Modular Environment and Texturing - CryEngine

njc6425

Starting a new thread for work i will be starting tomorrow, i really need to improve my modular modelling and texturing workflow and after watching a few vids and reading an epic thread by Jessica Dinh, im gonna give it a go. Basically its going to be a small fantasy town with a few props and lots of modular buildings, going to bring it over into CryEngine 3 for the final flythrough this is mainly just a practise for texturing and modular modelling so im not after a final render, hence no concepting will be done, although lots of research will be haha. Im terrible with environments so when i start uploading im gonna need all the crit you guys can throw at me, and then some haha. Anyways im off for now, will start uploading stuff tomorrow

Scozzi

Good Luck, I hope the scene goes well for you! Would you mind linking Jessica's thread for us?

njc6425

Cheers man :)here is the thread http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87797 probably the most useful thread ive read on polycount to date, its long as but every page is full of useful texturing tips and uv stuff

njc6425

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Here is my texture sheet ill be working off of, i will be creating just random wall segments and placing them around, as this is a technical exercise i havent really worried too much about weather or not they will match up, but more for variety of wall types. That being said i do hope i can create a few repeatable sections

let me know what you think

njc6425

Modelled one section, and applied the uvs . going to bring it over to cryengine3 now to nail that workflow down before going further

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sltrOlsson

Great to see Obvious thing; don't have the same texture info in your texture sheet. Not very modular at all.

njc6425

sorry i dont quite understand? can you explain

sltrOlsson

The whole purpose of a modular workflow is to reuse as much as possible. You have stuff in your texture that repeats. It's should be repeated and reused with UVs and actual geometry.

The areas with the same color is pretty much the same.

PogoP

You should make the wood on the building out of geometry and use a tiling wood texture. No point baking it into the texture.

njc6425

Yeh i understand modular workflow more or less however what you just showed me opened my eyes, i was thinking oh i will need this texture for this section and this for that.... forgot that i could just reuse certain section to create new parts thanks for the help!!!

Tried bringing that piece into cryengine but was having issues with the exporter, when i finally got it in the engine i was having issues with the material haha... gonna give it another go tomorrow. thanks again for the help

wilksy92

did you end up getting these into Cry? would really like to see how they look.

Darkleopard

This is a great idea nick. I might give this a shot before school starts back. Keep us updated