Tiller wharf

pixelb

Started this forever ago, it's time to finish it. Based on a painting by my hero, Bill Tiller, that was used as a background in Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island.


Quick and dirty lighting pass, using UDK's built-in lightmap unwrapping.


Wireframe with crappy placeholder textures/mapping.


Camera matching concept art is hell. I forced it to fit as best I could, though it meant pushing the ground plane around a bit.


Crits are welcome!

sipher3325

Very cool...looking good.

pixelb

Still totally working on this, believe it or not. It just gets buried by work and smaller projects more often than not.



And some of the many noted lighting inconsistencies that still need fixing.

Texelion

That's lovely ^^. The new one is way better, but the new roof tiles are strange. The palm trees trunks were better before too I think.

Ben Apuna

I came in to report spam, but had to comment.

What a great scene! I'd like to see a whole game made in this style.

My only critique is the purple ambient lighting color seems a bit odd to me as it's not the usual blue from the sky. However it does give it a unique look and feel so I wouldn't really change it. Maybe try to unify the sky color with the lighting by making it a dusk scene.

from: LIGHT - a detailed tutorial page 3, by Richard Yot.

pixelb

Good thoughts, Ben, thank you. Technically, a whole game HAS been made in this style. It just happens to be a 2D game, not 3D. This particular scene is a background from the game Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island, one of several made by Autumn Moon Entertainment.

Ben Apuna

Cool! I hadn't heard of that game before, I'm going to check it out.