WIP well
this is a low polly well i made. comes in at about 1.6k tris.
this next image is the high polly version coming in at around 4mill tris.
once finished this model should have the poly count of the low res but the detail of the high one.
this next image is the high polly version coming in at around 4mill tris.
once finished this model should have the poly count of the low res but the detail of the high one.
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You should also play with offsetting some of the stones of the well. Having a few stones slightly deeper or protruding will help the silhouette break away from a perfect cylinder shape.
I also agree with JadeEyePanda. This piece could really benefit from utilizing a sculpting program.
http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/1420-Creating-a-Stylized-Set-Element-for-Games-in-Maya
Understandably, this is a big investment, would you have the money to do so?
I have not heard professionals anywhere use Maya as their primary sculpting package. (High Poly hard surface, yes, that can happen purely in Maya)
Take the time to learn Zbrush.
Dont do it this way. Take your time with ZBrush! It's way more powerful as this "build in thing" in Maya. In addition it will help you with your next Project. I would say ZBrush is the way to go, industrial standard Program!
let me know what you think ok? it has less then 1.6k tris. and it's using the almost exact same low poly model as the one i posted before. just has the roof changed a little.
The roof right now lacks a clean edge ending.
Do you have breakdowns of your texture map?
Can you take a picture of this not in Maya's viewport, but a game engine's, like UDK?
is this what you were after or did u want the wire map.
yay re-doing the roof another couple of times. and i will have to re do the texture map as well. it just doesn't seem to have that stylized look i want. and im no where near good enough to hand paint the texture yet,
Asset efficiency relies so much on a lot of factors per game that any attempts to reasonably account for the best efficient model will make your head spin.
Choose a game, make the well so that it would fit into the game and meet the game's quality standard (or go beyond it), and hopefully this gives you a better idea about the amount of work or the kind of work you need to do for this.
Also, regarding your texturing, it literally just feels like photo textures were slapped on. Paint on it. Adjust it. What style are you looking to emulate?
Your UV layout is very inefficient. Keep in mind that not everything needs to have the same number of texels per meter - pieces with very little detail can be much smaller on the texture map than those with fine details. Also, try to use as much space as possible, even when it means rotating or scaling individual pieces for a tighter fix. As it stands, almost 40% of your texture space is wasted. Don't be afraid to use the same texture for two pieces (the logs supporting the roof), or mirror textures (the roof) when you can without losing quality or being obvious.
i don't know how to take items out of wow so i can look at them in a view other then just staring at them in game.
That's why it's your job as the game artist to figure out how and to look into it, just saying I don't know mean "i am lazy" from the outside, if you don't know, look into it, sure people might be able to point you in the right direction but it's your job to figure it out. Google it, google hand painted weapons, look up people who worked on WoW and see what their portfolios look like ect.
Not saying anything bad about you just trying to halp.
Make a well that would looks like it blends into this game environment. Compose and "create" a new screenshot by placing the well you made into the screenshot and see if it blends.
In the meantime, take it slow. Baby steps. Annoying, but it needs to be done.
here's what i got so far.
Hope it helps.
Concentrate on making good, handpainted textures. That will handle most of the depth information. Make it tileable, if you can. That's a skill you will need to pick up as a 3D game artist to begin with.
That means no normal map or specular map. Just Diffuse.
and i gotta look into how to make some good looking bark soon too.
this is it without the detail.
Oh well...at least I tried.
What about making it really subtle? Just to add a bit more of dept into it (those blocks look too flat [at least to me] in center areas). You can always remove it (the texture).
I was thinking more of using the texture as template to "find cracks".
About your last attempt: The edges on that border ring of blocks look too smooth to me (if they are finished, if not then nevermind).
The new cracks look more like "lowered" areas than cracks to me (assuming they are cracks and not really "lowered" areas).
Ok 2nd try, Hope I will be helpful this time.