[UDK] Crude Oil Dispatch Station

seir

Hi guys,
I stared my adventure with UDK yesterday. I wanted to create a scene that will look like Rage-ish pump station on the desert. A bit like Mad Max I used stock UDK meshes, maybe later I'll make some own meshes, we'll see This is an outdoor scene, in my plan there will be a second scene (indoor - warehouse/garage).

Here's some WIPs:

Jeff Parrott

Wow! This is very cool feeling.

I think you could use better value separation between the walls and grounds.

On the ground I think you could rework that and get a better texture. It's not reading that great.

Thinner cables up top.

More of the blue accent color would be cool too.

All in all though great scene.

lagidigu

Love the scene!

The ground texture could use some more work, maybe change the tone a bit or uppen the resolution...
Nice work!

Brendan

Pretty cool, but what's with the glowing rocks in the first and last pictures? Receive shadows is off the them?

Also in the first pic, it looks like there's texture 'pinching' on the ground, the rocks and dirt don't look quite right. The paths (the dirty bits with less stone) look straight (not wonky), too. Apart from that, fantastic work.

myles

Yeah cool use of the assets.
I'd watch your lighting and colours a little more, its very monotone at the moment, there really not a contrasting element anywhere.

Computron

Ground textures look kinda low res, especially the bump.

Cody

Nice layout, I would put in some background elements, seems very isolated atm, but good job.

PixelMasher

the forms look pretty wicked man, this looks like its shaping up to be pretty awesome. I would recommend a bit more color variation, some stronger blues/cyans in the shadows maybe. also, dont be afraid to blow the image out a bit, and really sell the bright sunlight. here is a quick example of what I mean.

seir

OK, I've modified scene a bit, here are the changes and problems:

- changed terrain materials, more hi-res
- added blue color, mostly in shadows, bigger contrast, white lights are more blue now, added few more lights, sunlight is burning a bit more
- added background elements (buildings, oil tanks). I'm looking for some mountanis to...

Problems:
- no idea how to make cables thiner, new mesh is needed or maybe there's a different way?
- I have no idea why that rocks are glowing like that, it's a lightmap falut. I'll look for other rocks

Screen soon, when I finish

Few things done:


On the small image it looks more blue than I though. Will fix that later...

seir

Another update. Outdoor is almost polished, now it's time to prototype some interiors.

Is there a way to group few objects into one selection in UDK and keep them grouped?

Oniram

coming along great.

for grouping.. here you go
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ActorGrouping.html

RexM

It already looks really good, but dead grass, dead shrubs, and dead leaves would make this even better. Would help fill it out more.

gauss

excellent work with the stock meshes, an evocative little scene.

roosterMAP

I think the floor is too uniform. Its just a relatively flat plane wth rocks and rubble. Maybe add ramps or building set on slightly higher elevations?

Computron

Udk also has a clipboard manager built in. Next time you ctrl+c/v/x hold shift.

ajr2764

Wow great use of the UDK assests, love the way you put this together.

BelgianBoolean

Hey mate, this is coming along wonderfully! I think the color crit still stands though. Just a few bits of higher saturated color would make a world of difference. Can't wait to see more!

Jesse Moody

Very nice use of the UDK stuff. Surprised more people haven't done this.

Cody

Nice job dude

zhiao

I wondered at first if this was from Rage. Great job - though I would think about getting rid of the cloud cover (if you want the sun blasted desert thing).

Alphavader

Nice - looking really good so far. I think the light rods are too clean for the setting
Thanks for sharing !

whats_true

This is great level design practice. I like the direction its takeing with the mood too. The more you can get away from the monotone brown the better i think.

POFFINGTON

The vibe I am getting from this scene is really nice. I love the atmosphere! Do you plan on doing a fly through or still camera shots?