Chinese Courtyard

SeveredSon

Here's a scene I've been working on for over a month now. The walls are all BSP and everything else is comprised of modular meshes. I used Max, Zbrush, Xnormal, and UDK to create the scene. All of the pics are viewport screencaps from UDK.

***Edit: Here are the day tim shots***

SeveredSon

SeveredSon

and even more screenshots...

AzzaMat

this is a really nice scene dude love it. But I want some wires and some detail. Could you go into some of your processes? I want to leeeeaaaarrn. Also put your images into the post. Don't make me click more than I have to =P I'm lazy

AzzaMat

I put all my stuff on a blog, then just copy the image location into the blog post

SeveredSon

Sorry about not putting the images into the post. I went ahead and added them into the post. Thanks for the tip.

chriszuko

Awesome night-time shots man! Those lamps really make the scene pop! The moonlight might be a little too light, but overall really nice work!

brandonorden

Awesome job! The night shots are pretty strong. If you have any breakdowns of your assets that would be great to see.

SeveredSon

Here's a breakdown of the assets.

SeveredSon

Here's the scene breakdown for the night version. combined triangles = 95,230 instanced tringles = 1,094,076

Lucas Annunziata

That plant is 9k triangles? Why would you not use alpha planes? The stone lantern looks like you could shave off a lot of triangles and not really lose much visual fidelity

SeveredSon

That plant is 9k triangles? Why would you not use alpha planes? The stone lantern looks like you could shave off a lot of triangles and not really lose much visual fidelity

Transparency and overdraw kills a scene more than triangles, so I usually cut out the mesh around the leaves to eliminate lots of overdraw.

The scene could definitely be optimized for sure.For now, I'm making good use of modular pieces, material instances, and texture sheets. Also, the walls are all BSP, which is very cheap in Unreal. The most expensive thing in the scene are the particles effects (smoke and cherry blossoms).

[Edit] Here's a quickie optimize for ya...

Cut the bamboo tree down below 4,000.

TheRealFroman

That shit cray :P

Clark Coots

looks amazing, all the assets are very well done. thanks for posting breakdowns. I love seeing how modular things are like your roof set etc. great work

SeveredSon

Thx everyone. much appreciated.

Ehsan Gamer

Very nicely done.