The mirror is to be used by the player to see what in the room it is found in is obscuring the trapdoor out of the level (details of this can be found in the GDD).
The floor grate is to be placed underneath the waterwheel for the water to flow out of the scenario.
This asset was created using 3ds Max and Quixel.
The assets created for this entry are a wall grate and a set of stairs.
The wall grate is intended to be found next to the waterwheel, and is what the water flows through from another part of the level to make the waterwheel turn.
These stairs are only found in one part of the level, and are used instead of the engines default stair BSP because of the empty space underneath them, which the player will be able to find an object hidden for one of the puzzles.
This asset was created using 3ds Max and Quixel.
This asset is simply a door that the player will find and be able to open to access the rooms within the scenario.
This asset was created using 3ds Max and Quixel.
The waterwheel asset is involved in several puzzles found within the level, most notably being used as a lift for the player to reach a higher platform, and to turn activating a set of gears.
The original design for the asset did not feature the platform attached to the front as the idea was that the player would jump into one of the compartments to ride it to the top, however that was deemed unsuitable because it would mean having to make the asset much larger so the player could fit inside, as well as adding in a platform to the level from which the player could jump in, at which point they would likely not need the wheel to be turning to reach the higher platform. Because of these reasons the design was altered to include the small platform which the player stands on instead.
This asset was created using 3ds Max and Quixel.
The pillar model will be found at various points around the level, and will have no mechanical significance within the scenario, simply being present to make the world feel less empty.
This asset was created using 3ds Max and Quixel.
The trapdoor will be found at various points around the scenario, but only ever at a single place at any time. This is because it is this trapdoor which the player must find and open to progress to the end of the scenario.
This asset was created using 3ds Max and Quixel.
This gear asset will be found throughout the scenario and will be animated to give the appearance of things changing more noticeably within the scenario as the player progresses, mechanics are completed and mechanisms are activated.
This asset was created using 3ds Max and Quixel.
The next asset I have produced is a large fireplace which will be seen in the central room of the scenario, as well as a set of logs which will be placed inside it.
These assets were created using 3ds Max and Quixel.
The first assets I created were a set of bookshelves. Multiple versions were made so they could be placed in various places of the level without having to scale a single asset up or down, as (particularly with the corner bookshelves) it would affect the proportions of the model and the texture.
The models were made in 3ds Max and were then exported into Quixel so that I could create a set of textures for the asset.
For the next entry I will produce another asset.
The scenario being created represents a section towards the end of the game, where the player finds themselves inside The Necromancer’s lair. More details can be found in the GDD attached to the first entry of the developer diary.
Several pieces of concept art have also been created via the use of 3ds Max and Photoshop to represent the aesthetic and style I am trying to go for when creating the environment, though none of the pieces are based off of this scenario.
The inspiration for the scenario comes from dungeon-crawlers such as The Legend of Grimrock and Eye of the Beholder, not so much in the gameplay itself due to the tile-based nature of those games, but how they incorporate less than obvious puzzles which require the player to have to think about to comprehend and progress.
Before creating any of the assets for the environment itself, I created a simple outline of the playable area within 3ds Max and then added a simple human figure. I did this to allow me to create objects at the correct scale, both in the context of the environment itself and of the player’s perspective.
For the next entry I will have started modelling the assets within the scenario.
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