How about an....environment?

So yeah, here's my take on the familiar art test.
3498 tris, 43 hours 5 minutes to accomplish, only diffuse textures and a 512 for all the lightmaps. Oh and, yeah, this stuff's supposed to be for mobile platforms.

Be sure to check out the video, it's supposed to be fun(HD please) :

You Tube

Btw props for the custom gradient mapping node go to Vailias. If you haven't, be sure to check out the thread about it, started by rasmus. It's really awesome.

The whole thing was a blast, really.
If you have something to say - please do, I'd appreciate it very much.
I hope you'd enjoy it as well. Thank you very much for your time!

wow man that looks great!

very slick man! digging the shader tricks you did, looks awesome.

the atmosphere really adds heaps to this, looks amazing, was the video from a game engine or a 3d package? and yer the shader tick is very cool aswell

I love techy stuff like this. Watch the video!

Lmao... "Do not press". That's just asking for someone to press it. :P

Really cool!

Lovin this. Nice use of shaders and tech.

Nice trick d1ver! The scene looks really cool for a mobile platform!

Isn't it the Gameloft test? Looks really good btw.

So glad that those shader brain dumps were so useful.
Looks really nice. I imagine its ouststanding on an iphone screen.

I'm really really digging this. There is one thing i want to mention though, the rain seems to fall awfully slow.

Really good stuff man, though in one of your video shots it seems like it's only raining on the right part of the shot? You could see the ship on view from the left side of the environment. Oh well, I just noticed it and didn't know if it was supposed to be like that or not

Love this so much! Very nice work

Cool stuff, d1ver! Crazy vid, crazy rain

The sinking ship looked a little silly, but considering your constraints and what you managed to bust out you did an amazing job. Clever work with the shaders too. Love it!

The shit...? That few tris...? Bugger me... See this is what I enjoy, and I feel we have to get back to working with constraints in the industry more rather than just waiting on more power. It always amazes me what people can do when they have a set constraint such as this, because you tend to make everything count more. Rather than the current next gen pipeline we have right now where we seem to sometimes forget that.

IMO, if it was up to me, I would stop GPU's and consoles for the next five years at least, and force people to work with what we have now. Take a look at Shadow of the Colossus on PS2, and you'll see what can be done with limited resources when you put your mind to it.

great job you did. you should ace the test!

>What can you do with 3498 tris?

make something beautiful, great job d1ver.

Real nice dude, this is great stuff to see, it takes real skill to make proper game art. Makes me reminisce over mgs2 heh. Odium makes a good point, I'd love to see us really push nextgen to the same extremities, atm it seems like we're trying to move on before we've caught up to its limits and really discovered it's entire potential.

The button scene was teh funzxor lol.

Lovely shader tricks. It's amazing how nice such low poly stuff looks when the stops are pulled out shader and effects side

Nice scene, too, it's cool to see that much effort being put into one little scene rather than just some screengrabs.

" I can make you come with just 3498 tris, imagine what i can do with a entire budget ;3 "

That's pretty sweet! Crazy that our technology can create that! Awesome job!

looking good sir! thanks for posting the breakdowns, always enjoy seeing the method to the madness :-)

dude .... !! unbelievably awesome output that is ... and really great use of 'top floor' for the shaders ... great job !!

looks damn awesome.
Can UDK iOS really render that level of complexity at good rates?