The Freedom Fighter (Tech demo)

LoipesMas

Looking good! Did you make the models and (previous) textures yourself? If so, what's your pipeline?

MikeCL

LoipesMas Hey! Yes.. it's all done by me 🙂.

Nothing too fancy, really. Back then these were the steps

Fast rough design sketch of character / illustration
Design sculpture in Zbrush
Retopology and modeling in 3D Studio max
Base color texture for head in Zbrush
Texture for rest and final textures in Photoshop
Hair/Fur system for the beard, eyebrows and eyelashes
Riging, pose, shading, lighting and rendering in 3D Studio Max with Mental Ray renderer.

For the skin shader, a subdermal, diffuse, epidermal, spec & gloss map as well as a secondary spec map was used for the top oily layer of the skin.
For the rest, if I remember correctly as I lost the texture files, a spec map and gloss map together with the regular color texture. (Back then PBR materials wasn't really a thing yet 😛 ) But I could be remembering wrong here. It's been a while.
The "energy" visor was just an emitting painted texture
and displacement maps for bigger sculpted details combined with normal maps for more high frequency details

LoipesMas

Thanks for the insight! I'm only now getting more seriously into 3D graphics and it's not going too great 😅 . Hopefully I'll post something soon 🤞

MikeCL

LoipesMas That's cool! I'm sure it's going to go fine, just need some patience and practice.

The pipeline/workflow I described was not optimized for games though. That was more done for rendering (vfx, animated film, high res still image etc) and not realtime. So I'm redoing some of the stuff to be optimized for realtime rendering this time around.

Looking forward to seeing your projects when you are ready🙂.

MikeCL

Progress has been slow as the forum has taken up most of my time lately. But here's a test on flying through space/nebulas for the background reveal shot. Captured in the engine.

This is all done with shaders.

xyz

MikeCL Nice. It's not all procedural I hope 😉

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