Planetside 2 is a massively-multiplayer online first-person shooter, created by Sony Online Entertainment.

In-addition to being the sequel to one of my favorite games of all-time,  SOE has made available the ability to submit player-made creations that can be sold in their marketplace for real-world money.  

My "Andronicus" helmet for the Vanu Sovereignty faction was among the first accepted through the Player Studio program and can now be seen sported by VS soldiers in battles across Auraxis.

Using a limited number of textures provided by SOE in their Player-Studio kit, I created a helmet evocative of the Vanu Sovereignty, the high-technology faction of Planetside 2.

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After submitting my design to SOE, they provided the detail texture pass and emissive elements utilizing the custom shader system for ForgeLight, their own proprietary engine.  The version you see here is using the original diffuse, normal, and specular textures provided by SOE in 512x texture format.