Modular Dungeon Kit

[monkeyfrogstudio]

The update column does look better. Even so, it's stone and stone is brittle. The crown on that column is big, think, and solid. It's doubtful that those smaller corner bits would actually support all that weight ... especially over time ... and the column looks old due to the texturing. So, personally, I would make them even thicker ... perhaps by twice as much. Or I would make them out of another material, such as metal.

The doorway looks cool, btw.

[StarFire]

Yes you are correct these have been around for such an age so most probably would have these supports collapsed. This is the orig verion column B. Column C was a quick and dirt hack version so I could add a fire bowl inside it, need to give it some more thought

Pic of Column B:

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[Sage1969]

PBR really pops now from what I see. Nice

I asked one time and am just curious not necessarily looking for it...will PBR for the terrain have any added adjustments for normal and things like say the in material editor? Just trying to figure out how far I have to push the normal and stuff for result on terrain. I do not want to make normals that blow things out in the new editor if it will handle terrain PBR better already.

P.S. Love the chunky door! I am partial to column B, I would hang brazier or lamp off of the crown horns. A little wedge look to the uprights might enhance a look of stability while leaving suitable space for a light. Just saying not telling.

[StarFire]

Oh yes the PBR is just lovely, it all pops! especially with the new hdri and GI. I am getting very close if not identical(using same hdri) results from asset development in substance to skyline. The materials should be left at default settings, a value of 1000 = data taken from image. Ensure you are using flat albedo textures, no colour info containting lighting. This differs to the old method of using diffuse textures. Normal maps left at value 1000 will look the same as they were developed in your pbr workflow.

The new terrain will be using the same pbr so the same rules will apply.

I do welcome your artistic input / constructive criticism as these will be asset for Skyline and you will all be playing around with them, I hope .....

Made a new common, less impressive doorway for variation.

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[StarFire]

Being making some arched variations. Some that chain together and an arched doorway.

Todays Pics:

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[Sage1969]

Things are getting better day by day.

btw, does skyline support bump maps?

[SolarPortal]

as in old greyscale images... no, because its just an old way of doing things. Normal maps all the way. V2.0 is not fussy and is not locked to using the BC5_SNORM format either. Chuck a normal in and it should work regardless of format. ALways try to keep to a certain format, size of images and num mip maps so the engine can batch them into texture arrays without wasting memory.

Greyscale bump maps could be used for displacement though and if possible v2.0 we will be integrating a tesselation pipeline to get that sweet sweet details

[Sage1969]

Thanks, just asked 'cause I am cleaning out and organizing resources again and have a bunch of old bumps for things. Some just might be good for the displacement method.

Things are looking great!

[SolarPortal]

you can use a tool to convert them to normal maps?

[Sage1969]

Yes, input to Crazybump a zip from there plus can fine tune.

[StarFire]

Back to sculpting again, now we need some wooden beams and other wood bit such as doors.

Image wood sculpt underway:

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[Sage1969]

Just at my perfect blend of realism & stylized.

Nice attention to the grain (usually grain gets lost in itself). If by design great job and if by luck great job.

[StarFire]

Thank you @Sage1969 found a nice alpha for raking the grain onto the model.
Just setting up a door from the smaller planks. I will post a screenie once I fixe a normal error which for now elludes me

Here is it in Skyline:

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[SolarPortal]

nice

[monkeyfrogstudio]

Nice work.

[StarFire]

Thanks

[StarFire]

After many hours, way too many hours trying to fix a normal error on the door, I found the solution!
Full on face palm I was on the path to insanity, kept repeating the same human error every time expecting a different outcome.
When exporting I did so to my blender library then in Skyline updated the fbx to get a new mesh and the problem still existed. Stupidly I had got into this loop and forgot one veryimportant step.... copy it to my skyline library!!! Doh
So we now have a simple wooden door...

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[StarFire]

Now that problem above is out of the way here are some more wooded assets. good for piers, walk ways etc.

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[monkeyfrogstudio]

Nice work.

I hope you don't mind a bit of a critique - the wood assets look a bit ... mushy, soft. They don't strike me so much as wood as some other, softer substance. Yes, they look like wood (i.e. they have the color and grain), but the edges are so rounded on your models they it looks like they are trying to look like something other than wood.

Also, on your screen shot with the variety of wood items, one of the planks looks like you have the polygonal faces inverted.

[Sage1969]

Nice little lumber co op you have there. Door looks good.

I believe that is the hand cut effect you are picking up on monkey saw cut would be much cleaner edge.

good for piers, walk ways etc.

perfect for Tudors and interiors also.

I also know I should just redo something 10 mins in but waste hours befre doing just that.

[StarFire]

Thanks guys I will have a play with them and see if I can do a bit more with them.

For now this is how its looking all put together:

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[Sage1969]

I myself am interested in the hand hewn look for most all of my stuff but understand the need some might have for clean cut lumber. Already going over some dirt, mold and moss for this scene in my head.

Looks great

[monkeyfrogstudio]

For me, the wood doesn't look hand-cut, either. That's why I used the word "mushy" and "soft". Wood should not look soft. Don't get me wrong. These are great assets. So, consider this pushing toward perfection.

[StarFire]

I am sure ive seen some tools in blender for marking hard normal edges rather than adding extra verts and edges. I will have an experiment tomorrow. But I will keep these versions and make a harder edged variation.

The look I am after is somthing heavily aged and damp although I agree some edges do look a little rounded. Thank you for your encorragement and we want these assets to make awesome looking scenes out of the box

The new decal system will be great for the extra dirt, moss, and general aging.

[monkeyfrogstudio]

Here are some images I found (just a quick search). Maybe these will help a bit:







This last one's from an old boat that was being carved, I think:



One thing they all seem to have in common is the grain is not as pronounced, except for some major cracks. Perhaps knocking the normal map down a tad would help. And I don't think you need to sharpen the edges, per se. Maybe just narrow the rounded area a bit (i.e. if it were 6mm right now, make it it 3mm or some such).