whole scene; sketchfab says 13.2k. Wierd.

Stills:

MLewallen

Archdemon!

MLewallen

Unfortunately I will be out of town this weekend and unable to finish the piece. Really wish I could have had the other characters done in time.

Good luck to all entering!