Digital Sketchbook: jinngonqui

jinngonqui · Sep 2014

Course Project: Complete environment from concept art

Chosen studio target: Bioware
Chosen game target: Starwars: The Old Republic

Candidates:

url]http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100108173320/starwars/images/c/cb/SithEmperorCitadell.jpg[/url

url]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w1trNeIulM0/Uk7UF3p6yFI/AAAAAAAAWVA/_23zVxW-xBA/s1600/starwarsconceptart-0002.jpg[/url

Chosen concept art:

Sith Ship interior Command Center
[image of concept is from: http://www.swtor-fever.com/wp-content/gallery/sith-starship/ca_sith_ship01_interior.jpg]

jinngonqui · Sep 2014

Scale and Breakdown - part 1:

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Floor_0-A_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Floor_1-B_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Floor_2-C_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Floor_3-D_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Major_0-A_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Major_1-B_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Major_2-C_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Major_3-D_small.png

jinngonqui · Sep 2014

Scale and Breakdown - part 2:

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Minor_0-A_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Minor_1-B_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Minor_2-C_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Minor_3-D_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Minor_4-E_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Structure_0-A_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Structure_1-B_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Structure_2-C_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Structure_3-D_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Structure_4-E_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Geometry_Structure_5-F_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Scale_0-Human_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Scale_1-Overhead_small.png

SithShipInteriorCommandCenter_BreakDown_Scale_2-FloorTile_small.png

jinngonqui · Oct 2014

(In architectural design, this would be considered a massing diagram.)

The main advantage of this approach is to nail the scale right off the bat -- taking the masses into Maya for geometry and mapping.

(This image is from after the main structural element was started, and brought into the engine.)

jinngonqui · Oct 2014

jinngonqui · Oct 2014

jinngonqui · Oct 2014

This was a test in using Quixel's dDo, as such the UV-space usage was intentionally not optimized. The Normals were baked in Maya from the High Poly, but the grate pattern was manually created. After reviewing the below in-game render, it is clear that nDo can be used to create in in-bevel from the grate pattern to give an illusion of material thickness.

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specular

opacity

metalness

gloss

diffuse

jinngonqui · Nov 2014

Opacity-masking for floor-grate in UE4 ... solved! (dDo didn't care that the Opacity map was inverted, but UE4, TB2, and Maya all did :poly122: )

Also, used a trick in the Normals map to generate beveling in nDo from the Opacity mask, to give the floor-grate the illusion of thickness.

jinngonqui · Nov 2014

The solution in the center console floor, was applied to the surrounding grated floor.

It appears that mirroring geometry in engine is not advised, as the normals are being calculated inverted at run-time.

jinngonqui · Nov 2014

This time, I decided to try nDo'ing the grooves, rather than HP modeling and baking -- wow, that rocked!

jinngonqui · Nov 2014

I knew that ToolBag2 had to be able to produce the illusion I was looking for, that I was getting in-engine and in-game. So I applied a function in Maya that I had recently learned about -- mirror polygon (not duplicate-special). It somehow got the NORM map to display properly ... maaaagiiic.

jinngonqui · Nov 2014

I was feeling a lack of apparent progress, which was contributing to a feeling of being overwhelmed with what remained to be done. When that happens, the pedal hits the metal! I chose to focus on modeling the remaining scene master-elements, before studying texture more. So here is this weeks sprint into the Dark...ness.

Individual master-elements: in-engine, and in-game.

Individual master-element instances propagated in scene: in-engine, and in-game.

jinngonqui · Dec 2014

Back wall mid-level details, in preparation for the seating elements.

jinngonqui · Dec 2014

The poly-mirror did not work as expected in-engine, even though in Maya it seemed to. I have adjusted my modularity methodology, to model half of the HP, poly-mirror, and then make the LP based on the combined mirror. Then bake the normals from that. The first test has worked well.

I am very pleased with the in-game outcome.

dDo was used for hard-surface texturing for wear and metalness. I adjusted the default wear settings, and created a custom material in order to get the holes to wear in a more believable and less aggressive way.

Here are some dDo psudo-engine renders, under the different built-in HDRIs.

The holes were taken from the prior OPAC pattern, and used in nDo to get the indentation merged with the NORM, and then also merged into the Cavity map. Some channel inverting was needed to get the correct effect in-engine.

jinngonqui · Dec 2014

http://youtu.be/KjuXZw60WfE

Digital Sketchbook: jinngonqui

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