latin american shanty

this is a latin american shanty building I did for an art test. Specs and maps are listed in the pic. The hard shadows are rendered in maya.

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Quote from Pericolos0

very awesome The ambient occlusion is rendered on a different map channel i presume? I need to figure out how to do that .

http://devbump.com/story.php?title=Intr ... ion-Baking

watch that. The ambient occlusion map was new to me too but it's such a cool thing to use wether you can actually use it as a map in the engine or you just bake it into the diffuse map, it really provides a nice effect. The only downside is that you can't have any overlapping uv's.

I will post a few more views in a bit I think.

here are a few more views

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and with no overlapping uv's

took forever to unwrap

I wasn't told exactly how the ambient occlusion map is used by the game engine, but I'm guessing that it acts as a filter as to how much direct light to receive when lit, which probably looks pretty dang cool.

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lol a few blank spaces yea. This was the first time I have really had to manage uv's like this, I'm used to using multiple maps and stuff like that so this was quite a trial. The unwrapping and arranging uv's took as much time as texturing the dang thing!

but they have pirated skinemax