Battlefield Decorations - Ministry Thread - UT40K: The Chosen mod for Unreal Tournament 3

I decided that I would tackle 2 things at once. First, I would get some more practice with normal maps on various shapes. Second, I would create some much needed decorations for our maps. I figure I can make all of the models in the "Battlefield Accessories" kit within a short amount of time before moving on to the Falcon. These can be dropped in any setting to make it feel more familiar to warhammer 40k players.

Here's my first object from the list, the Barrel. It's only 288 triangles:

Next up will be one of the tank traps.

Nice work, how about some ammo crates?

Here's one type of tank trap. It's only 408 triangles:

I think I'll do one of the ammo crates next

very nice, i did have some tank traps in the game/mod but yours look better

Keep up the good work ministry

What about the "X" type of tank traps? Do you have those yet?

yes but just basic ones that need remapping and texturing

I think you should just go ahead and make all the models in the kit, that way we can just replace the old ones with your new and improved ones.

Here's the "X" tank traps, weighing in at 356 triangles. I added the orange parts to the normal map to give it some texture. This is something that I forgot to do with the barrel and tank spikes, so I've gone back and fixed 'em (I did not update the images above, so don't bother checking). Once I've finished the set, I'll do a nice pic of everything together.

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And here's how it would look when a few are lined up next to eachother:

I've noticed that a row of these things will begin to show patterns in the texture. The diffuse and specular channel are not related to the details of the model, so we could generate 4 different-yet-similar textures by simply rotating them 90,180 and 270 degrees. What do you guys think?

go for it, they look great, you can even rotate the mesh, might be a lower file size than the texture, or we just make a few extra materials.

god what am i on about, we can copy the mesh in the package then make extra materials by rotating the textures but that will only work if the uv's fit a rotated texture. anyway which ever you like go for it

the diffuse and specular will rotate just fine, but obviously the normal map will have to remain static... Wait, that's not going to work then. I applied the light orange color to the normal map, so if we rotate the diffuse then it will not line up.

But it would be easy enough to generate new normals to match each rotation.

These maps are only 1024x1024, so 4 of these materials should be about the same size as 1 character material.

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First Ammo Crate is done. Since this one had a lot more details I'm using 2048x2048 maps. But on the plus side it's only 402 triangles. Also, we could easily skin it to a simple skeleton and give it a few animations. This way it could be closed until someone runs up and activates it, causing it to open (or we could have it attack people like a mimic ):

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Since Geo is anxious for the falcon, I think I'll cut this little project short and turn my attention on that. I'll probably come back and do the last 2-3 pieces later, but these 4 items should give our mappers something fun to play with.

Edited by: Ministry_3D

Nice work, keep em coming (once and if you decide to work on the falcon)