Recreating tileable walls like in Bloodborne & Darksouls 3

Spencer_Holmes

Hi. I have been working on a cathedral environment and I am at the stage where I want to create many large block/brick walls. I have noticed them in Bloodborne and most recently DS3.

The problem is I don't have an idea how I will achieve this. What I am thinking is I would produce a tileable sculpt in mudbox of the block/brick walls and then bake them down onto a plane. Is this correct?

I was wondering if anyone has overcome this problem and what solution you found? I am not fantastic at baking and it seems whenever I try it, it just does not go right. I have all the necessary tools, such as xnormal, max, and mudbox.

Thank you!

Mirbobo

Yes, that is generally the right workflow. You can also add individual bricks, tesselation and other techniques to break the modular surface, depending on the result you are going for.

I'd recommend the tiling overlap sculpt technique that Anthony Vitale shows in one of his youtube videos. It's in zbrush, but it still show a quite nice technique for creating tileable texture sculpts for bricks and whatnot.

Spencer_Holmes

Thanks

Spencer_Holmes

One more question. What is the process of baking 3d geometry down onto a plane? Do you have any links or videos I could use?

GlowingPotato

Doing stuff like this in substance designer is pretty easy and awesome, IF you have access to the tool.

musashidan

Baking to a plane is the simplest form of baking. The high-res 'floats' just above the surface of the low-res and the baker just projects straight down the normals (which are all pointing in the same direction) and captures further out depending on your ray distance.

Eric Chadwick

This should help too
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/EnvironmentSculpting

Spencer_Holmes

Thank you all!