Room For Game Dungeon

michaelmilette

Hey Guys so I have begun another school project and I am super pumped about it .I have decided to create a room located in a dungeon game level.

So the idea behind this room is the character has to go up the stairs and along the walkway behind the center of the room in order to activate a switch which brings up the bridge in the center of the room via a mechanical system made up of several chains and gears on tracks so that the character can walk to the door across the bridge and open it with a key.

The wired grate at the top of the room Will become a bone chandelier I will hang rib-cages and various bones from it. Will post a new update very soon I will be working on it when i am done typing this

what do you think?

Mike

Main view


Switch




This is a really rough colour study I did in photoshop

Rojo

Solid start. The room layout gives lots of options for creative lighting.

The leverage from those chains feels wrong. What are those attachment points, why are they so rubbery?

[SF]Three9

I gotta agree, the chains feel unnatural with how it's laid out. The 45 degree'ish angle, with a completely different angle like that is a bit unsettling. personally I'd say just have the attachment points right at the side of the bridge instead of on that piece that juts out; just bring the chains to the level of the bridge

michaelmilette

Thanks for the comments guys I completly overlooked the chain issue. I will fix it tonight and repost cheers

mike

michaelmilette

Hey guys so I have been doing some more work on my scene I have changed up the whole design of my gear leverage system and I completed some of my metal textures CHECK IT OUT!

all of these images are screen shots taken from max

arched doorway wireframe


front view


bottom view


Gear/track wireframe


main view


full scene



Will be posting my diff maps with unwrap overlays very soon later tonight XD cheers

michaelmilette

here are the diffuse maps with uvw overlayed on top

arches/doorway (1024)


pillar (same 1024 map) just wanted to show clearly where i put the uvs for the pillar

Gear track (512)


Gear (256)

ErichWK

You know if you straighten out that curved doorway arch in your UV layout, you could save an assload of texture space.

michaelmilette

@erichWK: I know I have been trying to straighten those uvs out but they always comes out badly I really want to fix that map it is at the moment very inefficient. Do you or anyone else know of anyways I could properly unwrap that piece any help would be AWESOME!

Sean VanGorder

I found this script the other day when I was unwrapping an asset with a lot of curved pieces. Should work pretty well for what you're doing.

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/uv-strip-straightener

michaelmilette

@seanEG
awesome thanks I will try that out. cheers

michaelmilette

Hey guys sorry I havent posted in so long I have just been tweeking my scene. #d sculpted the bricks in the scene not photsourced will post a preview of those for you very soon.

I still have to work on the placement of the chains (they are going threw the gears) and I need to fix the tiling of the stone walls and the gaps in the stairs working on that asap.

this is a screen grab from max but I am in the process of putting this into udk and will post my results soon cheers

Mike