[UT3 Scene] BioCulture - WIP thread

Looks awesome. Really top-notch artwork. If I'm gonna complain about anything it would be that some texturedetails are used in multiple places in the same texture.

Hey doylle, nice seeing you here and welcome to mapcore! I dig your style a lot. I love the assets and the textures specially. They got the right amount of wear. What about some white lighting here and there? I'd also like to see some industrial lamps hanging from the ceiling, with lots of glow sprites and so on. This is a lab after all.

Not much to comment on at the moment but looking forward to this project.

Oh hey, look he is! Awesome to have you around dude, and welcome to the core!

I think the idea of making a scene, instead of a full blown playable map is a very good idea. If you're aiming at a Level / Environment Artist position, it's kind of a waste to spend time on gameplay and boring scripting!

I totally second minos, your style is really great! I wish you the best of luck and keep us posted man!

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":1tyfu2dv]I think the idea of making a scene, instead of a full blown playable map is a very good idea. If you're aiming at a Level / Environment Artist position, it's kind of a waste to spend time on gameplay and boring scripting!

I agree, it's a great way to show off your modelling/texturing skills.

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The main setting of the scene is some sort of underground lab, where people grow palmtrees. The big hall on the right is where water is stored and recycled. The left area is where the palmthrees grow.

Nice looking stuff but your concept sounds a little odd to me. Why palm trees?

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Why palm trees?

yeah, make gen-modified-monster-plants

i like the concept too, and it´s good to see somebody not making a brown and dirty style, as already mentioned.. good luck continueing the whole thing and finding a job

sounds like a mixup of Lost and Bioshock. Coming along nicely!

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Thanks for the warm welcome fella's Why palm trees, well honestly i have no idea. I had this idea for a long time but I never really thought about the sort of plants, i just always thought about palm trees. I suppose a more sci fi type of vegetation would be better indeed

What about genetically modified vegies or glowing, radioactive plants in the vein of Decadence http://%7boption%7d?

Another Idea is to have an area of the lab that's overgrown with the botanical experiment gone bad.

These ideas may stray too far from your original concept but thought you might find them useful.

good stuff =) there is not enough ut3 custom content

all those mega busy stock content custom maps start to piss me off

looks awesome! I miss making my own custom meshes.

Looks great dude, the Grunge on that metal piece is very nice!

I like those pipes but you´ve placed the nearest-to-the-camera-one (left side) on the first screenshot wrong :wink:

The floor on the second screenshot looks flat... but the lights on that picture look cool

Love those pipes!

Damn man.. stop making me want to learn UnrealEd

Looks excellent! I'm currently learning UE3 and it's quite good even though you have to model a lot of stuff.

I like the simplicity in your scenes. It feels retro but with good use of static meshes. A common problem with the stock UT3 maps is that there is so much detail everywhere and everything competes for attention so it ends up with nothing grabbing focus. Your scenes could use some attention-grabbing elements though since all your assets are very skillfully made but also quite "shy". Dont make it over the top like in the stock maps, but add something to every scene that pulls more focus than the rest. That's my suggestion anyway.