Assets for a new scene

knak47

I am currently working on a scene for my portfolio. Its a sciFi/future military base that has been abandoned and is now being overgrown by the surrounding vegetation. Although the inhabitants have left there are still a few drone ships that continue to run their perimeter defense.
Here are a couple assets I am working on. These are loosely based on concept art by Nick Carver and Also some stuff from Paul Richards. These are screen grabs from within Max using 3Point Studio's view port shader.
I am planning on adding emmisive lighting to the front lights as soon as it goes into UDK. I also think changing the tubes to a different color would be a good idea, i just cant decide on what. Also I believe I should change a few metal accents to a darker metal. Please let me know what you think.

Triton drone ship

crate01

SINtuition

I like the texture work, very cool. On the ship some of the shinier metallic details could use a reflective/fresnel effect to bring them out. Also an AO pass looks like it would help define the form better.

For the crate, when I first looked at it something seemed a little off with the proportion. I think maybe the large screws and the size of the radius on the corners are messing with the perception.

I love the texture work on the rusty scratched paint. Maybe you could share a link/tutorial on how to achieve the effect?

Edit:
On further inspection I think I know whats throwing me off. The border between the orange bevels on the front and the body of the crate makes them seem like they don't fit together. I realize you probably have a UV seam right there, but if you could run a scratch or two across the border or maybe a patch of dirt that fits seamlessly across the border it would help blend them better.

knak47

Thanks SINtuition

Maybe I will intensivy the already existing AO. Yeah the metal should pop a bit more once I get it into UDK and build its material.

As far as the screws, I intentionally made them large like that but I do see how it looks really awkward. I will reduce the size and maybe put four on each panel instead of two. I will also redo the front orange droor because you are right, the transition between pieces is too harsh.

As for the texturing I am still playing with a mixture of techniques but almost all techniques are similar to the tuts found in the Polycount WIKI under texturing tutorials.

knak47

Anybody have any suggestions for the color of the hoses on the ship?

Aslo I was looking at the crate, do you believe I should get rid of the wheels?

Jessica Dinh

I like the wheels on the crate. I think for the hoses maybe make them a darker gray, I think you need some darker metal bits in some areas in general, not all the same light gray. If you want to play with color, maybe you could add something to go with the orange you already have, like a darker orange or maybe something bluish.

knak47

Thanks Jessica for the input, I like your texturing style.

biofrost

Looking pretty good. Same thing as Jessica said some darker grays would help it feel a bit more natural, though once you get it into udk it may look better if you get some kind of reflection on it(cubemap or realtime)

Computron

is that supposed to be metal? where is the spec and reflection?

knak47

I messed with some of the grey tones for the metal pieces, and yes Computron that is supposed to be metal. Hopefully these shots from UDK sell the metal a little more. I made the rivets on the crate smaller and through a decal on it to try and ease the transition from the front drawer and the base of the crate. Going to start on some wall and pillar pieces and come back to these textures in a bit.

biofrost

The gun parts are looking much better with the new color, scratches and the such are looking nice too. The big blotch of dirt on the crate might start to get redundant too much when you have a few more of those crates in the scene though.

knak47

Here are a couple new assets. One is a control pillar the other an entrance door to the facility. As of now they only have an AO and a normal map applied. Let me know what ya think

Door 1,037 Tris
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/door01Wires.jpg
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/door01.jpg
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/doorUV.jpg

Pillar 1,382 Tris
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/Pillar01.jpg
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/pillarClose.jpg
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/pillar02.jpg
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/pillar01Wire.jpg
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/pillarUv.jpg

tristamus

Wow...such simplicity, and it definitely works! Great damage in the textures too, btw.

knak47

tristamus wrote: »

Wow...such simplicity, and it definitely works! Great damage in the textures too, btw.

As I posted before this is a WIP and only has a AO and basic normal applied

Hmmm. Damage in the textures, what do you mean, or is that an attempt at being facetious?

Also, Simplicity please elaborate I would love to here any suggestions you might have.

Heads Up- The control Pillar will have 3 screens, one a holographic touch screen that hovers in the empty void at the center. The two top inlets will be occupied by display screens. This will all happen later in the workflow once it is textured and ready for UDK where I can throw some sweet materials at it. But I figured I would get some feedback now before I forge ahead.

Thanx yall!

knak47

Here is a tilable wall section I am working on I am not sure what I want to do with the bottom open pieces, I was thinking maybe drainage/sewer holes or maybe a glowing light in there. I also cant decide what I want to do as far as color for the textures. let me know what you think.


http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/wall.jpg

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/wallTesla.jpg

Computron

Clean bakes! Good work!

DrunkShaman

Sure looks like it. Good work man. Keep it up.

Alberto Rdrgz

Very good work on those bakes!

knak47

Thanks a lot guys, that pillar in particular was a bunch of high poly sub d modeling in Max. Then a retopo in TopoGun for the lowpoly. working on the textures now should have something a little later tonight.

Update: here is a texture for the door I am working on, I am sticking with the whitish orange/blue color scheme for a lot of the assets in this scene, I want them to have a Starwars type feel. I added these recessed orbs in the corner of the door I would like to use them as part of the design on a few of the wall pieces and this door, but i dont know what to do with them. I might just get rid of them. Maybe they could pulsate a glow... I don't know.

EDIT got rid of the grey orbs embeded in the corners.



here are some closer shots
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/doorClose.jpg
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/doorCloseOrb.jpg

knak47

Here is a teleporter 2300 tri's.


http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/knak47/Polycount/teleporter01.jpg

zakhar2

Idk man, that doesn't seem "loosely based" at all, lol.