Eyeball88's Showcase

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:06 am

Yeah, if this technique pans out really well, it helps put Goldmoor one step closer to completion, and gives us a lot of options for the other regions. We can streamline the process and have grass out of the way relatively quickly with each new region.

Asylum · Post by **Asylum** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:49 pm

Eyeball your models are impressing!
seeing this makes me wish i hade more time to spare to devote to this awsome project.

Keep up the great work!

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:37 am

Based on this concept of Rihad, which is one of my all time favourite TR pieces:

http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/image/41769/

[url=http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharbor2wo8.jpg][img]http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2483/rihadharbor2wo8.th.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://img402.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharborcrane2po3.jpg][img]http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7560/rihadharborcrane2po3.th.jpg[/img][/url]

Plants get so boring...

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:31 am

May I propose to your harbor crane? Beautiful. Am I correct in assuming that that is mega-high poly, or is it usable?*Prays*

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:45 am

It currently sits at around 3k polygons, it was built with low-poly in mind. It still needs some fixing, but it will still be lower poly than your average zombie.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:56 pm

that would be great

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:24 pm

I so love that lighting effect! It blows my mind- looks so real. What is it called again? Sunlights or something?

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:26 pm

Skylights, yeah, I never leave home without it. It makes my work look 700x better than it actually is. Invaluable!

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:23 am

It also makes them look 700x larger poly, which is great for concept modeling. How long does a render like that take?

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:50 am

I'm doing one right now, with a new dock and some changes to the crane, so when I post it here I'll also post how long it took to render with a skylight.

I'm also thinking about experimenting with skylights in texture baking. You can render an object with the skylight and have the soft shadows become part of the texture, so when it is viewed in game it will look better. The problem with that is that you can't turn it off at times of day, so you'll have an object with soft sun-cast shadows in the middle of night, or 300 feet under water.

Here we go:
[url=http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharborcrane4zs3.jpg][img]http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2193/rihadharborcrane4zs3.th.jpg[/img][/url]
Four minutes and five seconds to render that at 800x600.

I'm playing around with a new dock design. Anvil was supposedly a busy port city, but their dock for the most part looked like old boards held together by duct tape. I figure that because Rihad and Sentinel depend quite heavily upon naval trade, they will keep their docks in slightly better shape.

Another idea I toyed with was having a canopy on top of the crane, because it must be awfully hot and uncomfortable to turn those wheels in sun. I canned it, but it isn't hard to put back on.

[url=http://img186.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharborcrane3ko9.jpg][img]http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/280/rihadharborcrane3ko9.th.jpg[/img][/url]

CleverClothe · Post by **CleverClothe** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:41 am

I don't like the wood dock. Usually ports like this don't have them (see the concept).

I really love the crane though (kind of looks better without the canopy).

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:14 pm

I agree, you see more of the intricacy without the canopy. Still, I imagine if you wanted to hop under there and have a look at how it works, it would be fun. Also, I don't know about functionality, but the wooden dock looks perfect to me.

Lutemoth · Post by **Lutemoth** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:24 am

absotively beautiful, Eyeball! If I could, I'd use this as promotional material for the project

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:25 am

[url=http://img223.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharborwholeik6.jpg][img]http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1994/rihadharborwholeik6.th.jpg[/img][/url]

Rendered with skylights because it makes me look good

That's what our beloved Rihad harbor is looking like right now. Still a few touch-ups to do before I start messing around with textures.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:07 am

Oh frabjous day!
Callooh!
Callay!

[url=http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharbor1aq6.jpg][img]http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5589/rihadharbor1aq6.th.jpg[/img][/url]

It needs some work, granted. When I first set eyes on it, my retinas burned. Soooo glossy.

[url=http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharbor2ho8.jpg][img]http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/136/rihadharbor2ho8.th.jpg[/img][/url]

[url=http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharbor3ym0.jpg][img]http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/5408/rihadharbor3ym0.th.jpg[/img][/url]

Texture fixing time.

[url=http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharbor4mm5.jpg][img]http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9928/rihadharbor4mm5.th.jpg[/img][/url]

lb003g0676 · Post by **lb003g0676** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:17 am

I honestly honestly cannot wait to play in Hammerfall. WOW. Eyeball, this is sensational. The little cube.... bollards, posts, whatever they are, are awesome, and the texture on them is excellent, and Just wow.

A question: Are the ships still enterable, like so they will have interiors? Or because they are rendered from scratch, are they unenterable? I honestly don't know being a having the technical brain power, of several comatosed bunnies.

EDIT: just noticed a lovely touch, that sunken ship is awesome.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:40 pm

eyeball, i love you. will you be the father f my 3rd child? (lutemoth and MK have the other 2)

lol

honestly, that looks real good. cant wait to see the thing in game finished and for real

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:16 pm

Yeah the boats are going to exactly the same style as Cyrodiil's, except we're also going to model some ships of our own.

lb003g0676 · Post by **lb003g0676** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:20 pm

Hence the introduction of the FCG

I wondered if those things kinda tied in.

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:28 pm

Eyeball88 wins the coolest dude evar award for January 2007

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:59 am

Front page, now! This is unimaginably great!

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:53 am

Wow, that looks stunning! I can't wait to see it in-game.

Nalin · Post by **Nalin** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:31 am

Eyeball88 wrote:[url=http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadharbor1aq6.jpg][img]http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5589/rihadharbor1aq6.th.jpg[/img][/url]

It needs some work, granted. When I first set eyes on it, my retinas burned. Soooo glossy.

As it is now it's amazing! but with a little extra texturing this is going to be beyond amazing...It's going to be Hammerfell!

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:58 pm

[url=http://img358.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rihadcranesl6.jpg][img]http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/4159/rihadcranesl6.th.jpg[/img][/url]

Wee!

Noirgrim · Post by **Noirgrim** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:37 pm

[hugs Eyeball]

Radnurag · Post by **Radnurag** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:54 pm

*runs off to get ducktape to fix his jaw back on*

f*ck...

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:04 pm

Good stuff.. you'll have to show me some pointers regarding collision meshes and that 3dsmax exporter sometime.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:17 pm

Morden wrote:Good stuff.. you'll have to show me some pointers regarding collision meshes and that 3dsmax exporter sometime.

Pointer number 1: Kids, don't do this at home.

It's the very definition of frustrating monotony. I didn't mention that if I get too close to that crane, it crashes Oblivion.

Baby steps. I'm tweaking the nifs now.

Edit: Part of the problem being that when I exported the mesh it went from 8,800 faces (the harbor) to 33,000. I've got it back down in the 8,000's now. Going to test it to see if that affects anything.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:12 pm

Bump!

Like a K.I.S.S. reunion tour, you thought you had seen the last of me. Between switching jobs and taking care of my grandmother, I haven't had as much spare time as I would like. But I've bumped into a few of you online here and there, and the Tamrielic calling still flows through my veins, so here I am.

With my new job, I'm never really sure how much time I'll have; especially during the summer months, I'll be working quite a bit. I have a 7 week job lined up in August, and more small stuff between now and then. But I've missed things here.

First things first, I've got to share that cliff mesh now that Goldmoor is progressing. The texture might need some of Noir's loving attention. Also, the flat plane behind it will need to be synced up with whatever grass texture we use on the region around the cliff.

I also started work on a cave mesh for Goldmoor that I'm sure is going to be over-kill, but I had my computer away from home for a few days with no internet access and figured I'd just play around with it to brush up on my skills. It was more of a "draft" or an idea than anything.

Noirgrim · Post by **Noirgrim** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:19 pm

[wraps hands around Eyeball's neck]

I'm a going to choke you or kiss you... I don't know.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:20 pm

Pow! Right in the kisser.

I missed you too, Noir

edit:
[img]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g317/eyeball88/caveattempt.jpg[/img]

Was my idea for a Goldmoor region cave; fairly narrow, a track of sand, dirt and rock that has been eroded by constantly running water. It was probably overkill for the Goldmoor region, I just started it to play around with things.

Post by **Haplo** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:06 pm

Mang!

Hey homedawg; nice to see you again

Fairwater · Post by **Fairwater** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:07 pm

Great to have you back Eyeball, i have been looking for you and your cliff mesh, quick question though.... for some reason i have been having problems exporting objects to nif that have been exported to .obj, by chance could you send put up a .3ds version of the cliff?!!

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:02 am

we would love to have you back, but ill settle seeing you on msn once in a while

the cave mesh looks great, but im afraid it might be a bit over the top if we dont have anyone to finish it. if we do however, it will be the unique dungeon weve been lusting over.

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:10 pm

Hello Eyeball. What's shakin'?

Is there a chance you could upload an archive filled all your WIP .max/.3ds files? It would be a shame to forever lose all the work you did last winter. Since you left we've been really encouraging people to upload WIP files.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:18 pm

Here is a rar of all the various odds and ends I managed to export, with various levels of success. Some, like the Rihad Harbor ship crane, seem to cause Oblivion to crash if you get too near them; I'm not sure what the workaround for that is yet.

I just heard from an old friend of mine that there may be a small (but funded) animation job opening near me. I'm excited at the possibility.

Morden · Post by **Morden** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:32 am

Cool.. downloading now. Fairwater has had some success with exporting... i wonder if he'd have more luck with the dock?

edit: Do you by any chance still have your hammerfell armor models in .3ds or .max?

Post by **Haplo** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:31 am

I hope that anim job goes your way

I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya while I check out these odds and ends of yours

Harke the Apostle · Post by **Harke the Apostle** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:34 am

I hope you get it too.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:12 am

While I wait to hear more from the job, I've got some some time to myself for working on the 10000x things I started in my scatter-brained artistic splurges of creativity.

Wednesday or Thursday is when I'm hoping hearing from my contact. It looks like it could be a kind of cool job though.

Edit: Here's an updated "Ceramic Armor" from one of Lutemoth's concepts.

[img]http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g317/eyeball88/ceramicstartb.jpg[/img]