Halo themed environment

JacobStone · Jul 2013

Update: this is going to be my final update for at least a few days, I do want to add more to the scene but for now it will have to do. I want to thank everyone for your comments on my first mini environment, they all helped me in some way.

I will take some individual shots of the different assets tomorrow when I have more time.

Hey everyone, I'm working on a small Halo style environment where I'm going to mix together some actual environmental concepts along with some of my own stuff. The main idea I'm using is something along the lines of the Halo hallway done by Rense de Boer that was on the Recap a while back (http://www.artbyrens.com/a14.php). This is going to be done at a fairly quick pace so I should be posting updates daily and I want it done by Friday.
As always critiques and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Also I will make sure to update this post along with posting each update.

First update: Crates.

Next up: Walls/Floors/ Ceilings
Reference: http://www.gamearthub.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/unsc_panels_01.png

Then: Smaller props to populate the scene, (fusion core), tubing, computers...

Long Wall:

Ceiling:

Floor #1:

Floor #2:

SinisterUrge · Jul 2013

Looks top quality, well done. What is it rendered in?

JacobStone · Jul 2013

Thanks! For now the still renders like that one will be done in Maya, I'm still not sure what engine I want to use yet.

neverwander · Jul 2013

These would probably look good in Marmoset. That seems to be the default program people use just for props. Wouldn't work too well if you plan to make a whole environment though :P

CandyStripes05 · Jul 2013

yea I would go UDK for the scene and marmoset for individual WIP props, looking forward to this and glad it's going to be going at a quick pace : )

sziada · Jul 2013

this is looking pretty awesome already man, I can't wait to see it finished

JacobStone · Jul 2013

Alright here is a quick update, I have the long wall done, I need to move on to the floor piece next and then ceiling.

Wall:

Current Pieces:

Xavier777787 · Jul 2013

Looks like it would fit right in with Halo!

Hayden Zammit · Jul 2013

Really awesome work so far. Let us see the wires and textures!

Slave_zero · Jul 2013

Concerning your wall-section you might want to do a second piece to bring the right side of the upper pipe back on the same height like on the left side. At the moment your wall is tiling but it looks weird that those pipes show a missalignment that wouldn't make much sense from an engineering standpoint.

JacobStone · Jul 2013

Hayden Zammit wrote: »

Really awesome work so far. Let us see the wires and textures!

I will hopefully get some wires and goodies for you soon ish, probably not until the environment is done though since that is top priority at the moment

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Slave_zero wrote: »

Concerning your wall-section you might want to do a second piece to bring the right side of the upper pipe back on the same height like on the left side. At the moment your wall is tiling but it looks weird that those pipes show a missalignment that wouldn't make much sense from an engineering standpoint.

Good call, I do want to make a half size wall piece if I have time and I can incorporate that into it. The wall piece as it it can mirror and it can make more sense that way too.

bane1134 · Jul 2013

looks great

Fnitrox · Jul 2013

Slave_zero wrote: »

Concerning your wall-section you might want to do a second piece to bring the right side of the upper pipe back on the same height like on the left side. At the moment your wall is tiling but it looks weird that those pipes show a missalignment that wouldn't make much sense from an engineering standpoint.

yea i was thinking about this too... or you might not use it as a tiling wall but only between an other tiling texture as a way to break a more monotone but "usable" tiling wall.

Still i'm really liking the texturing style on these! very clean yet realistic and belivable. Keep it up!

DavidBrumbley · Jul 2013

lookin good man. The thing that bothers me is the pipe being baked into the texture. Geo dem pipes ;p

JacobStone · Jul 2013

DavidBrumbley wrote: »

lookin good man. The thing that bothers me is the pipe being baked into the texture. Geo dem pipes ;p

Thanks, I do agree about the geo thing, it looks fine straight on but once you look at it from an angle it does it's normal map thing and loses the depth. I am making the floors right now that has some actual geo pipes to it so hopefully that will help. I want to make a 2nd pass on the walls and have one without the pipes and one with and when I do that I will look at adding more geo to them.

JacobStone · Jul 2013

Fnitrox wrote: »

yea i was thinking about this too... or you might not use it as a tiling wall but only between an other tiling texture as a way to break a more monotone but "usable" tiling wall.

Still i'm really liking the texturing style on these! very clean yet realistic and belivable. Keep it up!

Thanks, that's what I've always like about the Halo style textures, at first glance they seem pretty clean but when you actually stop and look at it you see that there actually is some grime and wear and tear on the stuff.

JacobStone · Aug 2013

Ceiling:

Floor #1:

Floor #2:

Scene:

CandyStripes05 · Aug 2013

The crates feel like they are floating, there is nothing there right now to really ground them. Maybe the floor tiles are too big and lack little details in comparison to the crates and wall.

MDGM · Aug 2013

you need some lights in there bro blue and orange normally look good in sci fi but i might be wrong lol

Shrike · Aug 2013

Looking really good your assets and textures, but your scene is very bland without ambient occlusion and real lighting with shadows. Get at-least 2 light sources in, it looks very cheap atm despite fine assets. Also you didnt show the ceiling off ? If thats one of the textures you made, try choosing another color, it really breaks your palette with that cold blue , while the rest is all warm, and you have 2 complementary already with green and orange.

aajohnny · Aug 2013

I agree with the above and too add on I think that the scale is off, at least it feels it to me. The ceiling looks really low.

JacobStone · Aug 2013

I totally agree with you all and for the comp it's not even final at all. I just threw them together to see what they all look like together. I've decided to go back on the wall piece and make it more geo based than texture based as it currently is. I also want to add in some railing and hopefully some pillars to break up the walls.

JacobStone · Aug 2013

Alright, spent last night reworking the wall to be geo based instead of a texture.

AlexCatMasterSupreme · Aug 2013

I love Halo, excited to see this!

JacobStone · Aug 2013

Quick update on putting the scene together and starting to toy with lighting. There are still a couple assets that I want to add to the scene, I want to add in a pillar, a computer terminal (this one will probably be based off of concept like the crates are), and probably a railing to place on the left side of the scene.

JacobStone · Aug 2013

It came to my attention that I had no idea what I was doing with the lighting since I'm still new to marmoset but I got some help and tweaked the lighting more. I edited the previous post to show off the new lighting.

JacobStone · Aug 2013

Quick update, added more detail to the walls and made some pillars for the corners.

CandyStripes05 · Aug 2013

looks sick, the crates look a little out of place but purely because they are the only thing green in the scene

JacobStone · Aug 2013

Update: this is going to be my final update for a little while, I do want to add more to the scene but for now it will have to do. I want to thank everyone for your comments on my first mini environment, they all helped me in some way.

I will take some individual shots of the different assets tomorrow when I have more time.

Halo themed environment

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