So with the recent ability to use Zbrush, I have went towards creating custom assets for the map, a thing I thought I would do last, but seeing as I'm working on this just for my enjoyment, I'm willing to go wherever my creativity takes me at the time. 
 
So thinks have been moving a bit slower. 
 

Made a basic leaf decal to simulate leaves floating on water and on other surfaces. 

First off, I needed a specific texture, so I had to create the thing myself. Hardest part, of course, was sculpting it in zbrush to get good-looking nrmal maps but I think the end result looks good enough. Here it is plastered on a teapot, tiled way more frequently than I intend the towers to be.

Then it was time to make the first part of my assets, the completely ruined version of the tower. I fiddled with it endlessly, this is just one of the stages along the fiddling. Even though it looks much better now there are some apparent seams, but I'm not gonna worry too much about those, I intend to cover them up with decals and detail meshes. Also this is the intended tiling. Kinda stretchy, but I want the tower mesh to look the best at a mid-long range. I'll have some detail like rubble and clutter to take care of the up-close experience.

To mask the tiling seams and give the towers more detail at close range, I intend to use decals of cracked walls. To list the images, from top to bottom first up is the diffuse texture with the alpha channel masked in red. I actually modified it later to make it more fuzzy, works much better now. In the middle is the nearly-final version of the Zbrush sculpt, and on the bottom is the decal as seen in game. It uses a bit of POM for the self-shading, and works surprisingly well on surfaces that I didn't even intend it for.

• 4 large setpieces: a fully destroyed tower, a partially destroyed tower with one floor intact, a partially renovated tower without the roof and two floors intact, and a fully repaired tower with 3 floors and the roof intact.
• 6 decals: 3 decals of cracks and holes for the stone wall at the bottom. 2 decals of renovated white bricks for the brick wall at the top. 1 decal of generic rubble to put on the ground next to rubble meshes.
• 8 small setpieces: 4 single pieces of each building material, meaning 4 single stone blocks, and 4 single bricks, to use as detail meshes.
• 6 medium setpieces: 3 rubble pieces of broken/ruined walls for each building material, to use as detail geometry lying around the tower.
• vegetation: I'm unsure how am I going to make vegetation yet. The walls certainly could use some moss, and I will most likely use decals for those, but I will also probably use cryteks foliage here and there.
• textures: all of the above will have two texture sets, regular, and burned, which will have desaturated colors and some charring

So with the recent ability to use Zbrush, I have went towards creating custom assets for the map, a thing I thought I would do last, but seeing as I'm working on this just for my enjoyment, I'm willing to go wherever my creativity takes me at the time. 
 
So thinks have been moving a bit slower. 
 

Made a basic leaf decal to simulate leaves floating on water and on other surfaces. 

First off, I needed a specific texture, so I had to create the thing myself. Hardest part, of course, was sculpting it in zbrush to get good-looking nrmal maps but I think the end result looks good enough. Here it is plastered on a teapot, tiled way more frequently than I intend the towers to be.

Then it was time to make the first part of my assets, the completely ruined version of the tower. I fiddled with it endlessly, this is just one of the stages along the fiddling. Even though it looks much better now there are some apparent seams, but I'm not gonna worry too much about those, I intend to cover them up with decals and detail meshes. Also this is the intended tiling. Kinda stretchy, but I want the tower mesh to look the best at a mid-long range. I'll have some detail like rubble and clutter to take care of the up-close experience.

To mask the tiling seams and give the towers more detail at close range, I intend to use decals of cracked walls. To list the images, from top to bottom first up is the diffuse texture with the alpha channel masked in red. I actually modified it later to make it more fuzzy, works much better now. In the middle is the nearly-final version of the Zbrush sculpt, and on the bottom is the decal as seen in game. It uses a bit of POM for the self-shading, and works surprisingly well on surfaces that I didn't even intend it for.

• 4 large setpieces: a fully destroyed tower, a partially destroyed tower with one floor intact, a partially renovated tower without the roof and two floors intact, and a fully repaired tower with 3 floors and the roof intact.
• 6 decals: 3 decals of cracks and holes for the stone wall at the bottom. 2 decals of renovated white bricks for the brick wall at the top. 1 decal of generic rubble to put on the ground next to rubble meshes.
• 8 small setpieces: 4 single pieces of each building material, meaning 4 single stone blocks, and 4 single bricks, to use as detail meshes.
• 6 medium setpieces: 3 rubble pieces of broken/ruined walls for each building material, to use as detail geometry lying around the tower.
• vegetation: I'm unsure how am I going to make vegetation yet. The walls certainly could use some moss, and I will most likely use decals for those, but I will also probably use cryteks foliage here and there.
• textures: all of the above will have two texture sets, regular, and burned, which will have desaturated colors and some charring

Looks cool, zbrush seems awesome

Looks good. I'm sure the guys on Crymod will enjoy the assets. Wish I could do this stuff.

I'm all about "Round Assets".

" I'm all about "Round Assets". "