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The Desert (real-time environment with no Diffuse Maps Tech)
June 7, 2012 - 3:36pm
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Hello Eat3d! How are you doing here guys?)
Now I've enjoyed learning materials from Eat3d throughout all these years so it's a pleasure to share some of my latest work here.
Feel free to take some credit for what you see here=) Your tutorials were very helpful for me back in the day!
I'm sorry just a little more
Hey guys, I'm very sorry I had to create this mess with multiple posts, but I really didn't want to jump ahead of things with all the details and concept art before the final video. Please don't hit me in the nuts.
Regarding the project, as you can see I don't post much stills because that's not what this project was about and hopefully all this production materials will convince you to check out the video(in HD with sound On).
Now if you're interested in all of the shader trickery and technical details that are aplenty in this environment, or concepting and ideation of a project of such scale feel free to check out my making of videos.
It's a bit on the long side, but hopefully you'll get compensated with interesting info for your time.
Technical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxFwfZMBxT8&feature=plcp
Conceptual:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5ocYJyLcY&feature=plcp
Thanks for checking this out, fellow 3d Eaters, I hope you like it. 
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I just have to say this is freaking AWESOME! Very well done i give you mad props for this
Thank you very much, spazz man 31337. I humbly accept your mad props and give you my endless gratitude in return =)
Truly stunning assets in here man! Would you be willing to post wires of your smaller high-detail assets? I'd like to get an idea for the base geo you're baking to in order to get such a good result. Keep it up man!
How did I miss this?! This is fantastic!
-Jeremy-
Heya, Jeremy, thank you very much!
Huge thanks, Austie! I'd be more then willing to post the wires of the smaller high-detail assets, but there just is none:) All you see there are renders of my normal maps baked down to a flat surface. So there was no base geo for baking. I just saved out my screen from Zbrush with normal map shader applied. Though I have been asked about the pipeline for this assets, so I made this little image if it might be of any use to you.
Thank you very much, guys, once again!
hah! dude, very cool then. Good to know. I am sadly far too unfamiliar with Zbrush. I plan to spend a lot of Eat3D tutorial time with it sometime near the end of this summer.
Thanks for sharing man! One of these days I'll definitely check out your 50minute videos! 
Very inspiring stuff here thank you for sharing! Really does give me the motivation to work harder on my own work. Thanks for the amazing post!
Awesome work! Promoted! 
Amazing work, you really opened my eyes for procedural textureing in game environments. :)
Impressive! nice job add more screen shots
Dude I've downloaded your youtube videos and they are very great sample works and they can help me A lot! thanks
I'm sorry it took me forever to get back to you, guys, but that's because I was preparing something really sweet for all of you! But your comments first:
Hey there, austie702, you're very welcome! Yeah you make sure to do so.) Also I got your original comment on my mail and I just wanted to say to you that baking for environment stuff is dramatically over-rated. If you're planning on going the environment route you should consider trying to create your efficient tiling texture layouts and then produce your model around your tileable textures. The only things that are worth baking are unique assets like statue and so on. Anyway, best of luck to you, man!
Wow, thank you very much, tumblingweed! It's my pleasure to be helping you out. Keep up the good work!
Oh my, metalliandy, thanks a lot man! This is really cool ^__^ Endlessly appreciated.
Much appreciated, robo! Yeah, I believe there's huge potential to it! If you'll want to try it out for yourself I'll have something for you at the end of this post=)
Huge thanks, makan_ansari. Yeah, I might add them a bit later:) I'm glad you found the making of videos helpful!
And finally, there one thing I wanted to share with you guys...but I can't seem to remember what it is....
...oh yeah, THE MATERIALS!
Grab them right here:
http://artisaverb.info/Desert/ProcMat_Demo.zip
There are all kinds of "procedural" materials for you to check out as well as a couple of example textures and meshes. Also there's a .PSD that makes for very smooth gradient map production as it allows you to preview your gradient mapping, normal, specular, damage and diffuse pattern influence right in photoshop! It's like you're painting your gradient map directly in UDK and can immediately see the end result! I've made a little video that will hopefully make things more visual for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4TcnfX5c3Y
I hope this will help you guys to do your stuff faster, prettier and more efficient! Though it does take a little getting used to, I can't wait so see what great stuff you awesome people will come up with. Arrrgh :D
Oh, and just in case, if there's something wrong or I forgot to plug something somewhere - report it here and I'll get it fixed.
Have fun!
Awesome is not enough to describle your works here.You are great!
You are too kind, angelia
D1ver you are profesional artist?
Thanks D1ver, its really neat. I will definitely try this out as soon I got a bit more comfortable with UDK. You also show a neat trick with the specular in Photoshop I am onto checking out. Procedurals in games will improve both development time and memory, at least I think so. Used procedurals in Lightwave for renders and they´re really powerful for a lot of various tasks. Love to see the possibilities of them in games and this is a must do for future developments. Thanks again for showing this and your desert !
The color of the first image looks so passionate.
Belle23, yes I have some professional experience if that's what you mean. Though I haven't been properly employed on-site for a couple of years now.
robo , you're very welcome, man! Yeah, art shouldn't be about every artist grinding for a couple of years on their particular piece of some modular mumbo jumbo. I hope this help bring some art back into gameartists job so you'll be able to spent less time on little things and more on big. Cheers:)
Cherryni, thank you very much for the complement. I'm always happy when people are conscious of large scale details. Much appreciated!
I want you experiences. Pretty work
Hey Belle, thanks, though I don't think you want my professional experiences = ) The only reason I haven't been working for a while, is because It was a complete waste of time:) everything useful I know is through self education, practice and discipline, which is attainable by anyone.
Please make sure to watch the video until the very end, because that's where all the project is! All the following images are merely a bunch of working materials. Thank you very much:)
I won't be posting much screenshots for now because this work is not about static images at all and I really want everyone to check the video out.
Now you've probably guessed by the thread title that this environment has some kind of shader trickery in it.) And you're totally right!
I figured I'd dump all the diffuse maps and do an environment without them for a change.(And a whole lot of other shader magic)
I thought I saw an opportunity to improve the way we make our games technically, production-wise and hopefully not make them worse visually.
I've written a little paper about all the ins and outs of "procedural" materials that you can get RIGHT HERE, and if you have ideas on the subject I'm always up for chatting.) Now for those of you who ain't gonna read it I thought I'd post a couple images from it here to give you the gist of it:
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