Of course, the sensible thing would be to use an existing game engine, but after a certain point, there is some curiosity if learning and fighting yet another game engine is really quicker that just writing something from scratch.
Decided to get some more texture practice by making this headset which has many different material types.
The design is based on Razor's Man O' Wars.
Had fun making it and learnt a lot on the way.
Feeedback is most welcome.
Textures made on one 4K map and headset is 6450 tris
In my first and previous post in this game dev log entry, I had written that I wanted to do a game which was a collection of simple retro games. Unity released a new major release (2019.3) while I was putting the initial project together, and I was curious to see if one of my prototypes from 4 years ago could easily be upgraded from it. Well, it couldn't, not easily. It was a 2D platformer that implemented some useful but old scripts that were now causing errors because of deprecated code. Some…
A sci-fi Scene I created from scratch, Had a lot of fun creating it. assets modelled in Maya and textured in substance painter. then the scene was put together and lit in Unreal engine 4.