Viking Environment

holzi

Hey guys! Thought I would start something new, here's my first asset.
I plan on creating a ship on a shore, a building and a few props.



Feedback appreciated.

Have a nice day!

holzi

Some axes.

Itholon

Oh damn, Those shields look really awesome. I am actually making Viking Batman, so I am going to make the shield too, so I wonder how you did that. Did you make a low poly, then sculpting, bake normals or some other workflow?

Also the engraving on the axes looks really cool. :thumbup:

Adel0n

Looks great! I saved it.

Atokal

Want to see the environment.

Deathstick

Meowza I love the shields, very clean yet just the right amount of dirty

That sounds wrong... :O

holzi

thanks guys!

Itholon wrote: »

Oh damn, Those shields look really awesome. I am actually making Viking Batman, so I am going to make the shield too, so I wonder how you did that. Did you make a low poly, then sculpting, bake normals or some other workflow?

Also the engraving on the axes looks really cool. :thumbup:

i already saw your thread, the concept is quite awesome

for the shield: i created the lowpoly in maya with the nails as floating geometry for baking, sculpted it in zbrush but used xnormal for baking. then just painting over AO + cavity in PS.

next thing to create is either a first viking building or the longboat.

rambooze

Your props remind me how I bought a GPS navigator ahead of my car The assets look good btw. Looking forward to the environment.

holzi

rambooze wrote: »

Your props remind me how I bought a GPS navigator ahead of my car The assets look good btw. Looking forward to the environment.

Haha :-) this time i thought i'd do it this way, so i'll definitely have a few finished assets no matter what. But I'm starting the viking ship right now

holzi

The Viking shields are now available on the Unity Asset Store for all you Unity Devs out there. Get them here if you're interested: http://u3d.as/8Lq

holzi

finally found some time to continue the ship, here's a wip screenie from maya



still a lot to do, but it's slowly getting there next up: sculpting the sails.

Elod.H

Oooo that's a nice boat you've got there. Really interested to see how you visualize the environment in your head. Keep at it!

polozad

A viking ship is not just simple boat with two rows of paddles/shields and one sail. It's a warship.
At least, it has two decks or one deck and a cargo hold. Just think about - such ship could have been in the sea up for several month, and there should be place at least for loot, not mention about food, water, armor, wounded warriors, slaves, supplies, etc.

Nice boat, anyway.

donofdon

:thumbup: I'm liking what your doing.
if its of any insperation to you, I visited here once and the boat was amazing, i loved the swooping lines of the planks. You maybe have plenty of ref, but no harm in pointing out some more

kurt_hectic

Are you sure they were using metal nails?

On this ref. I can see some...but maybe wooden? Dunno. Another thing: bad scale of the side and nails.

holzi

thanks a lot for the input and images guys, appreciate it. I hope I can get back at it soon, I'll keep you posted.

lotet

Wow, that is turning out really cool! I do think you could ad a spiral in the front though as suggested in donofdon link.

also the ship looks really small at the moment, dont know if that is intentional or not.

dschmidt3d

I like the shields and the different designs on them, I just think that the colors being used look to fresh like they were just painted. Could use some more fading and chipping and flaking.

holzi

So I didn't really have time to make a lot of changes, but I'm calling the ships finished. I'm quite happy how they turned out since I wasn't going for the super realistic historical style. Hope you like it.

Here are a few sceenshots from Unity 5.

holzi

its now available in the unity asset store: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/21550

iconoplast

kurt_hectic wrote: »

Are you sure they were using metal nails?

Just for the record, Vikings used metal (iron) nails for both shield and ship construction. Those links are pretty informative (and great historically accurate reference). Thus concludes your drive-by history lesson for today.

The assets look nice, by the way. I especially dig the axes.