yeah those sprite based far tree lods are not really fine, could be reworked a bit, but I'm too lazy. and found no better solution yet, which is fast enough. moreover, in some commercial games you can find more ugly ones but you normally concentrate on close view action, so as Jcl would say: it has low priority.

something new:


~1000 tris

@rvL_eXile - Great looking models. It’s really cool to see some art work being posted here. Can’t wait to see more.

@Sivan – The editor is looking awesome.. This project is so very needed in the engine. It will help lots of newbies who want to create awesome starter projects but don’t have the skills to code all this "coolness" from nothing. I can’t wait to see more.

@Kartoffel - Your shader pipeline is wonderful I was happy for what you released to us and can’t wait to see how far you are going to take it . Really beautiful work.

@PadMalcom – Procedural anything is cool, it reduces the work on the user. 3ds max had this idea in this materials setup and through out its work pipeline. It was one of the best parts about the package. I personal would love to see as many procedural plugins for the engine as can be made.

Awesome work ALL, and looking forward to the next updates

Made a new Texture for the Couch... Need some Feedback...

@sivan: it's impressive how long and hard you work in this shadow and water things. Are there still things to do?

@oliver:
thanks, but I just reworked the shade-c stuff, most of the work was separating the scripts I really use, and reading and understanding the view/material settings and shader codes. I always do only what I need at that moment, this way my work is very efficient. I needed good water, faster shadows than the customized pssm, and a bit better terrain multitexturing (later I will deal with the all-in-one shader too, because once I will need a few features of it).
now all is ready to put into my editor (water was done in March) to make settings menus to really utilize these features, checking in real-time everything, because without that it is very difficult to use. it requires some further code reworks, and attention to keep max compatibility with other stuff, but does worth the time.
sometimes I really don't understand why shade-c 0.91b was left as is, it has great features, maybe even too many and too complex, it requires only a more user friendly environment. I know shade-c evo, which is more orgnized but seems to also lack user friendly setting possibilities, and furthermore not free for released apps/games.

@rvl_exile: your models are great. my only crit on the couch would be that it seems like it is made out of a hard material based off of the scratches on the texture... not sure how to explain it but the scratches make it look like it was made outof wood or metal

@lost & rvl
to me it looks like worn-off painted hard leather. the thing that it makes the couch look like wood is the shape of the cushions but i guess that's as good as it gets with this poly count.

hey exile. im curious. when making surface normals what process do you use. I usually make a depth mask and run it through a normal map calculator, but I've considered actually sculpting just for a simple texture and baking it. wondered what your workflow is.

@rvl_exile

Your works are awesome but;
try, Baking AO and Normal maps from High poly mesh. You must spend tons of time for this workflow but it has best results.

Eat3D, 3DMotive and Polycount Wiki are best places to learn. (polycount forum is your place. and its definitely the BEST in the world!)