Environment Progress

Haven't had much time to work on this for a while been busy on an iPhone title. Here is the environment a bit more filled in.

Characters for Game WIP

Characters for an upcoming game we're working on. Since there are no real background or environments I was put on Characters and UI. There are the characters for the game in Line-up.

Next step is bring these guys into Illustrator vectorizing them. I'll post progress as it happens.

Grass tiles.

created a grass model and instanced it around the scene.

MORE TILES (Ground texture)

Created a tileable ground texture.


How it looks in scene.

TILES (ROCKS COMPLETED)

Here are the tiles completed and textured. texture stil WIP.


I recreated the original "island" shape. Mainly for personal comparison.


ofcourse since they're tiles the possibilities are limitless.

Next Up:
--Ground--
• Dirt / grass geometry and texture
• Trees and Foliage

MORE TILES (TEXTURE PROCESS)

So in my last post I mentioned that I unwrapped all the rocks seperately but it didn't look like I evened the checkers. So I would like to clarify that I even my checkers when I pack the UVs when all the rocks are one mesh.


This is another Tile that has even Checkers when I packed the UVs.


From here I bake a Ambient Occlusion (AO)


This is the model with just the AO pass. again just to help pronounce the crevases where light doesn't get in. These are in a game engine which has bad lighting compnents so we back more lighting than AAA.


Finally I take that AO and back it onto the rock texture. again this is still WIP. I will bake a top / bottom map so I can add moss to faces whose normals are pointing upward.


This is the current Final render of the rock. *Note: WIP, subject to change*

MORE TILES (SPECULARITY)

Woke up a bit early this morning so I thought I would finish the diagonal tile. also created the spec map which is key to how they interact with light.



All textures are still WIP.

MORE TILES (Texturing)

here is one finished, and one wip.

I haven't had much time to work on this project. I started to texture the rocks.
I only spend a little time and got the main flat piece done, and I started on the diagonal tile.

Each rock I unwrap seperatly, then I attach all the rocks into one mesh and arrange and pack the UV of all the rocks onto one square texture. I then baked an Ambient Occlussion (AO) so the crevasses between the rocks get darkened since there is little light bouncing there.

Then create a rock texture using the AO as a multiply in photoshop.



This is one hand painted (Photoshop) texture I created using various custom brushes. No the pretist thing but it's getting there. this is a WIP first pass. I intend to add moss and various others to the top of these rocks.

MORE TILES (Diagonals and Ramps)

Continued to create tiles. Did some diagonals and a ramp in spare time.



This is what the place looks like without the rocks.

More Tiles!

This is a tile system I'm working on for a current project currently only 3 tiles. more to come.