Oalexis' WIPs

oalexis · 10 Mar 2009, 04:48

It's from the half life 2 game. It's possible to get all the textures out of the game as well as all the other source games. It only requires two programs to do so. GCFScape, and VTFEdit

xrok1 · 10 Mar 2009, 04:53

i can't get over how well it bumps. i opened it in PS cause i thought for sure it was coming from the alpha channel but NOOO.
BTW, i love the trick with the semi transparent lens over the robot dogs eyes, it makes the red eyes appear as though they are glowing inside SU without even being rendered. [hats off]

oalexis · 12 Mar 2009, 08:21

Thanks xrok1 Heres a building from today.

oalexis · 27 Mar 2009, 11:12

some other stuff i'm playing around with. I'm learning kerky now as well, seems to be a great program! I like the volumetric lighting feature

honoluludesktop · 27 Mar 2009, 22:24

Thanks for positing your model, and renders. Did a quick one because I always like to see what my standard setup can do in comparison to others. Your render is more dramatic. Be nice if the materials were distressed.

oalexis · 6 Apr 2009, 07:10

some assests i made for use in a crysis map pics taken in the cryengine 2

xrok1 · 6 Apr 2009, 23:49

i've been playing with the crysis engine its awsome but i can't figure out how to get my SU stuff in there any tips or better yet a walk through of your process??

oalexis · 7 Apr 2009, 00:40

It indeed is awesome! You can use this technique here to get your stuff into the sandbox2 editor. http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=19058

xrok1 · 7 Apr 2009, 00:53

i'll have to dig my copy of softimage out of the closet

i was hoping you were using playup http://playuptools.blogspot.com/ that's what i was trying to work with but????

oalexis · 7 Apr 2009, 01:04

Actually you won't need softimage xrok1, if you read further through the thread there is a way to go directly from SU to sandbox 2. It requires you download a program called colladaCGF. Read a bit further down the thread, and you'll see it Also you could check in this thread http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=11606&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=playup&start=30 or PM zapwizard, he can explain it more clearly, since I think he pioneered the technique.

oalexis · 8 Apr 2009, 09:48

Heres the growing number of stuff that i've put into the crysis editor, all built with sketchup, and textured in sketchup. normalmaps and spec maps and diffuse maps used in game.

BTM · 8 Apr 2009, 10:06

How did you get the god's fingers in the first KT render post processing?

oalexis · 8 Apr 2009, 10:20

Scene Settings > Global Settings > Volumetric lighting, then You can play around with the global fog settings at the bottom til you get the results you want. Be warned, it significantly increases your rendertime :S To get the god rays you use a very low amount of scatter I think, like 0.2, and keep the rest as they are. I could be wrong however, since that render was a few weeks ago

Oh heres some other stuff I forgot to post as well. Rendered in Kerky. The third and fourth are a spaceship i'm working on inspired by Homeworld 2 concept art

oalexis · 19 Sept 2009, 20:50

heres something recent i'm working on for a contest over at game-artist forums http://www.game-artist.net/forums/game-artist-mini-competition/11265-gamc-3-uav.html

The modelling is almost finished I just need to cut down the tri count because the you can only have 2000 tris for the competition and i'm at about 2100 right now

xrok1 · 19 Sept 2009, 21:12

niiice! if the wing bottoms aren't totally flat you could try that to reduce tri's.

oalexis · 20 Sept 2009, 06:24

ya I did that among a few other things and the tri count is now at 1979. Heres some shots of the UAV in the Crysis Engine. No texture maps yet

xrok1 · 24 Sept 2009, 04:07

i love those little under elevators. inspired by a shark?

oalexis · 6 Nov 2011, 11:57

Its been a while. Working on a little Tron: Legacy inspired city scene. Also can a mod move this thread to the WIPs section? I don't think it was there when I originally started this thread.

oalexis · 6 Nov 2011, 21:03

Added another building.

oalexis · 12 Nov 2011, 12:23

An update... I currently only have a netbook to do this little project on, and it takes forever to do the renders! This one ran for just under 24 hours.