DarkSectology
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Spent some time doing new renders for some of the hipoly Dark Sector models, some of which you might have already seen.
I also did almost half of the world textures in the game and a large portion of environment meshes and scenes.
After 8 years... it's done!. I'm tempted to post some of the old 256x256 textures and stuff from back when it was an MMO to have a nice timeline going...
I also did almost half of the world textures in the game and a large portion of environment meshes and scenes.
After 8 years... it's done!. I'm tempted to post some of the old 256x256 textures and stuff from back when it was an MMO to have a nice timeline going...
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You know you're good, so i'll just leave it at that =D
rock on, and bake more cookies!
Spent some time doing new renders for some of the hipoly Dark Sector models, some of which you might have already seen.
I also did almost half of the world textures in the game and a large portion of environment meshes and scenes.
After 8 years... it's done!. I'm tempted to post some of the old 256x256 textures and stuff from back when it was an MMO to have a nice timeline going...
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Please do. Actually, post some art from every year to see the game's progression. It would be a wonder to see what it started out as to what it has now become. And awesome work btw
good job spaniard, don't let your head inflate too much though.
and you better bake me some cookies when I'll come visit you
The statue is only showing the selfilluminated colormap yes, no normalmap or lighting there. I'll see if i can dig up a decent screenshot... the only one i have is from when the engine still used stencil shadows and things generally rendered horribly (the statue is old).
Sean - that prop took about a week i think, with the lowpoly version and skin. I already had the lion and gargoyle faces plus some of the small details done so...
...and i shall bake more cookies indeed, it was kinda fun.
The only one I think is a bit weird is the texture for the woman statue, with the large dark section in the middle, doesn't seem natural or make much sense to me, but what do I know
are those horses smoking cigars he he (I know its fountain...but still :P)
also that floor is either suffering some nasty mipmapp-ing issue (engine)
i dont want to nit pick though, blame that beer/crunch mix
Is everything subd's? or is there some parts that are straight poly work?
would love to see some more shots with pre subd mesh, and aother pics you think you shouyld should regarding tecniques.
Once again. awesome work man.
I can affect the colors of the shadows (which are always very stark in the engine either way) by changing the ambient color, but it also tints the whole scene quite drastically and makes it impossible to work on the textures/materials...
The mip mapping issue is from working with the specs and settings the final game will have, basically what you see there is what you get, no fake hires stuff
Mop - I just thought it looked more unique and rich than bland stone
Commander - The horses are the only sculpted thing.
And now... DarkSector the MMO!
I got some stuff together from 8 years ago!
A small selection of the hundreds of textures i did for it, and a ingame screenshot... i didnt do the geometry, it just happens to use all my textures.
I still have tons more stuff, but its not mine and not for me to post
on the shadow side have you tried altering the main light colour to compensate for the colour tint in the ambient. (ie if you have a blue ambient add the same amount of red and green to the directional, or remove the same amount of blue from the directional leaving no tint in the lit parts but saturated shadows)
obviously doesnt always work very much depends on the intracasys (SP) of the engine/rendering tech
nice drawn 256s
as for the shadow, I believe that is from his testcube scene, thus no ambient lighting, we could easily color shadows with post processing and ambient light aswell as backlighting (as shown in the game and in some of the awesome shot Mario still has under the sleeves.
Get some high quality in-engine renders!
There's a few nice things we can do with the lighting and shadows, but it's all too much work to change everytime i work on a prop or scene... at the end, the lighting would be changed again to match the other scenes anyway.
As for my screenshots, they're simple editor screengrabs, often with post effects off as i work on the models/scenes and textures at the same time as i go.
If i ever have time, i'll setup somethinig properly, I've been waiting to create a nice scene with only my work anyway, i just don't have that much time for myself these days...
Very detailed stuff. Nice job!
very nice!
- BoBo
Alex
Have you ever considered how odd it is that artists like yourself who started off with a hyper
dirty texturing style develop a super clean modelling style ?
Not that it matters, still some damn fine work.
k.
Your sub d meshes are beautiful, you got many tough angles with great proportional detail meeting with round smooth areas. Just awesome modeling. =]
Hmm interesting thought Kevin... I know I'm still always trying to keep myself from going to dirty on my textures
I'd guess the cleanliness comes from texturing. I always kept and keep my PSD's layered, always assuming i might have to go back to them and change something, or that i'll want to reuse some layers or details somewhere else.
Same with models, I break them down in manageable and reusable parts and keep them clean so i can easily go back and change things, or cut out details and reuse them somewhere else.
And i guess the telling myself constantly to keep textures cleaner also adds to wanting to see cleaner results everywhere
While the hipolys might seem like a ton of work at first, I always make sure the time isn't wasted. I kinda have the advantage here to work on things as I see fit, if I decide to spend time on something, I'll make sure to reuse it, or parts of it as much as I can. You can probably tell that the female base model has been reused here and there.
The balcony support piece with the head uses the big leaf from the big clock (at the bottom right over the window with the arch, small detail there). The gargoyle heads (which are inspired on some photos Kevin game back in the day when we shared stuff
Some details in the first model are taken from other simplier meshes i haven't posted, same with the spaceship stuff. The Leafy spiraling feet of the fist model were used by another modeler here to do a street lamp, so ...even tho I don't use floating parts (unless im doing a wall or something simple and quick) I still reuse a lot.
The more work you get done, the less time you spend on newer pieces and the more detailed they can be as you have a nice amount of ornaments etc that are easy to bend and reuse as needed... since they're clean
Thanks for all the nice comments
I recognize your stuff from the Luxology gallery, and they blow me the fuck away. Especially the space ships, freaking amazing dude.