Major update! after some talk with a few people, I’ve greatly increased the functionality of my level. It’s got a story now (will tell you later in the post), and it’s in a much more visually pleasing layout.

This is a new space station under construction still. The bridge commander over looks everything from his command post in the bridge of the ship the “Shadow Base GO!”. Behind him is the airlock, decontamination area, and space suit assembly. In front of him is the main viewing window so that he, and the pilot, know where to maneuver the ship. To the right is the power core and engine room.

Now for some pictures:

Still have a lot of work to do, but I’m finally out of a rut and doing something interesting.

Shadow base GO! does still exist. its been a busy week at work, didn’t have as much free time or sleep as I would have liked!

BUT! Here’s some new shtuff.

Just a quickie post for some texture progress.

That is all.

This has been the only thing slowing me up. I can’t just do what’s in the concept as it’s all just green and lighter green. I can’t do real metal colors, it looks extra grey and boring. even with accents (see below). So here’s been the progress of getting these assets up to snuff.

Here’s the extra grey version I was talking about. At this point, I’ve very quickly determined it needed the orange paint accents to avoid being completely washed out. Imagine a whole room of grey models. Sucks for you if you actually did that.

More grey:

Trying different paint schemes. Some work better than others. And by that, I mean the green one didn’t work.

This is where I’m at now.

The reason for the white is, it was suggested by a friend that doing just plain metal was “good enough for what you are doing, but doesn’t make me say ‘wow.'” Then shortly after asking several other colleagues what they thought, one dropped screens from the movie “Moon” with Sam Rockwell on my lap:


and basically said “make that.” So previous screens are the result of a first pass on the white sci fi look. There is a lot of work to be done.

Time to screen dump some progress on your eyeballs.

Here’s some variations on a that main corner console:

And some progress shots of the big ass console that’s acting as my test for things like shape language, color palette, texturing workflow, etc. etc.: