Planetside 2 - Outfit Wars: Desolation
A portal to an ancient alien outpost on a small moon being torn apart by the gravitational forces of its binary stars. Desolation was the arena for the new Outfit Wars and needed a new dramatic feeling place to engage in the new game system. I conceptualized, designed, created and lit this zone and created the bases for each team. The skybox had to be dramatic so I rendered new sky cards to create a broken asteroid belt around the fragmented moon and gave the zone a twilight/dusk feeling.
Ruins of old attempts to mine on Desolation
A stable link exists, but only during windows of opportunity.
Mobile forward bases designed by Nanite Systems project a defensive shield.
The arena based wreathed in low laying fog.
The binary stars of Desolation are ripping the moon apart.
Even here relics of ancient Vanu technology show their influence.
The asteroid chain
This dead moon was once a small planet with verdant oceans teeming with life.