Mass Effect Inspired Modular Environment

professorXXX

This was a collaborative art project to help my students learn modular texturing and model creation. The entire project used 3 tiling textures and 3 normal maps. It took about 5 weeks to do ( meeting once a week for 4 hours ) It was done in UDK.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o04cWVPxQ2w"]Mass Effect Inspired Modular Environment - YouTube[/ame]

I really enjoyed teaching the class and showing the techniques. I feel it went better than most of the other classes I teach just because I centered it around recreating a concept as a team. So much so that I am thinking about teaching an online class using this method:) Good idea?

Nick
https://videogameartist.wordpress.com/category/game-design/

chrisradsby

Cool , that looks really nice with that budget !
Wish you'd push the lighting a little bit more in the forge-type area (some emissive lights on walls and floors etc etc) but really really nice work

professorXXX

Thanks!!!

Yah....that area lighting got kind of rushed at the last moment of class:) If we had more time I would love to hit it up more.

Donavonyoung

One of the most important things in an environment is lighting, it can make great texture look like shit, and shitty textures look good. I would definitely revisit this and just pour effort into the lighting. That would really make this scene great! Solid work otherwise.

D.Carmine

I think the problem with this is that in my opinion it does not read as a "Mass Effect" scene. The second area looks more like Mustafar from Star Wars III.

I felt that the robots were out of place. They didn't fit the aesthetic of Mass Effect. I felt that the second robot looked like it was based off of the robots from Portal 2.