[CE3.6] SPACESHIP Interior
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UPDATE #4
It's finally finished! (for now, I might add to it next semester)
Here's the flythrough:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XNk8T2XCI"]Showreel - 2014 - YouTube[/ame]
The lighting is a bit buggy in the beginning as my 3 year old laptop is struggling with rendering this in 4k.
High resolution renders available on my website: http://cargocollective.com/kristof/The-Generation-Ship
UPDATE #3
Hi! This is the first time I'm posting on PC so don't bite
For one of my final year projects I decided to do a spaceship interior. I wanted to make it believable, with as few hexagons and random scifi bits and panels as possible.
My progress so far are some modular hallway pieces and a fancy bar table; I'd really appreciate some advice/opinions on how to improve what I have or what I should do differently with future assets. I have a large common area with a forest/park and a sunroof, living quarters, a lab, and a hangar with a small maintenance craft in it planned.
Here are the pictures:
Update
It's finally finished! (for now, I might add to it next semester)
Here's the flythrough:
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75XNk8T2XCI"]Showreel - 2014 - YouTube[/ame]The lighting is a bit buggy in the beginning as my 3 year old laptop is struggling with rendering this in 4k.
High resolution renders available on my website: http://cargocollective.com/kristof/The-Generation-Ship
UPDATE #3
Hi! This is the first time I'm posting on PC so don't bite
For one of my final year projects I decided to do a spaceship interior. I wanted to make it believable, with as few hexagons and random scifi bits and panels as possible.
My progress so far are some modular hallway pieces and a fancy bar table; I'd really appreciate some advice/opinions on how to improve what I have or what I should do differently with future assets. I have a large common area with a forest/park and a sunroof, living quarters, a lab, and a hangar with a small maintenance craft in it planned.
Here are the pictures:
Update
Replies
Nice looking table, but I'm not a big fan of the bolts in the center. It looks slick and the bolts break this aspect for me. Maybe just a cap that hide the bolt underside?
Maybe breaking the color can improve the scene a little? For the moment it's all white and black. Maybe with a few maintenance panels with a little color on it, or line on floors/wall to guide people.
Keep it up, I'll follow the thread!
Heres my critic:
The vegetation parts are realli nice, i love how the integrate with the sci fi
Watchout the scale of some of the elements you got, like the rubber floor or the one in the chair.
Work a little bit more the materials to look a little bit more interesting, consider more dripping, rust or steamed surfaces... also smoothness on metals are too strong in some areas...
I think the scene got some nice potentital on it, its just about polishing a little bit, specially mats and textures. Keep it up, nice work!
@mats effect: The concept's all in my head, it's too tedious to put it on paper.
@CougarJo: I'll change the tablea bit, I wasn't happy with it either. Initially I thought even the white, green, black + bare metal color scheme with the orange and blue tinted lights would be too much. I'm not so sure now but I'm not convinced that red/yellow painted surfaces would work very well with the rest. Maybe the red/green glows on the doors will be enough.
@_Kratos_: Thanks for the detailed critique. The scale of the rubber bits is realistic (at least according to quixel suite), but it could cause some problems with moire so I'll look into it a bit more. I want to avoid making the ship abandoned or badly maintained; maybe some dusty footsteps on the rubber and some leaves on the floor?
@Jeffrotull: The text is the menu. It isn't backwards, just from one of those hipster bistros.
Here's one of the textures. There's a bit of baked ao in the spec as Cryengine relies solely on a fancy ssao algorithm to replace the ao maps and fails miserably sometimes.
You might want to give the light a slightly bluish tint.
Another thing is the metals are all quite clean, especially the panels with holes. Maybe add a very subtle layer of dust here and there? I know you don't want it to be grimey and abandoned looking but someone would have to do some serious polishing to get all the metal bits to be that shiny
That said, it's a great looking scene already and the subtle touches like the dusty footsteps on the floor are really cool
Thanks for the detailed advice! One of the initial ideas behind the design was that any surface on the ship can be used to display information - there would be no need for any screens, panels or holograms.
The circles are on the side because I have yet to figure out how to sync them to the door animation. Probably I'll just replace them with geometry decals when I get access to the single pc where the animation export from maya is not buggy
I'll have to do something about the metals, nobody likes them, all for different reasons...
The next area (the big circular room) however will have a bit more wear, moss and mould on the walls as it will be a very humid area with dense vegetation.
@Swarm22 I was going to replace the vegetation texture, then I forgot. It will be in the next update.
I think the rubber floor texture needs some sort of noticeable texture on it. RIght now, the floor feels very flat. Maybe some sort of grip or something? I See you have a bit going on now but more would be neat.
While this is a nice idea, I think it doesn't read quite as well in a static image. It would work fantastically in an animation if you could show a character touching a surface and having information displayed at their fingertips. Maybe make a specific material that works as a display? Instead of having a traiditional screen it could be a white, marble like surface with heavy sss or some other interesting material that contrasts with the surrounding surfaces. Just to show that here is something different?
I like them, they're just a bit too uniform I think. They're very clean, all over. In real life metal never stays that clean for long, even if it's cleaned regularly. You'll get dust/grime buildup in corners, smudges, maybe the odd scratch when they had to move some equpiment. If you're struggling with what to do, imagine working in that space as a cleaner or what would happen when they had to move one of the aquaponic units from one end of the ship to the other. Imagine living in there, what kind of knocks would the walls take etc. What would it look like if someone in a dirty coverall was leaning against the wall and then walked off?
I think you could probably add very faint condensation to the metals/walls around the vegetation in the corridor too. There's already some in there and it looks great but it's very localized, in the case of the open plant section it's only right below the plants. Humidity would go everywhere so you could have a faint sheen from water above and to the sides too. Maybe some water drops on the inside of the glass floor?
Just to clarify, I don't want to see the metal all dirtied up, the struts for the dome section (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4963103/nps/dome_wip_01.jpg) is too dirty for the corridor but probably perfect for the large domed area so maybe something inbetween that and what you have now could work?
Minor nitpick: the area where the pipes are looks too bright, almost looks like the grate isn't casting shadows.
Vegetation is more colorful now. Maybe some flowers later on, or in the next area.
@beefaroni: The rubber was already quite detailed. I tried some changes (like the diamond pattern), but it wasn't working very well with the rest of the design. Maybe I'll have another go at it if I have some time left before the deadline.
@urgaffel:
I added some dust to the metals, it should make them a bit more real.
Water drops on the inside of the glass? This is a game engine, not an unbiased path tracer
I plan to add some animated text decals (welcome to the ship, directions, animated arrows, etc.) for the final flythrough video which will hopefully make the concept with the screens more apparent. Something on the windows that dynamically points out stars and planets would also be nice; way over my head though...
As for water droplets, I was thinking a plane with normalmapped beads on it, or if you can, use the regular glass material on the corridor side and a glass material with fake droplets on the "bottom", the side closest to the vegeatation. I've never used CryEngine so I don't know how far you can push multi materials or if you can have several layers of glass without it having a hissy fit
Not much to crit unfortunately (or fortunately!) but I think it could do with more lighting variation to create a few secondary points of interest, and get more colour variation in there too.
Great work!
Thanks! In my experience, you can improve foliage just by placing a lot more of it.
Here's the flythrough:
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The lighting is a bit buggy in the beginning as my 3 year old laptop is struggling with rendering this in 4k.
High resolution renders available on my website: http://cargocollective.com/kristof/The-Generation-Ship
I love it!
awesome job!