What is everyone working on? #2 Thread

Looks amazing K21, only other thing i see, is that for some reason, the patch of bricks above the cutting tanks and then again on the other side at the end of the car-tire-ramp-things... The bricks just look like they're on top of the plaster, instead of the plaster being gone...    all the other brick looks great though... 

I think it's definitely good enough for a portfolio!

A friend and I have been working for a bit on a city in Platinum Arts Sandbox. Still heavily work in progress. The goal for now is to just build certain "assets" first (houses, stalls, walls, etc). Thoughts? I'll try to provide closer screens later.

A little experiment...

DX:HR itself had been a rather mediocre game compared to the original Deus-Ex but nevertheless I liked one graphical trick a lot and that's the waving of canvas covers held in place on all sides. I recreated the effect in Blender using a static quad (4 points only, not moving) and some node material.

Two example videos one with parameters for weak/gentle wind and one with parameters for strong/violent wind.
 

Bloody cool DragonLord.

Just some sketches/Art practice.

Modeling wolf puppy for Shinya.

@LucianoGiacomozzi WOW dude that looks so awesome! Thankyou for chosing my pic too, I'm glad you liked it

A new track I have just composed for the OverDose soundtrack:

Edited by: LucianoGiacomozzi

Not working on a game at the mo but im working as if i was. I've come up with an idea for a tower defense C&C hybrid each of these little scenes are tiles/towers. I'm trying to keep them below 1500 polys and reuse items as much as possible.

All together i have 8 tiles planned, 3 of which are basically finished and they take about a day each to model unwrap and texture.
feel free to give crit

Theres tons you can optimize on that, you could bring that scene to lest 1000, then add more detail, rather than have all those polys on the roof, its 3-4 flat surfaces, so it doesnt need the 19 or so polys there, in addition to that, it looks like you used extrude or slice to make alot of the detail... this can be done better with primitives then added into the mesh to allow the deletion of hidden faces.

The textures look good, they remind me a bit of cnc generals, the distance you screencaped at works well for the detail level of the scene, it looks like it would fit into a rts game easily.

Edit: something like this

Edited by: TKAzA

By that do you mean something like, instead of extruding, adding another (e.g.) cube and transforming it? Then combining the two into a new object/model?
I'm trying to figure out how that saves polys, but I don't see the benefit; trying to though.

Thanks man! The brass was from Albion I. Thanks again! I appreciate it!

Depending on the rendering method (forward, deferred) saving on polygons doesn't necessarily improve performance. You save on the triangle count but the number of touched pixels does increase (in the worst case if triangles happen to be rendered back to front). Hence it's a trade-off between more vertex shader work (more triangles) or more pixel shader work (less triangles but larger number of covered pixels). Also if there is the possibility for somebody using a transparent material on such a model these tricks can also backfire.