A few days ago I found a photo lying around in one of my ref folders. I liked the relative simplicity of it and decided to try to recreate it as closely as possible in game.

I will use all bells and whistle available in the BitSquid Tech to try to recreate it, including DX11 tesselation.

So far I have just about completed one of the modular rockwall assets, and just duplicated it in the scene for now. So you'll se some repetition for now, till I finish some more pieces.

Ill try to document my workflow as best I can as I go along.

I have tried to keep a very clean, even meshflow to help with the tesselation and make the UVmapping as easy as possible.
Keeping straight lines in the mesh in the Z-axis(Y in Maya/Modo) allows me to square off the UV chunks,
so that the horizontal lines in my texture stay horizontal, and don't become some wavy mess.


Here it is in game, tried to match the camera angle, but nothing is final.

W T F. awesomesauce!

that turned out incredibly well! great lighting.
looking forward to updates on this.

yar ... the texture work is really great ;o!

Wow the scene looks better than the reference photo. That's some mad skilz.

Created a variation on the wall unit and blocked out some more of the scene with the 2 units that I have, just to get a feeling of distances for fog and DoF.

Goddamn that's impressive.

Might want to take a look at your ground mesh and texture, if you're trying to replicate the reference. In the ref the ground is considerably smoother, and it looks to be made of clay and bedrock, or something similar.

Keep it up.

Hah, I didn't realise that picture on the left was your scene. One glance and I thought nothing of it.

It's a nice piece but it's a shame there isn't much to work with in that reference. Maybe add your own twist? You know it reminds me of that desert level from Jedi Academy with the crashed spaceship. Perhaps consider adding a crashed spaceship or plane? Maybe some rising smoke in the distance?

Or are you just doing this as a simple scene for practice? Either way you've done some good planning.

Looks awesome, the only thing that feels lacking though, it verticality of the upper part of the left side, it's very clear in the reference.

Originally Posted by LMP

Looks awesome, the only thing that feels lacking though, it verticality of the upper part of the left side, it's very clear in the reference.

All in good time my good sir

@Deady
yeah the ground texture is just something I threw on for now so I dont have to look at a completely white ground will be fixed soon!


@habboi
We will see, maybe once I feel the scene is as close to the photo that I can make it, I will add some extra visual "flair"

awesome! needs a hidden fortress!

how did you go about the texture on this? did you create the texture first then fit the mesh to it? or what?

Simple but great scene!

That Bitsquid engine looks impressive aswell.

looking really great

i love the feel of this last shot! so what are you planning to fill this scene with?

awesome stone surfaces, but u need a smooth transition from ground to cliffs ;)
Both in the texture blending and in geometry "curvyness".

Looks really cool so far

looking really nice. only crits are:

shadows should have soft edges, and less dark. the ambience from the scene should lighten up the intensity of the shadows a bit.

the floor should have a blended or painted texture to break up the tiling, just to make it a bit more like the reference.

the bottom of the cliff should blend in a bit better with the ground, so that its not just a hard stop of material.

other than that its looking really great.

Very cool image! The lighting feels like it's pretty close but it's just missing some ambient shading. The composition of the original photo also has these U shaped arches that kind of draw your eye down the path - That would be something worth incorporating into your image I think. The upper silhouette of the reference rock also provides some interesting shapes but whether or not you want to use them of course dpeends on the mood you want to create. Just my friendly crits on what looks to be shaping up to be an excellent piece.

Thanks for the feedback, pretty much all of it will be adressed as I keep working the scene

wow didn't saw that it's a 3d scene - thought there was 2 photos against each other. awesome!

It's.... beaautiifuulllll.

Seriously though, looking real nice so far. I've just made something similar to this and this totally blows mine away, damn. Must try harder

Some lunch work today, fixed the transition from wall to ground and threw together a new sand texture.

I really like the rocks and the lighting, but i think you could add more to your ground to make it fit the scene. Some different layers of dirt and how its packed. If people walk or ride their horses through and pebbles and rocks.. and stuff like that... It's really awesome stuff.

WUT!!?

THIS SCENE ROCKS!

wow, looked at the 2 first pictures really quick before I scrolled down and thought it was just 2 reference photos, then I realized one of them was 3d, hehe. Really great work! Great lighting!

I also agree with glottis8 about adding more types of rocks and stuff. Perhaps where the ground meets the cliffside?