RAGE level

00Zero

hey guys. a friend (kelvin tan) and i tried to recreate a shot from id's RAGE trailer. we spent 3-4 weeks on it and pretty much split up the assets in half between us. I mostly worked on it during weekends because that was the only free time i had. A lot of room for improvement.

i want to add more to it during the next couple of weeks. what do you guys think of it so far?

its in unreal 3 btw. haha i guess you can tell by the stupid 'lighting needs to be rebuilt' message.

Microneezia

I havent seen the trailer, but Looks great! I like this environment.

I'd like to see sand and dust in the air... Also if this was dusk or dawn rather than high-noon, you might get more out of that neon sign? hmm. I like it either way though.

Also,

Tumbleweed! can I have it?

Edit: if you do put sand and dust in the air.... Can you show me how you did it? hahah! thanks!

Electro

haha awesome

You should really try do something nice with the lighting, wouldn't take much work to have it looking a lot better. It's screaming for some AO love too of course.

Then do the usual post processing stuff, some colour correction/bloom/depth of field. Will help it look a lot more like RAGE.

Looking great so far.

00Zero

yea, i shall relight this tomorrow. and try the dust in the air. only thing im not sure of is the AO on the ground. since right now its using some masks to blend between 3 different tiling textures.

Snefer

hehe, awesome idea, I love that scene ^^ You did a good job at replicating the assets in that clip, methinks

odium

Yeah , I would say the biggest issue in these shots is atmosphere. Throw in some VERY light fog, a lot of dust in the air. Get a nicer sky box, blue just doesn't cut it. Oh and the grass needs to go, it just comes off looking like random noise.

Other than that... maybe a little more control over lights? But on the whole I think its awesome.

SnarG

I loved the look of Rage when the trailers first came out and I still can't wait to play it. This environment piece looks great, and I'll not say "you should add this or that" because you're still working on it. Instead I'll say keep it up and I'll look forward to seeing this thread being bumped when you get more to show us.

c0ldhands

This could come out really nice...but im agree with the peeps here....more atention on the atmosphere, and btw is that a gas station of some sort?

Razorb

yea some really nice texture work goin on in places there gjgj! cant wait for that game also looks mega sexy

commander_keen

Awesome, but the shadows look really flat. I hope your not using "ambient light" actor :P

Rated Rrr

Just wanted to pop in and send some love your way, this is looking promising. Most everythings already been said: tweak the atmosphere, push the lighting a bit.

Also the terrain needs a bit of love. Look at the trailer again around 00:45. Get some of those cliffs and hills, along with the crags in the ground would push this along too.

Also I'd love to see a scene breakdown. Keep going, it's looking good.

Matroskin

looks really cool, especially considering the time during which u did it

To add I'd say that the grass also needs to be brighter, smaller and less "spiky" because now it looks not natural.

A-Train

Holy! Nice job dude. Especially the time you did it in, that's just ace. Would it be cool if I could see some of the texture sheets, and the high poly models as well?

imb3nt

Really awesome stuff. I really dig this. :thumbup: :thumbup:

Vadien

Seeing this made me happy inside. Nice stuff.

PixelMasher

hell yea, nice work, im with A-Train, itd be dope to see some texture sheets and highpoly if you have a sec!

vj_box

nice,the feel is definitely achieved.looking forward for more.

vj

rawkstar

i think everyone here thinks this is awesome, keep going!

00Zero

*just throwing it out there again. I did this piece with a partner, not by myself.*

hey everybody, thanks for the replies and suggestions (and a guy from id! lol). I pretty much agree with all of them and i see how they can be improved. i just dread opening this file again, but one day soon i'll do it i guess.

here are some shots of the models and a few texture pages. A LOT OF PICTURES, just a warning. but i guess its too late, youve already downloaded them and now your bandwidth for the month is half wasted.

turpedo

Hey everyone thanks for all the critiques and compliments! You guys are definitely right, the lighting needs to be tweaked and the environment itself needs a lot of work. At some point, we are going to work on getting some new mountains and grass into the scene. This assignment was for a class and we were pulling a bunch of all nighters and couldn't get everything we wanted to get in on time. Some things got done really fast and carelessly(like the grass and the mountains).

But for now, here are some of the wire frames and texture pages. (Just for the record, these aren't the real RAGE presentation pages, just thought I'd reference the objects to the game in my pages).

monkeyboy_garth

Why is the geometry on the wall so messy?

Renaud Galand

In addition to what monkeyboy said, I'd say that you could improve your lowpoly models ALOT. I see alot of floating geometry with "heavy" polycount on the top of your base shapes which are following them almost perfectly. This could be done directly in the normal and by adding some extra cuts here and there to fake some volumes.

As a side note (but it's personnal), I'd add a little "fanart" near your big "RAGE" logo

turpedo

monkeyboy_garth - The wall's geometry is messy like that because I used polycruncher to get it lower.

Renaud Galand - You made some good points that I can see now. I'll go through my lowpolys and try to get them lower thanks

killingpeople

Renaud Galand wrote: »

I'd add a little "fanart" near your big "RAGE" logo

I had the same thought.

turpedo

Renaud Galand wrote: »

As a side note (but it's personnal), I'd add a little "fanart" near your big "RAGE" logo

Fixed

Codeman

Really cool stuff. Great job!

Ballo

Impressive work. I love the maps. Do you study scale between objecs and textures? You have to put more object as bags and container.