paperkat Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Position:3D Artist interested in whatever you wish to throw at me!Do you understand that Wildfire Games is a non-commercial project, work for 0 A.D. is volunteer, and work is done for free?YesDo you agree to distribute all your work for Wildfire Games under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license?YesName:WilliamEmail:williampryn"at"yahoo.comMSN Messenger:Newp but can create one if neededLocation:Sverige (But I'm English!)Availability:10-20/weekAge:32Occupation:3D Artist & StuntmanSkills and Experience:Programs: Maya, Cinema 4D, Zbrush, Photoshop, UDK, Unity3D Crazybump, XNormal.Skills: Concept work, Modelling, Sculpting, Texturing, Lighting, Animation, RiggingI have worked as a contract artist for a realtime visualisation company & teacher of 3D Art & Design.Motivation:Hobby & XP mainly. I stumbled upon this game when looking for game development companies and after joining the forums and snooping about a bit I really like the style and the feel of what is being made here. I decided on the spot that I would like to get involved.Personality:I've been told I'm friendly and open bloke Short Essay:To me nothing is more exciting than an interactive environment born from pure imagination, immersing yourself fully into that world and uncovering it's secrets. Being involved in the creation and development of this fantastical experience? Best job in the world.Interests and Hobbies:3D Artwork, illustration, reading, music, running blah blah blah... Staff:no Favorite Game:World of Warcraft (sorry everyone! I'm one of THOSE!)Fable SagaZelda (But of course!!!)Command & ConquerDiablo sagaWork Examples: Portfolio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumo Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Welcome William! Your portfolio looks very promising . Someone from the art department will get in touch with you shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrique Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Hello William! Welcome to the forums!Impressive portfolio & skills! Thanks for your application .What would be your primary interest modelling? Nature/organic, hardsurface/buildings?We're currently finishing Mauryan units and buildings, and we will work on Ptolemies (Hellenized Egypt) in the following months (lot of work will be available). But there's also a lot of flora/fauna/gaia assets to choose if you want.We have currently moved our Art department forum to public. Here you can see some ongoing progress lists our Art Dept Leader made (plenty of things to choose ):- Old list. (Everything is done except the last part: Gaia & eyecandy stuff http://www.wildfireg...showtopic=16220 )- Here's also the Mauryan progress thread: http://www.wildfireg...=0- We're also very interested in upgrading our unit meshes to have more detail and better deformations for animation. This thread is a little bit desorganized, but the last posts shows the current progress on new unit meshes and rig: http://www.wildfireg...00- Finally, if you're good at animating, our main interest would be animations. We have only one animator in our team and if we update unit meshes, we're going to need a lot of new animations.If you are interested, you can give a quick read of the Artists Design Document. It's old, and there are things outdated (like triangle count, etc) but there are other things that may be interesting:http://trac.wildfire...tDesignDocumentIf you want to take a look to some 3D assets currently in-game, you can open them in blender once you have downloaded the game, or downloading them from our SVN repo. Structural models: http://svn.wildfireg...hes/structural/And textures folder hereFeel free to ask here as many questions as you want as well as WIP images of your progress for the team and community to show/ask/review/suggest/critique Looking forward to work with you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperkat Posted January 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Hi there and thankyou for the warm welcome! I am much more of a hard surface modeller so props, buildings, vehicles etc would be my preference but I am absolutely happy to do scenic work and try my hand at characters aswell. Of course all the usual stuff (Uving, texturing etc) goes without saying.As far as animation is concerned I don't have much experience with character animation so probably won't be volunteering for any of those tasks.Gotta grab a copy of Blender & game for my workstation.After having a look at the pages you linked to me, I'm not really sure where to start! Perhaps you could suggest something for me and I can roll along with it?Looking forward to contributing and working with you all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrique Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 OK, then I'm going o suggest you to start with the merchant ship for the mauryans, http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17038Or if you prefer something bigger and more difficult you can give a try to the market: http://www.wildfireg...=20#entry261677I suggest you to take the merchant ship first, just to get used to the process of importing assets into the game to check for yourself the final result in the engine. But as always, your choice The software doesn't have to be blender. You can use whatever software you're comfortable working with, as long as it's able to export Collada format (.DAE) like Maya, Max3D and Blender Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperkat Posted January 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Well I like the look of both of them tbh! heheYeah I agree I will start with the boat first to get a feel for things. Maybe I will move onto the market afterwrds ^^Just a couple of questions:Polycount approx? 500?Texture maps? Just colour map? Are normal maps used?Do I need to do any lightmapping at all?I use Maya for my modelling and I'm used to using collada files no probs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrique Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Polycount is not set in stone, but something around 1000-1200 tris would be great. (Unless Mythos throws me to the dogs )Textures: Diffuse obviously, but the textures must be licensed under CC-BY-SA or similar (or in public domain).Here are two sites where all the textures are licensed that way:http://texturemate.com/http://agf81.deviantart.com/gallery/The engine support diffuse, specular, Ambient occlusion, and normal+parallax. (the parallax being the alpha channel of the normal map). Currently as far as I know, there are no ships with normal maps, and I don't really know if it's planned/supported on ships. We can make some tests if you're in the mood of doing them Some final notes:-The triangles are not double sided (the engine only renders the triangles where the normals are facing).-The ships/units/buildings must have some player color to know which player owns the unit. This is achieved by transparency on the texture. The more transparent, the more intense playercolor will show (you can do normal transparency too).- You have to remove all lights, cameras, materials, etc from the mesh before exporting to .dae- You have to triangulate the mesh if you work in quads before exporting. (no quads or ngons supported) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperkat Posted January 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 Ok cool will do!I better get ctracking then hadn't I! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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