Hawken Art Dump
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I finally started updating my portfolio now that Hawken is in open beta. Not too much to show off yet, but hopefully more to come. 
More of the same on my portfolio.
UPDATES! Added drones and thrusters:
I would add the images here but I ran out of space in this post
More of the same on my portfolio.
UPDATES! Added drones and thrusters:
I would add the images here but I ran out of space in this post
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Really cool work, has a great feel to it.
nice to see more Hawken art.
are these highpoly mech built from scratch or recycled from old previous mechs mix of both ?
All the mechs are modeled high poly and then baked down. We have a kitbash library that speeds the process up a lot though. I think it's around 1000 meshes now! Generally the big shapes are custom modeled, but a lot of the smaller stuff is grabbed from the library with maybe a few tweaks. But I'm pretty anal about sticking to a concept, so I usually custom model most of it. I say what the heck, that's how the library gets bigger! 8)
The mechs are separated into 3 sections: Lower legs, Upper legs/pelvis, and torso (the shielded mechs have 4 sections). Everything ends up at 1024 except the torso, which is 2048. I usually texture at double size though, and then downsize. Mechs are 15-20k triangles total. If you look closely at the wireframe images, I've left the triangle counts in the top left corner. Weapons and thrusters add a few thousand as well so they usually end up in the low 20ks.
I really wanna make mechs now!
Ace stuff:thumbup:
He's my fav too! He's actually the starter mech you get right away. He's intended to look a little quirky/less amazing haha.
Sup dude! Beta is moving right along. Still working out some kinks of course, but it's been a lot of fun!
Haha, you can thank Khang Le for that one. I made sure to put it in the texture!
Thanks man. Yeah, our designs have been a bit polarizing. Personally, I can't get enough, but I know a lot of people aren't fans. I can't give anything away obviously, but I can tell you that we are definitely listening!
1024 on lower legs, upper legs and pelvis, arms, and shields. 2048 for the torsos. I texture at x2 resolution though, so all these images are using bigger sizes than in the game.
How many, textures per mech is used 3, or more ?
Light Mech has 3: Lower Legs, Upper Legs, Torso
Medium Mech has 4: Lower Legs, Upper Legs, Torso, Arms
Heavy Mech has 4: Lower Legs, Upper Legs, Torso, Shields
All the stuff in there looks like it would be a blast to make.
Haha... i may have raided some of your psds.
Thanks man! Yeah, I did the first batch (pretty much what you see here) all in one go so they began to get very repetitive. I pretty much had an easy mode formula in my PSD structure lol. For these newer ones I'm trying to take a bit more time to keep things fresh. More on that later.
Nice use of color and dirt, looking forward to seeing more
Would there be any chance of posting some texture sheets? :P
Like the offline renders aswell, good lighting.
I just cant really get along with the shapes of the mechs. They are so unaesthetic in my opinion. I mean they are so out of balance visually. (not physically) There are so many weights which need hard adjustment to make it optically balanced. Proportions are really off imo.
If there are really huge arms with big weapons missing, then I could maybe understand, but like that its just really odd.
And that one mech looks like a television with armstumps ? I mean come on. Would you identify as player with that one ? + this is the first mech you have ingame
The model and texture sure are really good and detailed, but who designed that basic form?
It feels like your concept artist wanted to bring as much shape variation in as possible in a whole without looking at the benefit of the individual. This sure makes sense, but not for subjects meant to be the
player identification.
Please correct me if im missing something, I dont wanna be too much of an ass here
As for Fred, the TV with stumps... he is intentionally supposed to be pretty retarded looking. It's the recruit mech everyone starts with, so we wanted him to be less appealing than the rest to promote spending $$$$. No shame! He is actually pretty polarizing. People love him or hate him. It should be no surprise that he's one of my favorites.
And yeah, all the stumps are attachments for weapons, which are pretty large.
Maybe we can win you over with some future designs!
Hehe, patience my friend! We've got some big updates in the works, stay tuned for info! Unfortunately that's about all I can say. :poly122:
I really love that yellow drone/gun thing. It reminds me of old school Digimon where every missile had a face on it.
Great stuff, i hope to see much more soon ^^
These metal plates texture looks real good
I'm trying to get same feel for the metal plate for my vehicle, would you like to help me. Mine looks thin plate while your look hard one..
Don't wanna take over your thread, But Please suggest me for the metal texture place at Volvo Sugge TP21 [WIP]