Midgar, Possibly a UDK.

Warren · Sep 2010

Hi all, i am new to polycount in a matter of posting my own stuff

so here we go!

Depending on the time i get away from work, i'll trying to get this into the UDK.
Been working on it for 3.. 4 years maybe, ill post some of the older pictures to and aswell as the newest ones.

Harsh crits and comments are welcome ^___^!

It started out with...... this

Which grew into this

Which moved onto this

Then that became this

And this is where i am now!

And here are some assets i will be using.

Harsh crits welcome ^__^!

cholden · Sep 2010

I like the "And this is where i am now!" image, but all these assets appear from a more modern era than this fantastical future environment would have.

ajr2764 · Sep 2010

I like the latest direction your taking with the overall scene. I agree that the assests that your showing from max dont really fit the style that you seem to be presenting. It appears to be some sort of futuristic factory is that right?

Warren · Sep 2010

Okay, i will that into consideration perhaps i can make them look more tech like ^_^ thanks!

And it's midgar from final fantasy 7

MattQ86 · Sep 2010

So what exactly is the scope and scale of this project? Because as you can see clearly in this video:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9tTttgK9U&hd=1[/ame]

and this picture:

Midgar is clearly supposed to be some sort of hive city comprised of 9 sectors each large enough to be a city in their own right. Then there's the massive plate surround it and the slum underneath and around it. Trying to model all of it "accurately" would be a massive undertaking like trying to create an entire New York based sandbox game (like GTA or Prototype) by yourself.

vofff · Sep 2010

this looks weird, you are showing the assets but they are not shown in the scene?

Warren · Sep 2010

@Matt
Well it's taken a really long time to get this far, if thats what you mean.. i'm not doing this alone either.

@voff
Consider this a blockout sort of thing, im going to start populating the plates and the underground now.

DOG-GY · Sep 2010

It seems like you're forgetting polygon counts on your assets. They're p unoptimized as is. You should give them all a good passover. They also don't feel like they could or should exist in that world, but I know nothing of the series anyway.

Warren · Jan 2011

I havn't really had much time on this but.. Mega bump.

Umm, i'll be working on the outer plates and the actualy plates again seeings as they're really not that great. But progress.

I'll be working on it more this afternoon when I'm home from work. Unfortunantly I cannot get this into UDK due to some oddly errors exporting it from max, even portions of the model will not export.

mdeforge · Feb 2011

Midgar is clearly supposed to be some sort of hive city comprised of 9 sectors each large enough to be a city in their own right. Then there's the massive plate surround it and the slum underneath and around it. Trying to model all of it "accurately" would be a massive undertaking like trying to create an entire New York based sandbox game (like GTA or Prototype) by yourself.

Enter: http://www.polycount.com/2011/01/28/city-creation-tools/#more-5101

Warren · Feb 2011

Stradigos wrote: »

Enter: http://www.polycount.com/2011/01/28/city-creation-tools/#more-5101

I might look into that, thanks!

Warren · Feb 2011

Update :
Reworking the plates since they were a bit old and redoing the inner and outer plate walls. The sectors are v2.

Solid:

Wireframe :

Orchidface · Feb 2011

are you seriously modeling a fire hydrant when the end goal is to model Midgar in its entirety? Dude, that's like modeling a bacteria when the end goal is to model a person.

Alberto Rdrgz · Feb 2011

Orchidface wrote: »

are you seriously modeling a fire hydrant when the end goal is to model Midgar in its entirety? Dude, that's like modeling a bacteria when the end goal is to model a person.

ahahahhaahhaha

Matroskin · Feb 2011

its not a good idea to keep building it entirely in max if u want to bring it to a game engine eventually.
You need to make your decision now because later u won't handle the export of all that massive load of assets into Unreal and placing them again in the new scene.
You need to start breaking down modular blocks and individual assets now if u want to bring it to UDK afterwards.
Also it would be good to UV and think about textures at this point because, again, u will end up with huge load of geometry that need to be mapped and textured which will simply overwhelm u.

Orchidface · Feb 2011

Matroskin wrote: »

its not a good idea to keep building it entirely in max if u want to bring it to a game engine eventually.
You need to make your decision now because later u won't handle the export of all that massive load of assets into Unreal and placing them again in the new scene.
You need to start breaking down modular blocks and individual assets now if u want to bring it to UDK afterwards.
Also it would be good to UV and think about textures at this point because, again, u will end up with huge load of geometry that need to be mapped and textured which will simply overwhelm u.

For sure. Also, if you ever plan on texturing it, if you model it all first, you will have about 5 million different fire hydrants to texture. However, if you model and texture the first fire hydrant all together, you can then propagate that textured hydrant all over. Generally when making a game environment the workflow is to make each prop and piece of modular architecture in separate max files for each. Then you take these little pieces and assemble them in the game engine (in your case udk).

Midgar, Possibly a UDK.

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