UC 2009 'END GAME' | Carmine | 3D

Spitfire

Hello
Me and my friend BjornM are new to polycount and the 3d art community in general and thought we would try our skill in this competition.
We are both studying Digital Graphics at nackademin here in stockholm.

Our idea, and concept is leaned towards a forgotten research facility/ factory type complex set in the depth of a jungle. An Epic battle has taken place here and the only thing left is the remnants of the battle and a half functioning facility.

I hope its a valid enough description, it might change aswell as the idea of the project, but this is our first and foremost vision.

We tried to concept it up best we could but none of us are very good at the drawing part.


update: Forgot a logo:

Spitfire

Here is a more detailed concept ontop of some basic blocking.

Peris

very cool!!! I guess it's a bit hard to read the scale right now though, it feel a bit like a miniature structure.

crazyfingers

Not too shabby, greatly improved!

Spitfire

Thanks, the scale is probably due to the trees being to large, we will change them when we actually model those up to give everything a better scale

Spitfire

Update time =D
Three props, not in the right propotions to eachother though.



Environment test, consists of 3 x 512 textures (then their respective spec and normal) 2 for the ground and one for the foliage.

Spitfire

divi

uh, love the environment test. and the assets aswell actually looks really awesome!
foliage is always awesome. just the banane leaf plant doesn't work really well scaled down

Spitfire

Update time =D

Working on the building opposite of the main building, texturing and putting in small foliage etc.

We are going to start moving stuff into UE3 soon, but in the meantime im working on the textures.

Alot of the textures arnt done, biggest examples are the main beam that goes out and the wall texture being really off with its tileing.

Spitfire

About time we put up more stuff. First up is the main building that is almost done.

Ill post pictures of our scene in UE3 in just a bit

Spitfire

Zoom in on a prop

Spitfire

We are still working on the mixing of ground textures, which consist of 3 512 textures that are blended through alpha maps.

edit* accidently replaced the files that were the WIP pictures

Spitfire

Here is the UE3 node network for blending textures for the ground, this makes us abel to tile the three 512 textures over the entire ground and smooth blend it over eachother.

Matroskin

love those textures!

The only 2 things that bother me for now r:

1) scale (huge trees kinda make the facility look a dwarf buuilding near some creek)

2) not sure if the setting will not make it look like just abandoned facility. Unless everything around will be burned and smoked;)

Spitfire

1: The concept shows the trees insanely huge, but we are not making them as huge as in the concept, it will be more proportional.

2: Yeah we will add alot of damage, and overgrowth to show that its been abandoned.

Spitfire

quick update, here is a texture, from zbrush to final tile texture, that is going to be used on the ground, its a base texture, since its only going to be on the ground that will be covered by lots of foliage, rocks etc...

BjornM

Hi
I haven't posted anything so far so here we are:

Spitfire

Seems bjorns account hasnt been activated yet, so ill post the progress again, since his post didnt show up yet.

Anyway, we are starting to put it more and more stuff, all those different vegetation we made is making it in aswell.

its a little flat atm, but we need to fill the scene first.

Matroskin

looks cool as a game level, but it does not feeel destructed or "endish" enough yet.

Don't forget that u can save lots of time if u will be modeling only considering specific beauty shot angle

Your environment is nice, but might take too much time and at the end u need only 1 or 2 screenshots for your submission.

Good work anyways.

Ged

looking really nice, Im not really seeing metal texture on those mechanical looking pieces its all looking a bit like white concrete, I think your background and water need a little bit of colour and the background could do with some mountains in the distance and such as well

Spitfire

yeah we have alot of optimization to do, we are currently at 76000 tris and about half the texturebudget.

We are trying to find the best way to make a lodded forest in the background and fill the distance with some simple mountains. Then for some epic destruction

Spitfire

here is a little update, , we are currently working on making better trees and making the center building shoot a giant beam into the sky to get that end game feeling, expect fire and some crazy stuff.

BjornM

Another update. Finally got some realistic reflections on the water. The laser is going to be much beefier, just some preliminary tests.

STRIKER

dam i love how you got it to look so realistic in the last 2 shots. how did you achieve that??
i love your entry btw

Envelope

Hey guys, great progress. I love the way it's coming together. Just wanted to critique one thing. In that last picture, you have some palm leaves / tree leaves completely killing the silhouette of your main building (on the right, top). Move that guy down a bit



Rad stuff, good job.

Spitfire

DONE!

Chrisis

Looks great! The colors/ contrast on the finals are perfect.

PS Nice poly use as well, a I didn't imagine the tricount was so low.

Spitfire

Thanks, i think mostly it is because of BjornM that made the grassplanes into a single tri instead of 2, it was definately worth the 256 texture that it barely used to be abel to stretch the uv that far.

3dskillet

the color balance and lighting in this is what really stands out for me.

great job