Environment Forge

02_Къде се използва 3д Студио Макс,Програми за създаване/редактиране на игри

2010-11-24T14:08:00.000-08:00

02_Where_how_used from Kris Kirov on Vimeo.

01_Какво е 3д Студио Макс

2010-11-24T14:03:00.000-08:00

01_What_is_3ds_Max from Kris Kirov on Vimeo.

00_Въведение

2010-11-24T13:50:00.000-08:00

Intro from Kris Kirov on Vimeo.

Normal Map Issue

2010-07-02T11:41:00.000-07:00

This is a video about a Normal Map Issue I recently encountered.
It describes inproper normal map generation , why it occurs , and how to fix it.
I really hope you find it useful -> watch in Vimeo for HD resolution.
Don't forget to post feedback , comments , even suggestions on videos you'd like to see!

Normal Map Issue from Kris Kirov on Vimeo.

Fence

2010-06-29T02:27:00.000-07:00

A fence , as good as a piece of RPG environment.A different thing this time is that all the fence pieces are separate models and they share the same diffuse and normal map.I had some unusual normal map problems this time , I had to use a fixing method.There must be a tutorial just to show how to handle such problems with normal map generation and I think of recording one soon.I used my previous mushroom and alpha grass models.
Had to disable Ambient Occlusion this time too because of some bug , but this might be because of a clash between the shader build in "Half Lambert Shading" option , since it affects only the real-time shaded models.Anyway the Lambert shading works quite the same way as the AO. So here is my fence composition

Gravestone

2010-06-27T05:32:00.001-07:00

A great source of inspiration happened to be a celtic gravestone.
This time i had some problems dealing with the texture that was extracted from Mudbox , it was jagged , destroyed and in term - unusable.I had to edit it in Photoshop entirely.but I think that in the end it turned to be a good model , have a look at it:

Mushrooms

2010-06-24T09:00:00.000-07:00

Today is a great day , creative and successful ! Today's topic was a decorations set , which i imagined as a set of mushrooms and some grass around them.And so I did.
Here is the scene.I had to disable AO because some bug occured.Here are the screenshots:

Procedural Stone 2

2010-06-23T13:10:00.000-07:00

This time with a bit more experienced hand and feedback from critics I tried to redo an old work of mine.A procedural stone with hand merged and edited textures , forged in 3ds MAX and painted in Mudbox.I think it is a good shot.

Bridge

2010-06-23T00:43:00.000-07:00

One of the things that inspire me the most are bridges.The following footage shows a high-res model of the bridge i modeled last night:

These are screenshots of the low-res model , real-time shaded:

Despite the fact it looks blocky , I think that a UDK shader would boost up the quality and make it look like just as good as the high-res model.

Column

2010-06-21T13:43:00.000-07:00

Today was a long day , I had my inspiration turned into creation thanks to the Risen world:
Here is a low-poly model , real-time shaded , of a column I made today.I used the Xoliul shader which you can get from http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader.It works great , this i can say as an user.

Planks

2010-05-12T05:42:00.000-07:00

These are high-poly planks meant to be a part of a chest.The base 6 poly model was made in 3ds max,then in mudbox it was sculpted ,painted and additionally decorated.Originally inspired by
Sascha Henrichs's chest model.

A Procedural Stone

2010-05-08T06:54:00.000-07:00

These are renders of a procedural stone made with 3ds max , sculpted with mudbox.Its texture is a remake of a Gothic 2 cave texture.
Special thanks to Sascha Henrichs for his great , unique and precious tutorials !
Visit his blog at http://saschahenrichs.blogspot.com/