Moonlit Medieval Town - UDK - Single 2048 D/S/N/M Texture

BARDLER

Work in Progress:


Entire scene is on a single 2048 texture sheet with 1 diffuse, spec, normal, and extra texture for different masks and stuff that I will be adding later.

Things to do still:
-Make a few more props to flesh out scene.
-Create ground plane for better and more dynamic layout of scene. I want the street on the left to be going down, and the one on the right raising up.
-Setup material instances for color variation.
-Setup decals for dirt and grunge.
-Texturing pass on everything to sharpen some details and pop some details.

All critiques welcome.

Joltya

I'm loving the look and feel of it so far! Can't wait to see how it looks when it's more fleshed out.

I have to ask though; why did you decide to put them on a single texture sheet?

Megacorpse

Amazing, love the somewhat-Thief style. the lower right looks kinda empty though, I could see a well here or something.

robin_64_bit

Thats pretty cool. Whats the texture pages look like?

silkroadgame

Good style and textures!

KristaW

It's already very inviting. I'm looking forward to the progression.

DWalker

The main light seems to have an orange tint; I'd expect the light to be bluish and less intense.

The light from the lanterns shouldn't be omnidirectional; the cover will block any light from projecting up, while the base will block the light from projecting directly down.

The windows should be emissive, illuminating the sills and the surrounding walls. Given the quality of the doors at the time, some light should also leak under the doors.

Overall, I think darkening the image overall, and increasing the contrast between the light & darkness, would improve the look.

McGreed

What you need to remember about night scenes with moonlight, is that the light is bluish, which also means that the bouncing light and shadows should have a blue tint to it. Right now all your shadows are black/orange, which doesn't give that nighttime feeling.

noscope

Looking sweet dude! Id say the wooden supports for the buildings are way to straight and uniform. Bend them a little here and there to make it look more believable. Mite help the nice style you've got going aswell

NAIMA

Is the cartoonish feel a wanted objective?

Anyway have u tought of adding some vertex paint on the models? And somemmore detailing of the small parts like the roof edges that so far seem to be using the same tile textures on sides as well...
Also the position of the windows look like is kind of random , a coplanar wall has a window up and the next down , wich looks kind of unrealistic, but if is a cartoonish feel the objective then ignore that comment , the same could be said for the details on door entrances , the oversized lamps etc...

Pedro Jatob

Awesome job so far BARDLER !! As NAIMA said, I'm just missing some decals, but you've wrote that already. So keep the nice work! I'll be following your thread!

If possible, can you take another screen from a lower height ? Maybe everything is looking small because your camera seems to be very high. Try to make it like a "first person"

AAA!

BARDLER

@JoltZero Thanks! It was a requirement for school, and kind of a fun challenge to learn a little bit about the material editor.
@Megacorpse Thanks!

@robin_64_bit I will post it when I am done, but its basically just a texture atlas.

@silkroadgame Thank you!

@KristaW Thanks!

@DWalker Yea I have to work on the moonlighting a lot, and that light under the door is a good idea.

@McGreed Hmm I will look into it, but I do not think blue is a requirement for moonlight. It is more about the deep dark shadows with no bounce lighting, which is what I need to figure out how to do in UDK properly. Check out these paintings.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Eiwce13X738/R5L774hFV-I/AAAAAAAABXU/Y8fSfio-0fM/s1600/Remington_Frederic_A_Pack_Train.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Eiwce13X738/R5L77ohFV8I/AAAAAAAABXE/67JKocs-bxE/s1600/Moonlight_Night-Winter.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Eiwce13X738/R5L7nYhFV6I/AAAAAAAABW0/2qDS6-iXnOA/s1600/Grimshaw_The_Lovers.jpg

@noscope Thats a good idea, will look into it.

@NAIMA Yea I am trying to do a stylized look to it. The roof needs some more work, but not sure what I want to do yet. I will be vertex painting the ground plane, and using decals on the buildings. The way my texture sheets are set up and how lowpoly things are vertex painting on the building is pretty much impossible.

@Pedro Jatob