[UE4] - Lonely Toys

kernersvillan

Hey guys. So instead of starting out ambitious like I usually do and not finishing something, I wanted to start out small and contained. I was inspired by a pic that one of my coworkers found online, so I decided to put my own spin on it and add some toys that my daughter doesn't play with anymore in there. Right now it's just this small corner, but I might expand this out into a bigger room

UPDATE:

APiotrW

I like it. Looks dark and reminds me of some iOS game.

DireWolf

Really nice effect on your window glass. Refraction?

tadpole3159

Oh man it's the toy area from my local doctors office. Looks awesome, and grim

Deathstick

Toy Story Meets Stalker.

I like it!

Scizz

That is some sexy glass.

felipealves

Beautiful scene!

I'm curious about the glass too.

ae.

creepy! nice job ;P

Envart

Love the condensation. How did you do the spider webs? Nice job!

ScottHoneycutt

The wood, curtain and the dirt on the toys are all very believable. Good depth of field and lighting.

Bladers

my gawd. the glass.
can you spill the sauce pls. :P

kernersvillan

Hey guys, thanks for all the kinds words

Jon W: The spiderwebs are just a spiderweb texture with opacity and a custom made mesh for it. Nothing special

Here is a breakdown for the window material.



Its just a simple Translucent material with my diffuse/opacity map controlling refraction as well. Refraction is very touchy, so be sure not to go crazy with it

Here is a pic of my textures. It a hacked job really. Ifound a good photo of some raindrops on a glass window, and masked out everything but the drops and a little bit around them. When overlaying on my diffuse, it made it look like drops with some condensation, so it was definitely a happy accident. I was going to make drops in max and render them out and all that, but this just saved a bunch of time. I made a normal map out of those in Knald and used the smudge tool in photohop on some of the drips to make them more like they were sliding down the window. Anyways, I hope this helps a little Oh and yes there are 6 fingers on the handprint. Just my little homage to Fringe, hehe.

Mellon3D

Looks cool! Remind me of Last of Us main menu background
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dVjRg9owE38/maxresdefault.jpg

locater16

That's insanely cool!!! :):)

urgaffel

Lovely scene and a bit grim Small nitpick: there's a border running along the edge of the image which is a couple of pixels tall where the dof doesn't work. It's a very minor thing but could also be fixed by a quick crop.

Nintendo46

what a sad scene those poor toys (its looking great btw )

jamiemurphy

I like it, thanks for the glass breakdown.
I'm a real fan of all your work.

WarrenM

\m/ Hell yes.

felipealves

Thank you for the breakdowns man!

Bladers

AWESOME BREAKDOWN

kernersvillan

Mellon3D - Hehe. Well that is pretty much my all time favorite game besides Zelda link to the past, so I'll take that as a compliment

locater16, Nintendo46, WarrenM - thanks guys!

urgaffel - thanks dude! Someone else pointed this out as well. I wonder if it's a bug with our high resolution screenshot function. I'll check when I get back to work. That's what I get for taking the shot at 12am hehe.

jamiemurphey - thanks for the kind words

felipealves, Bladers - np! I'm glad you guys like them and hopefully found something semi valuable

Soldier63

wow, this is just insane, do you think you could achieve the same quality in udk?

You sir, should definitly make videos, recording your breakdowns, cause i think this would help a lot of newbies out there, as me for instance!

kernersvillan

Thanks Soldier63! Err, you could fake a lot of things in UDK, but our lighting and renderer is so much better in UE4 that why would you want to go back to UDK

So I went back and changed a bit of pp and added a few more cobwebs around. Here's a few more still of the scene too. I'll be working on fleshing this out into a full room now.

DWalker

The cobwebs seem rather excessive now. Remember that less is often more effective. Banishing them to the corner, reaching one of the rear wheels, might look better. Remember that cobwebs are dust magnets; they might look better in a dingy tan/grey mixture.

The curtain texture feels rather unfocused, and out-of-scale; unless they are rattan, the texture seems quite large and prominent. Their position seems rather odd - why are curtains at a 90-degree angle to the window? The white might be a bit much; almost all of the background is white. I know that white curtains are most common, but a light tan wouldn't be that unusual, and, going by the era of the toys, avocado or harvest gold wouldn't be unexpected. This would also let you play with selected sun fading, leaving the areas in the deep folds more brilliant.

The patterned wall-paper is nice, but I'm not certain it matches either a kid's play area or the era (I'm guessing 60s/70s from the toys).

The wear on the white wood, especially on the vertical portion, seems excessive and too uniform. The vertical portion - from a distance, at least, feels more like a poor white-washing rather than worn/faded paint. Remember that this is an indoor scene; the rain won't have been able to wash away the paint in job lots. I'd expect more bubbles & flakes than large, bare patches.

Some crayons and kid graffiti might work (another reason not to have expensive wallpaper).

bluekangaroo

I'm just curious what was your lighting setup for something like this. also how did you get the blur going on and lighting effect, is that just a post process actor setting?