MMO RTS Novus Aeterno Sci-Fi Environments

Mohamed Rotab

Hello PolyCounters ,
We are small indie studio ( Taitale Studio ) working on our upcoming MMO RTS game Novus Aeterno ...The beta game will be released and featured on PAX PRIME this month so I thought it would be cool to share some of the work I did on this game ..

This Level is entirely done by me .. starting from the early concept and layout to the final in-game shots ( except for the 2 computer props ) .
It's a Human Space Ship Bridge where the players will customize their game , ships etc etc .
I will capture a walk-through video later after we finish this level completely as there are alot of props and models to be added .

The engine used is Trinigy Vision Engine .

Please follow us on :

http://www.facebook.com/novusaeterno

http://twitter.com/#!/novusaeterno


These are screen shots from the game and I will post some Highpoly Shots and texture sheets later today .

Comments and Crits are much welcome

Computron

Looks good, I love the misty fog below. You say you made every asset in this except the monitors? Can you post pictures of the individual assets? How long did it take?

Mohamed Rotab

Ah sure i will post more WIP and Wires later tonight after work

shotgun

this has a strange and cool 90's feel to it
i'd like to see what's beyond this room
mabruk!

Mohamed Rotab

Floor Area









Best Regards ,
M.Rotab

Mohamed Rotab

Ceiling Parts

Mohamed Rotab

Some Wall Parts .









Best Regards ,
M.Rotab

ZeroStrike

This is really nice. Great job with the final rendering. The look great. I am really humbled with all the detail. Question. As a general rule of thumb/personal preference, do environment artist generally create the high poly out of the base program like max/maya, etc, or do they take it into zbrush/mudbox? I believe you created the high poly in the base program and it look amazing. I am kind of new to polycount and to environment art.

Thanks.

Wonkey

I love your high poly stuff! Adding to inspiration folder!

Computron

I like the way the cieling parts looked, especially the curves. the wires running through the floor tiles also caught my eye. Very good attention to detail. I really like the style and want MOAR.

artquest

Looks awesome! Great modeling for sure. My only crit is that your screenshots seem like they could benefit from some tweaking of the texture filtering options in the engine. The textures get blurry too quickly. I want to see that awesome detail you painted in the textures.

Kawe

This looks awesome. I really like the ceiling parts cause it looks like there are different sections of the ship. However the ceiling does put your floor to shame as it isn't nearly as detailed in terms of variation and showing that "this is actually used for different purposes".

Darkrusader

Nice! I like the moodiness. You can almost feel the dank air. One idea I can toss your way is maybe adding in a bit of color to break up the grey greebles. I think a bold color paint placed in areas you want accented would give this a bit more pop. Just make sure that paint has the appropriate amount of wear and tear for your level.

Mohamed Rotab

Thank you for feedback guys i really appreciate it
@ artquest : your i right i need to check the textures filtering options in the Vision engine .
@ Kawe : I totally agree with you about the floor being just one unit all over the bridge , we are planning to add more different units soon before final release .
@ Darkrusader : would please you elaborate more about color painting .

Here is A shot for the Blast Window that is placed at the bridge end .



Also here is some close shots made with Marmoset toolbag .. just downloaded it yesterday ... this really great presentation tool for artists .

Computron

Can you please show some texture flats?

snake85027

looks freaking great guys and gals, keep it up

Mohamed Rotab

Thanx guys ..
@ Computron : Sure here are some texture sheets .



Best Regards,
M.Rotab

Steppenwolf

Really awesome scene if maybe a little too busy in places with all the tiny light sources. Love your hipoly models! One more minor crit: I think you could crank up your spec/gloss settings. Can't really see spec in the ingame screenshots. It would also make the normals pop out more.

ajr2764

Purely awesome work...enough said.

Computron

Steppenwolf wrote: »

Really awesome scene if maybe a little too busy in places with all the tiny light sources. Love your hipoly models! One more minor crit: I think you could crank up your spec/gloss settings. Can't really see spec in the ingame screenshots. It would also make the normals pop out more.

I agree, I wanted to see your texture flats to see how you did your spec, its pretty subtle.

Alberto Rdrgz

these highpolys just made love to my eyes!!!! this stuff is SICK!!! awesome work man!

Envart

Beautiful scene. My only crit would be that large section of floor without anything in the middle. Could perhaps do with some circular bit of tech in there like that 3d map display from Avatar. Great work.

Darkrusader

this is a quick and dirty paintover to illustrate the point I was trying to make earlier



I think that adding a bit of color to serve as break points for the viewers eyes would be helpful because by the nature of the scene it is kind of high frequency with the details. Also, i tried focusing your lighting a bit as well there was even more focus in your scene. Again, this was quick and dirty just to illustrate those points i mentioned earlier. You have some great modeling here, but I think these things can really help your level design. Awesome work over all though! I look forward to hearing more about the project!

Mohamed Rotab

Thank you guys for feedback , I am glad you like it

@ Steppenwolf & @ Computron : true the specular is not really showing up in the engine .. i guess i need to rework my shader network .
@ Darkrusader : Thank you for taking the time to explain your point , it's really interesting i would like to try that approach .

megalmn2000

I like how you treat the details of the scene! High poly looks interesting in term of shapes. Did you get inspired by Starcraft 2? The art direction looks like that.

Lephenix

Mohamed Rotab wrote: »

Ceiling Parts

Awesome environment. How do you render high-poly models like that? It's great!

Mohamed Rotab

@megalmn2000 : Yeah ofcourse iam inspired by star craft .. i started learning 3D right after starcraft one

@Lephenix : Thank you i am glad you like it .. actually this is not render it's just a screen shot of 3ds max view port in realistic mode ( Nitrous ) with standard material with dark gray color and high specular and glossiness value that i find it best when modeling hard surface.

The bridge now on hold till our shader coder fix the specular and reflection bugs .
Here is my last addition to the bridge ... simple blast door nothing fancy ..

Lephenix

Ah ok, thanks for reply, i didn't i use Softimage XSI.
Awesome blast door.

Joshflighter

I love how the model doesn't have to many complex shapes, yet is so damn epic looking. Nicely done!

BlvdNights

Damn! This shit is sexy!

Computron

Looks like you drew a lot of inspiration from this Quake 4 Concept by Autodestruct:



Good work! Show the bakes!

Orangeknight

What were the hi-polys made in?

Rednaz

Really like the clean high poly work, damn..

Darkleopard

Nice! Can you post some low poly wire frames when you have a chance?

romanlionz

So far your assets are pixel sex and amazing! but the scene gets very busy very fast, and is also really dark. the little emissive parts of the assets get very busy in the scene, and are the points of highest contrast. my eye doesn't know where to land, or where you are trying to lead the player in this space. i'd also recommend not only creating clear focal points, but also creating assets that can let your eyes rest for a bit. without patches of little detail, your hyper-detailed awesome props just get lost in this jumble of organized noise that can be hard to take in at first glance. overall really amazing stuff man! keep it up.

konstruct

great mood- The density and repetitive nature of the glowing bits might be a bit much?

stxtch

Great high poly work! Really feeling the orange-blue palette you have going on too.

The shadows in the scene renders seem really dark - try increasing the radius on your lights and maybe using the falloff exponent instead to adjust the tightness of your light pools.

Alphavader

Grat Work, are the highres done in zbrush ?
Can you give us a litle workthrough ?!

Darkleopard

What program do you use for sculpting?

Alphavader

anyone?

ZacD

It is just high poly modeling, no sculpting.

Mohamed Rotab

Thank you guys for feedback i really appreciate it .
@ Computron : yeah that concept was great starting point for the door
@ romanlionz & konstruct : all these points you mentioned are on my to-do list after i finish the ships .. thank you again .. polycount is really great place to get constructive criticism
and this is only Highpoly modeling in 3ds max no sculpting yet ... but iam practicing hard on zbrush hard surface modeling to get my models to the next level

Best Regards ,

szymeq

I'm have a question , how you bake a normal maps from this hp models without wierd staff going on at the edges? I'v that problem and no idea how to solve it:/

cptSwing

love your work.

Edit: One teeny tiny thing though, i think your ceiling pieces might have gotten just a little too much wear and tear. Unless of course you intend to re-use the ceiling bits in other areas, or your characters are tall enough to keep bumping their heads on the ceiling. ;-)

Goeddy

lol im just seeing the zbrush-industrial brushes all over there X)

cptSwing

no sculpting afaik?