Flowers And Other Decoratives

[BlackThief]

Time to get a little more life in the modelling section Here's a orchid model I did today:

 

I'll do some other decoratives by the end of next week.

[Springheel]

Very nice!

[oDDity]

Yes, it's nice, but I'd prefer if you took the screenshots in doom so we can see them in-game. The specular in the leaves seems to be painted into the texture.

[Fingernail]

... I'm sure that is ingame

 

???

[BlackThief]

that's actually ingame. I took the screenshot out of the 3d window in d3 radiant.

 

here's the texture - there are some highlights, but the specularity actually comes from the specular map.

[sparhawk]

Wow! Looks pretty impressive.

[Darkness_Falls]

That looks great! I love it.

[Dram]

very nice

[Domarius]

Yes, very nice. No critisisms. Looks nice and low-poly I did recognise it as being in game instantly (I assume it was the lack of anti-aliasing at the edges and just the overall lighting), don't know why oDDity thought it wasn't.

[Darkness_Falls]

In looking at it again, I think the only crit I have is that the 3 flowers are all on nearly the same horizontal plane and the flower faces appear to have the same vertical tilt (perpendicular to each respective stem). Maybe the horizontal plane thing is typical of orchids, I dunno? But to look more natural, I think one of them should maybe droop down a tad -- to randomize the vertical tilt a bit. That's only a minor crit.

[BlackThief]

loot bowl - I don't have the time to update CVS atm, so I'll upload it with all the other stuff when I'm back home in a week:

[PinkDot]

Very, very good! If T: DS had such beautiful loot-objects they wouldn't even think of loot glint...

[sparhawk]

Yeah, really! It is quite obvious which is loot and which are not and they did this fine in T1/T2 as well.

[Darkness_Falls]

Wow, those look really cool! Are they boths supposed to be valuable loot objects? Or is just gold supposed to be loot? Only asking because early on, we decided to add a little more specular sheen to objects (or most objects) that are supposed to be loot. This way they would stand out just a little more than just using color differentiation. I might be wrong, but both of the examples above look as though they have the same specular settings. Just thought I'd mention. Since they both have such exquisite appearance, and the silver's specular is comparable to gold's, so they both look valuable to me and I'd expect I could take both for loot

 

Having added specular sheen to loot objects would help loot come in different colors, including silver -- not just gold.

 

PS: I don't know if 'speculars' is the right word. Regardless, here was the previous conversation on it, for quick reference. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?s=&am...post&p=4249

 

I know you know what you're doing, BlackThief. Your objects look great and you participated in those past conversations; so you're probably 'on it' already

[Ishtvan]

I would guess that they're both loot items but the gold one is more valuable than silver (unless the mapper decides that in the current economy, silver is more valuable than gold and changes the loot values )