Sci-Fi Corridor

lewist

I'm currently working on a science fiction corridor for a university assignment. I'm trying to create something a little more atypical than a darken hallway by creating an outdoor maintenance passage that has a dusty, arid feel to it. As of right now it's rendered out in mentalray, but I've been creating a lot of modular pieces in hopes of bringing it into UDK when I'm finished. I'd love some feedback, especially in regards to composition, lighting, and texturing.

AO:

Lighting Only:


WIP Texture:

jackalope

I'm bumping this for my polycount-virgin friend.

EMC3D

Get it into UDK as soon as you can, this will allow you to set up a basic light rig and visualize the level in realtime in order to see what direction you need to take it. Not only that, but you'll find the level will look different in realtime to mental ray, espically the shadows and what not.

It looks like a solid foundation so far, I would do a basic colour pass on everything, giving it a representing colour for the UDK, lightmass will bake nicely into this instead of having the default UDK checker, this also helps visualization of the level.

Goodluck.

roosterMAP

i like the setup! has a lot of potential.

SimonT

i like the light - really nice to see the sky

duxun

have you tried moving your sun light source to point towards the camera...that gap in the middle there should probably have a light above it and pointing towards the camera...

paulsvoboda

You have some interesting shapes going on at the moment, there's a lot of potential right now.
I think the biggest thing I see with these 'Sci-Fi' corridors done well is focusing on modularity. It's a whole lot easier to make one asset look fantastic and have that fill up a room than to have to make hundreds of assets at the same quality. I think the biggest advice I could give is to try mentally breaking up the blockout into small sections and begin working on those sections.
Another thing is settling on a mood and colour scheme. Does it use bright colours to create focal points? Is it more grungy and grey?

I'm sure you've seen this before but Minotaur0 did a fantastic job on his:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73253

A lot of good things to look at in there.
Best of luck.