Warfire map W.I.P.

**SINII** · 08-01-2008, 11:24 AM

Hi everybody. I'm new here but not new in games, I enjoyed Unreal since it's first appearance, now with all ut3 capabilities I decided with my friends to make a map (maybe for make something unreal contest)

I started with vehicles to define a vision of the map's universe. I don't know yet how deep will we go with it, will it be only the map and vehicles, or characters also...

here are a couple of images, so please feel free to advice or comment.

Thank you in advance

**SINII** · 08-01-2008, 11:28 AM

Sorry, can't get how to post images, so there is a link to a Romanian 3D graphics website with my W.I.P. http://www.visualart.ro/forum/showthread.php?t=17687

**SINII** · 08-02-2008, 04:58 AM

**SINII** · 08-02-2008, 05:04 AM

**SINII** · 08-02-2008, 05:18 AM

and a small sketch of my early vision

**ikarus** · 08-02-2008, 05:45 AM

very nice !
(bravo, aveti lucrari foarte frumoase

)

**Hushpuppy** · 08-03-2008, 12:16 PM

wow coool

very impressive

**SINII** · 08-31-2008, 11:47 AM

Hi everybody, I continue with my warfire map. I have now more defined concepts

and a new vehicle, a hovercicle

**coolcat22** · 08-31-2008, 12:24 PM

looks great hoped you can get in ut3 it not easy i have read some where

**Lord_PorkSword** · 08-31-2008, 09:12 PM

Hey some of your sketches there make nice wallpapers for my work laptop.(especially the first one)

Can't wait to see how it eventuates.

**Hushpuppy** · 09-01-2008, 04:42 AM

looks awsome

have you gotten anything ingame yet?

**Setheran** · 09-01-2008, 05:53 AM

Amazing work. I really hope you can get all this finished and working in-game.

**SINII** · 09-02-2008, 06:19 AM

Hi guys, I don't have working models yet, just static meshes, my goal is to build all the geometry from scratch. I'm very inspired by the art of HAWKPREY - http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42433 , http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31497 , http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67477 .
Guys at Epic are doing tremendous amount of great work for UT series, I hope that I'll be able to approach a bit to their visions.
Next I'll post a vehicle which will be a mix of a tank and a batmobile (yes, the last batmobile)

Now I have a better look of the Hovercicle and an improved texture for the Crawling Fortress unit, which is a test unit, I don't think it will find its place on the map

**SINII** · 09-05-2008, 05:10 AM

Hi, there is a next vehicle which will replace the fortress tank, I have no place for it on the map and it was just a test. This one is inspired by the new batmobile

I still have to define its functionality.

**SINII** · 09-12-2008, 06:03 AM

Hi everybody. I was very unsatisfied with previous sketch, so after a lot of other sketches i finall start to modell this :

**Setheran** · 09-12-2008, 07:22 AM

I think the shapes look a little more interesting now. Are you doing these sketches in Photoshop or something?

**SINII** · 09-12-2008, 08:08 AM

Thank you Setheran, sketches are a mix of paper drawing and photoshop overlay on a rough 3d modell

**optic_freeze** · 09-13-2008, 09:24 AM

Very nice work indeed.

**SINII** · 09-15-2008, 10:21 AM

Guys, sorry for the delay with 3D modell. I started it, but still stuck in concept deffinition, so here another advance in concept and no finished 3D modell yet

**SINII** · 09-23-2008, 09:57 AM

Here some small 3D update. more to come...

**Cosmix** · 09-23-2008, 03:57 PM

Awesome work man! I like your outlines.

**Oliebol** · 09-26-2008, 02:29 PM

Start trying to get some vehicles already into the game :P

They look nice, but that hover thing is nearly same as viper

**Kantham** · 09-26-2008, 02:32 PM

That's really outstanding, I really digg this particular concept:
http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attach...1&d=1221487525

**SINII** · 09-27-2008, 02:39 PM

Thank you guys. As I said, my goal is to create a warfire map by replacing all the existing geometry, but not the mechanics, that's why that hover looks the same to viper, i need it to behave same

**SINII** · 10-03-2008, 09:21 AM

Hi, here is one more update revealing a more finished geometry of the "BATMOBILE" armored vehicle

**SINII** · 10-16-2008, 08:34 PM

Hi, I finished the final details for the vehicle, its unwrap, occlusion and now it is being textured, meanwhile I want to define better the overall look of the map and do more sketches of it, maybe some rough 3D soon, I saw the winners, congratulations to them really good stuff. Now I have one year till the next contest.

**LtClifff** · 10-18-2008, 03:50 PM

Good Lord!!! HOLY HELL BATMAN!!!

You sure are pouring a lot of work into this map!!!

Do you think it would be possible to make the vehicles into replacement mutators as well?

You are one skilled person!

**SINII** · 10-23-2008, 05:21 PM

Thank's LtClifff. I don't want to sound dumb, but I don't know yet what a replacement mutator is

. But for sure will find in the process...
So, here is a new look at the map design, after this I think that I will start modeling it

P.S. I hope I didn't broke any copyright law by putting the UT3 logo ??? (It is just so awesome )

**SINII** · 10-30-2008, 01:05 PM

Hi, I'm continuing my map, here is a start in zbrush and a quick atmosphere render in 3D max. Please don't complain about no engine screens, it's a long W.I.P. and I'll definitely get there

**Yoshi_last** · 10-30-2008, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by SINII

Hi, I'm continuing my map, here is a start in zbrush and a quick atmosphere render in 3D max. Please don't complain about no engine screens, it's a long W.I.P. and I'll definitely get there

lol your worried about complaing well i am the usal guy to complain but im impressed

youve gotten a tromendouse amount of work done in so little time infact you have earned my respect and it takes alot of work to do that

no complaints here keep up the good work

**SEBASTIEN-NOVA** · 10-30-2008, 06:21 PM

AWESOME work here !!

**SINII** · 11-05-2008, 02:47 PM

Hi everybody. recently I saw this very useful thread http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=609411 which lets you extract original UT models which I neded for comparation, here is a quick render of what I needed to see. So what I've learned from it is that I need less polygons and a good normal map.

P.S. Originals look damn awesome (an example for design schools)

**SINII** · 11-09-2008, 01:00 PM

Hi again, I'm busy now with smoothing the geometry and preparing it for normal map extraction. meanwhile I'll post the texture update, made by NDBY

**SINII** · 11-11-2008, 08:27 AM

Hi, I started the comparison of what I have now with original models, to assure the well fit of geometry and maybe new solutions for my meshes

**SINII** · 11-11-2008, 03:23 PM

Hi, Finally I got through normalmap test and it seems ok to me, just have to find a solution for mirrored objects

**VoodooMaster** · 11-11-2008, 04:09 PM

Good progress you've done, I really can't wait to see it finished.
This is really one of the best WIP's I've seen regarding UT3 so far.

**V-TEK420** · 11-11-2008, 04:16 PM

How do you get the meshes and textures out of UT3 and into your 3d Software?

**SINII** · 11-11-2008, 04:37 PM

V-TEK420 this is the link to the thread for this topic http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=609411
and Thank You VoodooMaster it is really important for me to hear that somebody likes what I'm doing, yet it is so far for me to achieve the same quality like guys from EPIC have