[UDK] Stargate SG1 Scene
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Stargate SG1.... the show of my childhood... I remember when I would watch every single show on SCI-FI channel when they used to show it. It was a great show and I think is still my favorite to date. I have decided I want to recreate the Stargate SG1 gate room. Here are some of the pictures I have found online to use as reference to get the layout of the room. There are not many pictures of the room but I can piece together different angle shots to get a idea of what the room looks like.
Stargate SG1.... the show of my childhood... I remember when I would watch every single show on SCI-FI channel when they used to show it. It was a great show and I think is still my favorite to date. I have decided I want to recreate the Stargate SG1 gate room. Here are some of the pictures I have found online to use as reference to get the layout of the room. There are not many pictures of the room but I can piece together different angle shots to get a idea of what the room looks like.
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I was able to find the actual Stargate SG1 symbols via google so that helped out tremendously!
Next phase will be to start blocking out the scene, hopefully I can keep this updated at a steady pace as I am currently going to school and have schoolwork to do.
It'd help to see the uvs for this to give a good critique/suggestion, but the ring itself looks like the nice sculpting you did is starting to get lost and needs more texel density. Also, making the piece a bit darker, with a bit more spec, and more hue variation would do wonders for the ring.
The glow bits look reasonably accurate, they aren't as detailed as the screenshots, but work overall. If you darkened them down, and toned down the glow a bit could really sell them. They're currently bright with strong glow, which blows out the colors a bit in-game.
Blocking everything out with grey boxes will help quite a bit, good luck with progress!:)
Now for the glow, I am not sure if you are talking about the actual color inside the red things or the glow around it. The foggy glow around the red piece is exaggerated because of the black background. If you were refering to the actual red color, then I will tone it down the next pass over.
Thank you for your crit!
I did the gate in nine identical sections reducing the texture space quite a bit I ended up giving it a 2048x2048 sheet but a 1024 wouldn't have looked terrible. Then I did the ring of glyphs entirely separately to the rest of the gate and put the texture for that on its own sheet that was 128 by 4096.
Also, by the looks of things you're sculpting your gate as though it's ancient stone. On the few occasions they do show closeups of the gate it looks more metallic and all the edges look quite crisp.
Here's a close up of Earth's symbol from the actual gate prop
The texture in the picture just has the normal thrown onto it along with a static value for the diffuse. I will be redoing the sculpt so this is just a test shot to see how it works out.
EDIT: Anyone know how to solve that red line fog glitch at the bottom of the UDK viewport without having to restart UDK?
I don't think I plan on revisting the sculpting aspect of the ring as I am happy with the look of it for now, I want to move on to the actual scene which I won't have time to get to today. I also found that picture below which helped me sculpt out the ring as well. Also want to thank Avanthera and Y_M for giving me some crit that I can work towards!
Hopefully tomorrow I can start blocking out the scene
Also I think the border between the symbols need to be a lot more pronounced as it's kind of hard to see right now.
Lastly it looks like you've got some smoothing problem on the outermost ring. Are you using hard edges on steep angles (say >60 degrees)?
There are a few things that could be fixed, but overall I think it shows great potential.
Thank you for the crit. I fixed the smoothing group issue around the ring as well as redid the texture of the ring to add more detail and contrast for the symbols. I also added more geometry for the holes in the supports so it doesnt look too jagged.
Still have a lot of pipeing to do. In the concept pictures there is a lot of pipeing that goes along the walls. Sometimes they just end on the ceiling or on the ground leading to nothing... which is a bit odd.
Ill add something too the effect near the end. Will be a good time to test out the GUI particles of UE4!