More buildings! Getting faster.

These last couple weeks I have been working on remapping/texturing a couple buildings. The first I actually created from scratch and it came out pretty good!

I did simplify it from the reference I had and removed some details to make it less churchy... Here was the reference:

Pretty close right? I may or may not add more details later but for now a pretty good building for our scene.

Next I reworked another model that just looked very drab and did not work well with normal maps or other maps for that matter. Just a too much on one map situation. Here is a picture of the rework:

It is interesting untangling someone's UV work. I am pretty sure most uv maps should be user friendly for others. I have learned how to lay out some really easy to use maps with Quixel's pipeline. So both myself and the program know where to place stuff a lot better!

Finally I am still working on that wolf model... we settled on a shape/model but are working with a new fur shader in unity so progress is slow while we see how that works exactly. Hopefully it will look awesome if not it is back to the ol drawing board.

All told a busy couple weeks. I also managed to finish the programming unity course I was working on and started work on a game but not much to say other than it is a kind of RTS type game. See you again in a couple weeks!

Oops late again! The journey continues!

So I hit a couple snags with the wolf model which upset me a bit more than it should have but I had the world of programming to fall back on in the meantime!

I had a model like this:

Was looking really cool but in the end the look was decided to be a bit too fantasyish for our game. Which meant this model just gets tossed onto a shelf to gather dust. I gave it another go but ultimately my heart was not in it and I failed at creating a decent wolf for what we wanted. There could be many factors to attribute this failure to including no concept art and the team for letting it get to this stage before deciding it wouldn't work (I did send progress files as I went to try and prevent this outcome). Maybe I can come back to it after a break and try a new strategy (look at some unity asset store wolves perhaps) but for now someone else on the team is giving it a go.

I am continuing with the programming course and also doing some smaller models on the side. This was a good lesson, and I probably got too attached to my creation. When working with a group it is important to be flexible when you can and realize a lot of things may have to be redone quite often. Still I think the group should work to make sure as little has to be redone as possible as well.

Learned a lot about trying to refine work with this go around and look forward to continuing the indie game dev journey.