Pillars of Eternity mini-dump
Since Pillars of Eternity was recently released I can now show some of the work I did on it while I was at Obsidian Entertainment. I only worked part time on the project providing support for the environment team, so I don't have a ton of work to show, but hopefully one of the other artists can post some of their work soon (looking at you Sean Dunny).
I wasn't involved in level building, but I have included some scenes that I contributed heavily to.
I wasn't involved in level building, but I have included some scenes that I contributed heavily to.
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Are these all pre rendered or realtime 3D objects in the scene?
With the exception of a few small elements (the waterwheel next to the mill, some doors) that animate ingame, everything is pre-rendered in Maya/Mental Ray.
The resulting render targets are then put put as textures, EG Normal/Depth/Albedo/Spec, so you can relight it in realtime.
It really feels exactly like Baldurs Gate did back in the day!
is there spec in the game? like in the evnironments? i havent noticed....
There is, though it is probably only easily noticeable if some dynamic light source (spell fx, character holding a torch, etc) is moving around near materials with high spec values. The fixed camera position means reflections are often difficult to notice since nothing in the scenes is moving.
I did a fair number of the environments on the project. Here are a few in-game shots of the areas. This does include some late-game stuff, so here be spoilers.
**SPOILERS**
The statues were modeled by Dimitri Berman, our lead character artist on the project.
Not sure if that is what you were asking, if you have more specific questions regarding the environments maybe @EatenByBatscan hop back in here, he has a lot more experience working on Pillars than I do.