WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

[teeluu]

Stop it! Soon we'll have to move this wip thread to spotlight gallery

[RA7]

:arrow: :roll:

[JAL]

Really like how there is a contrast of warmth inside, and cold outside.

Exactly, the scene has a very comfortable mood

[Section_Ei8ht]

Looking good, KFS! Keep adding to that puppy.

[Pericolos0]

awesome work alexroyce. I want to sit at that table and eat croissants now

[VoodooBenshee]

very wip

[Pericolos0]

nice If not abit empty

q4 i guess?

[von*ferret]

desolate and hot. I love the textures!

Might be a little empty, but add depth to the walls to keep gameplay dm based and you'll be set.

[KungFuSquirrel]

yep, I recognize those textures.

Looks like a great start!

[Polaris]

Cool map, I love the name!

[Belgarion]

Revisiting the "Eclipse Redux" idea...

http://www.button-masher.net/images/wip/d3_eclipse_007.jpg

Yaaaay. That looks a lot better than what you first posted. I knew you could do better. :wink:

very wip

But very cool.

[Oski]

Revisiting the "Eclipse Redux" idea...

What i like most about your maps is how they melt all content together so well. You cant really decide what is modeled and what is brushed.

Voodoo, your maps looks damn good too. The brushwork is just abit too rough i think.

[Zacker]

Very nice KFS, that shot is just super sweet mapping and attention to detail as usual from you. It is also good to see that you avoided the ugly ultra-sharp shadows D3 maps sometimes got.

[KungFuSquirrel]

thanks guys

Yaaaay. That looks a lot better than what you first posted. I knew you could do better

Indeed, I was looking at it yesterday and just like "...what the hell is this?" Still quite a lot of work to go, but it's getting there finally!

What i like most about your maps is how they melt all content together so well. You cant really decide what is modeled and what is brushed.

A lot of that credit I think goes to the engine and content. Unified lighting really helps mask that difference provided the content also can bridge that gap, and I think the stock D3 content does that very well (way better than a lot of our Q4 content). Add to that the ability to build some crazy curved stuff straight out of the editor and you can really blur that line.

It is also good to see that you avoided the ugly ultra-sharp shadows D3 maps sometimes got.

It all comes down to multiple light sources. If you just do one light, you're going to get an ugly black line. Get some fill lights and multi-directional sources and you're getting somewhere. The shadows are as sharp as they ever were, but once you get something filling in the blackness it's nowhere near as noticeable. Plus in cases where the shadow actually fades out as one light source gives way to another, it feels even less stenciled. I may even use a slight ambient light in the final version to nudge things up a hair more, but that can lead to nasty normal map artifacts so I like to avoid them if I can.

While on the subject, also should be said that multiple light sources are also really key to pull off normal mapped geometry on textures. Seeing different parts of the texture highlight with different colors makes all the difference and helps them 'pop' into perceived 3d. It's especially impressive on a good normal map wrapped around a curve, where you lose that perspective that flattens them out when you get up close to a wall. I've seen a few good textures that almost look believably parallax-mapped set up that way. Pretty cool stuff.

whee, yay rambling. Hopefully that's useful for someone, even though I'm sure many here are already getting pretty intimate with this stuff.

[von*ferret]

Nice "shpleal" on lighting