#27 Low res summer - tores

tores

Ok, I was thinking beach and alien abduction!! wooh
I've set up a scene I think will be cool.





Never done any terrain, will this way be ok?

cholden

Hah, that’s cute. You may have a knack for comically descriptive scenes.

As for terrain, you’re probably fine. With this low of specs, you’ll want to get away with as much flat planes with textures that are essentially pictures of the background (a.k.a. billboarding). A few tree and background silhouettes, and you’re set.

tores

Ok started to texture this, any comments are welcome!
Also for the ufo I did not know if that applied as one "item" with 64x64 map.

Also borrowed sky texture from max, but I'll make an own later.



btw, it's 1772 polies now, I could probably reduce it with the trees and add something else, but I dunno yet.

cholden

With the right UV’s and textures, you should be fine to make the UFO look good. Just focus on making the bottom look good. On another note, I’d suggest pulling the start of the grass back to have a longer, sandy beach. Then space out and vary the scale of the trees more. Otherwise, it’s a pretty well composed scene.

flow3d

sorry for being off topic:

I checked out your page, I'm impressed with the look you got out of the 1600iso shots, my 1600 always come out grainy as hell


on topic:
I like the sand and grass...hehe..

tores

flow3d Thanks but those images are pretty small, when looking at 100% they are pretty grainy, but a little photoshopping is always good, and the mid-dark places are always really grainy so I just make them a bit darker.

Emil Mujanovic

HAHAHA!
Totally bad ass, I might even have to enter this one after seeing this entry. The possibilites are endless!
I agree with cholden about pushing back the grass just a bit and I'm definately looking forward to seeing what you do with the UFO texture.

-caseyjones

tores

So I thought I'll finnish things up, I won't have much more free time before the contest ends so this is what I've got.





Any last comments?

cholden

Looks pretty good, tores. Here's a few things you use the extra triangles for, re-budget a few, or just touch-up a little;

Extra edge(s) on the background mountain silhouette.
Additional edge(s) on the UFO beam
add a cloud layer
brighten up the sky, looks very overcast, as though it's about to rain.
Brighter water and sea foam. Water could be more green, aqua, or brown depending on what area of the world you mean it to be.

noritsune

I think cholden's crits here are all on-target, particularly the water color. I'd suggest inverting the gradient on your sky - it'll remove the overcast feel and possibly save you the texture of a cloud layer. Also, I think you could move the green of the grass/trees much closer to yellow. Right now it feels very "out-of-the-box" standard issue green... not very realistic or interesting.

I'm also wondering if maybe the UFO itself isnt taking up too much real estate in your overall composition? I realize you want to make it seem massive but maybe there's another way.

tores

Did some of the changes and I agree the sky and water looks so much better now, thanks.

Well I have to call this finnish now as I don't have any more time to work on this. Was fun though

cholden

cool, good update!.