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Resistance Retrubtion - TowerC
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Published: 2009-03-21 00:23:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 16798; Favourites: 173; Downloads: 324
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This is some early level-art work from Tower C - the 2nd to last level in the game of Resistance Retribution.The room in the first two images actually ended up cut from the final game because the level was over by 2 megs and we needed to shrink it down.... which was really lame, because that room looked awesome.
All of these are actually from like... 6 months ago, so there were alot of changes made before it was final. But I made this pic a while ago and am too lazy to run the level to take some new screenshots. Woo. Enjoy.
All rights reserved and belong to Sony SCEA (c) 2009 and all that fun stuff.
I modeled, textured, and did the lighting for about 90% of what you see. Some of the metal textures were re-used from other levels for consistency and such.
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that sucks that you had to cut part of the map out, i know how frustrating that can be. (i've done some map work as a hobby for some half-life mods (on my own) it's frustrating when you get this one part of the map finally finished only to find out it's just not gonna work (either game play or size))
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Visual style and texture placement is great, but damn, its pretty low poly even for the time. Can't blame ya there, tho.
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Haha - yeah, even as low poly as it is, it was still 2megs over our limit. (We had a 4meg limit on terrain size - ALL TERRAIN GEOMETRY AND TEXTURES IN 4MG! *dies*
So yeah - low poly. wooo. The joys of working on a PSP. haha.
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Holy shit, this was for the PSP? I though it was for the PS3.
DAMN.
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Ah -hehe. Nope. PSP. This is the PSP Resistance Game. Not Resistance 1 or 2 on the PS3.
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Great work! to bad it was cut though damn you psp disk capacity
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I remember this place. Loved the intel for this game. Good job.
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Congratulations on the DD, athey!
i'd also like to say, that in picture 3-4, the walls or how to say looks like its made out of flesh, it really tells something is just waiting on the other side!
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I must know your guy's process to designing maps, how do you go about building rooms? (and with such low poly for the psp)
Because I have fiddled with level design and programming (and modeling) and couldn't find a good method to obtaining a good detailed well-constructed low-poly map.. all mine ended up either high poly or too "perfect" to look realistic..
O yeah, and that brings me to another question, how do you realisticly "destroy" and area and mesh to make torn down rubble-ish places?
Also, do you guys have like a "palette" of textures that you re-use throughout the game to keep a consistant "look" to a game? (sorta like an artist keeps a color palette he/she reuses, so people know the artist by how the art looks)
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I answered your questions here: [link]
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did you write that for me?!
Your amazing Athey! I can't thank you enough for all you do!
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lol- no prob. It started out as just an answer, but then got longer and then I figured - what the heck? - and went all out. I've had others ask similar questions before anyways.
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Well I have found a programmer (actually it's the drummer to my band, who wouldhave thought?! hah) and we are trying to work with making simple 3d game, I'm just glad I have someone like you around to ask questions directly (theory wise)!
And the best part about it is you know how to do things, BUT (even better) you know how to do it as low poly as possible, which is what I'm shooting for.
I always seem to have to explain to people how games are optimized to run faster and have more "stuff" in them, cause most people don't even 'think' about texture, and polys, and how they affect the framerate.. along with calculating collision vs making stuff look pretty haha.
thanks again!
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Looks awesome 
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wow too nice you become 3e level designer thats greate.
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Awesome. I like the red tubes on resistance 1-2 they are yellowish.
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Yup. The Tower levels (the last level of the game) are the only ones we used the red tubes in. It's in this big crazy chrysalis tower where you fight the big crazy final boss
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looks freakin great. do you have emimssive textures on the psp?
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Wow Athey! You're my hero!
I can't wait to finish school and get into the biz ^_^
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wow...I'll bet that wasn't easy to do. It's very amazing! This is all polygon work right? No nurbs?
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Oh my! You never fail to impress. I just linked our primary psp level artist this. His jaw will drop I think. I kept on telling them all "16 colours" is what Sony says ... and they didn't listen. Then a week ago they found out that if they cut them down to 16 colours and put them in a particular bank of memory the frame rate triples.
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Oh Man! and this is earlyer release. it still looks very good! Its a shame about the rooms, i gotta say, i love to BELIEVE there are rooms there. (Add locked doors like Silent Hill XD WAHAHAHA)
But wow! this level alone, how many weeks do you think it took to complete? (You REALLY make me want to go into the gameing buisness)
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