Sketchbook: Tom Nietfeld

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So some backstory why I opened this account and started this sketchbook. For the duration of my studies so far I have been doing programming and VFX, but now want to have a look at Level Design and Environment Art.
Keeping the VFX however.

Please! freely comment on anything!

I start off with our last game project. WarHalla! Where I was responsible for Level Design, VFX, and programming.







Individual Showreel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mb8Iv26tA0

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Okay so here is the project I will be working on for the next couple of months trying to get into the whole pipeline of Environment Art. So any feedback is heavily appreciated. All those tips and tricks

I decided to approach it with the guidance of Jacob Norris' guide on Modularity ( CLICK ) 

This is what I got after 2 days of modelling. It consists of 3 modular pieces and the pillar, which kinda makes 4. The texture is pretty much easily exchangeable which will hopefully help on keeping the workload as low as possible without the user taking note of repetition.

 

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Playing around with the mood of the level:

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Another one of these Speed Level Designs
Video coming later today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JjapI1zE80

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Latest Speed Level Design:

You can also leave me a vote here for some sweet licenses.
http://www.therookies.co/next-gen-gaming/rookie-of-the-year-gaming/tom-nietfeld/



https://youtu.be/c7PywQrssbE

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This time the Porduction Quality Lightbake actually did a good job Should have tested that before doing the final video

w/e here the screenshot for comparison. 

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So what I want to try for my next selfmade environment is to have all kinds of textures combined on 1 mastertexture, but several UV's for each mesh just different from each other in Shell position on the UV.

tl;dr 1 Texture 4k and tons of meshes to optimize performance for VR and have only 1 Texture for all housetiles

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i look forward to seeing how efficient the end result is with just one texture. seems interesting and i like your work.

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SlateQ37 said:

i look forward to seeing how efficient the end result is with just one texture. seems interesting and i like your work.

I guess it is not gonna look as quite as fancy it could, but that is totally fine considering that it is gonna be for VR after all and for that reason the performance matters a lot We'll see how it turns out

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Little WIP on the victorian London Environment that I am doing for my main project right now. Nothing fancy yet, just playing with mood and getting into substance

Still lot of work ahead, but early feedback is welcome

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Latest Speed Level Design:

Screenshot:



Video:

https://youtu.be/v4IB6jOd8-U

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So I started another approach using substance. we will see about performance I guess, but results are just unbeatable for now. If performance gets too bad for VR I will have to combine the textures and maps into atlas' and rgb channel packing i guess.



Also here is a little WIP for the atmosphere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNPAGc3o_iQ

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Latest Speed Design Episode



https://youtu.be/U4Jc5Xuuqws

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Some WIP from our current project. Step by step replacing the whiteboxed level.

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https://youtu.be/tLf-9lejkdU

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Some Progress on the VR project 

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cool stuff...gonna keep an eye on this thread

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Uh I found some old screenshots of the Earth-shader I did for a project while working for the European Space Agency. Here is one  
Including Day & Night cycle, panning clouds and so on

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https://youtu.be/WwfkMY_XRDU

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Some Tests with PhysX Lab on Destruction I made recently.

https://youtu.be/bCrK_kXcllQ

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The latest projects result

https://youtu.be/Ra0wjp26s4E

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtjK0zyGFdQ

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So I tried this new approach on stylized tileable texture creation in ZBrush with the help of Fanny Vergne's Tutorial in Vertex Magazine and here are my first two results for Stoneplates and Wood




Wood: