An overview of the sub-disciplines of Environment Art for Diablo IV.

An overview of the sub-disciplines of Exterior Art. Please check out Sam Gao's presentation for overview of Architecture & Foliage or the GDC Vault for the full presentation (Links in description).

An overview of the level art process on Diablo IV and some of the different components that a Level Artist takes into consideration and channels into the creation of the level itself.

The left side depicts areas from Diablo IV at blockout quality and the right side shows the same areas but at shippable.

This is a breakdown of the main phases of development of level art using a particular area of Menestad as an example.

There are two main types of spaces in the open world - POIs (points of interest) and wilderness (interstitial areas between POIs).

The red line is the boundary of our navmesh. This is a discussion of making sure the edges of our navmesh are readable to the player.

Examples of spaces at Presentable phase.

At this stage, we lock in the terrain material palette, work on the transition between roads and wilderness, add decals, etc.

Examples of spaces at shippable phase.

At this phase, one of the things we do is pay more attention to the transitions between spaces such as the terrain materials here.

Example of real polish feedback during the development of this area and a before/after.

Example of real polish feedback during the development of this area and a before/after.

Example of real polish feedback during the development of this area and a before/after.

Credits go out to our whole Exterior Art team and more!