Hackers Hideout WIP
Latest Update: 5/9/14
Everything is so big! lmao. Blocking in, got most of the lights, just need to rescale everything.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2061434&postcount=19
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What up!
So I've learned a lot about modeling these past few months and want to try to push my limits to the test. I'm going to try to learn PBR completely, and try to create a small scene inside of UE4, something I've never really done before.
So my choice of learning all this?
Hackers Hideout!
Concept by Samuel Aaron
I'm going to try to plan this out as best as possible and execute it, so here it goes.
I've created a list of assets and an action plan on how to approach this as far as modeling.
action plan!
I know it's not much right now, but I want to document a complete start --> finished project, from first thought and plan to finished, UE4 environment.
Everything is so big! lmao. Blocking in, got most of the lights, just need to rescale everything.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2061434&postcount=19
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What up!
So I've learned a lot about modeling these past few months and want to try to push my limits to the test. I'm going to try to learn PBR completely, and try to create a small scene inside of UE4, something I've never really done before.
So my choice of learning all this?
Hackers Hideout!
Concept by Samuel Aaron
I'm going to try to plan this out as best as possible and execute it, so here it goes.
I've created a list of assets and an action plan on how to approach this as far as modeling.
action plan!
modular texture: [ ]tile [ ]walls [ ]lights [ ]grates [ ]concrete single objects: [ ]chair [ ]desk [ ]computers [ ]toilet [ ]dispenser [ ]kitchen assets [ ]coffee table [ ]cabinet [ ]Gamecast 360 [ ]TV [ ]books [ ]trash bin [ ]lamp + table [ ]couch [ ]cup [ ]ladder steps [ ]vault door
I know it's not much right now, but I want to document a complete start --> finished project, from first thought and plan to finished, UE4 environment.
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It might end up a bit cramped so will be interested to see how it looks.
Going to start pumping out assets now!
To make Toolbag work like UE4, you'll have to check Invert by the glossiness map to switch glossiness to roughness, and you should leave Invert unchecked by Metalness.
old update:
Thanks, I kind of got it slowly working. However, is this because of light or my textures? UE4 is still rendering it SUPER ugly. What would you recommend? I feel like without making the roughness map super white, it's going to look really patchy and not great.
http://i.imgur.com/JvGWF6f.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fhoqaK3.jpg
There's some seams and weird lighting artifacts. Everything is snapped to grid / perfectly aligned, but these things keep happening! Lighting is at a production level too. Any help?
Lightmaps are at a 128 at the moment. I've tried upping it from 32 --> 128, but it's still wigging out
Just tried it at a 64 resolution, still getting that weird spike artifact:
Shadow artifact is caused by your splitted UVs.
That worked beautifully! The shadows are lightmapping smooth and great at 128 resolution.
Now I'm getting really dark seams between my meshes. If it's not one things, it's always another.
It's baffling me why one side has it, but the other doesn't, when they're all the same mesh
Loving the concept! I'm looking forward to seeing it progress.
Sanity check: For the black lines, have you confirmed that your mesh sides snap together nicely? (no gaps in between?).
Second sanity check: On your texture, double check that there are no black lines near it(bleed your texture just to be sure.
Tip: if you want to maximize UV space for the wall texture, I would separate the front from the back and overlay them, then stretch out the UV.
You'll need a second UV set then for the lightmap, but it will allow you to have more detail in your wall texture.
The tips are good, but I already did those. My diffuse is on a seperate UV channel, what I posted was my lightmap channel. Thanks for taking an interest though!
I got rid of the black lines by simply rotating the mesh. Apparently, one side gets seams, the other doesn't. So hey, you're not going to see the outside so I flipped them. I'm still curious as how to fix them, but at least it's working now.
Here's an update. I still have to create the rest of the textures on the metal part on the top, and the walls, and there's a seam where the curved part is currently.
Any way to make certain lights not create a lens flare? I know lens flares are the greatest piece of technology ever to grace movie and level creation, but it's a bit much for me now :P
What kind of lights should I create for this kind of environment?
If it is a point light, would I put the point light right on the light, or would I position it differently? How do I illuminate the entire scene as if these lights are the only thing lighting it?
It's a bit of a challenge, I can't just throw in a directional light, every light is created from a source.
Also, with emissive textures, will they be idea for this kind of lighting area?
This concept is pretty awesome, keep blocking things out- following to see where this is going
Here's a 182cm tall character I added in for reference:
What do you guys feel about the scaling? If no big problems, I'm ready to start getting some assets done for this thing. The fun part!
But I think I can see a little thing that can be improved.
If you look at the concept, the white curved plate at the top of the walls is more or less 1/2 height of the wall's height.
In your last screenshot your white plate looks like they have the same height as the walls. (1 height unit for the wall, 1 height unit for the plate)
Sorry I don't have photoshop here for doing a paintover
Quick and dirty paintover! Ok the units are not exactly the same on my image, but you can see the idea I think