[WIP] Foliage for UDK Mobile

lewist

Hey PC! First off, thanks to everyone for feedback on my portfolio. It has really helped to give me a direction for the skills that I need to work on. One of the big suggestions that I got from a lot of posters was to join a mod team and get to work on cranking out some environments. Since then, I’ve been working with a friend to create a simple iOS game using UDK. We already have a pretty solid prototype together and I’m currently working on creating a variety of assets for a pond environment.

I did a quick sketch to try and nail a feel for the environment (and yeah, I’m not much of an illustrator).



Right now I’m making low poly, hand-painted foliage. I’m definitely out of my comfort zone with both these aspects, so I could really use some advice on what I could do better model/texture wise.

Butthair

I see you're not using any alpha maps, but instead modelling the shapes. What made you choose this direction?

Btw, the assets look nice so far. The green is very vibrant and lively, the leaves and grass look very pleasing. You may want to add a bit of variation to the frond, it comes out a bit solid and bland compared to the dark/lights of the leaves and grass bits.

matthewjvia

I didn't even notice when we talked earlier, but your blades of grass are virtually identical on the texture sheet aside from their size. You could probably get away with scaling up the smaller ones and overlapping them to save some texture space.

Also, lighten up the head of the cattail and add some texture to it. This might help: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Survival/Images/Cattail/cattail%20bud.jpg