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3D Environment Making Process

Mik2121 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:59:02 +0000

Here I will keep updating with the process of creating my 3D environment for the current school project. I will also update with whatever things I feel like commenting about what I’m doing. You can also follow this same content on the polycount boards where other people might be commenting and giving helpful tips that might work for you too!.

Alrighty, for now and before I do all the blocking, I will just work on the flooring and give it a texture as well. It usually helps me get some better ideas for the environment if I have something already “done”.
For the floor I’ve googled laboratories and whatnot, but most are plain white floors. I will rather go with some sort of tile and a bit mechanical, but not overdoing it. Will edit this post with the results (I’m starting it right now).
Believe it or not, this is the first time doing High Poly to Low Poly normal baking. I still need to learn a few things, but following some videos I found online I made this:

I will do the diffuse and specular, and then start blocking out the whole environment. Wish me luck! :)

Update 2 – Textures done! Used the normal as a base to paint the diffuse, and then used the diffuse noise to paint the specular. I tried placing two tiles together, and it looks something like this:

And this is how the texture looks, and the layers I used for it. I learned about this process from some link I found around. Pretty good way to keep it all tidy and clean (click here for older version) .

Update 3 -

STAGE BLOCKING STEP

Alright. I started today the block out for the stage. I will first decide the size of the level and where everything should go. Each one of the small squares there is about 1.5m. The roof is 6.5m tall but there might be a taller (or maybe shorter) roof on the right area. The small room on the right is for small cargo storage. There will be also small tables on the center and sides of the rooms, and a shutter in-between the two thick columns, and a small door between one of the thick columns and the thin column next to it.

Anyway, it’s 4am here right now so I will (hopefully) finish the blocking step tomorrow. After that, I will start with the modeling.

Random health pack for my game

Mik2121 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:46:51 +0000

It has 142 triangles and two textures (one, the green light, is used for some other stuff as well), plus the normal map for the pack texture itself. I’m still not sure I’ll be using this, as it’s not that easy to tell it’s a health pack, but then again I don’t want your typical white box with a big green, red or blue cross… (though this is also a big box with a cross on it, it’s sorta different.. I think :P)

Virtual World

Mik2121 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:59:44 +0000

Pre-Alpha Build 0.0.6. (Update Log)

Please view the full post to see the Unity content.

Citizen Project 3D Models

Mik2121 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:26:38 +0000

Here are some (one as of right now, but will keep adding new more) of the models I’m doing for my own school project. All the renders with the UDK logo means that the renders are made within UDK using materials created in UDK too, using my own textures made in Photoshop.

This very first model is an oil drum. It has 248 polygons (top and bottom are beveled). It also uses currently a 1024×1024 texture (that can easily be downscaled to 512×512) for the diffuse and another for the normal map. It also has a detail normal map that’s 128×128 pixels. The specular is the diffuse with the color slightly modified from within UDK.

Dudebro II 3D Models

Mik2121 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:15:15 +0000

I will keep updating this post entry with new models once I get them done. All the 3D model are made for a free game over at the NeoGaf boards called Dudebro II. To see new models, go to the bottom of the entry!.

The model for the Proximity Mine has exactly 60 polygons and uses a 128×128 texture.

This model has 60 polygons and uses a 128×128 texture. And yes, it’s a goddamn salmon… and you slap your way across with this weapon! However, it won’t be available as a common weapon…

This model has 60 polygons and uses a 128×128 texture.

This model has 32 polygons and uses a 128×128 texture.

This model has 68 polygons and uses a 128×128 texture. It has three patterns, normal, snowy and explosive ones.

This model has 44 polygons and uses two 128×128 textures. Right now it has two patterns, simple and snowy ones, but it will have more in the future.

This model has 24 polygons and uses two 128×128 textures (for on and off states).

BoneSword 3D

Mik2121 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:15:50 +0000

You might remember this weapon from a few posts ago. Exactly this one.

Anyway, now I made the weapon in 3D to use it in the group project (a 3D game) I have to do at school. Because of the limitations we have (the game has to be playable on all the computers at school), we had to go low-poly, so this weapon is just 214 polygons, while the main character is also around 2500 polygons, the enemies around 700, etc..

Zbrush Head Study fixes

Mik2121 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:20:02 +0000

After one day I noticed some big issues with the head shape that I didn’t notice at first!. Anyway, here is the new head fixed. I hope to add the helmet within this week. Meanwhile I will be doing some other stuff.

Zbrush Head Study

Mik2121 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:28:55 +0000

A head study I did today after class. Work in progress.

He will be wearing a helmet, that’s why the ear is just a very rough shape.

Sand Worm

Mik2121 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:06:51 +0000

A monster I made today in class in an hour. I used one texture, 180 polygons (92 for the worm itself) and 3 bones.

Body Study Turntable

Mik2121 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:32:46 +0000

A work in progress video of the body study I have been updating with. I have yet to resize the arm (way too big!) and finish it.