SketchBook: Syros
polycounter lvl 11
hail to all the polycouters,
I thought the best way to get started and say thanks to all, is to start posting my doodles here and get your great C&C's for my self. during past years I was learning just by reading others and learn from them. so I'll make a the story short. here is my last ZB doodle:
http://syros.pourlatifi.com/images/16_edited.jpg
http://syros.pourlatifi.com/images/1609.jpg
I hope you like it.
chax.
I thought the best way to get started and say thanks to all, is to start posting my doodles here and get your great C&C's for my self. during past years I was learning just by reading others and learn from them. so I'll make a the story short. here is my last ZB doodle:
http://syros.pourlatifi.com/images/16_edited.jpg
http://syros.pourlatifi.com/images/1609.jpg
I hope you like it.
chax.
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btw Syros is my home town
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my new Snow full!! environment. this part of the game take place at
the mountain picks, the game is 3rd person action (mainly a hack and
slash one) that will be released in the near/far future!!
So I think the pipeline has been talked over here and there a lot, any
way if any one is interested I can through the links over here too!
the results are due to huge advices and comments from my nice team mates over our small budget
project company, I should be glad to have yours too! C&Cs are welcome.
The 3Ds Max screen shots are taken with a directX shader for splatting.
I have shown the blending texture too, it is meant to blend the two texture sets (rock and snow) where ever the are black Vertex color.
I think the technique is common in this kind of environments.
I have sculpted just one rock peace and the placed it on the canvas over and over with different orientation.
Next time I will poly-paint it and do the steps again so I will get a nice texture too (here I have used some textures and different material paths mixed up in PS),
I will post the too as soon as I made some test scenes with them.
http://polycount.com/discussion/63361/information-about-polycount-new-member-introductions/p1#make
one more:, simple substance height map brought inside UE4 as terrain
This world is around his astonishing universe of Dr. Grordbort, totally blown up by that I decided to make this one in UE4 so that i can wonder about inside it in VR, worked on it on spare times, I am exited to share it as I continue with making the remaining props, tweaking textures, post stuff and vfx for the whole env.
fast block out in Maya :
export them to UE4 in a very early stage so that I can block out the environment in UE4 and walk around it to have a scene of scale, early on before any serious modeling! these are just crappy meshes for starting the fire in UE4:
and UE4 shots, no texture, just grey albedo.
then I jumped to Substance Designer to create materials for ground patches:
then take my rock block outs, brought them to ZB, learned heaps Zmodeler! and tried to push the models toward the concept:
then sculpted the highres fairly easy as I had a solid volume that reads the silhouette (will take screens!) , exported , created base textures with xNormal, exported Normal map along a multilayered Edge,Cavity, AO and Roughness map ( with nDo ), brought in UE4, created my master rock materials and then created Instance mats from'em but they need more parameters to be tweaked! can swap lots of secondary/detail normal-maps to get different styles as well!
more Substance to created some sort of blend textures:
and then I went to make those weird plants:
which went through same thing, ZB modeling for highres, decimation, maps, these are test screens in Marmoset toolbag, while I create base maps via xNormals and nDo:
updating some placeholders in UE4, ( feels so good these moments lol ) as you can see there are quite a lot of more stuff I need
and some late night smash-bashes :
atm arround 40 %of the final, all the trees above are just those place holders and I applied the ground mat to them, turned out to give a hint where I will end up with them. gonna be fun when it all comes together
will come back for more stuff soon, next will be some smaller props or tree trunks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-HkgL06ycY
So here is my latest Hard surface model, try to beep of my MAYA and Ddo skills and learn new Marmoset3 baking pippeline ,
Mamoset viewer model at my artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RQ96r