Level using Unreal W.I.P. (new screens & textures)
polycounter lvl 17
Here are some new screen shots with the textures I've made. I haven't done lighting in the level yet but the most important thing here that I would like people to look at are the textures so I will post the links to them twice. These textures are hand painted with baked lighting in max. Let me know what you think! Thank you all so much for looking.
Wall with tartan Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Wall with walkway Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Pillars and other Ruins Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Wall with tartan Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Wall with walkway Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Pillars and other Ruins Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Thank you guys for looking I would love any feed back I could get! One or two of the 1024 x 1024 textures will be sized down to 512 x 512 soon after I finish texturing for the whole level. Thanks again!
Wall with tartan Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Wall with walkway Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Pillars and other Ruins Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Wall with tartan Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Wall with walkway Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Pillars and other Ruins Texture (1024 x 1024 hand painted)
Thank you guys for looking I would love any feed back I could get! One or two of the 1024 x 1024 textures will be sized down to 512 x 512 soon after I finish texturing for the whole level. Thanks again!
Replies
http://www.virtualdub.org/
give that a try for shrinking the movie filesize
Level's lookin nice so far. The lighting's a bit flat, try adding some color to it to help carry whatever mood you're trying to convey.
Have you tried using projectors for the shadows under the trees? Should give the shady areas a bit more detail / feel.
On the ground, scale down that dirt texture a bit, the cracks are a bit large for common pathways; also, add another layer or two of texturing and add a different dirt texture and a different grass texture. Mix 'em up a bit, and have the smoother of the dirt textures define pathways better.
Even if you're trying to give it a misty look, give the water a little more blue.
Keep up the good work, and welcome to Polycount!
I'm not sure what you had going on in the third pic, but it's a bit confusing to me. Is that all wood? or Marble? If so, why are there wood/marble pipes coming out of the rock? and marble logs, lying on the ground? Very odd to me
Got any clarification on that?
Aside from that, looks good in general. Can't wait to see it done
Ill be adding those for the whole forest at the end. I already have the maps for them set up too. I agree though, lighting is going to be very key.
As for Vassago's comment The rock texture is just a default texture I use on everything in the level before I texture it. The wall is going to be a lighter stone color while the logs are going to be textured as wood. Im getting there, I just needed to unwrap all of it first. Thanks guys! Hope to hear more! I'll post more as the level progresses.
BTW, where are you taking a level design class? I noticed you're from Arizona, so I'm guessing you are attending one of the schools here.
Otherwise I'd say your stuff is going along nicely. Is there any way you can cut down the stretching on the top of the pines, and maybe use some more color to round out the shape on the orangeish trees (i dunno are they maples?). I'd have to say that even with the stretching those pines are my favorite part. They look a lot more fleshed out then most game trees out there.
I like the pose on the statue. Sort of a warrior-poet, eh?
As for the Trees, I do agree, the stretching is a problem right now, but I am actually going to unwrap them in a little more acceptable manner, the trees were such an important part to feel and color of the level that I wanted to get something there for me to look at while I toiled away at the rest. Ill do the unwrapping now so that its out of the way. Thank you again for the feedback; it is greatly appreciated!
I only have a small comment, and if you used references for the type of envrionment you are trying to convey, you may prove me wrong. I wonder if in such a misty cool area next to a river if you would have those arid cracks in the ground. I would expect leaves and moss, some dark dirt and such but the cracks don't feel right to me although they look nice. just a nit pick tho.
[/ QUOTE ]
You're 100% right. The cracked ground is in some of the few photos that I have, plus I have been lots of places where there is wet mud that still has the cracks in it (mostly mud that has dried and become wet again over and over, that can happen near a some what random water source), but you are right, there are too many cracks if there need to be any at all by the water, so I have added a mud texture that doesn't have cracks in it for the obviously wet areas near the water. Some thing just didn't seem right about it no matter how many pictures I looked at, thank you for the feed back!
If you don't want to look at the old stuff you can just go to the page for the finished level HERE
and now the new stuff!!!
If the flythrough on the page doesn't work just download it HERE
The entire page for the level is HERE
I'll post one or two of the new pics here...
Thanks again! It means a lot when people show interest!