Untitled Project - Andrew Hamilton

Effekted

Howdy all,

I've just started on a personal side project and thought i would share the progress. This is the first room 70& complete, which will travel to the corridors upstairs and outside to a run down courtyard.

These are just simple 3dsmax renders with no lighting (ive painted the lighting into the diffuse) as it will soon be in the ETQW engine recorded as an ingame demo and rendered for a portfolio piece. Also note that there is no specular, normal or parallax mapping yet.

Hope you guys like the progress so far

MoP

Looks awesome to me.

rooster

I really love stuff like this.. I'll be watching with interest :]

Striff

Pretty damn sweet dude, does each wall have its own map?

Zergxes

Nice!

obson

awesome job!

malcolm

Looks great.

Tulkamir

Looks great. ANd a damned nice texturing job by the way.

low odor

very nice work

odium

That looks damn sweet to me, almost painting like. Keep it up dude.

retleks

That is georgious.

hawken

the brickslook kind of massive, would help if you placed a human figure in there for a point of reffence.

theres a tremendous amount of wasted polygons on for the debris that over the stairs, this can be done with a normal map in the end, and with normal maps + lights this room will look awsome

Manic

it's so purty! awesome texture work

HandSandwich

Awesome work. It has a lot of great ambiance. Can you show some flats?

Effekted

Ive textured the boxes and paint cans now. I've gotta be off now, but ill post those texture flats in a day or 2

MoP

This keeps getting better! Top quality texture work.
Edit: Agreed with a previous crit though, those bricks look kinda huge. I've never seen bricks that big in a building before

b1ll

ya i like this.

Effekted

Yup, ill be getting on to those bricks eventually

retleks

So much atmosphere in such a small space, so good, can't wait to see the flats

fritz

the bricks actually look like cinder blocks to me....which ARE that big. andrew this looks amazing!!!

Wrath

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the bricks actually look like cinder blocks to me....which ARE that big. andrew this looks amazing!!!

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Nah, the mortar between the bricks is entirely too thick for cinderblocks. It very clearly looks like normal bricks and mortar that are being used at way too large of a scale.

Is anyone else as impressed as I am at how well the lighting was hand painted in?

Effekted

Heh, you guys figure out those cinder blocks/bricks and then i'll make the changes

Just before im off, heres a very small update. Added in some lighting coming from the basement windows, plus modelled the majority of the hallway. Also included the flats for the room, dont go stealing anything (although i aggressively downsized them)

rooster

sterling performance mate

swampbug

Meant as the best complement. ITs very Resident evil 4 style. Your dirt and grime has so much visual interest in it. I love the wire on the floor.

FunkaDelicDass

Your texture work is great but can I ask why you painted the lighting into the textures? Does it just work better in the ETQW engine that way? Or maybe because you're not using normal maps (yet) in a next gen engine? Just curious...

Awesome work though!

Sa74n

great work, andrew.. looks really amazing

EarthQuake

Cool textures but this lighting wouldnt really work well in any engine, let alone doom3(etqw whatever). If you want to use this in d3 you need to make good normals, and spec maps. You have way too much detail in your diffuse now for this to be usable.

MoP

EQ: Considering he works as an environment artist for Splash Damage, I'd imagine he knows exactly how it will work out in the end.

It's entirely possible that the lighting is just black and white painting on a Multiply layer (or similar), and can be turned off and on.

Whatever the case, I'm sure Andrew knows exactly what he's doing

EarthQuake

Regardless its something im obligated to say anytime someone posts flat difuse textures with baked in lighting saying he wants to put it in d3.

Effekted

Have a bit of faith guys

I work with the doom3/etqw (whatever) engine all day so i know what its capable of. The reason im painting the lighting into the diffuse is because i do not want the stencil shadows of the engine, only the ambient lighting and atmospherics.

spacemonkey

Awsome! Its a hot room

Fuse

absolutely superb, i really dig the atmosphere of the scene

Zergxes

Digging the new pics (and ET:Quake Wars is looking awesome too).

Electro

excellent work Andrew, can't wait to see more of your stuff in ETQW!

Want to see that hallway textured

Sage

Very sweet work. Thansk for sharing.

Alex

Rick Stirling

This may have been pointed out - there are TOO MANY steps - ditch one or 2 steps from each staircase and the whole scene will balance a little better.

Rick Stirling

Another thing that will give it more life is a small amount of colour. A subtle thing would be to very gently increase the saturation in one or two of the bricks, and to darken and lighten a few - bricks age and discolour themselves, not simply because of external weathering.

THe rubbish at the bottom - paint cans would be shinier and have a strong visual branding to them - you don't want them to jump out of the scene, but a little splash of colour will bring them to life.

As it seems to be a storeroom of sorts, albeit disused, I'd consider adding a shalf on one wall - empty or with some crap on it, and perhaps broken at one ent so that it was hanging vertically.

I dont know the age of the property, but on the ceiling adding a few eletrical wires for the room above would break it up.

Lee3dee

looks awesome andrew in the quake wars engine Outstanding work!

arshlevon

Cool stuff andrew, I'm not really an environment artist so i cant say much but it looks good to me. i read an interview with carmack and he was talking about how he got the mega texturing to work on everything now, not just terrains. i was wondering how much you can go into the amount of freedom you have with it, and how many 32,000 by 32,000 textures can you use in a level? as many as you want? still curious about this mega texture stuff.

Striff

Awsome, awsome stuff man.

Nafets

It looks fantastic, I could look at it all day.

There are 2 things that stand out to me:

1. That load bearing beam that is holding up the staircase seems to be extreamly thin.

2. If I was playing in this level, I wouldnt leave the room, it's too good.

Excellent work!

Effekted

Thanks for the comments everyone. All this positive feedback really gives me the motivation to push this project forward

I've 50% completed the walls and floor of the hallway, so i'll update you all with that very soon.

Rick - When i run around in the room the stairs appear life-size to player, but i'll look into it.
Also im going for a more artistic feel instead of realism, hence the heavily desaturated colours. I want it to look and feel very old and decayed walking around. The paint tin and other parts like patches of the floorboards will be shiny, as i mention there is no normal or specular maps yet, Im just workin on all diffuse first.

arshlevon - Thanks mate but im not sure what information has or has not been released, so its best if i dont say anything about it at all, sorry bud!

Nafets - Cheers, ill look into that beam supporting the stairs (plus the oversized bricks)

Thanks guys

Rick Stirling

In my old and new flat, there are 2 sets of 10 and 2 sets of 11 steps between each floor.

motives

do you guys texture like that for etqw aswell?

unwrap the whole room and assign unique textures?

Effekted

Heh, Rick, this staircase has 12 steps, even if unrealistic :P

killingpeople

is this utlizing megatexture technology?!
look'n ace.

Effekted

An update on the corridor above the stairs. Still very much a work in progress, as you can see there are still black/white parts to be textured, plus the lack of random objects scattered around. Also the lighting was painting very quickly as it was just a test, so its only temporary

Sa74n

great work, dude looking awesome. hope you have some time to spare when i get back to work on the japmap in the next few days!

shape

good start.. should look great once there's some more light coming in. Nice little details like breaking repetition in the window arches

moose

that is hot

sinistergfx

That's a pretty interesting little project, and it's looking pretty good. I wonder if this is the way environment texturing might go (unique uvs everywhere) if Megatexture and its derivatives take off.

It's cool to have all that unique texturing without too much of a hit on texture memory. Though, the storage space for textures would balloon massively.

Another thing I wonder about with Megatexture and the like is how I'm supposed to be able to edit a 32,000x32,000 texture without my computer imploding. Maybe at creation time, everything is broken into individual objects and texture sheets and then we could run everything through a Megatexturer (haha) that would combine and cram everything together?

Onward to the future!