Star Wars: Battlefront - Jawa Refuge
My role for Star Wars: Battlefront was Planet Owner of Tatooine. Together with Tim Mcleod the two of us created all the 7 original Tatooine maps and all its nature content for the game.
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This level is created with our Canyon 'LCK' (Level Construction Kit). Concisting of:
Four cliff assets, four rock assets, a large cliff piece, an 8k LIDAR terrain with three terrain materials and a 100km LIDAR backdrop mesh. (see breakdown in the Raider Camp post)
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Some of my responsibilities were. Terrain heightfield, textures, shaders and masks, Finding, processing, cleaning and prepairing LIDAR data. Photogrammetry capturing on site in the Canyonlands of Utah. Rock detail shaders with adaptive tiling detail, terrain blending and global color tinting, Scatter assets and the large cliff asset. Tusken raider flipbook shader. Level art and set dressing. 100 km LIDAR Backdrop mesh. Jawa City backdrop mesh. Optimization.
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Star Wars: Battlefront Tatooine Beggar's Canyon Dune Sea Exchange Jawa Refuge Jundland Wastes Raider Camp Rebel Depot DLC EA Electronic Arts DICE Frostbite Level Art Environment Art PC PlayStation 4 Xbox one XB1 PS4 Sand Crawler Jabba's Palace Rebel Transport Rebel Base Tusken Raider Village Imperial Transport Canyonlands of Utah Luke Skywalker Lars Homestead Mos Eisley Light sabre cave Jawa Star Destroyer X-wing Tie Fighter LIDAR Outer Rim Twin suns Artist Palette Lucasfilm Lucasarts GDC
The deep narrow canyon crevices contrasted the otherwise open level.
We decided to place the level in a dramatic area of the LIDAR terrain with high drops.
Peculiar Jawa structures can be found around the level. we had a lot of fun creating those.
We setup junk pieces like scatter meshes allowing us to paint them on the terrain.
I modeled the design of the Jawa fortress inspired by a painting by Ralph McQuarrie.
Carefully cleaning up LIDAR and imagery data from artifacts, indirect light and shadows.
Crevices in the cliffs leads to narrow canyon paths
We littered the level full of scrap metal.
Next to the market stands there is a droid operated Jawa bar making a nice depot stop looking out over the canyon.
Mikael Anderssons pretty sandcrawler stands parked in the center of the map.
Very few rock assets and only three terrain materials were used for the canyon levels. There is a breakdown in the Raider Camp post.
Appart from many other assets Tim Mcleod also created the hanging cloth assets for the Tatooine maps.
Clustering multiple rock pieces into chunks saved a lot of time dressing the gameplay area.
The triangular sloping level reveals a vista around almost every corner.
To make the sloping level feel more realistic I made the terrain heavily terraced.
An overview of the Jawa Fortress from above.