Environment, Props & Vegetation

[ColdWave]

Here are some things i'm working on...

Keep in mind some of them are still WIP so improvements on the way. Some of them are finished those which are ingame.

C&C are welcomed

Vegetation Ingame :

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/Araceae%20ingame.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/Plant_3.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/ku4ence.JPG

Props :

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/Lighter.PNG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/Village_Lamp2.PNG

Ingame :

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/Village_Lamp_3.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/Pic_1.JPG


Buildings :

Barn

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/B1.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/B2.JPG

[ColdWave]

Houses :

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_1.1.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_1.2.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_2.1.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_2.2.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_3.1.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_4.1.JPG

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_4.2.JPG

[daverave]

Nice work coldwave, I wondered what you had been upto........dave

[Perfecto]

Very cool stuff Coldwave :)

[Rhetoric Camel]

looks awesome. what game is this for?

[ColdWave]

Personal project... When me & my 2 friends have something for beta testing we will make open beta tests.. maybe for holidays... don't know yet :)

[ben hobden]

Liking these. Good suff! What engine are you using?

[ColdWave]

udk.com

[ColdWave]

House_5

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_5.1.JPG
http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_5.2.JPG
http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_5.3.JPG

[stwert]

Cool stuff! You've been busy!

[bullet1968]

Cool stuff mate...wondered where you had gone....obviously head down bum up workin like a trooper!!! Nice work man!! I dig the style...looks kinda medieval like. Nice one

cheers bullet

[ColdWave]

Steampunk = medieval + some technologies

[Lion`I]

Respect, this is just pure AWESOMENESS!

Keep up the good work

:beer:

[Ataraxy]

Cheers! looks good

[ColdWave]

House_6.

Keep in mind that a lot of props will be added to the houses, but i need to model them separate to use them all over the level.

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_6.JPG
http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_6.1.JPG

[ColdWave]

House_7

C&C welcomed

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_7.1.JPG
http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_7.2.JPG

[mastone]

I like the steampunk style love to see an entire level.
Have you tried the Unity engine ( You use unreal right?)

[ColdWave]

Yes i'm using UDK .... I'll build entire level... + vegetation + props...

1 main character
A combat System
Lights etc...

Workin` on a prototype with which me and 2 of my friends will try to show off @ some events or present to some companies.

I have about 20 concept arts of houses so more to come ! ;)

[mastone]

What's your goal with those demo's?
Is it :

A. Landing a Job at a gamesstudio

or

B. Selling a concept of a game to a studio/developer

If it's A then I would give each of your friends a certain task ( or tasks) and each makes a reel of stuff they did and in the end make a combined reel which shows some ingame engine stuff so that the studio knows you know the larger picture...


if it's B then I would invest more time in developing the background story, some conceptart and a couple of short ingame sequences which shows some concepts you plan to incorporate in the game which are unique or fun or just help sell the idea.
This so called pitch ismore about selling the idea and creating enthousiasm than it is about tech stuff.

Good luck in your endeavours:beer:

[ColdWave]

Building portfolio. I'm makin` all the 3D.
Modeling,Uvs,Texturing,Rigging,Animatio etc...
One concept artist is making all the 2D
And a coder make the Mechanics.

About A : Yes if we build something this is equal to portfolio.

About B : Yes we are aiming to show the idea, but like people i know. This could turn in 2 ways.

1st - > Sell the idea -> The end
2nd -> Show the idea and lets say Sony invest to make the game and finish it ... ( I know people who did this )

3 man studio:
Concept art, 3D, Code
They have contract with sony and they are from the town i'm living Sofia. So i assume that everything is possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0MlYJ4IrrU


I'll need as much help as all of you can give me ... as advices etc... i'll post everything in this thread.

Also if some of the industry artist want to give some advices like mtmckinly, jay and all of you will be good for us.

10x keep watching!

[ColdWave]

C*C welcomed

House_8

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_8_1.JPG
http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_8.JPG

House_3_Texture

http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_3_1.JPG
http://gamedevv.hit.bg/House_3_2.JPG

[daverave]

Thats realy good texturing coldwave, I dont comment on your models as its had to tell if they are good till they are textured. Are you making all you textures in photoshop..............dave

[ColdWave]

Color - > Photoshop
AO -> Xnormal
Normal map -> Crazy Bump
Specular -> Photoshop

[s2-speedy]

Top work! good luck with the project. :)

[gster123]

Really good work.

How you finding UDK? Are you exporting using Actor X?

[ColdWave]

I'm on weak machine so a lot of bugs for me with the UDK.
And yeas ActorX is awesome... pretty smooth exporting, no problems @ all.

[marlonjohn]

absolutely loving the style of the project.

are you using any limitation on how big texture files sizes are for models?

[ColdWave]

Well around 1k for the buildings, but we will try and find out what is the best optimized result
I also have a table of textures sizes = Vram usage.
The udk provide it in the doc files... It's very handy for calculating how much video will you need.

I'm makin` them in 2k. And smaller them later.
But i find out that high res painting then lower them keeps amazingly lots of the details that you painted in the high res. So i'm thinkin in jumping in 4k for first coloring then lower the texture for the ingame purpose.

Cheers, ColdWave