WIP : Arenanet envi test + UDK environment

DavidBrumbley

Hey all, here are some screenshots of an environment I'm currently finishing up. Next up on my task list is to create a skybox for my night scene.

I'm also currently working on the Arenanet environment art test for their internship program. I still have about 300 tris and 512 worth of texture space to play with.

Crit me please

iniside

Very nice. Although you can addmore geometry to house roof. It look nice at shoots you privided but, when look from player perspective it will be fuzzed because of mip-maps.
An my first though for house was RIFT not GuildWars ;p.

DavidBrumbley

Thanks for the comment. I'll play around with the roof today. I think I'll also make the chimney connect to the roof better.
I played all the Guildwars expansions but I have been playing Rift recently so that probably has something to do with it ;p

z3phon

Could you please tell me what the total poly limit and map size is on the house?
Thanks

DavidBrumbley

the total tri limit is 3000 and for textures you have the equivalent of two 1024

mixeh

Does that just include diffuse, or normal/specs have to fit into that 1024x1024 as well? Sorry if thats a stupid question >_>.

DavidBrumbley

yea all of the textures have to fit into the two 1024's. Right now I have 6 512's and the rest 256's.

I also decided that my house needed an environment to sit in so I started making all of the assets yesterday.

Suidae

The only crit I have is the roof moss seems a bit blotchy to me. I'd expect the moss to grow where the rain flows down and gets displaced along the roof, especially on a steep roof. Kind of like this.


Here's a quick little paint over to see what I mean. It's up to you though, I like the environment you're making for it.

ToEndTheRapture

Post a screenshot of your wireframe

Samfisher84

wow impressive stuff, nice lighting

mixeh

thats cool, are you vertex painting most things, like how did you do the grass on the top of the stone? good luck with it!

DavidBrumbley

Thanks for the paint over Suidae! I really like the moss running down from the chimney, looks much better.

ToEndTheRapture: I'll post wireframes and textures in a couple days when I put the final touches on them

Thanks Samfisher84!

mixeh:

The moss is all vertex painted on. I used the green channel of my roof and stone texture and the green channel of a noise texture to get the moss to blend nicely. I also painted a hint of green in my stone diffuse texture. For the tall grass on top of the stone I just stuck 6 tris together and then hand placed them around the building.

DavidBrumbley

I decided to make the building a little taller because it looked short from several angles and also made some more environment stuff.