Harborscene | modular tryout (Cryengine 3) - Advice highly appreciated
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Hi everyone
at the moment i'm working on a harbor scenery built with modular pieces.
It's my first real attempt at doing something like this (modular environment).
I'm working on it for my portfolio, so i really need advice/critique on this!
It's also my first attempt at setting up a scene in the Cryengine 3 (or better said in any version of CE)... So to do this early screenshot i just put it in the sample scene:poly136:
If you have any suggestions what is still missing in this scene (expect the textures :P), please tell it to me.
Right now i'm still working on the different lowpoly pieces before i go into highpoly modelling and some ZBrush work.
Thanks in advance!
at the moment i'm working on a harbor scenery built with modular pieces.
It's my first real attempt at doing something like this (modular environment).
I'm working on it for my portfolio, so i really need advice/critique on this!
It's also my first attempt at setting up a scene in the Cryengine 3 (or better said in any version of CE)... So to do this early screenshot i just put it in the sample scene:poly136:
If you have any suggestions what is still missing in this scene (expect the textures :P), please tell it to me.
Right now i'm still working on the different lowpoly pieces before i go into highpoly modelling and some ZBrush work.
Thanks in advance!
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@yodude87: yeah, you're totally right ^^ they are way too big.. gonna chance this
i think i'm going to do the uv-layout tomorrow (i want to really focus on a nice texture sharing) and then do the highpoly stuff.
thanks so far
the harbor looks rather small. I guess it's the rocks in the background that are messing up my perception.
I now created my own scene and did some more stuff with the harcor itself.
I also textured and modified the terrain (trees and rocks aren't by me... i will do these later on).
Till this is only my second day with CryEngine3 i don't get to know how to change the color of the water (only the fog etc.)... But we will see ^^
next step texturing
so i created some i made the uv-layout and created some textures till the last update.
i had to fix some issues with cryengine,.. but i after all i have to say that i really like this engine! ^^
the lighthouse texture is still wip... i will finish this on monday since i'm away over the weekend.
i also thaught about some more assets, so i can set up a complete level.
i will use 3 textures for the harbor as you can see below (only the lighthouse texture is missing ^^). hope this is effecient enough.
critique/advice is always welcome!
thanks
what do you think about these shots? and thank you for the comment!
so then i'll add some more edges at the "catwalk".
besides this, what do you think about the overall quality?
Overall I think those textures need more personality. They seem pretty generic wood, concrete, etc.
Cheers and looking forward to it. It's looking good.
my biggest problem is creating nice textures, i need A LOT of practice, especially in this field ^^
atm i'm on the search for some good tutorials about texturing workflows since we didn't really learn it in school (besides the fact that every texture has to be as raunchy as possible lol).
the problem with the AO is that the many parts of the uv-layout lie above each other... so if i would bake an AO for every object into the diffuse, it would be on the other objects to...
or am i understanding sth wrong? (we learned it this way in school)
i'll try to come up with better textures in a while.
thank you very much for the advice
http://www.eat3d.com/texturing
thanks
I would like to help you out so you can become better. I'm going to be very honest, so here goes.
You really need to work on your "modularity" and, most importantly tilable textures.
The wooden floor on water you did, do not model it like that. Create one wood plank and a tilable wood texture for it. With that wood plank you can do the floor. Not only it will break the silhouette on the edges and will give it a more "realistic" look, but also the texture pixel ratio will be much higher.
Reshape your workflow that you are using right now for texturing, it is only good if you do unique objects, and even then, you can use tilable textures and after that vertex paint to give variations, but that's another subject.
Like you see right now, if you get upclose to the surface/objects, the pixel ratio is extremly poor.
With tilable textures, your texture uses the whole square sheet, so you really get a good resolution.
Once your quest is complete with the tilable textures, you need to find on how to use the vertex blend!
It is viable for if your aiming for next gen environment work.
Remember, never give up and keep working hard. The more you practice, the better you become like in everything else. It will pay off one day.
Good luck!
Thank you very much for the help!
Till now i have no idea about vertex painting but maybe i should have a look at it..
The tip with the wooden floor was really helpful! Always thought that the level designers wouldnt want so small parts to build the level ^^
at the moment i am working on another scene (needed some break from the harbor), so hopefully i can consider your adive there. Will post it in this thread..
Thank you!