Making Of - Escape Challenge Landscape

MaYdaY · Dec 2013

Hey guys, its a little while ago since the Escape challenge ended this April. In the meantime I made a making of article for a magazine I´d like to share with you.
Thanks for all the fun I had participating in this challenge!

http://www.martinteichmann.com/makingof/Making_Of_Scottish_Landscape.pdf

leleuxart · Dec 2013

Awesome, thanks for the breakdown. I voted for you during the contest

d1ver · Dec 2013

Found it a while back on your website

Thanks for sharing man! Good stuff

hollandje · Dec 2013

Holy sh*t!! this is awesome work mate!!

.leshiy · Dec 2013

Thank you man! Great job!

Polymiron · Dec 2013

Nice writeup. I think I'm going to try to pick up cryengine and emulate the formula you have going. You should have kept that castle though! I feel like if you would have just made it more subtle and more ruinous/scattered, it would have been a great hint at where the castle was geographically. Also, that road looks so sexy, you're making me want to switch away from using primarily udk very badly.

Geno527 · Dec 2013

Thank's for the breakdown. Mayday, This is awesome, thank you

!

chrisavigni · Dec 2013

Thank you for sharing! Great scene!

vikk0 · Dec 2013

Wow!!! That's just freaking amazing!!! Thank you so much sir!!

TrevorJ · Dec 2013

ahh cool, i really liked this entry, thanks for sharing

[HP] · Dec 2013

Thanks for sharing man!

Turned out great.

luthyn · Dec 2013

Thank you SO much man! This is phenomenal! Great work

paulsvoboda · Dec 2013

Really nice write-up of the scene. The final result is gorgeous and it's nice to see the steps taken to achieve it.

-Em'- · Dec 2013

Thx for sharing this lovely art workflow !

I have a minor question about terrain texturing : how did you procede ?
As i'm understanding , you imported your height and colorized the whole terrain with the color output from Worldmachine as a "reference layer" then re-painted the terrain with proper grass/rock/etc texture layers ? right ?

You are also using only gray diffuse texture, I always found confusing how CE handles terrain texturing

never found the right way the use it with the 3 level of color ( terrain detail > brush color > diffuse color, so confusing

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stxtch · Dec 2013

great post mortem! thanks for the link

MaYdaY · Dec 2013

thanks for all the nice feedback!

-Em'- : The terrain texture I generated in World Machine and the color you can paint onto the terrain are basically the same. The detail Textures like rocks, grass etc. are multiplied onto this color. That’s why it’s important to keep the texture mean at around 128 and the color greyish. The detail textures get only rendered closer to the player. So you would see a line in the distance if the textures has too much color information or is to dark.