Arcane Castle - Speed Creation

Showster · Oct 2005

Hi guys, had to whip this sucker up fast took around 4/5 days of work. Theres still "ALOT" that needs doing, I'd like to add some fx shaders, uvmap the walls again, ambience, decals, props and eventually some higher detail geometry and sharper textures. But for now I'm outta time, if people want access to any of the stuff I've made just gimmie a shout.

Heres a few texture shots and a couple of renders!

castlewipjpg

I cud use a nice grass sprite if anyone has one they could lend gulp!

castlewip2jpg

Sett · Oct 2005

Don't have time to tell you much but I see a lot of uv stretching going on there. Manly in the outer walls and the terrain.

Showster · Oct 2005

Yea thanks! the walls need a overhaul n the terrain, get to test the pelt mapping on the max 8 demo soon!!! hopefully I'll the mapping.

ElysiumGX · Oct 2005

Your textures have a lot of contrast to them. You should try for more of a softer appearance. Less sharp blacks and whites, more color and midtones.

MoP · Oct 2005

Is that a grass texture on the cylindrical tower in the foreground? o_O

Pretty good for 4-5 days, but like ElysiumGX said, your textures seem very contrasty, makes the whole scene very busy and hard to pick a focal point.

Jeff Parrott · Oct 2005

What size are your maps? I would increase the resolution in some of them. Especially the ground. The high contrast in all the textures are UV stretching seem to be the biggest issues to me. Decals would rock too where those red things meet the ground. It should look like dirt has been turned up.

Showster · Oct 2005

Thanks guys,

@MoP
The tower should have had moss eek upps

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Erm I'll try to work on the contrast thing, I think alot of its due to me n my shadows... though I do have an uber gamma monitor atm which sucks cause it makes all my textures seem normal on ere!

@ Jeffro

The ground map is a 1024 map for the whole terrain. I'm working with a basic game engine so I can't do that paint technique you see so often in games these days, had to do a render to texture in max and bake about 5 textures onto a single map.
I think I'll texture it differently next time. Need decals for sure, I want some sorta slime dripping off the tentacles, would be cool I think.

Cheers again

Showster · Oct 2005

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~rol/forum/arcane/castle/castlesdk.zip

There you go Per

toddiej · Oct 2005

The lack of smoothing groups is killing it for me. Also the construction on the ground is confusing, looks like you used an optimize modifier. You could save some polys by placing those bricks on the walls not modeling them in. Main thing I would fix or focus on is the smoothing groups and textures. Everything else has been pretty much covered.

Arcane Castle - Speed Creation

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