Peter Asberg - Environment artist

[dux]

Doom 3 is still one of the best looking games out there.

[urgaffel]

Hehe, I'll have to get Doom3 again and get some screens then! Don't want to nab them off of google image search... But yeah, Doom did do metal very well, how could I forget that? As for Dead Space, it looks great in motion. I didn't spend that long trying to find a good place to take some screens... Shame on me. I should revisit that.

Thanks Helder, glad to hear it

[-HP-]

That's why I love you dux! <3

Last time I replayed Doom3, a couple of months ago, i took more than 500 screenshots of the game during my play-trough! The whole game (art wise) is a gold mine for references.

I basically learnt how to make decent metal by looking at doom3 textures, especially specular and normal mapping.

Couple of examples:

http://i35.tinypic.com/90217a.jpg

http://i34.tinypic.com/14dksbd.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/iy0hdz.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/15xtkig.jpg

http://i37.tinypic.com/1t2d5x.jpg

sorry for raping your thread Peter!

[urgaffel]

Hehe no worries, it's all good. Yeah, seeing those screens makes me remember how awesome I thought Doom 3 was back when I played it. I really need to get that again now... And I'm going to get better screens from Dead Space too, I still think they did a great job of metals in there. It's just hard to show off since you can't show the light playing on a surface with a still

*edit*

Took some new screenshots, hopefully these will be a bit better? ;P

[Pericolos0]

Hmm I have mixed feelings on the graphics of dead space. It looks good, but I think mainly because of the lighting being pretty nice and the awesome design work by Ryan Church. The environment art itself isn't really very good, lots of hard edges, tiling crazybumped textures etc.. it feels very unpolished overall.

[dux]

Better pictures, but doom 3 is still better

[urgaffel]

Peris, true, it's got some issues in places with really low res textures sitting next to nice high res ones but I think the overall effect they've achieved is fantastic. The lighting, pfx, sound and environment design all work together so well that when I was playing it, I was pretty much blind to the faults. It's only now that I'm playing it a second time and taking the time to look at the environment properly that I see these things

Dux, when I get Doom 3 I'll add some screens from that too. Unless you want to take a few good ones I can use? I'll put your name there and a link to you if you do ^^