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[Bart]

Off-topic: I checked your site Dunke, I think the bag should make a cameo in this game

[Gen.Kenobi]

Amazing!

[duke_Qa]

hehe, the bag reminds me of some old sidescrolling fantasy game, think it was Golden Axe or something. Between maps you sleep around a fire, and some gnome thingie comes and steals your loot, then you get to beat him up and he drops stuff. That bag thing would probably work well as a sort of quick scared character

[dunkejudas]

Haha. I didn't think I'd see that character in a while. I'll have to see if I can't find the asset files for that one

Ok, so I'm still on texturing, but I haven't made enough progress to post something new. I've had no free time whatsoever, working at least 14-16 hours a day, and I promised I'd come in today for some extra work.. So I probably won't get to finish the texturing before tomorrow. After monday this week I can probably work in the eveinings as well.

So.. Yeah.. This post is basically just ranting and excuses, so bare with me here!
Next post will contain images! Promise!

[duke_Qa]

I'm starting to have second thoughts about getting a job in this business when i hear how they slave-drive you every fucking week. But eh, at least you get paid

Anyway, right now i'm in Göteborg on a confirmation, and i think i've caught a flu of some sorts, so its no problem in my opinion

[Boomerang Python]

Must be that anti-norwegian virus we've been spreading to every citizen living in Sweden!

EDIT: Christ... just noticed my Member No.: 2,139 and then I saw dunkejudas' member number... mental

Edited by Boomerang Python, 09 May 2010 - 01:14 AM.

[dunkejudas]

@Boomerang: Yea, I just registered here. Big forum, it seems

So I consider myself somewhat done with the textures. There are a few seams and details that could have used some more work, but as I've already spent a bit too much time on this, I'll keep myself productive by moving on. Unless you spot some obvious bug I haven't seen or something like that.
Gif-turntable here! (it's 2.5mb, so it may take a bit longer than before)


And I went a little crazy with the rimlighting, so it might have a slightly more realistic look than the character would have in-game. I suppose I can go back and revise
once we get more art up and running

On second though, I'm going to upload a still straight and unlit from the Maya viewport... Since these turntables tend to go to fast to enable the viewer to see the details.


Okay! That should be it for now!

[Gen.Kenobi]

Speechless.

[dunkejudas]

Thanks, I suppose

So I'm planning to postpone the rigging as I'm relatively slow at it.. I hope to get some tips n' tricks from Duke about what is fast and what works best with Unity!

Instead I started on the guard's mace. I found a somewhat smart and fast way to get the normals done right, so I should be able to complete 2-3 equipment assets on a good day when I get the workflow streamlined So far lowpoly, unwrap, highpoly and baking is done. It utilizes a 512x256 texture map it weighs about 800 tris (it's a bit high, but the silhouette is a bitch with all the round knobs sticking out everywhere). Here's a gif-turntable for ya!

[duke_Qa]

Looking good there. You would have avoided the seams if you dropped it into mudbox for 3 minutes and just did a quick paintover of them

All in all the enemies will outshine Grymleif if you keep this up, I've got to give him some epic weaponry and animations to compete.

Weapon is looking good, maybe a bit high-poly but it is as you say hard to get a good silhouette on stuff like that. I've got a FTP-server for us to use, I'm going to upload some of the characters i've made as of yet for you to see how I've rigged. Basically though its just an AB-autorig rig with my own little JACS-script for facial animation, which isn't that relevant here.

I'll see if I'm online tonight, right now I'm semi-busy with bills, computer maintenance and dirty jobs outside.

[dunkejudas]

Thanks. I'll check out those painting tools in Mudbox

As for who outshines who, I've been thinking of altering the color scheme to make the character more guardish and less important. I was thinking something along these lines:

I do like the more saturated look, but then again this is just a thugish enemy. Maybe we should save the red and gold for the later, harder ones. And the small bugs don't show up as good here as well

Looking at how the other characters were rigged sounds like a great plan! I'll check them out.

And I'm now officially free from the shackles of extreme overtime at work! Phew! Well, at least for a week or something..

[duke_Qa]

Not a bad idea to leave the more fancy colors for the later bad-guys. Congrats on finishing the tough project, I'm looking forward to seeing the final product

[dunkejudas]

Ok, so I started on all the other different pieces of equipment in the concept as I thought that it might be smart to get them all in 3d before doing any textures (and besides I left behind the source files for the mace on some other computer). Anyway, I'm kinda done with the baking out the normals now (which turned out allright, with a few exceptions which I think will vanish as I go on with texturing).

As usual I've created a few gif-spins

Buckler: 370 tris, 256x512 texture


Shortsword: 238 tris, 128x512 texture


Two handed sword: 640 tris, 256x512 texture


Towershield v1: 708 tris, 512x512 texture


Towershield v2: 646 tris, 512x512 texture


I think that should give quite a bit of variety.

Yell out if you find something that's off!

[mike_]

Duuuuuuuuude! That all looks fantastic! Definitely going to keep an eye on this project.

[dunkejudas]

Thanks man

So I'm trying out some new texture workflow which results in a somewhat more hand painted look. I think the outcome is pretty cool, but then again I'm a sucker for hand painted textures
Anyway, here's a wip picture of some of the equipment.

The colors are currently all over the place, but I'll wait with the final color correction untill all textures are done.
(I noticed my screen had really terrible colors.. You can pretend the colors are slightly more red and less contrasty)

Also, I will be unavailble for the weekend, but I should get some work done sunday afternoon or something

[mike_]

I'm digging that colour palette - very fertile, rich.

[duke_Qa]

Luvely things, luvely things .

The only thing i really noticed was the first towershield has some normal-map bug in the upper corners, but all in all I really like these things. The second tower-shield can be used by the Serf aswell as a desperate defence

Screen colors are my worst enemy aswell, but thats what you get when you buy screens for $400 and not $1000 for a proper Dell. Looks pretty alright on this screen though. What did you do to make them textures(primarily the wooden towershield I guess), painting over the AO with a semi-soft edge photoshop brush?

The sword handles are awesome, pity we might not see much of them :S. We just have to create some code that makes dying enemies throw their swords up in the air and stab into the ground

I fear i still got more physical labor to finish off before I get time to do something more. Hopefully I'll get a few hours this weekend.

[Nertea]

This is awesome!

[Gen.Kenobi]

This is awesome!

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Not just awesome... IT's Ubber AMAZING!

[dunkejudas]

Thanks guys
Glad you like it!

@duke: Yeah, it would be cool to mix n' match different pieces of equipment with different enemies.. And I'm sure it would be a lot faster than making customized versions of shields and weapons for each enemy type.

I tried out a new texturing workflow which relies on Zbrush's ZAppLink more than painting over the UV's the normal way in Photoshop. So I'm basically just painting over a screenshot of the model, and then projecting the paintover back and bake it out as a texture. Also, as you pointed out, I'm using the AO as a base.. And I have a couple of Gradient map presets in Photoshop that helps me along the way
I guess it's sorta based on the mini-tutorial posted here: http://boards.polyco...ead.php?t=71942

Edit: And as for brush choices I've been using a custom hard-edged square brush with opacity mapped to pen pressure.. It works wonders!

And I'll fix those towershield normals! Thanks for noticing!

Edited by dunkejudas, 16 May 2010 - 08:53 PM.