Abandoned Train Car Shelter (UE4)
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Just started working on this three days ago after playing through bits of both The Last of Us and Uncharted 2. I got the itch to make a destroyed train car in the snow after playing the intro to Uncharted 2 and thought it would be interesting to apply the design aesthetic and post apocalyptic context of TLOU to the idea.
So far I have the basic train car structure in as well as a few of the larger assets. The idea will be to fill the whole thing with dense detail, so I'm still very early on.
Working on this in UE4 and using Quixel Suite for all of the texturing so far.
Original Post:
Just started working on this three days ago after playing through bits of both The Last of Us and Uncharted 2. I got the itch to make a destroyed train car in the snow after playing the intro to Uncharted 2 and thought it would be interesting to apply the design aesthetic and post apocalyptic context of TLOU to the idea.
So far I have the basic train car structure in as well as a few of the larger assets. The idea will be to fill the whole thing with dense detail, so I'm still very early on.
Working on this in UE4 and using Quixel Suite for all of the texturing so far.
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But that's a good thing.
I'm weird.
Really digging it so far.
Yeah, I might go in and do some more damage to the floorboards and give them some dimension in the spots they might buckle up. The nice thing about using the Quixel Suite for all of my texturing is that I could make some 3D floorboards to use for destruction and texture them using the exact same material that I used for the flat floor texture.
The cart will definitely have more than just cans on it when I have more assets to put there. I just have it covered in cans to act as a placeholder to give me a better idea of how that spot works visually.
I agreed with the desaturation comment but I think all of your wood needs to be "sapped of life" a bit more. Your window planks especially need some love texture wise. There is also something that kind of bothers me about the wood planks texture on the wall... I think it is because wood planks are usually offset like your floor texture but for some reason on the wall they are lined up perfectly.
Your cot, and cans are lookin good. Your structures are generally pretty well built, I especially like that wood shelf. Your propane texture looks a little blurry though.
Overall you got a nice little scene here. It's kind of funny too, I am currently working on a scene that have/will have a lot of the same props in it. I literally have a cot, soda cans, lawn chair, duffle bag and luggage, in mine as well =P
yours takes place in a train, mine is more of a henchmen hideout in a taken over cruise ship. ( link in case you're interested in checkin it out )
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the detailed feedback.
Here's my reference for the chair that I used. But I think you're right, the criss-crossing design is a lot more visually interesting, and I think I'll go back to the chair to try and get that look.
As for the wood, I see what you mean about it looking not weathered enough, and I'm already working on adding more.
Yeah, placement for the little assets like the cans is definitely just thrown in for the time being. I'll be putting work into making it more natural once I have more of the modeling for the other assets done.
As for the shine on the cans, I was back and forth on that when texturing them. The soda cans in particular are probably the ones you're talking about. For those I kept the bare metal pretty shiny but layered in a bunch of rust and dirt on top. It's just that the metal parts showing through are still pretty shiny. I'll probably bring down the gloss some more to give the feeling of a thin layer of dust like you suggest.
What I personally would change is the floor planks, the gap feels a bit too thick imo. The lamps look good, I'd make them hang a bit lower so we could see them better. And I think it'd do you good to have some of the original train elements in there, say curtains, seats, those bars that you hold onto, either in their original state or repurposed, to remind us of what this was before
First thing that came to my mind though is that the bloom/blur is a bit too much for my taste. I think sharpening the image up would actually help. For example, if I look at the chair, my eyes are getting tired because of the blurry effect.
Other than that, this looks awesome! Keep it up
I agree, that fringe intensity is a little intense.
The idea of the scene is that the inhabited end of the train car is very warm and the snowy end is very cool. That last post was all images from the warm end so I think that's what you're referring to.
Anyway, I've been working solidly on this since my last post and since I have a few new responsibilities coming up that'll take time away from these personal projects, I've decided to go ahead and call it finished today.
Some of my full res final shots:
Most of my assets were unwrapped separately, but I did some of my assets on shared texture sets. The wooden boards, the cans and the books are all done like that.