Catacombs UE4 (WIP) Finished

Sharur · Jun 2016

Hi Polycount!

I've recently been to Rome and got inspired by the catacombs I've seen. So I start a WIP thread here to make Unreal Engine 4 catacombs set. I got a moodboard and finished blockout last week. I'm hoping to post updates every couple of days and I'm looking forward for some criticism and advices. This is the progress I've made so far.

Moodboard

Image: http://sharur3d.com/scp/scp_scr_07.jpg

Finished screenshots

Nathan3D · Jul 2016

Looking like a good start there is a few dark souls type environments going about polycount at the moment I'm liking it

There seems to be a problem with either your normal map or your light map on the archway piece

Joopson · Jul 2016

Your images are taking forever to load (your moodboard is 14mb), but I like the top third of each image, so I look forward to more!

Nathan3D · Jul 2016

I noticed that as well. I'm on my phone as well so took a little bit to load. I'd maybe scale down your stuff or some people won't wait

Eric Chadwick · Jul 2016

Too long to download, skipping this thread.
http://polycount.com/discussion/63361/information-about-polycount-new-member-introductions/p1#make

macoll · Jul 2016

Nice start, keep up the good work

The Rizzler · Jul 2016

Swap all your images for JPEGs please! There's some weird distortion in the images, I can't quite put my finger on it. Chromatic Aberration? I'd maybe tone it down a bit moving forwards

Sharur · Jul 2016

I hope it is better now. All the images resaved in .jpg. And yes, it's chromatic aberration in post-process. I agree. Too much. Will post updates soon.

Sharur · Jul 2016

Update! Added a lot of new assets. Still planning to add more. Not too happy about black shadows on the edges of the bricks. Increasing lightmap size didn't do anything. Neither did manual vertex direction fix. Still working on it.

Image: http://sharur3d.com/WIP/scr_010.jpg

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Maxilator · Jul 2016

The dark edges looks like a normal map problem, are the edges creased and have you made sure the smoothing groups are not causing this? I think overall it looks too clean and even, what I mean is easiest to see in the room with the stone tablet, the assets just kind of sit there with little cohesion, add some dirt in corners, spiderwebs, small rocks, cracks in the walls e.t.c. and it'll look better. This is a bit of a problem in the other rooms as well but it's most obvious there. Keep at it!

The Rizzler · Jul 2016

Have you set up your lightmap UVs for the bricks correctly? That can cause some visual oddities

Sharur · Jul 2016

Definately smoothing groups. Switching normal map on and off doesn't change anything. I will check the bricks again.

Joopson · Jul 2016

Posting a picture of the brick lightmap UVs would help us help you, too. They're usually the culprit for lightmap issues, in my experience.

Sharur · Jul 2016

It's 100% a smoothing groups issue. I tried rotating the vertex direction but even if the black spots go away, they usually appear on the other side.

Anybody else have this issue?