[WIP] Sci-fi Interior
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I've been working on this for a while, the obligatory sci-fi corridor for my portfolio. I was trying to tell a story with this. There are still elements I want to put in.
Some textures are still missing. And now I was trying to light, which makes me nervous and I never know what to do.
Shoot away your criticisms please.
Toolbag Render:
Some textures are still missing. And now I was trying to light, which makes me nervous and I never know what to do.
Shoot away your criticisms please.
Toolbag Render:
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Nice corridor scene. I like that you're adding the blood stain for some drama. I do have some crit for you.
Your metals should look like metal. It seems flat now. So try adding some gloss and perhaps reflection. This might help you within Marmoset. There's some examples for both painted metal and chrome mats. http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/materials
I would recommend when you start your lighting to go for something dramatic and dark to fit the bloody scene mood. Looking forward to what you come up with.
Keep it up!
The blood also looks like a flat red colour too - maybe have a look at painting different tones into it? Fresh blood gets darker in the thicker areas of it. Have a look at some reference images. As Flaw mentioned on the panels, if you add the appropriate gloss and spec/metal maps to the blood then it may start to feel a lot more liquid-y.
You might find lighting this easier in the Unreal Engine - a proper level editor. I've always found personally that the Marmoset Toolbag is better for viewing props/characters/materials as opposed to big scenes.
Keep us updated mate! This is coming along nicely.
See:
http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-theory
http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-practice
For your metal-heavy scene, it may just be better to go the metalness map route. Is it metal? Y = white, N = black. Takes care of your spec so you can just focus on your Gloss map (which is looking pretty flat right now). unless you're tackling rare or complex materials that would be the way to go.
On another note, not sure Toolbag is a great idea for an environment, even a smaller one. Do you have access to UE4? I just ask because the reflection probes might help make your lighting task a teensy bit easier.
I will try to make the blood stand out more dramatically. At this point I was still undecided if I wanted to go for the everyday-ups-i-stumbled-upon-a-massacre kind of look or straight up dramatic.
I will surely take this to Unreal. This is Toolbag 2 and it is definitely not for enviros...
I'll take a look at those links, though, thanks a lot!
So I've been fiddling around with UE4, and I like it a lot!
I worked on the textures some more. Yet I'm still not too sure about the lightning.
I'll post a new screenshot again when the blood and the rest of the scene are done.
What do you think so far?
It's a good start. I like the way the metal is developing. I would reduce the bloom and maybe go a bit darker with the lighting.
What are your plans for that window? I'm assuming that's a window on the upper left. Maybe some stars, or another part of the ship.
Also check the alpha on that vent (Bottom left and right), looks like I see some white on the cutouts.
Cool stuff!
Thanks for the feedback!
Do you know if there is a way to use the emissive textures as a light source? Or is it just point lights?
I made some textures for the window and I used the glass starter material as a start point for the window material. But it looks crappy. I'm not very technical, and that also ties into the starfield skybox problem. I saw some stuff online and it looks like a pretty complex node system...
I'll see what I can do
Thanks man! That means a lot
Emissive in UE4 just adds "bloom" and can't really be used as a light source unfortunately
This is how it looks so far. It doesn't seem to improve that much... I'm still figuring out how to do proper lightning.
Added a few effects and the blood.
About the blood. It is a material applied to a duplicate of the mesh on top. I don't know what kind of material it should be.
On one hand I tried a Masked Surface. The lightning works, but the cutoff of the alpha is driven by the opacity mask and it only uses the white value, and thus there's no soft masking.
On the other hand I tried a Translucent Surface. Even though the alpha is correct, driven by the opacity, translucent materials don't light the same way.
Any help would be great, I'm really striving to make a nice portfolio piece...
Looking a lot better now in Unreal.
When you've textured in that blood, have you done it literally on the mesh's texture - you should try using decals for that instead. Quickly searched on YouTube and found a tutorial on doing decals for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-1H6EGnOas
You'll be able to use this to make your blood look a lot better too, as the YouTube video goes through making a blood decal that is PBR-accurate
Wow thanks A Lot!
Not literally on the mesh's texture but on a duplicate mesh of this part of the corridor. I didn't know about decals. Awesome
Actually I'm not liking how the scene is coming together... I just doesn't feel right. Could you possibly point out what you feel is not working?
You were asking about what looks like it's not working:
I'm still not sold on the metal material. It looked a bit better in the previous shots, not sure if you altered it. I feel like the issue is in its reflective/specular property. There should be a more clear difference between the painted and non painted metal materials.
Reduce some of those large scratches and make them more subtle and concentrate on their placement.The tiling ones on the corners are too noticeable. Also, make the scratches much whiter on your spec maps to get that scratched metal look.
Inspirational stuff with texture map examples HERE
Good luck!