Underwater Low Poly Level

I recently took part in a challenge to create a 1000 poly model with a 512x512 texture space, with alphas (opacity) allowed.

The theme was an underwater FPS. I chose to make a level, as I thought it would the most challenging thing to do

Anyway, I though I'd post what I made for you guys to play.

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Its about 2.3Mbs

To run just double click the cauldron.exe

Its set to run at 1280x1024, if you need a smaller res, please edit the start.txt as necessary

The entirety of the level makes exactly 1000 polys, with all the textures together totallying 512x512.

And heres my texture sheet:

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It was a challenge set on my Uni forums

Regarding the lightmap, I felt it looked 10x better than vertex lit.

And as for the textures I agree, although I used the small overlays for variation in shading, I'll look into improving the textures (mainly the cliffs) later

Cheers Sensee

I've worked on it a bit more, though I'm going to leave it at this stage, unless I get some crit that really needs to be worked with

Really Really appreciate the crits Peri

I changed the rocks somewhat, its less noisey but still the style I wanted, I also did the lightmap as suggested, and with the spare space added more detail to the sand. I then made the oyster look better, and more sea worthy

Anyway, heres the new build and texture sheet:

Download here

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Its the game engine we use at Uni. It is built on the Blitz3D engine, basically animations, etc are defined in the game.txt

Its a good little engine to use, but not for proper games, as it has (at current) a very basic trigger system, "if your in range do this anim", you can't have complex trigger systems unless you devise a killer animation system, and theres only basic "wonder about" AI.

Its nice for art demos though

Cheers guys

Yeah thats a problem with the engine RD, to block the level off would mean hidden polys, so I left them out.