Darkmod: Inspiration thread

[Guest]

That's what I'd like to see more in FMs, a dedication to gameplay design rather than huge areas or telling stories through lengthy readables.

 

https://youtu.be/lamAqI8v7Y0?t=1m12s

[demagogue]

Ummm, Hell yeah....

 

Be cool if it's customizable enough to make your own story-driven adventure maps on.

[Obsttorte]

That's what I'd like to see more in FMs, a dedication to gameplay design rather than huge areas or telling stories through lengthy readables.

 

https://youtu.be/lamAqI8v7Y0?t=1m12s

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[Guest]

Gotta love Dark Souls. Even if it tries to bash your head in at every single opportunity.

 

[demagogue]

Ran into this photo today, old city of Brugges, Belgium.

 

[Spooks]

brb filing a feature request on the bugtracker for Swan AI. The quacking would be like a lanternbot alarm, you defeat them by throwing bread/cake food items in the water.

 

OT: more stuff from the pinterest board

 

 

[Taquito.]

Concepts: Lamps

 

 

 

Huge spotlight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 16, 2017 by Taquito.

[Guest]

Re: Lamps

 

[Petike the Taffer]

 

Not necessarily mapping inspiration, but now you can construct your very own medieval-style TDM lantern, ladies and gents.

[Melan]

This would make for a perfect villain lair:

 

 

What a beauty.

[Guest]

While the game is supposed to run on Unreal Engine 4, textures and assets look quite on par with what TDM can offer. Some nice inspirations here:

 

https://80.lv/articles/building-environments-for-adventure-games/

 

[Bikerdude]

would love to try and build that scene in tdm.

[Bikerdude]

What a beauty.

Building porn for Melan...

[Obsttorte]

While the game is supposed to run on Unreal Engine 4, textures and assets look quite on par with what TDM can offer. Some nice inspirations here:

 

https://80.lv/articles/building-environments-for-adventure-games/

 

Interesting read. Although from the trailer I am not sure whether not using normal maps was a good decision. It looks really old school.

[Guest]

Yeah, looking at these assets, I don't believe they stopped using normalmaps But I kind of agree that it's better to develop painting skills than to use Substance.

[Melan]

Dunno if these have been posted yet, but here are a few concept sketches used during the production of the now quite dead Crucible of Omens campaign:

 

 

 

 

 

The shots are slightly blurry because they were scanned from a thick scrap paper notebook (sorry). The first shot was built and used as the opening area of Behind Closed Doors, and the last one was built for an unreleased campaign mission titled The Nexus (although with a central tower for better performance). The other two remain unrealised. I hope they will inspire people!

[Bikerdude]

Hey, its not terminally dead. Work on Restless Plunder will resume in the new year once Shadowhides city mission is out the door. I have been getting people lined up to do some voice work for the various conversations located through out the map.

Edited December 22, 2017 by Bikerdude

[Melan]

Dead as a doornail until proven otherwise.

[CarltonTroisi]

Dead as a doornail until proven otherwise.

Have some faith, man!

[Guest]

Well, this is basically Dishonored 2 asset porn:

 

https://www.artstation.com/nini_gombino

 

Tons of highest quality stuff here.

Edited December 29, 2017 by Judith

[Obsttorte]

[Bikerdude]

Tons of highest quality stuff here.

Isnt all the stuff IP restricted, so its for inspiration only..?

[Oktokolo]

Isnt all the stuff IP restricted, so its for inspiration only..?

Yes. It is high quality inspiration stuff. That could be the assets FLOSS games use if we had a society featuring an unconditional basic income

[Guest]

It's more like educational material. How the stuff gets made in games today. How modular sets and materials work, etc. It's more for modellers than mappers, but if there was a separarate thread for modeling, I'm pretty sure there will be only me, Spring, and Epi talking to each other

 

Although I must say, while I'm all for nice shiny stuff, the AAA is where it gets a bit ridiculous. If you see the description, that guy wasn't even making all that stuff from scratch, sometimes he just did materials. Even if I had guaranteed basic income and didn't have to work, I'd never get to that kind of quality by working alone. AAA attention to detail is insane, just look at the coins. I beat Dishonored 2 and the DLC, I don't even remember how they looked like, except for the shape.

 

[Moonbo]

Just ran across a game that was released a few years ago called NaissanceE. It's a pretty abstract game but the cool thing is that it seems to be made almost completely out of bsp and has some pretty neat architecture which might be inspiring to mappers: