Concord || Robot Ruins Materials
One of the main moss materials for this and all other maps on the project using moss. Imported modeled moss bakes sculpted by TJ Halter into Substance Designer to create the foliage detailing here.
Base gravel terrain used in Robot Ruins, Star Chamber, and other maps in production.
Moss, gravel, and fungal terrain all being blended together to create pathing.
Here you can start to see some of the living and dead terrain moss being combined. We had different color maps per side of the map to help players separate what side of the map they were on.
Weird space fungal terrain. Based on concepts and real world reference, and then tweaked to give it a weird 'Concord' vibe.
Mix of fungal terrain, moss, and gravel.
Painted metal detail normal, shown here in red. Material instances created with this normal, and a selection of colors based on need.
Another painted metal detail normal, shown here in red. Material instances created with this normal, and a selection of colors based on need
Slate tiles used for roofs in Robot Ruins and Star Chamber.
Pulled atlas assets from Adobe 3D Substance library, then combined together in Substance Designer. Due to time constraints, we had to pull from that library as opposed to creating these pieces by hand.
Very excited to share some of the major materials I worked on for Robot Ruins. Moss was a tag team effort with our foliage artist, TJ Halter. To keep the look of assets consistent, I imported height bakes of different moss leave shapes into our internal Substance Designer library, not only for the moss material itself, but for use across the team on other types of moss assets. Gravel, painted metals, shingles, fungal terrain all done fully inside of Substance Designer. Mechanical debris based on atlased shapes from Adobes 3D Substance Library, and then combined in Substance Designer to create the full material.
All materials come with a 'Three Color Gradient' map. This allowed us to color the materials in engine, and freed the team up to be more iterative and flexible. Materials shown here with authored color maps. For Robot Ruins, the terrain gravel, moss and fungus, as well as mechanical rubble were using their color maps.
However, you can see the power of the gradient map when looking at Bone Mines, as their blue moss is all based on the Robot Ruins moss. In this way, our materials team was able to author 'Galaxy Wide' materials that could be used on any map, and still be flexible enough to achieve the art direction asks and palette asks for that map.
Robot Ruins Map Post
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rllqV5
Robot Ruins Decal Kit Post
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/vbbLqD
Material Lead
https://www.artstation.com/evanliaw
Foliage Artist
https://www.artstation.com/halter