Saturday, August 2, 2008

SWG Architecture: Facilities

I've been remiss in documenting my exterior architectural efforts. There was a large amount of it in SWG, but most was done on shoestring budgets and draconian time-frames, which made me consider them less than of "portfolio" quality. I think in this sense I've misjudged the utility a portfolio, so here are some samples.

The rules of the day when building these were A) Get them done fast, B) Keep the facecounts low, and C) Keep the texture footprints small. Lots of textures were tiled and lots of trim was added with multi-purpose detail strips. Making the Naboo version of a cloning facility typically entailed simply making "Naboo" style versions of the textures and swapping them out directly, with minimal hand-adjustment.