Crystal Temple

HAWK12HT

Hello everyone, first of special thanks to this awesome community of talented people who helped me progress and in my self learning about game environment art.

Ok so this is my third environment in UDK done in one month. Originally it was for Monthly challenge of August but I had 2 weeks of gap due to day job.

Used one 1024x1024 texture for diffuse / normal / specular and one 512x512 diffuse / normal / specular for Moss ( vertex shader)

Only limitation was my laptop as I was unable to do much with real time reflections, shaders, vertex painting etc. Will definitely improve it further when I will get it to my PC.

HAWK12HT

HAWK12HT

Personally I went with the warmer light mood as it felt more natural to go with the plant life and moss. Also I made as much of the environment as possible rather than what was just visible in the concept.

Belal Ehmed

Looks cool

Nosslak

I think for the most part it looks good. However your textures are in a desperate need of some color variation. Right now it looks like most of them are just the baked maps combined with a single flat color. Here's a few examples for you of some brick walls:
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The blended moss on the pillar in last shot doesn't look very realistic. I think the moss is too broken up IMO it would look better with some bigger patches of moss so I'd just try blurring the moss's blendmask if I were you.

HAWK12HT

fearian

This is a really cool environment! The big three things that I think you are missing from this scene are the three that make the concept what it is IMO - the Crystal shader, the lighting, and to expand on that, specular. The concept has this really nice polished stone feel that you should aim for with the specular.

In terms of crits though, maybe push the lighting values a little further, I love the colour you have, but don't be shy to occlude some parts of the scene to let others shine!

HAWK12HT

Hi, thanks for feedback all. Will certainly improve it later on. As everything got squeezed into a month it was super fun and crazy to plan and work as fast as you could.