A little known fact about our website here at Digital-Mercs.com is that thanks to a tool written by our very own Jon Rick, we are notified by email anytime someone visits our site. This causes two things to happen. One, we get a lot of emails. And two, we know who is checking us out and how often.
Interestingly, we have been getting visits from internet watchdog services on a regular basis. We are assuming that this is due to the title of our current project, “Project: Death Race”. We here at Digital-Mercs want to take a moment to publicly state that “Project: Death Race” is simply a fan created UDK project, whose sole purpose is to highlight our talents as digital artists & game designers. P:DR will never be sold, or used to make money.
However, with that being said, the artists here at Digital-Mercs.com are all currently looking for work. So if you like what you see, don’t hesitate to contact a member of the team that you may be interested in. Or even better, hire the entire team. Instant art department. And we work cheap!
New posts are coming soon.
Things have been buzzing along here at digital-mercs.com since GDC2010 wrapped up.
The team has been busy knocking out more assets, and scripting code to make the game fun/playable.
We will be launching a website dedicated to the PDR project soon at; www.projectdeathrace.com
Until the site officially launches, that address will simply bring you here.
So keep coming back to check for updates on the project!
Just a quick post before bed. With a little less than four days till GDC, we have begun the looong process of populating the track with assets. Here’s an in-engine screen cap of an alleyway I have been building.
More to come!
I have been working on some prop pieces along with the Riviera, I am building “kits” that can be tiled and configured in different ways to quickly create dynamic scenes . The above image is an example I threw together in about 20 minutes. I will be updating the scene tomorrow, and I will post another render when I am finished.
I have been trucking away at the textures, normals, spec maps, etc… on the Riviera since the last update.
Below are two progress renders:
I’d say I’m about 85% done now. There’s some details I still plan to add, a few areas need touching up, and the weapons need textures… Other than that this asset is pretty much completed.
From this point on I wont be posting anymore renders from 3DSMax. I will be posting in-engine images from UDK. They will give a better indication to how the car looks.
-Johnny
While this is not the most visually appealing post on the blog, I wanted to give my self a small pat on the back for finishing the UVW unwrap on the Riviera… I’ve never been a fan of unwrapping models, I find it tedious. Thankfully Jon & Bradd showed me some pelt mapping techniques I had not tried before, and the process was sped up quite a bit!
It might not be apparent in this images, but those checkerboards are ruler straight! Thanks Pelt Map!!!
I should hopefully be posting final, textured, renders and in-engine screen shots of this asset by Sunday night.
[This post was edited by Johnny on 2/5/2010]
After reading Bradd’s latest update I feel like I should put something up here also. It seems like just last week I was the only one with any car related posts… and now BAM Bradd’s got his truck started and I’ve seen the mustang Jon is building, which I hear through the grapevine will be unveiled here shortly.
As for me, I have finished the modeling stage of the car and I am now knee deep in Mudbox and photoshop. I will be posting my progress sometime before next Monday.
Haven’t posted in a few days so I figured it’s time I post a progress render for the Riviera.
Click the image for full size.
I’m pretty much 100% done with the model, I have a few poly’s to tweak that you can’t on the bottom, and then it’s off to mudbox for some sculpting. After that I’ll be working out the final details in Photoshop. Can’t wait to finish and drive it around in Unreal!
Spent a few hours tonight working on the armor for the Rivie. I also added some Rocket Propelled Grenades to the roof. I’m not 100% sold on the RPG’s yet, but after some tweaking I’m sure I’ll find something I like.
Click the thumbnails above to see a full size image. The armor still needs a lot of work before I’ll be satisfied with it, but I will admit it’s looking better than I had anticipated so far.
Started work on the weapons for the Riviera. In the film, the car only has machine guns. I plan to up the ante a bit and add a few RPG’s to the roof, and possibly a door mounted weapon.
The plan is to have the armor and weapons modeled by next weekend so that I have plenty of time to texture, rig, and setup in UDK.
