FYP assignment

02jdavies

Hi everyone

I am currently attending university and I am currently working on my FYP an investigation into the aesthetic differences between survival horror and action based environments altering only lighting and texturing while keep the structure of the scene the same.

So far I am not massively pleased with everything but especially the lighting with the action scene any suggestions on how this can be improved would be great but any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Action scene.













Horror scene

mats effect

I would say the action ones needs more contrast, the lighting looks very flat in a lot of them. Some of the texture work on the walls looks a bit random as well I would maybe stick with just two wall surface types. The stone mostly and them some wallpaper.

02jdavies

Hi all

I have made some progress since the last time the scenes were uploaded the lighting was improved and new particle systems and materials were added I have been having trouble with the lightning added into the horror scene I am trying to get a delay between the flashes and am not sure how to achieve this with a material any help or feedback would be appreciated thanks
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horror scene

BARDLER

What engine are you using? The lighting looks completely broken on most of your meshes, do you have a separate UV channel for your light maps?

02jdavies

Hi
I'm using UDK the majority of the meshes have a sperate uv channel for the light maps though some of the smaller one's don't.

02jdavies

Hi all
Since the last post I have created a bathroom to try and fill the scene out a bit. In response to the lighting problem I still have no idea what is wrong with it all the meshes have second uv channels on them so I have no idea why the lighting is behaving like this any help or ideas would be appreciated cheers.

Shrike

your color palettes is horrible. Do research on that. Your lightmaps are terrible broken, also try getting ambient occlusion on somehow. Try getting some basics about composition, color, contrast and all those things, and look at references.

Ambient occlusion will boost this a Lot. Still its very far from O.K. to be honest.

02jdavies

Ok thanks for the feedback

StormHertz

Your lightmaps are completely broken, also, most of your normals are flipped. I believe it's the Y axis that is flipped for the Unreal engine, so all of your normals should be flipped accordingly (green channel).

Also, your textures need alot of work. They don't feel linked at all in terms of style, and look like they were just made and thrown on without any regard to contrast and color.

02jdavies

Hi guy's
I tried searching for a way to fix the lightmaps i came across a tutorial which said to sperate the sections of each island but when i applied it they made the light map worst i was wondering how i can fix the light maps?

Odd3sy

For your lightmaps, sounds obvious, but make sure your meshes are actually using 2 UV maps so unreal can differentiate between the 2. Also try increase the light map resolution of your meshes in UDK ... http://puu.sh/2Myts.jpg ...

I'm also lead to believe that the use of deferred shading in UDK doesn't require the use of light map, not sure how true this is, but worth trying, you will have to be running in DX11 if your not already.

http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/DeferredShadingDX11.html

02jdavies

Thanks for the feedback.
I have checked all my meshes and all currently have 2 uv channels with no uv islands overlapping and at least one checker inbetween each island thats why i can't understand what seems to be happing to them i am currently running in directx 11 so i will look into deferred shading cheers .

Odd3sy

if that doesn't work then the lightmap resolution will possibly improve things, but it wont fix it

02jdavies

I have tried increaseing the lightmap resolution it seems to make the shadow errors appear more and create loads of shadow patches on the mesh.

Odd3sy

what did you increase it to? try an high value like 256 to see if it has an effect, if there's no improvement then the problem must like with the layout of your lightmap

02jdavies

Around 64 for the smaller meshes and 128 for the larger ones i have improved it by turning off the cast shadows on my directional lights outside which are casting the light shafts

02jdavies

Hi all
I've just been tweaking it somewhat trying to get the lighting and textures looking a bit better.

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action

02jdavies

Hi All

These are the latest updates of my scenes i have just been trying to improve the lighting as much as i can.
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horror scene