[UDK] Wharehouse/factory environment

Strkl

Hi guys, I'm doing another environment during my spare time, and I'm struggling with it

So the base inspiration was this screenshot from Ghost recon FS

I then did a quick concept (That I may finish some day...)



and another one more detailed



(And little walkthrough animated-gif there ^^)


I started doing some props (still working on it)



And started the actual scene :

A lot of things are placeholders (Big white boxes = containers, etc), and I suck at doing shader, so there's plenty of work to do here,





I was doing some experiments, and found that a night time scenario could be nice, It does have a little bit more personnality I think





(Please note that the skys are from Epic, but everything else was made by me)


I would love to hear what do you think, night or day ? What's the best...Any crit is welcome :poly121:

Rurouni Strife

Night time. I like the look better at night, I think if you do the lighting right it can be really moody with a lot of "hot" intensely lit areas and some "cold" barely lit areas where Lightmass does it's thing (unless your going 100% Real Time).

I think everything else is pretty good so far for where your at. I'd really worry about the shaders later. Set up a master material with all of your options and mess with them at a later state once you get your props in. Might make it go faster.

Skybex

Looks like a good start. I really like the concepts your working from.

Personally I would prefer to see a daytime scene. Its a lot easier then to see your assets and how they are placed in the scene, In a night time scene a lot of your work will get obscured by dark shadows.

Kurt Russell Fan Club

The props are looking good. I'd watch for small details around the ground level like concrete mounds that the I-beams should rest on, and if you add pipes to the edges of your chainlink they'll look much better.

I think mostly that your scene lighting isn't good and it's hurting the effect. The colour in the fluorescents near the door is too strong and the lighting/shadow from the sky is too strong. The sky should always be brighter than the ground and if you have strong cloud cover or it's night then you shouldn't have harsh shadows. Here's what I mean:

Strkl

Thanks a lot for the responses guys, I'll definitely take account of those ,:)

Strkl

Finally found time to work on it again

MystiqueX

Looking good so far. I prefer the day scene. Love the broken windows!