[STAGE] The Last Blade, Kaede's Stage, Ezmeow
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Ok let's try to do something with that.
My favorite stage in Last Blade. I'm really not sure about what I'm going to change but I love the scenery......
My favorite stage in Last Blade. I'm really not sure about what I'm going to change but I love the scenery......
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Looking forward to how this turns out!
I think I'll probably add some lantern or statue but I'm gonna get the door first.
I was thinking to switch it to winter too but I'm not sure about it.
I'm planning to change a bit the door to make it more impressive; quick blocking to see how the new silhouette is gonna impact the composition.
Either way I like where its going!
Not really satisfied yet with the mood but so I need to do some paint over/light test before starting the proper build of the scene.
and no it's not an army of penguin overlooking the scene.
U do like nature scenery eh
Basic workflow, hi-poly sculpt of 1 slab > export > compose > bake.
Right now the central part of the path is the same mesh as the steps, I'll see if I change it for a more specific placement or not.
I still have to work on the light to relight the gate structure a bit more
@ Matroskin & Bbox85 : thanks~ So when are you guys going to enter
I've been working on the main structure, transformed it into a bell tower to fill this blank space.
Otherwise I've started to properly model the tiles on it and played a little with the image composition/fog/light.
I think you need to make the fighting area a bit more apparent (probably with lighting), and more diversity in the graves (usually Japanese graveyards have lots of funky stuff, and even little characters).
Looking forward to seeing what color variation you'll be bringing it as well, very monochromatic at the moment.
Love the penguins!
@Bal : the graves are still placeholders, I plan to add more diversity as well as more graves, but thanks for the link nice refs here
Small iteration on the door ornaments and replaced the tiles on the walls (I'll re add the deformation later).
By the way, I don't manage to export my mesh with the correct "material ID" applied on the right faces, every time it get scrambled...
Did anyone have this problem with fbx export in maya 2011?
How do you get that subtle outline going with all your objects??
@fearian : those "glow" are just some spherical volume fog actors.
@kaburan : the outline is from my material post fx shader, basically it's the usual edge detection post fx but adjusted to fit my needs.
I always get that issue when I haven't triangulated my meshes before export. Not sure if that's what's going on with yours though?
I've work on the color adjustment of my scene to make it feel less monochromatic.
I'm not sure about the sky color, I think I'm gonna try something in between, let alone the moon which feel a bit cheesy~
Opinions are welcome
I was planning to do a detail sculpt of the dragon but according its size on the screen....I even wonder if the base i got now isn't too much u.u;;;;;
On the meantime I turned the moon blue and scaled it a bit but I was lazy to screen~
Something in the foreground maybe?
For the foreground part I'll see that when I will properly build the graveyards zone so I'll see how I'll balance the space.
I've integrated the bell with just the AO and normal map (as most mesh in the scene for now anyway), and did a different light test (I like to play with the light during all the construction process of the map so when it will come to the real lighting process I have some reference screenshot to see what's working or not).
Thanks guys for the feedback.
What's left to properly do as a reminder to myself is :
- so more ornaments for the bell structure
- the graveyard(3 graves variation should do it I think)
- a decent stone path
- a stone lantern
- a tree(and some LODs of it~)
- walls
- spirit flame (sprites I guess)
- ground/fog setup
- background
and just to break the boredom another angle of the bell structure ~
I'm not really sure of how it did turn out, crits are welcome.
Especially love the painterly quality the low level fog adds, must be a fairly involved shader.
Minor crits:
detailing from the bell structure clashes a bit with the graveyard, i think if you added more details to the lamps it would help create more of a "flow" from the highly detailed woodwork to less detailed graveyard.
Dragon doesn't read very well on the bell from this distance, could be a bit bigger or have its forms more defined
Detailing on the bell is a little loose compared to the clean style of the rest of the piece. (you may also want to put a striker next to it, would be more obvious it's a bell).
Crazy ideas that probably aren't any good:
Would love to see fog rolling in from behind the bell on the ground (like thick ground hugging fog from a smoke generator with a hand painted quality). Maybe just out of the edges of the open area so you can still see the base of the trees.
Fireflies! (make up for the lack of falling leaves)
Favorite entry so far.
@ crazyfingers :
Everything is 3D but the udk post process helps
The detail difference between the bell structure and the graveyard is mainly due to the fact that I didn't work on the graves model yet and I have to tune down the normal map of my wood texture.
Same goes for the bell (but I agree for the dragon, it wasn't supposed to be a main eye focus but I need to see what I can do to make it more readable).
I had the rolling fog in mind but to be I need to run some test as I'm not sure about the way to do it efficiently.
I was planning to add some leaves (really not much) on the trees and some on the ground (leaves don't magically disappear
@Bbox85 :
Thanks for the paint over, I believe it's the first time someone did a paint over on one of my image, I'm deeply touched
The claustrophobic feeling was done on purpose but it's always nice to have other perspective to explore.
Thanks for underlining the composition problem with the branch up front, I always try to keep the eye flow smooth in the composition but after spending time focusing on some part I didn't notice it.
I was planning to try to add some ribbon hanging down on some branch but without this issue in mind
I was still thinking about what to add for my background but I like your mountain idea.
Anyway no need to apologize for anything all critics or feelings are welcome, you could even tell me that you hate the scene it would be fine as far as you tell me why
good luck
made him a sad penguin ! u.u
The overall is too much bright right now
There are some stuff I like in this composition, but I miss some element from the previous composition, so I think I need to step back a little to watch both with fresh eyes. Comments are welcome~
Is this "hand painted" magic in your diffuse / normal maps? Or is there a lot of UDK shader work involved?
Either way, It's amazing.