Steampunk vials set

dzibarik

I'm making a set of vials for Unity/Unreal asset store. I'll add sci-fi and undustrial vials + other pickups for Unreal Marketplace because it seems that small packs won't go through submission process well there.

For now they look like this:



as I was making them I struggled with their cylindric nature because at 12 sides they looked bad but at 24 sides they can go up to 3k tris so I guess mobile is out of question for them.


Any advice on what to improve/what to change/add?

Zombinian

The vials are looking good! Since they are meant for use as pickups, creating "filled" variants would be a nice addition. I'm thinking emissive fluid, but there are a number of directions you could take it.

razz

How about different materials for different sort of vials? Stages of decay? And I agree with Zombinian, glowing stuff is always cool ;]

samwoodart

I'm not sure if its the lighting config, but it almost looks like there are seams in the textures. Otherwise, fantastic work mate! +1 to the above

dzibarik

Thanks for feedback, guys!

Yes, there were seams but I've fixed them and lightmaps. Basically I did UVs again and rebaked the whole thing. Will look into particles tommorow.


Some variants of metal.








Not sure if make a unique texture for each vial or do some variants of noise overlay for all of them.

dzibarik

Nuclear Angel

These are super hot! And as Zombinian mentioned, add some fluid or content to the vials.

I do not personally like the second metallic vial with the brushed metal. I do not get the steampunk vibe from that sort of material. Just my thoughts on it. But great job none the less.

dzibarik

@Nuclear Angel: thanks! I didn't like brushed metal either, looked too modern.

anyway I've decided to make it into a proper medic/pickup pack so here are some new meshes:

dzibarik

dzibarik

added some sci-fi vials, also started importing it into Unity. The vial on the right looks somewhat ugly... need to rethink that.