What is the process of Making a enironment in UDK

sziada

I would like to know the correct workflow to go about making an environment in UDK. Any feed back would be helpful.

Gazu

Modelling the House, UV Map it, make the Diffuse, normal and specmap.
What do you want to know?

WarrenM

Environments are typically modular. So you build individual meshes and then instance them many times in UDK to create the environment.

So if you're creating a castle you could create meshes for:

- a pillar
- a wall
- an archway
- a torch holder
- a staircase
- etc

And then place many copies of those assets in UDK to create your environment.

Just load up any of the example maps in UDK to see this in action.

wichenroder

http://www.3dmotive.com/training/udk/modular-building-workflow/

http://www.thiagoklafke.com/modularenvironments.html

sprunghunt

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GettingStartedLevels.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DesignWorkflow.html
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ModularLevelDesign.html

sziada

I am talking about interiors what do i yse for walls and floors bsps or static meshes

sziada

Thanks for this I am now making a good start

fyfean

any articles on "finalizing" a level? meaning finishing touches such as improving lighting quality and other details that might improve the visual look? not talking about optmization.

sziada

Ok thanks, I will have a look

Prtofdacrowd

BSPs are good standins, especially holding your scene together, if you want you could leave them there until the 99% mark, but in the end they have to go.

Dont worry however there are tutorials etc that can help you and with a good mesh with a good vert count you can even add some vertex painting to your floors and walls...

Dont forget to lightmap it either (search 3dmotive for help they have a good free vid)

sziada

Thanks for that really helped