Ah, no, I mean sea level in accordance with the map. The water will be the height the terrain is currently at, and the terrain will be in dipped and raised mounds; the front single and rear two platforms are going to have ramps or staircases that go to the sand, which is where those platforms' command posts will be located.

Oh wow. Never mind what I was talking about earlier. This map is going to have tons of atmosphere!

Water! Ramps! Sand mounds!

Whoa, that's looking great so far.

That looks great! You might wanna make the sandbars a bit less sharp edged though - sandbars don't usually have straight sides like that.

There's sadly nothing I can really do about it; Zero has such low-poly terrain, and each sand mound is one or two raised vertices.


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Hmm...I could model them...

Marth8880 wrote: EDIT:

Hmm...I could model them...

Do it! Do it!

Yeah, I think I will try and see what the output is like.

Beginning the texture of the Mantis; There's a slight UV bug that's getting fixed, after that hopefully it will be done by today.

Wow! The model is really faithful to the original. Great work!

The tiling on those rock walls is out-of-control. Use a much lower tile frequency and then use a detail texture to make it look better close-up.

Hmm, like this? Also, how would I go about using both a bump map and a detail map at the same time?

You can't. But I would still make the texture even less tiled than that. Perhaps a more Cliff-facey texture would be appropriate?

Cliff-facey? What do you mean?


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Hmm, I see... Alright, I'll look for something like that in my secret library.

You need to work on the texture of the barriers, looks untextured, and that's not looking good.

Hmm. While I don't think it looks that bad, I do agree with lephenix - adding some little details like scratches, dirt or lights or something would make them a bit less bland. Another thing which I think would be worth doing would be maybe rounding the top of the cliff models slightly. You can see the top cutting off abruptly in those pictures, and I personally don't think it looks totally realistic. It's not a major thing though, so it doesn't matter that much if you don't do it.

Also, I think that wall texture looks fine now. Scaling it any lower would just make it look blurry IMO.

Ohai.

Actual model;

Whoa, man, that looks fantastic! :O Now, for me to fix that UV problem...

Nice looking Mantis there RK.

Speaking of the Mantis...
I'm still hammering out the specular map in the lens, but other than that, RK did a fantastic job with this model and texture! Thanks, man!