Scifi Facility Scene UDK

PhilipK

Hey, I just thought I could post some screengrabs from a little scene I put together a while ago. It's made with modular pieces and dynamicly lit atm.

Anyway, sorry if the screens are a bit small, my computer suck so it can't really handle any nice resolutions...

SCREENS UPDATED SINCE THREAD START:
I focused the lighting more on the elevator and moved the actual elevator up to the second floor.
The bridge has the floor texture on the underside which looks really stupid so that will change.








I'm also trying to finally finish up a small source scene I'm doing with an italian theme.

Razorb

all i want to say is that i love it .. the colours.. design, composition and lighting .. its all good.. probably if i HAD to critique something, i would like to see some sort of clear focal point.. like the lift in the middle.. perhaps that should be slightly different from the rest of the environment.. just enough to differenciate itself and direct the eye somewhere..

but ya thats me nit picking an already awesome environment! great work oh and i just want to say thanks for the really great work on your site! it is a huge inspiration for me!

PhilipK

Thanks man! Yeah I wanted to have the lift as the main thing in the scene. I'm thinking of some way to bring it out more. Can be done for sure

I'm glad you like the stuff on my site as well!

Minos

Awesome stuff as always man

Can you post break downs of the modular assets used and stuff like that?

PhilipK

Thx Mino! Sure, here are a couple of pieces:

Orb

i love it, reminds me mirror's edge for the colors, but with an SF style

whats_true

You hav e alot of noise in this scene. Not enough big shapes to relax the eyes. Its just line after line after line. Try makeing the walls simpler, less rectangle, or changing the lighting to give it a stronger focus.

kdm3d

Agreed on the noise. Its very busy and doesn't give any kind of visual flow. individually the pieces all look good. My only other crit is your volumetric lighting seems a bit too harsh, to thick. maybe tone that back a little bit?

PhilipK

Thanks for the feedback. I absolutely agree on it being too busy, so I started re-arranging stuff and fix the textures (they are extremely WIP atm tho) But I think it's more readable now anyway... It was kinda hard to see what was going on.

PhilipK

Just noticed the screen lights were totally off now :S so nm the ugly omni circle behind those :P

Alberto Rdrgz

looking way better, but i wouldnt suggest stripping it of all the detail. I like where the new textures are heading as well, it's looking more sterile and lab-esque. I would also suggest a wider layout, or just keep messing around with different arrangements.

doeseph

Looks like the environments you see in Brink, awesome!

Ged

wow awesome! the floor looks a bit like its made of lego planes, might want to downsize those circles a bit or something, hold on are they all gone in the latest shots?

Zack Fowler

Nice work. I'm curious, why the all-dynamic lighting? Trying to simulate a deferred lighting approach?

JDinges

Nice!

duxun

the blotches of turquoise and blue on the walls dont read too well there .. maybe lowering the radius and the intensity a bit will help..

Cheers .... great work man !!

MartinH

Awesome work Philip, i really dig the second pass you did on that scene! Makes it tons easier to read.

Irreal

Love it. Nothing looks better than orange on white.

wester

man this is just great. As much as i love the grungy sci fi look, it's really nice to see someone pull off the clean sci fi look. I envy that.

cholden

This. reminds me of Mirror's Edge, but with curves. That's a good thing. Don't be like "oh you think I'm stealing?@" Like in that one noobs' thread. This is really nice, and I enjoy the presentation of your work.

PhilipK

Thanks!
I uploaded some newer screens now and I took the liberty to change the ones in the top post. I hope noone who commented on the older ones will be pissed for that. Since it's changed quite some in terms of light and busyness I wanted to show the latest stuff at the top.


Textures are still very wip and spec is very flat. I will go on creating glossiness maps later as well.

PhilipK

Zack Fowler wrote: »

Nice work. I'm curious, why the all-dynamic lighting? Trying to simulate a deferred lighting approach?

I wanted to build an environment that didn't use any lightmaps and instead experiment with vertex colors a lot more. Also, this is my first scene in UDK really, I need to learn some lightmap stuff, tho it seems the UDK lightbakes are very good :P

SimonT

Really good portal/mirrors edge style Like it alot!

cman2k

Wow man the style here is phenomenal. Really inspiring stuff, thanks for sharing.

plyrs

I've got to admit, when I clicked the link, I expected a dank hallway with lots of glowing blue stuff. Finding an atypical take on a sci-fi room was pleasant. I would tone down the saturation on the wall orange, but not the elevator or railing. But that is mostly a personal preference thing. I'm not big on saturated colors

Good work and excellent style. /thumbs-up

[HP]

Ah man, orange! Love it!

Nice modular pieces man, really smart modeling there.

SHEPEIRO

very nice... quite hard to make this clean look good, nice to resist the urge to grub it up

PhilipK

Thanks a lot!

I hope to get some more done on this when I come back from a trip

Makkon

You make me want to use UDK so bad, man! Awesome work. I'd love to see some more asymmetry and finer mechanical details in some places

PhilipK

Makkon wrote: »

You make me want to use UDK so bad, man! Awesome work. I'd love to see some more asymmetry and finer mechanical details in some places

Thanks!

Yeah I totally agree, I've been thinking of breaking up the symmetry too, great ideas. I'd like to add small details that don't clutter the image and you don't really notice unless you were to remove them

Lee3dee

liking the colors! will you be transitioning this into a TF2 map?

Lonewolf

awesome!! :O

PhilipK

Thanks! I'm sorry to bring this one up again, I haven't had time to work much more on it so far. I've been really busy finishing up a big ass tutorial page. I'm working hard on a material tutorial that will cover everything from rough rock materials to smooth/reflective metal surfaces.

It's going to be a material tutorial in general where you can click on step by step tutorials on each material section to get a deeper look into what I usually do when creating a particular material. So far I have 7 step by step tutorials. My aim is to have 10 when releasing this. So hopefully in a couple of days.

I thought it'd be somewhat relevant to this thread going into metal plates tutorials

I hope some people may find these useful when I release them. And I will be happy to edit them if stuff is unclear or weird. Some stuff is bound to be a bit strange after all pages written so

gamedev

I dig the scene and lighting. One question I have though - why are we not seeing any bounce color in the lighting? I would expect so many of these highly saturated panels to bounce color everywhere. Maybe up the diffuse boost on the materials and hand place some colored fill light?

Looking ace!

-Tyler

bugo

simply gorgeous!

Divine Rage

How did you do the textures? Are the diffuse textures as easy as a flat color with an AO bake on top? Using spec maps to make it look less bland?

Also, I'm really looking forward to seeing those tutorials. I'm loving your work.

Acumen

i don't know, i just love your style. it just has a certain quality to it that i embrace a lot
it's pretty easy to spot your textures out of all my reference folders
is there any chance you could post some (or aaaaall) texture flats ?
or at least a close up shot of the texture work ?
i love to have such stuff in my reference folder, but it's so tiny on the screens

PhilipK

Thanks a lot, I was going to work a bit more on this, but I started a new scene that I'm currently focusing on. I think I'll try and go back and really finish this up after that.

Thanks Acumen, happy to hear that
Sure thing, I'll post the flats asap. It's packed onto 2 x 1024x1024 textures.

Torrrtilla

nice lighting! I love the balance of warm and cool colors.