Environment : D-Day Cliffside

Striff

Hey guys...

Created this environment for my high school "senior project" class. We each had to set a goal for ourselves and needed to accomplish it my the end of the school year. My goal was to create a 3d environment utilizing Maya and Photoshop that I could use as a portfolio piece.

The poly count came to 24,693 faces. The textures were :

---COLOR---
256 x 256 - 5
256 x 512 - 1
512 x 512 - 12
1024 x 1024 - 5
---NORMAL---
256 x 256 - 1
256 x 512 - 1
512 x 512 - 7
1024 x 1024 - 3
---Alphas---
256 x 256 - 2
256 x 512 - 1
512 x 512 - 1
1024 x 1024 - 2

All textures were either created from scratch or pictures I took around my neighborhood that I then edited in Photoshop. No texture CD's were used.
















Textures :









Wire :





Any crits or comments would be greatly appriciated.

hawken

IMHO the planes of grass ruin the whole thing, what does it look like if you remove them? (the single plane grasses)

Striff

The texture underneath the grass tiles very well, and I can also put clumps of grass in instead of the planes. Worth a try.

Zergxes

I think you could cut some polys on that cliff face. The sand bags seem proportioned more like pillows than sand bags. The cannon could use a texture.

Maybe play around with the hardware render mode. It tends to look a hair more like something would in a game engine. Or heck, put it in a game and then get screengrabs of that.

Nice show, particularly for high school. Keep posting!

odium

Dude ming showing me a few pics (Wire/texture) of your bushes? I'm making a load of foliage models atm and TBH i like yours, just not sure how to go about it.

Joao Sapiro

hm...its too clean for my tastes ... solution : dirty it up

Rick Stirling

Yup, just abotu to say - this looks far too clean.

it's like a first pass - laying out the geo and the base textures. Now you need to go in and make it look like what it is:

It is a bunker
It has been lived in by many men for quite some time
There is a lack of sanitation
It has been attacked.
It is coastal, so will be eroded by wind and rain
Sea birds will have decorated it.
Sand and dirt will have blown all over it.

KDR_11k

I don't think it has been attacked (I doubt the gun would have been left in there after the attack) but it could use moss and perhaps coal dirt. Also I don't think people live in these things, they just go there while on duty. Seriously, these bunkers aren't nearly large enough to be actual housing. Maybe you could fit a table for playing cards in there but no beds. Not like there aren't enough villages to live in nearby.

The cliff needs more layers of rock, cliffs don't have a monotone colour. Erosion should be more prevalent on the lower areas, especially near the water. The grass on top prevents erosion somewhat while the cliff is made of sandstone or limestone, which is easily eroded by rain.

I don't quite get what the hedgehogs are there for, vehicles aren't going to drive up that cliff.



photos of such a bunker

Rick Stirling

It WAS attacked, seveal times, but Dey Jermans, dey won. Dey bummed our chippy.