Hello, since a few people showed interest, I'm putting together some posts on the art of our game, No Vacancy.

Today I'm going to talk about the prop modelling. For all our assets I used Blender and Substance Painter.

These are the props that correspond to the "room" assets. As you can see, I used the model of the main character to make sure my proportions are always correct within the game setting.

Here you see the wireframe. I tried to make them as low poly as possible but the round parts had to remain round...you can see on the cofee table for example, it's a lot more dense than the rest.

This is how I packed the UVs. Most symmetrical objects and repeatable stuff, like the stair steps, for example were UV'd in the same place to save space. Also I used this trick I learned recently to see all UVs of all selected objects at once.

This works best if you use Blender Internal and have the faces of all objects assigned to the same texture, or else not every object will show. It's a little annoying to use, but useful anyway.

All my props have a low res and "hi res" version. It's not like super sculpture in Zbrush hi-res, but it's enough to use a few features in substance Painter.

The difference is not that great, but the important points are: 1. Add subdivision modifier/turbosmooth to make the normals soft. 2. Extra loops at hard edges while having smoothing on. 3. Add details that will not alter the silhoette that you could bake into a low res, like the buttons and detail in the armrests. 4. Separate every piece in a different object.

After I've made a batch of props that I could UV into a single map with their respective hi res versions, the models are ready for texturing. I will show that on another post though, since this got a bit too long.