[youtube]7GhQhVPMOQw[/youtube] This is just to show you guys that there is a lot more to designing assets than just starting to model.
Something helpful for mappers: - Block out fast (don't get hung up on details early on, ramps are acceptable for stairs, big boxes for the buildings and so on). - Once you've blocked out, throw it in engine and run around it. Check scale and tweak accordingly. - Light the environment regularly, keep tweaking and changing. It's important to start this early on (then it's not such a big task in the end, and it's fairly easy to pre-vis the end result). - You are going to encounter areas which are unreadable in the concept - so make sure you have folders and folders of reference early on! It will help in both short and long run. - Break down the environment into asset types/material types. You will discover quickly where you can potentially reuse assets and how many props it takes to make up the scene. - DON'T tackle everything at once. One asset at a time, one texture at a time. I would recommend taking it a prop at a time - make it look awesome, take advice and then to the next - reason being, if your unable to pull this all off (it's a big task) at least then you've learnt a tonne and carried several assets to a high quality. - DON'T limit yourself too early on, don't think too much about tri-count and texture size. It is important don't get me wrong, but these are easy things to rectify. I am sure most would agree, it's much better to have a kick-ass environment which may be a little unrealistic to run in engine than something that is which looks mediocre (because remember there is a tonne of tricks that are used in industry which have been obtained with trial and error). Main thing is, break it down - do a little everyday and keep posting here. We will help where we can I am sure! Source
[10:13 AM] Smithy: Start the game with -dev or -developer [10:13 AM] Smithy: Then use [10:13 AM] Smithy: Ent_bbox emp_vehicle [10:13 AM] Smithy: To see its wheels
Nice site, I'll use it. Links for mappers: http://www.interlopers.net/tutorials/ - Fancy tutorials for everything https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page - Read up on entities and stuff http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/games/9 - Prefabs for Half-Life 2, there are some golden ones in there, like apartements http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/games/2 - Prefabs for CS:CS, works in Empires too
So.. Was very bored and had nothing to do, sitting on a shitty computer at home, far far away from my good desktop computer. So I went through all the prefabs for the source engine in gamebanana, filtering out the shitty ones to the ones that can be quite useful. Enjoy my madness. Prefabs 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5969 - Wall Breach http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5989 - Watchtower http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5768 - Apartement 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4912 - Apartement 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4160 - Apartement 3 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6292 - Apartement 4 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6706 - Villa 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6628 - Villa 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6758 - Building 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6759 - Building 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6761 - Building 3 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6762 - Building 4 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6857 - Building 5 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/3947 - Building 6 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/3943 - Building 7 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4230 - Building 8 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4068 - Building 9 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4305 - Office http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4282 - Bridge 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/1129 - Bridge 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/3667 - Bridge 3 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/966 - Bridge 4 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/3386 - Scaffolding http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6983 - Security Booth http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/3061 - Medieval Stuff 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/7183 - Castle 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5523 - Castle 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4449 - Windmill http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5829 - Shack 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4266 - Shack 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5915 - Cabin 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5833 - Volcano Emitter http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/1267 - Volcano Beamer http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/853 - Volcano Tower http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5985 - Spaceship interior http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6578 - Beach http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/1751 - C&C Renegade BMS ==Models== http://www.mrmof.com/?cat=38 - WW2 ==Map Inspiration== http://gamebanana.com/maps/163216 Prefabs 2 ==Buildings== http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6655 - Factory http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5797 - Pier http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5888 - Radio mast http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5808 - Cabin snow http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5527 - Shed items http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/2072 - Window Futuristic http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/1774 - Shower http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/887 - Fence ==Stairs== http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6123 - Stair Wide http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5561 - Stairs that go up http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/942 - Stairs Corner http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5809 - Escalator http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5869 - Planets http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5865 - Gyroscope Engine http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4481 - Teleporter 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4403 - Missile System ==Spaaaaace== http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/321 - Space Walk http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/2256 - Hallway http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/1986 - Zero Friction http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5145 - Spaceship 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5719 - Spaceship 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5859 - Armor 1 http://gamebanana.com/skins/116114 - Weapon 1 http://gamebanana.com/maps/167621 - Map checkout http://gamebanana.com/skins/127592 - Minion 1 ==Bridges== http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6047 - Bridge Metal http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/354 - Bridge Rope 1 ==Misc== http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5795 - Archway http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/7114 - Jumpscares http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/7150 - Predator Interface http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/7156 - 5hp per kill http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4475 - Zeppelin http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/250 - Gas Trap http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/1308 - Silent Hill fog http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5223 - Torch http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/679 - Bullet Shield http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/879 - Metal Pipes 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5025 - Metal Pipes 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/633 - Gunstall http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/915 - Traps http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/893 - Seesaw http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4720 - Clock countdown http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5511 - Capture the flag, wtf? http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5660 - Skybox change Prefabs 3 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/7049 - Tiles 3d http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/3653 - Airplane http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/3504 - Tunnel http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/2498 - House http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/2233 - Roads http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6403 - Bus stop http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6338 - Intro building http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6172 - Intro building http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6035 - Russian building http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/1471 - Small building City 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/3629 - Small building City 2 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5323 - Small building City 3 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5347 - Small building City 4 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6398 - Small building City 5 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6056 - Warehouse http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6850 - Guard houses http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6857 - Guard Walls http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/4016 - Lights http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6626 - Conveyor http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6853 - Generator and stuff http://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2/addons/agnesteam-hl2-prefabs-pack-001 ==Space== http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/7173 ==Models== http://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2/addons/consul-model http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/7048 - Rocks http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6763 - Turbine Crane http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6399 - Street props http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6305 - WW2 Models http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6304 - WW2 Models http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/6037 - Trees 1 http://gamebanana.com/prefabs/5798 - Trees 2 ==Textures== http://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2/addons/43-sci-fiindustrial-textures
So whilst browsing the youtubes for blender normal mapping videos to help with the tank destroyer... i came across this. Blender Modelling Tutorial Series. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyelx0TsmSpeHKYfP-_HG37deH3RW5sMD
Forgot to post this here: https://www.visualstudio.com/dev-essentials/ Gives you 3 months access to www.pluralsight.com - Has loads of courses available for programming/photoshop/modeling etc.
