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[Kyriakos]

Hello again, i used to post here for a little while some time ago.

I would like to showcase what i made from (mostly) concept art from 0 AD (the Greek set at least). You might recognize some of the buildings in this small scale



I am always looking for concept art for my 3d isometric rendered miniature creations. I recall this forum has a river of excellent art flowing, so i am happy to be back

Edited by Kyriakos, 11 April 2012 - 06:11 PM.

[feneur]

Cool. It's definitely a skill in its own right to be able to create objects that look good at that scale, so great work I say (And welcome back )

[Kyriakos]

feneur, on 11 April 2012 - 06:59 PM, said:

Cool. It's definitely a skill in its own right to be able to create objects that look good at that scale, so great work I say (And welcome back )

Glad to find you again

Yes, it is a different skill than making full 3d objects for 3d-environment in a game, since the latter have to have less details and more texture work. I on the contrary use basic textures, and carve the details with the polygon count rising. Maybe in the future i will try the other approach too, although since this is just a hobby to me i am not sure i will ever get to the point of producing stuff for full 3d games...

[Kyriakos]

Also, i had asked this before, the last time i was here, but wanted to make sure it still holds true:

Can i use graphic screens from 0 ad as concept art for my own 3d modeling? I make all models from nothing, but i need concept art, and from what i see 0 ad has a massive amount of excellent quality graphics

Also if there is any map of buildings anywhere (i am checking the screenshots page for the time being) it would REALLY help me create!

Edit: you may recognize these too, the hispanic dock and the greek fort

Edited by Kyriakos, 11 April 2012 - 08:49 PM.

[feneur]

For inspiration it's definitely fine, if you'd want to use the actual models/textures you'd have to follow the CC-BY-SA Creative Commons license, but not just to be inspired If you distribute the images anywhere it's appreciated if you would link to us/let people know where you were inspired though

For where to find images, well, the easiest way is probably to download the game and look at the buildings in Atlas (the scenario/map editor), but we have posted images of the buildings for different civs when a new civ is released at e.g. http://www.moddb.com...lpha-9#imagebox etc if you don't want to/can do that

[Kyriakos]

I always mention where i got the concept art from, in fact i just started a new thread over at the civIII forum to mention this place as a source of concept art of high level

Edited by Kyriakos, 11 April 2012 - 09:43 PM.

[feneur]

Cool, thanks

[Kyriakos]

Great

Btw this is how they look in a larger size:

Edited by Kyriakos, 12 April 2012 - 03:24 PM.

[feneur]

Cool. That building works at that size as well (can't say I'm a fan of the sky texture there though, but that's not the point of the image =) ). Thanks for sharing

[vts]

Nice! How many hours in paint?

[Pureon]

Hey nice work! Thanks for keeping us updated

[Kyriakos]

Thank you all

Btw this is a 3d model, it was not created in msPaint, although i edited some parts in paint

Also here is a new model i made, this is Mythos Ruler's Hellenic tower:

Edited by Kyriakos, 12 April 2012 - 06:54 PM.

[Pedro Falcão]

Welcome again, lad! And hey, i remember when you showed up last time. Nice work you did in these pics, FreeCiv would look much more awesome with a work like this! But, of course, i'm looking forward to see your talent put to good use for 0 A.D!

[Kyriakos]

Hi, and thank you for the welcome

Unfortunately i still use Bryce 6, which is crap for exporting models. Bryce 7 in theory could export to what 0 ad uses, but as usual it is crippled with bugs and essentially cannot export.
Moreover i am not sure if my models would look as good in larger scale, for i do not uv-map them; these are all directly applied textures i am using.

Maybe when i spend more time using 3dsmax (if i will that is) things will change.

0 AD looks amazing btw

[Wijitmaker]

Cool images! This reminds me of mod'ing AoK back in the days of sprites before 3D.

You should check out this thread: http://www.wildfireg...showtopic=15503

If you could talk someone into getting you at toggle for an isometric mode view in the game or atlas editor - you should do some quick screen captures and you would be way ahead of starting from scratch.

Like Erik mentioned - you should get into Atlas. Click those links in the table of contents.

[Kyriakos]

Thanks

The set view looks great, although i think too much effort would be wasted if it is permantently used (?) since so many artists (and programmers) secured a full 3d environment

Anyway, i moved on to a new style, and here is something that may seem familiar since a lot of the models were reconstructions of 0 AD concept art originals!

[Pureon]

Looks cool! It could almost be a campaign map for 0 A.D.

[Kyriakos]

Well if you are working on having campaign maps (or have them already) i am willing to help with static building gfx on them

Currently creating a High elven set:

[Pureon]

The Elven set is stunning

We are planning to have campaign maps - take a look here I can't remember if you tried to export a collada file from Bryce and import it into 0 A.D.?

[myconid]

Man, these are amazing. It reminds me of the art in Sierra's Caesar games that I used to play ages ago.

If Bryce can export these to .obj format, you could import them in Blender and convert to any format you like. Also, have you ever considered baking textures from your models?