Sci-Fi Corridor [UDK]
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Hi everyone,
Here's a personal environment I've made a while back in UDK.
I've used 3DS Max for modeling, Photoshop for texturing
a close-up shot of the door:
and here are some of the modules I used:
Here's a personal environment I've made a while back in UDK.
I've used 3DS Max for modeling, Photoshop for texturing
a close-up shot of the door:
and here are some of the modules I used:
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The yellow details fit great with the blue/purple lights.
Personally I think the light may be a little bit to much blue currently, seeing that your models are actually black. But other then that great work.
I agree with this. You have so much geometry and interesting shapes but none of it shows because there's no real distinct light source being used - even though you technically have them in your scene. All those hanging wires and jutting cylinders are asking to get hit by a light.
I'm gonna redo the whole scene in UDK from scratch, it seems I didn't do much before
will work mostly on lighting and postprocess effects.
What changed:
Lighting: completely re-done (Red/Yellow/Blue lights)
Materials: added reflection and gloss, enhanced Normals and Emissives
PostProcess & Effects: added custom PostProcessChain, added LensFlares, added BokehDOF, added ChromaticAbb, Vignette, enhanced AO, added HeightFog
What an experience! Learned a LOT!
good work so far, just a few things I noticed
Overall your scene looks very noisy, this seems to be because of the sheer amount of detail, scratches and scuffs etc, you need to try and think about whether these scratches make a lot of sense. In your last shot the console looking pic, you have very deep scratches which would have been caused by something large like a knife, you would really have to scrape something like that to get a scratch that deep. Make sure they make sense, edgeware and scratches often occur on parts that are moving, so if someone was plugging in those blue cables over and over again and occasionally they might scrape the sides and edges of the connections.
Subtlety is key, having edgeware and scratches is a nice look to go for cause it can add a lot of character and story to your environment, but try and think about the overall picture, it may look good on one individual asset to make it dirty/scratched/beaten up etc but when you combine several of these assets into a scene it ends up looking messy. You want to pick and choose what you detail out the most. Think about the focal point or key assets in your scene, they would probably be used the most and therefore have the most detail.
Be careful of effects such as lens flare, to many can be distracting. Again Subtlety is key.
With regards to lighting
1. Dont put loads of small circular lights everywhere, make your lighting functional! Try and use it to guide the player, maybe have some longer lights which guide the player towards the door.
2. With lighting think about your focal point. A good exercise is to have just a plain grey texture on everything and this can help you to pick out the key shapes and areas.
3. I found in the past completely deleting all the lights can often give you new ways of thinking and can provide a better lighting solution
I did a super quick paint over to illustrate my point; its in B&W so its a bit easy to understand, I tried to show how you could lead the player with some longer lights on the floor, and by lighting up the door it gives the player more direction. I also like the idea of having some lighting from in the pit to the left. This way you can nicely highlight the machines on the left, and give some nice rim lighting from below.
I also darkened a lot of the roof and a few sections on the right so that you could see how adding less detail means the scene works better as a whole.
Hope this is helpful
Cheers
Ben