Pax Dei

I worked as Senior environment artist on a project Pax Dei. The project is still in early access and I moved on to other project before it was finished so most of the screenshots shown here are not final art and some of them might not even be in the game anymore. The work was created and captured between 2019 and 2023. I decided however still it might be nice to post some of the work here.

Trailer scene town. A town scene I did for the trailer together with world team. My responsibility was mostly on set dressing and creating few assets here and there.

Trailer scene mountains. A scene I did together with the world team. My responsibility was mostly on set dressing

Trailer scene closeup. Set dressing.

Trailer scene road. Set dressing.

Trailer scene monument. Set dressing.

Worked on set dressing on the environments seen on the trailer. Together with the world team who was responsible for the world generation

This was a scene I worked on as a set dresser as a part of the team for a very early trailer. I am not sure if I can find it from Youtube anymore.

Caves - Screenshots of the caves at the stage it was when I moved away from the project. The caves were still WIP.

Cave planning. Everything starts form this stage 😄

A common process I used for making most of the environmnets

I did a PCG setup for the cave modules. Basically whenever there is a light volume the green vegetation growth would happen. And for the rest of the areas there would be a default less intense vegetation scattering going on.

A pcg setup for spawning rubble at the intersection with of the wall & floor

PCG setup to automaticcaly scatter some rubble and grass around the walls

A pcg setup for creating puddles with randomized vegetation around

Floor Module 01 for the cave kit

Floor Module 02 for the cave kit

Floor Module 03 for the cave kit

Small ramp module for the cave floor modules

Cave wall module I made for the caves

I experienced with some techniques like generating rocky detail by displacement maps to get a better starting point for the wall modules

Test assembly of the floor modules

Floor module prototypes. These were provided to me as a starting point.

Floor Module 01 sculpt

Floor Module 02 sculpt

Floor Module 03 sculpt

Quarry module sculpts I made for a quarry set.

A sculpt process I used to make these rock modules in a relatively short time. I made first a set out of photoscanned surfaces I could use to quickly kind of kidbash cool shapes which I would then at the end merge together and sculpt the rest of the areas

Quarry rock module with tiling textures

Quarry rock module with TEst assembly

Quarry - Quarry is an ingame location. I worked on the stone modules, props, propping and the layout.

Anvil - Anvil prop used as a crafting station in the game. We used this props as a quality benchmark early in the project while ordering assets from the external studios

Props I kitbashed for the Quarry level.

Adventure site robbed car. I did quite many “Adventure sites” to the project. These were mostly done by kitbashing existing assets so not everything was made by me. But it was fun to come up with all kind of different locations out of existing assets

Adventure site abandoned house. I did quite many “Adventure sites” to the project. These were mostly done by kitbashing existing assets so not everything was made by me. But it was fun to come up with all kind of different locations out of existing assets

Adventure site boat wreck. I did quite many “Adventure sites” to the project. These were mostly done by kitbashing existing assets so not everything was made by me. But it was fun to come up with all kind of different locations out of existing assets