StrangeFate

HIPOLY	Homeless Models.
Statute inspired on the Winged Victory. The hair is still missing. Wips of the winged Victory Statue. A statue mixed with a futuristic Art Deco piece... had to be done quick. Subway Train WIP
LOWPOLY
07/2004 ~2000 triangles. Warhammer 40k Sororita sister of battle. 07/2004 Painted skin for the Sororita model. 05/04/2002 - 2692 triangles his was done for Dungeon Siege and was supposed to be hovering connected with bridges. By the time they had released the mod tools i had moved on.

MISC NEXT-GEN ENVIRO PROPS	This is a small ingame testscene with a collection of facades, broken down by detail into foreground, middleground and background Buildings. Followed by some of the textured props and their hipoly parts. Most buildings didn't get a full hipoly version, only the detailed parts were modeled in hipoly. Note: The 1 pavement texture on the ground wasn't done by me.
Ingame Testscene Ingame Testscene Ingame Testscene The doors are rather unfitting but i ran out of time! Ingame Testscene Ingame Testscene Ingame Testscene Ingame Testscene Ingame Testscene Wires and Textures Wires and Textures Hipoly Wires, Textures and hipoly Wires and textures

BEFORE AND AFTERS

I set quality standards and made the first art style guides to define the look, feel and architectural style of the main areas.
By the end of development i had done about 40% of all the world textures in the game and around 25-30% of the architecture.

This image shows Dark Sector before and after I took over environments. The lower half of the screenshot shows Dark Sector as it was coming along (not my work).
The upper half (minus the car, lamps, tree and manhole) was what I managed to do withing a month, the time available to make an art style guide. The screenshot itself was taken at a later time, when stencil shadows were replaced by lightmaps etc.
I laid down the quality standards and techniques used, trained the other artists on how use them and helped them as best as I could within the time left to gain a better grasp for building architecture and creating interesting areas.
We couldn't affort making a custom texture for every building but I still wanted a rich amount of trims and decorations.
With the help of the programmers to write the basic shaders, this is what we ended up with.
An encounter before meeting me.
The encounter after a week of work.
The gameplay didn't have to change, the spaces, paths etc remain exactly the same in the new layout.
Also, all pieces are modular so the bridge, walls, industrial buildings etc can be expanded and reused.
After a week in the game engine.
The architectural geometry is all done from scratch plus, reusing doors/windows/props I had already done.
Not all textures in this encounter were done by me.
Did the train wagon too

TEXTURES

For textures and some of the custom skins (where it made sense), I painted heightmaps with stones and the larger details that the engine would combine with the normalmaps during preprocessing, giving the final normalmap a much deeper and correct feel.

Random textures applied to buildings to show the depth of the painted normalmaps. The same heightmaps can be used to create self occluding normalmaps, which are the latest cool technology to have in games!
Random textures applied to buildings to show the depth of the painted normalmaps. The same heightmaps can be used to create self occluding normalmaps, which are the latest cool technology to have in games!
Random textures applied to buildings to show the depth of the painted normalmaps. The same heightmaps can be used to create self occluding normalmaps, which are the latest cool technology to have in games!
Random textures applied to buildings to show the depth of the painted normalmaps. The same heightmaps can be used to create self occluding normalmaps, which are the latest cool technology to have in games!

One of the few areas I could afford to spend some time into
For most textures i painted additional bumpmaps/heightmaps enhancing the depth of cracks, damage and other details. The engine would then merge these painted maps with the normalmaps during pre-processing.
These details were made so that they could double as balcony supports on other buildings.
A torch that had fire in the game, used for puzzle gameplay.
Centerpiece fountain
A victim of the frequent design changes.
I love doing doors... I'm not quite sure why but i believe it's because they're a simple contained surface waiting to be detailed that commonly gets a respectable amount of texture space.
Ingame
Some of the door Textures.
Dark Sector had crouching and standing cover which required simple boxy objects with proper heights.
Textures
Some random architecture (models and textures) I did for Darksector inside a test scene in the editor.
A Private school yard
Set of Lego wall pieces
Set of Lego wall pieces
Set of Lego wall pieces
Set of Lego wall pieces

Ingame
The low poly went through too many hands before it was given to me to make the hipoly and final lowpoly of whatever i could come up with.
It was supposed to feel like a locomotive. Didn't have time to detail the lower side of it, but it wasn't seen in the cinematic anyway.
A small palm sized drone
The hero's small stealth ship, and my first ever hipoly model.
They were broken down into metal panels that I could combine to form any required shape and intersection.
They were broken down into metal panels that I could combine to form any required shape and intersection.
The different pannels that made up the catwalks
Your average SciFi computer/server thing.
Your average SciFi computer/server thing, ingame
Pannels used to build floors etc.
Personal computers didn't get very personal in the future.

Around 2000, DarkSector was to be an MMO.
Around 2003, a Singleplayer SciFi game.These are some of the models I did back then.