The Rainbow Mounds

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9 hours ago, David Scott said:

That looks very tight! You've really brought the 60º lean to life. Could you render the walls as smooth as glass (per description) ?

thank you.

i'm trying to think of the best way to do that, either by making the texture shiny like glass or by flattering the texture so it's only the pattern then making it shiny.

i'm thinking the rock has been cut with something hot so the second option is probably the better way to do it.

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9 hours ago, Psullie said:

Blender is a truly awesome bit of open source software, I used it a lot when I was working on 3D vitalisations of Skara Brae and Abu Simbel. The latter by the way had geometry and textures pulled from stereoscopic photos of the temple taken before it was moved.

You are capturing the claustrophobic vibe of cave systems very well!

thank you.

that sounds amazing, was it for work or pleasure?

i've been putting off using blender because i wanted to concentrate on learning unreal engine and didn't want to confuse myself with the different controls, but now i'll probably do more in it.

[Psullie]

It was for work. I used to work in the heritage sector creating 3D models of sites and artefacts. It was great fun working with terabytes of LiDAR data one week and photogrammetry the next modelling all sorts from locomotives to Egyptian shabi.

If you want use Unreal take some time learning how to optimise your models in Blender before importing them, you'll get better frame rates. These days I just use Blender to quickly mockup my buildings/interiors for games as it helps with the visualisation 

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that's sounds like a great job.

so far this is the only thing i've built with blender, but i'll look in to optimising the models, thanks for the tip.

[Runeblogger]

9 hours ago, Psullie said:

These days I just use Blender to quickly mockup my buildings/interiors for games as it helps with the visualisation 

Wow. Show us some of those mockups, please! 😮

[Psullie]

On 10/6/2021 at 8:12 PM, Runeblogger said:

Wow. Show us some of those mockups, please! 😮

They are not what you may think, these are mostly just geometry (no textures) just so I can get a 'feel' for the space. This is a recent one for example of a Lunar temple with reflecting pool (ignore the power pylon in the background 😁 the image background is purely for lighting).

 

[Runeblogger]

Wow, this is awesome. Have you got more of these???

[Psullie]

here's a couple more - this is from a scenario I'm working on that takes place entirely in a small castle. I wanted to see what it would look like...

 

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they are really good, thank you for sharing.

[Baron Wulfraed]

Lovely -- though I'd think the castle should be mirror-reflected. If being assaulted by organized troops (think Roman Legion), all with shields on left arm, the position of that trapezoidal tower would have defending archers shooting at the attackers shields. A mirror-reflection would have the tower positioned on the sword arm side of the attackers.

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I've filmed another section of Rainbow mounds, here is the link.

https://youtu.be/Ndq_NXUTPHw

The caves are now complete, but I still need to paint some of the caves. As areas are painted, I'll upload more videos.

I've changed how I'm filming them, instead of using Unreal engine's own recorder which is very fiddly to do in the caves, I'm now using game recording software to record as I walk through, it's a lot quicker and easier.

[g33k]

That's looking pretty amazing!

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7 minutes ago, g33k said:

That's looking pretty amazing!

thank you.

[soltakss]

They are nicely claustrophobic and disorienting.

 

[g33k]

39 minutes ago, soltakss said:

They are nicely claustrophobic and disorienting.

+1
"you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
  🙂

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3 hours ago, soltakss said:

They are nicely claustrophobic and disorienting.

 

i'm glad that comes across in the video.

[AndreJarosch]

Watching the video i am awaiting the jumpscare of a Trollkin or Rock Lizard appearing around the corner any second. 

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4 minutes ago, AndreJarosch said:

Watching the video i am awaiting the jumpscare of a Trollkin or Rock Lizard appearing around the corner any second. 

at the moment the caves are empty, apart from water and mushrooms. i can probably find a lizard model with animation, but i think i'll have to make my own trollkin, which won't be for some time.

[David Scott]

Once again, this is excellent!

[Alex]

15 hours ago, D said:

I've filmed another section of Rainbow mounds, here is the link.

https://youtu.be/Ndq_NXUTPHw

Wow!

11 hours ago, AndreJarosch said:

Watching the video i am awaiting the jumpscare of a Trollkin or Rock Lizard appearing around the corner any second. 

Or Sandy, delivering an impromptu lecture on FPS level design. 🙂

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2 hours ago, Alex said:

Wow!

Or Sandy, delivering an impromptu lecture on FPS level design. 🙂

thank you.

that's definitely something I'd like to hear.

[Kloster]

2 hours ago, D said:

thank you.

that's definitely something I'd like to hear.

He did one for Doom.

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19 minutes ago, Kloster said:

He did one for Doom.

i remember him talking a bit about Doom and Quake at one of the Krakens, but it was a while ago

[Jeff]

This is really fantastic. If you ever want to do Snakepipe Hollow, let me know!

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1 hour ago, Jeff said:

This is really fantastic. If you ever want to do Snakepipe Hollow, let me know!

thank you.

doing snakepipe hollow has crossed my mind. i'll dig out a copy of the map and get back to you.