Environment: Street Fighter Stage
polycounter lvl 13
Well heres what I've been working on recently. After falling in love with Street Fighter 4 I thought it be a neat idea to take one of the old stages and recreate them in 3D. So I decided to go with Alex's Stage (New York Alleyway) from Street Fighter III: New Generation. I'm just about ready to plow through the textures on this. Theres still a few more props I need to import/create but its more or less ready to be textured. The ground of course is missing, I think I'll just create it using the terrain feature with a tileable texture and a bunch of decals to break up the repeats/add interest.
Its pretty faithful to the original as you can see by the ingame shots, and the concept art. There are a couple things I added, and changed for cosmetic reasons, but yeah I tried to stick pretty close to the original concept. I dont know how happy I am with the bricks, I think right now theyre fine as a placeholder, but as I begin to texture Ill probably do something else...
and the screens and concept...
and of course comments and critiques are very much appreciated. Its alright I can take whatever you got. I don't care even if you use those whips over on the wall
Its pretty faithful to the original as you can see by the ingame shots, and the concept art. There are a couple things I added, and changed for cosmetic reasons, but yeah I tried to stick pretty close to the original concept. I dont know how happy I am with the bricks, I think right now theyre fine as a placeholder, but as I begin to texture Ill probably do something else...
and the screens and concept...
and of course comments and critiques are very much appreciated. Its alright I can take whatever you got. I don't care even if you use those whips over on the wall
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I just wanted some floor. looks like its floating in the air. ::D:D:D
what style you gonna go with the textures?
It didn't click a SF to me the first time, but that's because I played Second Impact only once. I really can't wait to see the colors! Working from such a good base will sure give great results. Great pick, great art challenge!
Do you know if the pencil rendering is an actual Capcom production asset? I guess it dates back to days when tablets weren't that common. Making a rainbow colored pencil sketch like that sure sounds like a nice way to start a digital painting!
thanks as well guys, lots to texture here...should be fun to see what i come up with
pm me and let me know dude
Other than that, I'm looking forward to the textures!
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=067823
This level reminded me of it. Great work though.
alright this has been bugging me a lot, figure i've got a better chance of having this question answered here as opposed to technical talk since more eyeballs frequent p&p...
the aliasing in the editor and even when you play in editor is looking pretty shit as i point out below.
Now I tried fixing this of course by going into the Nvidia control panel
but it doesnt change anything even with with 8x or 16x AA
I then came across this thing while browsing the epicgames ut3 forum
http://www.nhancer.com/
its suppose to over ride the original controls or you get better controls or smthn like that to enable you to get some pretty AA. but It wont let me install it without the latest microsoft .net framework (3.5) which i cant install I believe because I have a pirated copy of windows =/
so yeah, im stumped
http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=23207
Just wanted to give an update on the where Im at...
I added some height fog at the bottom which I think in the end will look pretty neat...I'll probably use an actual cloud/fog texture to do it. Also added some post processing to tint this thing...just a preference here.
and just a few random props....average texture size is 512 and 1024 throughout the scene
and if you need a partner for the next unearthly hit me up :P haha
I'm still playing with the lighting and post processing...I know I should probably leave that until all my texturing is done but I cant resist. I just want to find the right mood for the scene...going for an nightime/moonlit effect. Let me know if you think I'm heading in the right direction with this peoples...I also used a volumetric light cone courtesy of the folks at Epic. Added some distance fog, plus a plane with a fog texture on top of the height fog just for the right amount I'm looking for.
and heres a custom Grafitti I created from scratch, obviously the same as the original. I just drew it, scanned it in then colored in photoshop then added some spray paint streaks and what not to it... I like how it turned out
Modelling is looking tits so far and i like where the lighting's at, is pretty grey and dull tho (could use with some more colour mebbe). I really liked all the green postprocessing from that shot in your last post.
Think the floor fog is a bit heavy but might have to wait till textures be done to comment.
modelling wise it looks nice, no real crits (though the mortar in the bricks is a little distracting, I suppose that's just something to address when you texture!)
The main problem I see right now is in your first lighting pass, the alley and streets in the distance actually seem to have focus to me, they are brighter than the foreground scene (I know this actually happens, but not so sure about it here?) I think some of it is to do with detail density too, in the foreground you've got those bricks I mentioned darkening things but the background quite rightly doesn't.
Of course it all comes down to preference, just something to think on. Looks really solid so far. (PS how is shader complexity with all that fog and overdraw?)
glad some1 thinks I'm folder worthy!
yeah I think you're right about the fog...probably a little too intense right now, I'll have to play with it some more
@Alex
I'm glad you caught focus and lighting on the buildings in the background. I added a sligghht dof with post, Its subtle, and with the lighting and the fog its not as noticeable. Sometimes when you look at something for long enough to tend to miss a few things, good to always get a another set of eyeballs to check it over. I agree the bg does look a lot brighter, I think whats happening here is because the forgeground is textured you're getting that effect. Just went over the lighting again and adjusted some radius's...the background is definately recieving less lighting than the foreground
I'm also glad you mentioned the shader complexity on that fog, right now its all red...now I know this is bad for a playable level, but just as a background I can live with it. I'm curious how would you go abouts fixing this tho? and what is causing it to be red??
Building lights sometimes gets rid of a lot of the shader complexity as theres no longer any real light sources (aside from any dynamic lights for characters etc) but in the case of unlit translucencys it will still be quite high and pushed further
way around it is to just not make things so expensive (or crunch them down when they are further away) It's normally unavoidable when using volumetrics though.
Oh dude, you should throw the PC graffiti wall in the background somewhere!
Good luck man. I'm in the same boat.