Making debris for games - how to?

mobpapst

Hey guys,

i want to make some debris asset variations for my scene. i want to have stones in it because its broken industiral. the problem is its a game scene and i dont know what shall be the best way to get good looking debris with a low polycount. maybe some of you got experience on it and can tell me how to do it the best way.

thanks a lot

rollin

I would not call myself an expert in this but you can do a lot by using alphas. So do your debris as hp with physics simulation (crumbled stone) or special scripts for scattering aso. and then bake this to a lowpoly with the use of an alpha map to support the finer details which you don't want to model into your low

mobpapst

Ok thanks so far. i have some objects in max that i can let fall with mass fx. it works pretty well but iam not able to save this as a mesh or object. anyone got some experience with mass fx to save the results i want to have out?

ghaztehschmexeh

mobpapst wrote: »

Ok thanks so far. i have some objects in max that i can let fall with mass fx. it works pretty well but iam not able to save this as a mesh or object. anyone got some experience with mass fx to save the results i want to have out?

I'm assuming massfx makes an animation, did you try tools > snapshot?

Greg DAlessandro

Any video tutorials/breakdowns? Thank you.

peanut™

http://www.debrismaker.aarondabelow.com/v1/

Here try debris maker, not much but can be useful on some instance. Work with 3dsMax, i can't remember the final output (lowpoly or highpoly) just try it out.

http://www.debrismaker.aarondabelow.com/v1/

and message to ghaztehschmexeh: I lurve your avatar, sooooo cute :poly108: