The Order 1886: Texture Art
Hey everyone. I'd like to present some Texture work from The Order 1886. I was Senior Environment Texture Artist on The Order 1886 along with 4 other amazingly talented Texture Artist. Below is result from about 4.7 years of work, R&D and sweat. I want to thank Ready at Dawn for the opportunity to work on this project. It was a artistically rewarding experience.
For more samples and scenes please visit my art station Portfolio. More Ready at Dawn Texture artists will likely post in this thread with more samples.
https://www.artstation.com/artist/bobbyjrice
Feel Free to ask any questions.
For more samples and scenes please visit my art station Portfolio. More Ready at Dawn Texture artists will likely post in this thread with more samples.
https://www.artstation.com/artist/bobbyjrice
Feel Free to ask any questions.
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I just finished the game last night, and It really comes across just how much love you guys put in those environments. You guys set the bar very very high. I think I took a few hundred screenshots during my play through., hehe.
Do you mind sharing what your workflow was for creating the rock pieces? They look so simple yet brilliant. Did you just model the low poly and applied a tiling mat or are these decimated meshes from sculpts? Did you tweak vertex normals?
Very concise and powerful.
Thanks for sharing
Awesome work all around.
I'm curious, were you using any photo textures at all to paint the diffuse, or is it all gradients and layering of painted details ?
This stuff is really inspirational!
Thanks for sharing this!
A lot of you asked questions about how long it took to make the textures. Ready at dawn practices a iterative process. This means that nothing is truly done after an asset is created initially. It means that we continue to iterate on the process relative to what the goals are visually. So to best answer the question, every texture, like the brick, took probably a total of 2 to 3 weeks. The reason we also spent so much time on these assets was because these particular textures were re-used throughout 90% of the game. While we visited London back in 2011 we noticed that the predominant architectural surface was brick and limestone.
For the question about color and painting we didn't use DDO or substance designer. Mostly because those tools weren't flushed out back then so we had to develop our own process utilizing zbrush polypaint and Photoshop. The material editor was a similar system to DDO through what we call the compositor. It was really no different than any other PBR commercial software except that it was proprietary.
Yes for Polypaint we sampled from neutral ambient textures to get the desired colors and surface variation. I'm thinking about releasing a polypaint YouTube tutorial.
Most tiles were sculpted from scratch. The bricks use a process we called "overlap sculpting". Anthony Vital (lead artist) will release a video tutorial soon showing how it works. Its a process developed in house to keep tiling textures live as editable 3d mesh instead of committing to 2.5d. This process also allowed us to reposition sculpted/painted tools into different patterns like trim sheets or rubble. Zbrush allows you to take the lowest subdivision level back into maya or max or XSI and as long as the mesh is one single attached mesh, you can move- rotate - scale the bricks into what ever pattern you want, then export back into zbrush and raise the subdivision levels. Bam new pattern.
As a side note, we also discovered a method by which the first subtool of zbrush controls the tiling threshold. This allows you to extend appendages beyond the tiling edges. This means zero seam artifacts. I'll post an example soon.
After seeing this I am going to start over with some bits on the current piece I am making.
Massively inspirational. Looking forawrd to further breakdowns and video tutorials.
Here's an example
http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/poly_shading_SettingUserNormalsonPolygonMeshes.htm
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85809
We're in luck! MIG Normal tool by Mika Göös does exactly this..
Amazing work, incredible inspiration! How did you approach your rock textures? You said that you worked with a iterative process for the textures, it would be really interesting to see your full process. From reference to finished.