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Re: Handheld envrioment
Texturinmy needs alot of work it seems that alot of it are different scales and sizes and gives an unrealistic effect, one thing to remember handheld games can take alot more polys, most of the performance will. Be from memory I'd try and work with more polys for example the door with brick could be extruded and modular… -
Re: non linear gameplay vs art production
I'd like to say this: what matters isn't so much the linearity of a game, but more the scope and the style of the environments. If you're building a factory with walkways and such, make them modular. If you're building a forest, make a bunch of plants and instance them. If you're making the sphinx of gizeh, you better make… -
Re: Oriental city
Thanks. Yes we are also hoping that if everything comes together it will look great ! Still a lot of work ahead of us. Here are some more Assets we where working on this past 3 days. We are slowing reaching the end of all of them so slowly we will start to build up the city. Also the ruins are somewhat modular so they can… -
Re: Monthly Community Noob Challenge March 2015 (28)
When I made my first whole room I hadn't in mind that i would repeat a certain wall panel multiple times and stuff like that. Modularity is the keyword, now before i would create a room i would most certainly make sure that i work with a grid, so that the room is 6 units long with a wallpiece for one unit and so on. -
Re: Stripping down 3ds max
okay haven't posted back in a while. so far, max is really a pain to strip down. for a modular program, there seems to be a lot of co-dependence going on with the plugins. of course, it may have to do with the fact that i'm trying to strip out rendering and physical lighting right now, heh. nothing significant to report...… -
Re: Are there so few game jobs atm?
learning how to make good tileable textures is a valuable skill. Making normal mapped buildings and environmental props would make you stand out imo. Practice making landmarks, and things that would define an environment. also if you can demonstrate modular environments (peices that can fit to one another seamlessly) that… -
Re: Zbrush/mudbox tutorials for Environmental Models
The main problem I see is with tiling modular pieces. Since you paint to the edge of the model piece, it will obviously not tile properly to the other side. Perhaps ZBrush has options to fix this, but Mudbox doesn't (yet). For now, you could turn on mirroring, so that as you paint the edge, it's mirrored to the other side.… -
Re: Ancient City Environment
Thanks, it's very encouraging to see so much interest! Bit of an update, been mocking up the facade on the side building using modular pieces. The number of unique planned assets is starting to pile up, but I'm trying to keep them relatively simple. Plus the fact that the entire structure is made out of the same material… -
Re: Arch Doorway Scene
Thanks. I made these to be modular, so baking lighting between them isn't possible. I'm still working on advanced lighting in Source. I'll try to add some variations to the wall textures. I did use photo reference. I didn't aim to add lots of details. Maybe when I can work a little faster. And there is a distinct lack of… -
Re: Game asset - good practice about hidden faces/ geometry?
Games generally use libraries of modular assets that are instance at runtime to save memory. Since these assets are all the same and can be placed at any angle you model all of it - nothing is deleted and occlusion / culling at runtime takes care of not rendering bits you don't need. For unique or very specifically placed…
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