Environmental Game Asset

Environmental Game Asset
EGD235 - 3D modeling: Assignment two.
Spring 2009 – Second Semester, sophomore year

This assignment was pretty cool, and really tested our artistic abilities. This assignment challenged us to re-create an Unreal Tournament 3 modular asset. We had to find two modular assets in unreal, like a wall and a wall with a door. We had to study the model and its wireframe in Unreal, and then re-model its basic shape in maya. The teacher really wanted us to put a different texture on the model, so it wouldn’t match exactly, and I thought it would be cool to make an Art Deco styled asset (was thinking about Bioshock at the time). Unfortunately for me, I didn’t take advantage of Xnormal. For some stupid reason, I assumed Xnormal was meant for organic styled models, I don’t know why. Also, you’ll notice that the texture looks like crap. Again, out of my stupidity I decided not to use royalty free textures, like the ones on CGTextures.com. I used my own and edited the crap out of them in photoshop. The yellow-orange color is supposed to be gold. I should have studied the models in unreal that had a gold material applied to them and see if I could duplicate it in mine, I’m sure it would have made my project a tad bit better.