Quick-Crit 2008-2009

[ICEE]

How can you call yourself a "professional unwrapper?" seriously...

[TeeKup]

I took the danger canyon layout and complexified it. Still gotta make the whole other side and a few buildings.

Thing is I haven't been able to make a good complete forerunner building since may D:

Nice, go ask Mass for help.

[DEElekgolo]

Is this better? They are scaled according to detail.

[teh lag]

You're still wasting so much space it isn't funny. TONS of stuff can be sclaed up more.

[DEElekgolo]

[MetKiller Joe]

You could do better.

This is the general idea:

[DEElekgolo]

Is that a pillar?

[MetKiller Joe]

Is that a pillar?

Whether it is or is not is not relevant. It is the concept which it illustrates that is important.

[DEElekgolo]

I finished sculpting nugget's elite.
Here is the actual geometry.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2...7673481wc2.jpg

Just the normal map applied to the elite.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7...7685632pr0.jpg

Normal map applied with the green channel flipped.
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/8...7695579or7.jpg

Which looks better. Flipped green channel or no flip green channel? Pay attention to the veins.

Edit:
Skinned it.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5...3325924at1.jpg

[DaneO'Roo]

Urgh, your uv maps are terrible, almost half the space is wasted.

Your normals don't do anything. There are no muscle groups, no interesting shapes, just fine detail, fine detail which would most likely become completely null due to compression in any modern engine.

Diffuse is not a diffuse at all, rather an overlay for a PROPER texture.

Look at the original elites, and other references like Aliens and Predator.

If I were you, I'd be starting back again at the unwraps, because that is wasted space and wasted time as far as I'm concerned.