Drail - RPG Boss

[Simon]

Here's another character for my game. It is about half and half Curvy maps and mesh sculpting - with the mesh sculpts made out of of merged lathes.

The trickiest bit was the shoulder guard, which I made by subtracting two lathes from a disc shape - first to make it hollow, then to cut it in half.



Rendered in Experimental Rendering Engine.

Creature Concept by Mack Sztaba.

[Mr.Nemo]

Wow! Very impressive! I like the experimental rendering engine you've used on this.

[mykyl]

Really starting to show Curvy's potential there.

Mike

[Simon]

It has got me really wanting adaptive subdivision in Curvy. A typical body part like the torso or upper arm has about 50,000 tris but I think I could get a lot more detail out of 20,000 tris + adaptive sub-d.

It also made me realise that the depth and forms are much better expressed in 2D when rendered with soft shadows.

The third thing I realised is that it would be good to have a lighting designer in Curvy so you are not limited to the few lightmaps that ship with it.

[Simon]

Updated the lighting on this one:



here is the old version:

[inac]

Wow - which experimental rendering engine?

[Simon]

It's something I'm building for this game. It's a mixture of global-illumination and non-photorealistic rendering tricks.

[mykyl]

I really love the lighting on these models.

Mike

[Simon]

I am very keen on subsurface scattering effects at the moment - it seems to be one big thing missing from game shaders. It takes quite a lot of processing to do accurately but getting a fake version working in realtime is possible. The effect here used a lot of post processing - effectively blurring the diffuse lighting and leaving the specular lighting sharp.