Mass Effect: Unification (build 40316/06) (R6 RELEASED)

[Marth8880]

Ah, no, I mean sea level in accordance with the map. The water will be the height the terrain is currently at, and the terrain will be in dipped and raised mounds; the front single and rear two platforms are going to have ramps or staircases that go to the sand, which is where those platforms' command posts will be located.

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[yuke5]

Oh wow. Never mind what I was talking about earlier. This map is going to have tons of atmosphere!

[Marth8880]

Water! Ramps! Sand mounds!

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[AQT]

Whoa, that's looking great so far.

[lucasfart]

That looks great! You might wanna make the sandbars a bit less sharp edged though - sandbars don't usually have straight sides like that.

[Marth8880]

There's sadly nothing I can really do about it; Zero has such low-poly terrain, and each sand mound is one or two raised vertices.


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Hmm...I could model them...

[lucasfart]

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Hmm...I could model them...

Do it! Do it!

[Marth8880]

Yeah, I think I will try and see what the output is like.

[RogueKnight]

Beginning the texture of the Mantis;

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There's a slight UV bug that's getting fixed, after that hopefully it will be done by today.

[yuke5]

Wow! The model is really faithful to the original. Great work!

[Maveritchell]

The tiling on those rock walls is out-of-control. Use a much lower tile frequency and then use a detail texture to make it look better close-up.

[Marth8880]

Hmm, like this? Also, how would I go about using both a bump map and a detail map at the same time?

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[The Nasal Abyss]

You can't. But I would still make the texture even less tiled than that. Perhaps a more Cliff-facey texture would be appropriate?

[Marth8880]

Cliff-facey? What do you mean?


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Hmm, I see... Alright, I'll look for something like that in my secret library.

[Lephenix]

You need to work on the texture of the barriers, looks untextured, and that's not looking good.

[lucasfart]

Hmm. While I don't think it looks that bad, I do agree with lephenix - adding some little details like scratches, dirt or lights or something would make them a bit less bland. Another thing which I think would be worth doing would be maybe rounding the top of the cliff models slightly. You can see the top cutting off abruptly in those pictures, and I personally don't think it looks totally realistic. It's not a major thing though, so it doesn't matter that much if you don't do it.

Also, I think that wall texture looks fine now. Scaling it any lower would just make it look blurry IMO.

[RogueKnight]

Ohai.

Actual model;

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[Marth8880]

Whoa, man, that looks fantastic! :O Now, for me to fix that UV problem...

[THEWULFMAN]

Nice looking Mantis there RK.

[Marth8880]

Speaking of the Mantis...

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I'm still hammering out the specular map in the lens, but other than that, RK did a fantastic job with this model and texture! Thanks, man!