raul's envirioment busts
polycounter lvl 11
I decided that instead of doing full blown out enviroments. To do small "enviroment" pieces on a pedestal. Ive seen a few around here that did that, so that encouraged my idea a bit more. The main goal is to get a hands on materials and techniques. Materials meaning, being able to make metal look like metal, wood like wood, so on and so forth. Giving me a chance to get my hands dirty with many things. But enough talk, check out my 1st bust.
A little info, i did the high poly for this a few months ago. Then kinda let it die. Then this weekend decided to just get it over with and make it into a game assets. And no, there are no modular pieces on this. No there are no fancy shaders either. Its all photoshop and marmoset and some patience. The future i will put a little more thought to the modularity side of things. And maybe be brave enough to use Unreal. But for now i want to keep things plain and simple.
http://raparicio.com/images/environment-busts/raparicio_txtsheet_envbust_boiler.jpg
A little info, i did the high poly for this a few months ago. Then kinda let it die. Then this weekend decided to just get it over with and make it into a game assets. And no, there are no modular pieces on this. No there are no fancy shaders either. Its all photoshop and marmoset and some patience. The future i will put a little more thought to the modularity side of things. And maybe be brave enough to use Unreal. But for now i want to keep things plain and simple.
http://raparicio.com/images/environment-busts/raparicio_txtsheet_envbust_boiler.jpg
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And I think the concrete seams to dark and shiny, makes it look more like metal.
Oh, and the camera text from toolbag is showing
Other than that I love it, hope you can knock some more out soon
Started a few new pieces, will upload more presentation shots later on. But for now ill leave you with this.
This time around im trying to use the unreal engine, to create some kinda abandonded hallway. My goal is to get comfortable with the engine and get stuff in there pimpin
Congrats, and keep on kicking ass! Good luck Raul.
HP - yeah, man i found a bunch of reference before starting modeling stuff. When i saw that couch, i dunno, the modeler kid inside of me just itch to play with it!
hugo - thanx!
Alright, so my last post was pretty brief. I felt kinda lame about it, explain a bit more what im trying to accomplish a bit more in depth. They say pictures speak for themselves so here is a compilation of my main reference. Should give you an idea of what i wanna do with the hallway.
So the room at its current state :
A shot of the props i have modeled and imported into udk so far. And if someone would tell me how to make the wireframe show on top of the shaded model i would love you forever. As i wanna show that as well.
The other thing i wanted to point out, and maybe get some tips on. Is that i am currently using Modo. It seems that from Modo to UDK using the .ase plugin you have to save stuff with a smoothing group of 89. Which is confusing to me as im used to always using one smoothing group. So the work aroound acording to ben apuna's tutorial is to detach the meshes before export and that seemed to have fixed things for me.
Most importantly, i wanted to say thanx to Jeremiah_Bigley for sending me his awesome master shader and some other bunch of video tutorials for shaders. JJ, you rule!
some textures
some of the sculpts
http://blog.environmentartist.com/?p=724
And Slick stuff man! I love the textures on that couch. I can tell you learned tons when it comes to the texturing side of things.
Just a couple of things bothering me. The amount of space wasted on the couch texture. Probably could have cut seams along the natural seams in the couch and maximized the texture quality in whatever size you are using. The only other thing was the, what seems to be, the cavity on your wood. You could also probably offset the wood so that it tiles better. So you don't get that seam at the end of every plank.
In any case... awesome stuff man. Keep up the good work.
Edit: like this!
Reminds me of the Max payne Hotel level bit
Great work raul, a lot of detail in the sculpts that I did not notice at first, good work on that checker material
Looking forward to see where this ends up, are you planning a big scene or keeping the view you have in your first shot?
Love the idea of small environments like this
Edit:heh snefer alredy mentioned the use of fbx exporter.
The problem i have is that, if i stop working on something, 2 weeks later i dont remember where i was..lol. So im gonna start by posting a new screenshot of where i stoped.
So i wanted to jump back on this by simply taking making new previews renders. Properly this time. I also went back and worked on the textures a bit more. My next step is to start creating more content.
And a quick model i did today, before posting. Just so i dont look like im posting the same stuff 3 times in a row :P
Haha no but seriously this is some wicked normal map skill you've got there.
Looking cool, Raul! Is this your house? o__o
And that wall is something else! The High Poly, on one hand,is good but isn't all that impressive and doesn't do a great job at specifying the materials, but you've used it in such an effective way and what you've been able to transfer to the low is brilliant. Great example of what high-res modeling for games should be, making high poly's as nothing more than bases for textures (normal and AO) - definitely something I need to learn.
Only critique I have is to not go so black in some of the textures and let the normals do more of the work than the AO. This is more the case for the couch, as it looks fine unlit but as soon as you start putting lights in you'll start losing the normal map and your props will begin to look a bit muddy and flat.
Beautiful work so far.
Dang87, Seirei - thanx guys
Virtuosic - thanx man! im trying! And btw, thanx for those awesome vfx tutorials. Man..they are too fucking cool!
Zelenkov - maybe..if i make a max payne version of the dead city!
paulsvoboda - thanx for the feedback. To be honest, i was waiting for someone to say something about the wall!
mosena + velendi- thanx!
myles - mini challenge? hhmmm...let me finish this guy and we will talk! hehee.
So the reason i was spending so much time on the textures, is because i wanted to be able to craete objects just using tilable textures. Specially stuff like broken floors, walls etc. Even tho, in the end making a high poly for stuff just looks way better.
Tonight, i spent some time building a prototype for a tilable, broken piece of floor. Which includes the ceiling, right under it. I test it out, it works like i expected
And for fun, im posting what things looked like when i started, early this evening. Spent some time cutting stuff out to lessen on the noise created by all the wood supports and such. I still think that there should be a bit more contrast between the bottom of the flor and the ceiling, as it kinda reads as the same mesh at some points.
Is the hole in the ceiling actually going to lead to the roof? If so you could add puddles/ water damage around it. If you are looking to break up the ceiling, I think you should add this sort of trim, it'd sit well with your current style. Also the floor support timbers look a little too tall, but if it was leading to the roof that'd make sense.
Well, i went on a short vacation to San Francisco ( so if there are any polycounters wanting to catch lunch or whatever im here till wednesday ) In the mean time, i plan to work on the following when time allows.
Wanted to give a huge thanx to this community for always been supporting and inspiring. Vets, noobs and inbetweens, always bringing something awesome to the table. I would also wanted to share that this friday marked my 3rd week at Gearbox Software. Man, that place rocks!!! I am pretty excited to be there. Which is more the reason to get off my ass and keep posting work on the side. So i can bring more to skill to our projects, keep growing as an artist, kick ass 10 hours a day, and another 8 at home! Fucking 18 hour days..here i come!
Because ive been basicly laying low and being a complete lazy ass, i think im gonna start fresh. So would like to start by sharing with all of you what i will be working on the next couple of days. This is a project for a presentation i will be doing at a local college. The instructor ( Russell Smith ) thought it would be cool if this time i made a prop for their class project. I thought it was an awesome idea, since it would give me an opportunity to not only go over the workflow, but also be a part of their project.My goal is to post here so the class can see all my steps. And encourage the to post on the forums.
So, all i was told is that it was a steam punk project. And if i could model this
Which then i started by modeling some basic stuff, this evening.
When you start the lowpoly you are going to have to have it one piece anyways. Would have made more sense to have the grooves floating than such a large part of... the large part. >.>
Keep it coming man!
Edit: That is not max! :P
Overall, Looking great though