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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)

Environment Sketches

Mik2121 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:59:34 +0000

Here are some environment sketches I’m doing for my next 3D environment (to use in the game entry I posted some weeks ago).

Quarantine Team Member

Mik2121 — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:58:33 +0000

A sketch for the website minigame character.

Male face sketch

Mik2121 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:50:18 +0000

Today at school we did a few drafts of faces (our own, and friends) and this is the actual first face I painted (I asked the teacher if I could keep the sketch, because he was collecting all them at the end of the class). After playing around with it in Photoshop I ended up with this.

I’m still not done with it, but I wanted to post a WIP version of it before going to sleep:

Plant sketches

Mik2121 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:18:10 +0000

Some random plant sketches I did a few days ago for one of my private projects.

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.

Weapon Color Sketch 6

Mik2121 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:41:08 +0000

Another color sketch based on the weapons I made a couple months ago.

Dudebro Environment Art

Mik2121 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:19:01 +0000

Here are some environment sketches I’m doing for Dudebro II. The visual style of the environments is much more serious than what the environments will actually look in 3D, but at least they work to get an idea of the very general mood.

This first sketch is for one of the corridors in Stage 1-2. The final version in 3D will be a bit lighter and with some more blood, while still trying to make it look not very gore (gore is not my style, definitely).

Bro-ken Angel Sketch

Mik2121 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:52:34 +0000

This is my second sketch for Dudebro II, the game project over at the NeoGAF boards. The first sketch was for the exploding snowman, this time is an sketch for the final boss, Bro-Ken Angel.

Still a work in progress.