What can you do with 3498 tris?

d1ver

How about an....environment?:)

So yeah, here's my take on the familiar art test.
3498 tris, 43 hours 5 minutes to accomplish, only diffuse textures and a 512 for all the lightmaps. Oh and, yeah, this stuff's supposed to be for mobile platforms.

[size=+1]Be sure to check out the video[/size], it's supposed to be fun:D(HD please) :

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Btw props for the custom gradient mapping node go to Vailias. If you haven't, be sure to check out the thread about it, started by rasmus. It's really awesome.

The whole thing was a blast, really.
If you have something to say - please do, I'd appreciate it very much.:)
I hope you'd enjoy it as well. Thank you very much for your time!

dpaynter26

wow man that looks great!

JFletcher

very slick man! digging the shader tricks you did, looks awesome.

Cint128

the atmosphere really adds heaps to this, looks amazing, was the video from a game engine or a 3d package? and yer the shader tick is very cool aswell

cholden

I love techy stuff like this. Watch the video!

Joshflighter

Lmao... "Do not press". That's just asking for someone to press it. :P

Really cool!

haiddasalami

Lovin this. Nice use of shaders and tech.

megalmn2000

Nice trick d1ver! The scene looks really cool for a mobile platform!

bugo

Isn't it the Gameloft test? Looks really good btw.

Vailias

So glad that those shader brain dumps were so useful.
Looks really nice. I imagine its ouststanding on an iphone screen.

Sparkwire

I'm really really digging this. There is one thing i want to mention though, the rain seems to fall awfully slow.

chrisradsby

Really good stuff man, though in one of your video shots it seems like it's only raining on the right part of the shot? You could see the ship on view from the left side of the environment. Oh well, I just noticed it and didn't know if it was supposed to be like that or not

Anuxinamoon

Love this so much! Very nice work

rasmus

Cool stuff, d1ver! Crazy vid, crazy rain

Spacey

The sinking ship looked a little silly, but considering your constraints and what you managed to bust out you did an amazing job. Clever work with the shaders too. Love it!

odium

The shit...? That few tris...? Bugger me... See this is what I enjoy, and I feel we have to get back to working with constraints in the industry more rather than just waiting on more power. It always amazes me what people can do when they have a set constraint such as this, because you tend to make everything count more. Rather than the current next gen pipeline we have right now where we seem to sometimes forget that.

IMO, if it was up to me, I would stop GPU's and consoles for the next five years at least, and force people to work with what we have now. Take a look at Shadow of the Colossus on PS2, and you'll see what can be done with limited resources when you put your mind to it.

StefanH

great job you did. you should ace the test!

seth.

>What can you do with 3498 tris?

make something beautiful, great job d1ver.

Mask_Salesman

Real nice dude, this is great stuff to see, it takes real skill to make proper game art. Makes me reminisce over mgs2 heh. Odium makes a good point, I'd love to see us really push nextgen to the same extremities, atm it seems like we're trying to move on before we've caught up to its limits and really discovered it's entire potential.

The button scene was teh funzxor lol.

Farfarer

Lovely shader tricks. It's amazing how nice such low poly stuff looks when the stops are pulled out shader and effects side

Nice scene, too, it's cool to see that much effort being put into one little scene rather than just some screengrabs.

Lazerus Reborn

" I can make you come with just 3498 tris, imagine what i can do with a entire budget ;3 "

dang87

That's pretty sweet! Crazy that our technology can create that! Awesome job!

eyo

looking good sir! thanks for posting the breakdowns, always enjoy seeing the method to the madness :-)

sanketpro3d

dude .... !! unbelievably awesome output that is ... and really great use of 'top floor' for the shaders ... great job !!

r_fletch_r

looks damn awesome.
Can UDK iOS really render that level of complexity at good rates?

Jenn0_Bing

Wow awesome and inspiring. Excellent shader work as everyone else has said. My only little niggle was that the rain was very bright.

zortech

Great use of shaders and texture space! Quite a bit of work for such a short amount of time.

Whats the triangle/draw call count including particles and shadows?

nalwayv

Really nice work.:)

DLoud

Correct me if I'm wrong UDK gurus, but I thought mobile devices couldn't use UDK's shader network system. I thought you had to just plug in textures into the "Mobile" drop down in the material editor as per http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/MobileMaterialReference.html.

I know you can bake down the textures from the shader network but that would kinda defeat the purpose here as you'd get a large number of different textures.

Am I way off the mark here? Thoughts?

Steve Schulze

Ah, I did that test earlier this year, although mine was a bit more DS spec - all low res textures and vertex lighting. You've done some nice work with the more modern specs.

If you're looking at getting work at Gameloft, it'd be worth having a read through this first
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86905&highlight=gameloft
Grain of salt etc.

Ged

looks great! Id really like to see how it runs on a mobile device, Im pretty sure those shaders will not function. Maybe in a few years when udk or unity mobile support matures more.

Gannon

looks great! I've gotta try this out.

disanski

WOW! Man this is just sick work.

kio

its not a problem on the unity or udk side, opengl es 2.0 performance on most devices is still pretty crapy, so the majority is still doing stuff with fixed function pipelines...

you cheated a bit with the tricount as the rain particles look pretty dense

shaders are really nice, but i guess of marginal production value for said reason.

but hey who cares, it looks nice and that counts

Minos

This is awesome, thanks for the breakdown!

Andreas

Looks really good.

Those are odd font choices though.

Szark

Reminds me of Rogue Spear for some reason. Awesome work!

sergeimoroz

amazing work for 3.5k polys, mate. what would that be? a game or a test or smth else? is it UDK?

S2Engine

Very nice stuff! The raindrops on the lens was a nice touch as well.

Avanthera

wow, looks sick!

metalliandy

Amazing work!
Nice job!

chrisavigni

Looks great!
Well done!

fmnoor

Nicely done, your shaders and post process FX won't work on mobile however. At least not with current UDK

Your video is super cool~ I like the cloud swirl.GG

Clintus Maximus

Wow... absolutely gorgeous work. Especially given the limitations. Great job.

Lucra

That was pretty damn impressive. The one thing that kept distracting me though was that I thought the water was falling to slow.

Mohamed Rotab

3500 tris ... thats the polycount of just ONE of my props .. impressive work

DeeKei

holy crap this is pretty awesome. so this is done un udk i assume?

hobodactyl

Should I say welcome aboard already? :P Great work! I'm at Gameloft Montreal, let me know if you take the job

Jeff Parrott

Great job on this. Best version of this art test I have seen online. They need to retire this thing finally.

I'm sure you're be moving to Montreal, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Paris Texas, Paris France, Buenos Aires, that city in New Zealand, or whatever one you crushed this art test for in no time.

AndyLittleton

Damn Impressive. Love the vfx work

Keep in mind this art test was spec'ed for the older i phones like I phone Gen 1g, 2g

If this art test was speced for 4g you could've done WAY bigger Textures and double the Tris.

But its always good practice to work with a tight budget.

Tom3dJay

That was amazing, I hope you get a job man, you're great artist!