Modular game assets

This article, written by a long-time artist and FPS level-designer, explains how to speed video game level creation by creating modular art assets for building fast, clean, and easy large 3D environments.

Hey guys, It's been a while since I've posted something FRESH and being home after finishing uni as well as hanging out in the city with all the buildings, grit and dirt made me want to create something modular, more out of my comfort zone. This is the first time I properly approached modularity and I've really enjoyed it, I was able to utilise many skills and went out of my way to create my own unique assets, including foliage (not all of it). I was able to go out and take pictures to…

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Personal project, a real-time lowpoly scene 3D that I’ve design from scratch to study a bit of environment/props and overall lowpoly workflows for games, done during the Post-Graduation course “Art for Digital Games” at Méliès College (https://melies.com). Thanks so much my mentors Gabriel Pereira for the awesome feedback during this creation process. + More images in high-res: http://rodrigopixel.com.br/project/scene-lowpoly/ + Live streams: https://www.twitch.tv/RodrigoPixel + 80 level…

Enjoy the work of Joana Salgueiro, Illustrator and 3D Artist from Belmonte, Portugal!

The slightly less glamorous, but absolutely essential aspect of game art. Modular sets! This was done for Terminator Salvation.

Another one in the series of single material modular kit. This time, it's stoooneee! :) This kit has over 600 unique modular pieces on a single 2k texture set and it's made for "Insurgency Sandstorm", a first person shooter by "New World Interactive". Tris count varies from 30 to 2800, depending on the piece. For the presentation purposes, I wanted to move away from "Middle East" style/theme, so I got the awesome "Tropical Jungle Pack" from Marketplace by "PolyAsset3D". I have also used a…

Developed a modular dungeon set for a level generator.

Hi All, I have been lurking in these forums for a few months and finally decided to get some projects going.