Himilaya Outpost

myles

Decided to take a bit of a break and push forward on something personal for me to work on in spare time, Its been a while since i've done an environment all on my own so I really want you guys to pull apart my work - I need to improve!
I'm happy to just keep working on this scene to the best of my ability, so I hope to take time to try out plenty of highpolys and clean lowpolys.

So this is my idea - A (indian themed) outpost high in the himalayas looking up to the peak under a light blizzard, I really want to push the textures and lighting on this, usually I manage to sort out my composition early on, but otherwise im trying to go for a couple of beauty shots along with each asset.

I've started an early blockout and thrown it in udk to play with lighting and composition,

I know its very early in development, but I sort of want to keep this as a diary to keep me motivated,
Thanks!

Habboi

I do love it when people show their progress in a sort of diary form! Anyway the composition of your first picture "really" reminds me of a bad storm but more rain / thunder than "light blizzard".

My suggestion is to change the fog colour to more cool colours. If you're using UDK then the snow texture vertex blending tut will suit you perfectly. Anyway keep it up and Merry Christmas for a cold themed level

Macattackk

looks cool so far. i really like eeriness of it. Is it gonna be a full level you can run around in or just that shot you have?

Zelenkov

I really dig the idea. The references have alot of color and it looks to be a very interesting environment. I think a lot of small details such as those hanging diff colored cloths could really push the look. And that bus would be amazing to see done. Good luck man, will be watching this.

Julmust

I really like the Uncharted 2 vibe and I think you could take a look at how they solved some problems and try to copy what they've done - Because the environments in Uncharted 2 (specifically the nepal and himalaya ones) looks amazing.

I look forward to this one

pior

^ Yup

There's also some very good stuff in Super Street Fighter IV - a few market scenes looking very nice and brightly lit. It's a much more of a low tech approach that Uncharted but still a very good piece of reference.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXbt6fvqDoo[/ame]

Aigik

I thought I recognized your references- expedition everest?

Good luck with this, I'll be watching your progress.

myles

Decided to get some of the larger pieces out of the way early on, heres the Himalayas (appears ive spelt it wrong in the title, derp) I'd really like to push this a whole lot more so maybe I'll come back to it later, but it will do for composition now. Its 500 triangles and I did the sculpting in MudBox (one of my first sculpts tbh)

Aigik, thats right, glad you recognised it - going their is really what boosted me to get this piece done actually, love the whole vibe in that area. Thanks pior, I especially like all the religous graphitti, I'll have to use a bit of that.
Julmust I've not played UnCharted 2 but I'll be sure to grab some refrences online from it, wish I had taken a look before starting this piece
Zelenkov thanks man, and yeah I really want to push all those colours to nicely contrast with the bleak environment. Macattackk haha I'm not so sure, hey If I enjoy making it maybe I'd move on further with it, who knows.
Habboi, thanks for the suggestions man. Could you link me to that snow vertex tutorials, I saw it knocking about a while ago.

Habboi

Here you are:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otedqKHET1w[/ame]

myles

So its been a too long since I last worked on this, This is really just a sort of style test for me, im gonna get a texture on today and put it into the engine to check my normals and try and find a colour code for this building.

myles

rumblesushi

pior wrote: »

^ Yup

There's also some very good stuff in Super Street Fighter IV - a few market scenes looking very nice and brightly lit. It's a much more of a low tech approach that Uncharted but still a very good piece of reference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXbt6fvqDoo

Good call Pior. I absolutely love most of the SF4 stages.

myles

Got together the roof and floor trim today, probably going to redo the roof trim at some point, it just stands out too much. So here's a in UDK shot, really need to fix those seams!

SaferDan

aww, this looks really pretty! I'm excited for more!

XenoKratios

Man this is coming along very nicely, you even put the little sewers coming out of the homes!

I lived up north in India cause thats where my dad's side of the family is and you could see the mountains from the street. I still remember it well and I think you're really recreating it!

jocose

Looking good dude, keep it up.