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Anonymous01/01/26, 13:54No.1024052How were these assets made?
Recently found this game on steam. nevermind the gameplay, music etc., it's all shit.
But what stood out to me is the art. How is this feasible with just a 2 person team?
Doesn't seem feasible to me, so i assume that these models and textures weren't all modeled and painted by the creators of this game, but if not, then how would you do this?
I took a close look at the textures, and for example, if you look at a barrel, the individual nails in the wood are all shaded slightly different, which leads me to believe that all of these textures are downsampled from something else somehow, maybe even from photos. But if we suppose that these are all ue marketplace assets that were simply crushed to lower poly and texture resolution, how would you do that and how would you combine all that into a unified art style and avoid the typical asset flip look? There are also some assets like in the next picture where a generic rock or moss photo texture wouldn't really work, because of how it wraps around the 3rd model as if they were created for it, but surely not?
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Anon01/01/26, 13:56No.1024053
Looking at the edges of each face on this asset for example, it doesn't really seem like a texture that someone would handpaint like that.
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Anon01/01/26, 14:05No.1024055
Lots of diversity in the assets so it's hard to believe they were all handcrafted.
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Anon01/01/26, 14:12No.1024056
Also, the UI (the actual menus and stuff) in this demo are absolutely horrendous looking which further makes it hard to believe that anyone with any actual artistic ability worked on this.
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Anon01/01/26, 14:16No.1024057
As I see it You are looking at old school modeling approach. Threes are simple model You need make only one or two and then just rotate it to look random. crate is same arch too nothing hard angel and winged creatures was most probably most difficult if they do not pull it from some asset shop as you have said Nothing heavy detailed in this scene Doors looks to be high or bump map Scene is like from 2000-2005 ish PC game First Nvidia cards .It exactly look like project from 2 people Nothing crazy for today standards.
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Anon01/01/26, 14:30No.1024059
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Anon01/01/26, 17:03No.1024066
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Anon01/01/26, 17:45No.1024067
A good texture artist is all it takes. There's no basis in your assertion that it doesn't seem feasible
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Anon01/02/26, 01:16No.1024088
Looks like processing the scenes is adding a lot to the effect. It's not just the textures. Why not rip them?
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Anon01/02/26, 01:18No.1024089
Also what's the name of the game you fucking retard
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Anon01/03/26, 04:04No.1024140
Asset store probably. I saw some janky Mixamo animated one person games that looked AAA at first glance. Lightning and post processing can do lot of heavy lifting.
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Anon01/03/26, 11:30No.1024155
Maybe these can help? I think there are better ways to extract them from an unreal game but I just used ninjaripper
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Anon01/03/26, 11:36No.1024156
Some more
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Anon01/03/26, 11:37No.1024157
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Anon01/05/26, 22:21No.1024259
Box modeled
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Anon01/05/26, 22:26No.1024260
>i assume that these models and textures weren't all modeled and painted by the creators of this game
One of them's an environment artist professionally so yeah they were
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Anon01/07/26, 12:44No.1024330
>Doesn't seem feasible to me
That's why they made a video game while you're here complaining about stupid shit because you're stupid and don't know how to create things.
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Anon01/08/26, 02:41No.1024357
I don't want to say I definitely know how they're done, but I'm a 2D artist, and I could probably produce similar results. In photoshop, I would use the pencil brush, because it doesn't have anti aliasing. It's all hard pixelated edges. Some programs refer to this tool as the "binary" brush. Because the lack of anti-aliasing means there are no steps inbetween the color you're drawing with, and whatever is already on the camera. Essentially, pixels are being turned off or on, in a binary fashion.With the pencil brush, I would set it to "dissolve" and turn on transparency controlled by pen pressure. What dissolve does, is it created a bunch of holes inside of the brush tip that correlate to transparency. So by enabling dissolve, I'm essentially telling the tool to create hard edged pixels, instead of transparency, and I control the level of "holes", by how much pressure I put on the pen.
Light pressure = high transparency = greater holes. More empty
Heavy pressure = low transparency = lesser holes. More solidThis brush essentially creates a bunch of pixel grit. From here, I would lay down a dark base color. Let's say I'm working on that greenish brick work. I would fill the work space with a dark green first. And then choose a different hue, and randomly brush over with the pixel grit brush to create a bunch of random detail. Then choosing a lighter color, to draw a lighter area with the pixel grit brush. However, keeping in mind where light and shadows should fall, these brushstrokes are less random, but the pixel grit still adds a level of random detail. Then again, choosing a different hue, and touching up the lighter area randomly to create detail. Building up the texture like that, layer by layer, until it appears done.They could be using photos, and simply editing their color, in order to get that effect. But I can't really tell with my eyes alone. I'd have to see their process to really know.
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Anon01/09/26, 04:36No.1024407
They likely used a library of real-world photos (moss, bark, stone, wood planks).
Then downsampling to 256x256 or 128x128 to retain the "high-frequency" detail (like the shading on individual nail heads) but in a pixelated form.Then they applied a global color palette or a LUT.
By adjusting the contrast, saturation, and brightness of every texture to match a specific color range
they force assets to look like they belong in the same world.Regarding how the textures wrap perfectly around models (like the moss):
They don't just "slap" a photo on.
They use UV mapping to project specific parts of a photo onto specific parts of the 3D model.
Then "paint" over the seams or highlights
This allows them to blend a generic rock texture with custom moss growth that follows the shape of that specific model.
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Anon01/10/26, 04:33No.1024444
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Anon01/11/26, 10:16No.1024483
testing 60 fps
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Anon01/11/26, 10:27No.1024484
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Anon01/11/26, 23:16No.1024513
Hohohoho, that's the spirit, kiddo!
I love that you're so passionate about the craft that you're calling it wizardry now.
In this 3DCG circle, we don't discriminate against people who suck dick.
Keep sucking.
I'm just happy to help you see the light.
You're definitely going to reach all your digital goals with that magical enthusiasm. Keep shining!
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Anon01/11/26, 23:33No.1024524
Prior to pbr a lot of artists would do high res scupts and use a world or object space normal map to extract details they would turn into color detail. This is one method I learned right before I had to forget it and learn how to do pbr
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Anon01/12/26, 18:24No.1024537
A thread of clueless archeologists trying to reverse engineer some slop you can make in Substance in like 5 minutes.
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Anon01/18/26, 14:16No.1024733
I gave the game a shot, it looks quite nice but the game felt like a bit of drag. It's really the pixels that are masking a lot of it. It's all photo referenced i'm guessing (or substance) then it's just creative use of trims and the like, its pretty old school.
