Final Project: Tower of Babel
I plan on modeling the tower of Babel from the bible. (Whoa that was almost a rhyme) Anyways, because my portfolio consisted of mostly stylized things, I wanted my first environment to be realistic looking. Making this a project with realistic style not only shows that I am capable of making realistic textures, but it'll help me understand lighting and colors better to know where to put them when I do stylized texturing.
Below are some images I browsed for references. The materials are more of what I'm trying to achieve for textures, although obviously I am just starting to texture so it won't look as nice as those, but it's still a good reference to look at for what I want to achieve by the end.
Below are some images I browsed for references. The materials are more of what I'm trying to achieve for textures, although obviously I am just starting to texture so it won't look as nice as those, but it's still a good reference to look at for what I want to achieve by the end.
Milestone 1
Class Goals:
- Basic level geometry layout - Level design layout level, and where events will happen (If this is a level project) - Half of the materials for the level finished |
My Goal:
- Get a gist of how exactly I'm going to approach this project - Material references - Draw concept images for what I need to model for next week |
Below you will see my concept drawings and the image I chose for my reference. The way I will be approaching this project is to build modular walls for each floor. This way I can just duplicate these walls around to create the ring I need for the tower. Not only will this speed up work flow, but it will make it so if I want different walls for each ring it'll be easy to swap out.
As for materials, I am still looking into what I need for the image and I'm not too sure how I will approach them.
As for materials, I am still looking into what I need for the image and I'm not too sure how I will approach them.
Project End
So, I wasn't able to achieve the end goal of what I wanted to create. I wanted to create the tower of Babel by myself, but that is too insane for me who just started out and my other classes just set me back from being able to spend time on this project. So, I settled to just learning the tools better for my final project.
- I learned to create a texture (Brick) from scratch from the beginning to the end using no photo images.
- I learned how to use the landscape sculpting tool in Unreal Engine (So, I know how to build terrain better now)
- I learned how to create layer texture for vertex painting in Unreal Engine (This way I can paint the world better)
- I learned to create a texture (Brick) from scratch from the beginning to the end using no photo images.
- I learned how to use the landscape sculpting tool in Unreal Engine (So, I know how to build terrain better now)
- I learned how to create layer texture for vertex painting in Unreal Engine (This way I can paint the world better)