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@HelderHP
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After taking part of
@NintendoAmerica
#IndieWorld
today,
@EuropaGame
demo is now playable on the Nintendo Switch eShop, go check it out! 😁 🎮
We also dropped a new trailer, showcasing new areas and more glimpses at gameplay, running on the Switch. 🦋
We just announced some exciting news: Europa is coming to Nintendo Switch!!! ✨✨✨
And not only that, but there’s a Switch demo you can play RIGHT NOW 💖
➡️
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- No normal maps
- No specularity
- No reflections
- No transparency (except for rare 1bit alpha in grates, etc)
- No real time lighting (all baked radiosity lightmaps)
- No exponential fog
- No Post Processing
- No SSR / SSAO
- No 3rd party geo. (All editor authored BSP)
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My home town of Porto (Portugal) in Source2. Making my own VR environment where I could walk around is so much more immersive.
I did this back in the quarantine months of last year, we couldn't travels so homesickness struck hard.
Download and play in VR:
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blockout vs final
Blockout vs Final Render. Work for Wolfenstein New Colossus, I did it from level design till final art.
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Today I finally get to share some of the work I've been doing on Overwatch 2!
This is Monte Carlo map.
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Today we've launched a free playable demo of
@EuropaGame
and a new trailer!
The demo teases some of the game's systems, story, music, narration and answers some questions about what the game is all about.
Go on Steam right now to play it, and Wishlist!
🦋HUGE NEWS🦋
We just released a demo for our adventure game Europa. Get it now on Steam, full game is coming 2024!
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Seeing
@YohIchi_N
work in real time was so humbling and inspiring! This is pure magic coming together at the tip of a brush.
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Couldn't let the month of October end without contributing something to
#Blocktober
This is Overwatch - Castillo :)
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Repost, because lighting is still the most underrated aspect of environmental art.
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Night version of Porto (Portugal) in Source2.
Download and play in VR:
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Found a couple of old GIFs showing a few of the tricks I'm using for
@EuropaGame
, nothing fancy but less is more.
Scalable floor pieces. Keeps UV's intact for the base layers but top layer scales along with the model, allowing to retain big gradients and reducing instance count.
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In architecture school they teach: One centimeter on the floor, is 10 centimeters on the wall is a meter on the ceiling.
Same thing in game environments, people tend to look either forward or slightly down when playing games.
This knowledge is pretty useful when detailing your
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I should be working on my
#UE4
Blueprints scripting, but this is so satisfying.
Painting 3 layer masked blended terrain materials, working with a tri-planar material that auto applies itself to slopes for fast results!
@EuropaGame
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Not my very first digital art, but one of the first takes I did for
@EuropaGame
years ago. 🏠
YOU, DIGITAL ARTIST.
SHOW ME YOUR VERY FIRST DIGITAL ART AND YOUR SKILLS NOW!
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Happy
#PortfolioDay
!
Helder here, a Portuguese dude who really freaking loves video game environments and environment storytelling.
World art is what allows immersion to take place in games, it transports players into alternative universes in a way movies can't even dream
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When you're blocking out your map and forget to place your scale reference humanoid model.
Oldest Bronze Door (115 AD); still in use in Pantheon, Rome, Italy. This door cast in bronze for Emperor Hadrian (76-138 AD) rebuilding, dated about 115 AD.
This large bronze doors to cella, measuring 4.45m wide by 7.53m high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled
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Can never get enough of
#PortfolioDay
!
From me, only personal work this time around.
I love exploring visual and environment storytelling in video games.
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We're looking for a talented Environment Artist to join us on the Overwatch team.
We're a close-knit team and love creating vibrant and inspiring 3D worlds, if you share the same passion and have past experience with environments/levels to show, apply here
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Throwback to some of the work I did for OW2
Blockout VS Final
(I miss that team, much love to all of you <3)
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Pretty amazing!
#leveldesign
I wish more oldschool gamedevs did this, it's one of the ways we can make sure that classic lessons are not forgotten.
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New
@PlayOverwatch
Control point map out on PTR today, set in Busan, Korea!
Each 3 points feature a different distinct theme: City, Temple and MEKA Base. The design of each point should feel very different with varying environment hazards and vertical elements. Go check it out!
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3 mat vertex painting, useful to hide seams. (Hard edges are bad in stylized art directions)
Same as the floor piece, it has a top layer painted on top of all, allowing each instance to have a "painted on" surface, since AO bakes usually gives you a very "mathematical" look.
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Teaser video of my side project
@EuropaGame
.
One of my biggest inspirations being the miracle of life and consciousness. My baby boy was born earlier today and I primarily made this video for him. :)
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A brief blog post on the making of the latest push map in Esperança, Portugal! 🇵🇹
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Man... the first
@dishonored
(2012) still has one of the best materials and lighting of any stylized game that I can think of. Not bad for a PS3 game.
The consistency of the art direction, from the characters all the way to the textures is spot on.
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Shipping a game is always an emotional process, it takes loads of (vfx) blood, sweat and sometimes even tears to see it through the end.
I'm so incredibly proud of the
@PlayOverwatch
team for puling it together and finally releasing OW2! Go check it out for free on all platforms!
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Yep, one of most powerful tricks in game art.
It's fast, iteration friendly, looks sharp, hides hard edges and seams, saves on texture memory and drastically reduces the need to bake HP/LP normals from your workflow.
Learn how you can add variety and detail to your
#UE4
environments by using Mesh Decals for non-planar surfaces. Visit our documentation page for more information:
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UE4 Stylized Environment
Love how dynamic this feels!
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#ArtStationDay
is so badass and inspiring, post the goods artists!
#Art
#ArtStationHQ
#Artist
#DigitalArt
@ArtStationHQ
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Gamers in 2017 be like:
"I'm getting a $500 Graphics card but I'll run my games at low settings because 250fps"
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This is so dope, an actual reusable spaceplane designed to resupply space stations with misc cargo.
Takes me back to when we worked on the OW Gibraltar base map, I tried to sort of imagine a design for what a Space Shuttle 2.0 could look & feel like.
You could play around it,
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@EuropaGame
And to wrap this update, this is what it looks like with a quick set dressing pass.
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A word of caution to fellow artists who spend a lot of their time browsing through art communities:
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to what another artist is today.
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I was organizing my cabinet and found my original copy of HL2.
I remember being a broke student having to ask my mom 60 bucks to get it.
"Mom, this is an investment, I'll learn to make 3D for this new game!"
And with much struggle, she did, and boy was I right.
It's easy to
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I was thinking about about environment storytelling in games and Adam's apartment in DX Human Revolution is a masterclass. It's the best "show, don't tell" example I've ever seen in a video game.
Just walking and looking around gives the player so much insight on who he is as a
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@GmanLives
Quake 3 was doing it before it was cool bruh.
Funny, I was just looking at Q3 character roster the other day, it's glorious.
(It's missing bones, which is preposterous)
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UDK Arbor Vitae level and package release:
http://t.co/DL3YITfGKe
Sorry for the long everybody, have fun!
http://t.co/JvRFw20Fdp
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It really is a shame that traditional hand-drawn animation techniques disapeared almost entirely from animated movies.
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For rocks you don't need many assets if you also layer maps.
I retain the world scale UV's for the surface texture, and only local scale the NM, Cavity and AO, this rock asset works virtually with any scale.
This also pairs well with vertical axis projection to add veg on top.
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One thing I want to avoid is a busy read, specially on assets that are far away.
For this, I specify a different UV tile value for the surface texture as the camera closes in on the asset, handy to control texel density.
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@cintavu
Thank you!
Once I finish the project I've vowed to do some decent and comprehensive breakdowns of all the techniques, some are pretty mainstream, others a bit more obscure and a few borderline hacky.
To condense it down on the foliage shader however, it's important to always
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@bpoppenheimer
I forget which of the ancient stoic texts mentioned this, was either Aurelius or Seneca, but they both teach that worrying for future pain is hurting twice. Hurts right now, and when (if) you finally face it.
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"If you see this, post some of your materials!" 🎨🖌️
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I just realized the
@EuropaGame
screenshots above were old and also I never took the time to take HD screenshots of some of the areas in the teaser trailer, so here we go:
#PortfolioDay
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@Brad_Glasgow
Celebrating someone's death because that person leans farther to the other side of your political compass is an absolutely atrocious and disgusting thing to do. And indeed the fact that that's not being talked about does show the echo chamber that we find ourselves in.
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This is absolutely nuts,
@EuropaGame
just hit 200k wishlists on Steam alone!
I could not be more thankful for the support!
We'll make sure to meet your expectations. 🦋💖
✨ AMAZING NEWS ✨
Europa has reached 𝟐𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 wishlists on Steam!!!!
This wouldn't be possible without your support. Thank you for believing in our small team and for your excitement over the journey we're crafting for you. 💖
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For the first time since I teased
@EuropaGame
back in 2018, today is the day to finally show some more!
Tune in to
@_wholesomegames
presentation and follow
@EuropaGame
for more! 🔥
A very exciting day ahead… 🌙
Keep your eyes peeled for something special in the
@_wholesomegames
Wholesome Snack:
#TheGameAwards
Edition - kicking off in 1 hour!
More info
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#PortfolioDay
again huh?
Loving all the art being shared! MOAR!!1
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Every now and again you get to work on something you're particularly proud of, Junkertown is definitely it for me!
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How it started, how it's going!
Check out
@EuropaGame
for more. 🦋💫
#indiegame
#IndieGameDev
#gamedev
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Out of all of the things you're required to know and have to do in game development, the one that fascinates me the most is, performance!
Paying attention to low, medium and console specs is very important. We're currently doing a heavy performance pass on Europa, and I'm paying
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Check out Sam's project, beautiful result! Amazing talent.
special thanks to
@HelderHP
.I am fortunate to have him as my environment art adviser all the way since the block-out. He helped me to see a lot of things that I couldn't have noticed.
@EuropaGame
was also what inspired me to committed to this art direction.
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GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 was developed by only nine people, eight of which had never worked on a game before.
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Thanks for the love everyone, stay tuned for more media soon!
Selfie while WFH:
Overwatch 2 anunciou o mapa ‘Portugal’ com o Castelo de São Jorge como cenário.
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Never been a fan of brutalism, but this hits the spot.
I know, for most of you, it's not beautiful, but I find this view spectacular...
[Telecommunications Center Skopje, built 1972-74]
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Reminder that my bro
@thiagoklafke
made what is likely the most complete Level Design and Environment Art course out there, check it out regardless of where you are in your game art journey.
I mean, seriously it's worthy for that sexy Brazilian accent alone.
🎨 Quick tip for more pleasant compositions: Clump props together in little pockets instead of placing them randomly or evenly throughout an environment. Will help make things look more natural and easier to read.
Excerpt from "Environment Art Mastery"
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Man this was great, they recreated the spawn room of Route 66 irl at blizzcon. You can order food and drinks there too.
Loved the attention to detail and respect to our source material. The set dressing, props and textures, including the floor decals are the same as the map. :D
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Game artists, think Y axis being up is weird?
Try explaining someone why uv1 is actually uv0, or why inverting the green channel is actually correct normal orientation.
Or even better, why the roughness is white for full rough, and black for full smooth.
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We're getting really useful feedback on
@EuropaGame
Switch demol
Of the things people mentioned was input lag, no wonder the input lag was +140ms! Working on a patch that should bring that to half.
A lot of good feedback to keep in mind as we optimize the game to look and
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#MaxPayne
turned 20 years, a couple months after it released I started making maps with it's built in editor, MaxEd.
As a impressionable teen this game basically launched my career and my love for environment storytelling in games and I couldn't be more thankful to
@remedygames
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Gamers, it's time for you to do what you do best!
Seriously, stay safe and wash your hands.
This too, shall pass.
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Found an old video (~2019) trying to figure out a Z facing blob shadow for
@EuropaGame
Blob shadow is a trick platformers use to make platforming a little easier, helps players get a better sense of depth.
Ps. This is a very early version of the level from the demo.
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What the crafty environment artist does to that random cylinder the level designer placed on the blockout. 😜
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Environment Artist in 2008: Look at my 3 million polygon fire hydrant clay renders.
Environment Artist in 2018: Look at my sphere materials!
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