[CE3] Mountain Lodge

karatekodden

Hey People,

I have been working on this rustic mountain lodge back and forth for a while so I thought I should share it with you.

Ive been using a lot of different references for both the interior and exterior when it comes to layout, design and lighting.
Here are some of the references for interior and exterior

My main goals:
-Create an PBR environment, with both interior and exterior.
-Create two different light setup to see how the PBR works in different conditions.
-Try different techniques and workflows to expand my knowledge in different tools and programs.

You can find more images on my website: http://www.joakimstigsson.se/

I will probably do a breakdown when I get time and I'm also thinking about releasing the level with all the content for you to download and try out.
Please let me know what you think and Merry Christmas to you all!

DAYTIME:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xd3cEsFQxI"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xd3cEsFQxI[/ame]

NIGHTIME:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSj3cATL4SY"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSj3cATL4SY[/ame]

NIGHTIME FLYTHOUGH (60FPS)
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRtlTyU_dQ"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRtlTyU_dQ[/ame]

maxmead

Absolutely brilliant, quality is top notch.
Are they two separate environments, interior/exterior? Also what sort of time frame was this completed in?
Vertex 3 please.

Neoekamp

WOW that is some stunning work. I'd eat off that countertop.

Fwap

Wow! great job!

Chimp

Indeed, absolutely brilliant - good job!

First thread of the day while I'm drinking my cuppa and it's given me both inspiration and food for thought

Makkon

Absolutely stellar work!

Andy Horns

Wow that is incredible!

noscope

Very good! well done. The interior shot where the camera pans above the ceiling fans is so pro.

Sebvhe

Wow, just Wow !

gametime

incredible work, that's for sure.

I only got 1 suggestion: the distant mountains lack detail. So either increase the detail terrain view distance or replace them with objects.

cheers

ps: kinda reminds me of the lodge of Alan Wake

PrimePriest

Wow. Those outdoors jsut ask for some off-road driving simulator.

Perzik

Woooooow ! Beautiful work !

Pedro Amorim

Dudeee congrats on having finished this! Looks amazing. I wanna live there!

razz

It looks fantastic!

JamieRIOT

Just give me a moment whilst i pick my jaw up off the floor...

...Ok, I think it's back in place now.

Stunning work, congrats. Really hard pressed to find any crit that isn't real nit picking.

I second what maxmead said. Get this the hell in Vertex 3 if it's not planned already!

codyaq2

That is fkn incredible, absolutely awesome work!
The only thing that throws it for me is the outside water puddles don't seem as reflective as they should be...... i could be wrong though :P

Ryandec

that is just... phenomenal, damn u really inspired me to become better at 3d art :P

Zarakun

Usually when I found an environment appealing and amazing it doesn't necessary mean that I d'like to be there. But for your environment it's totally different just like Pedro said before I d'like to be there too. Congratulation for this level of quality and this constancy across the environment and thanks for the future breakdown .

How long did it take to complete this?

felipealves

Impressive stuff dude!

Bedrock

This is pretty crazy. The sheer amount of assets alone is astounding. Only crit is that it feels like there's too many lights on. It's a bit distracting in the daytime shots, whilst a bit overwhelming in the nighttime shots.

Havoc89

Amazing work, looks fantastic!

Numbtea

Crazy crazy crazy good

CreativeHD

Really good work!

3DKyle

Beautiful piece of work. Can't wait to see the breakdowns.

edwardsomatic

Holy sh.. absolutely incredible.
Breakdowns would be the best Christmas present ever.

pixelpatron

Impressive........most impressive.


Only crit from me would be your forest looks a little too perfect. Needs some trees that are dead/falling down etc.

steve0

This is really ace! Great work and now I want to go snowboarding. I have a few questions for yah.. Are you using Light Propagation Volumes for your interiors? And for your environment probes, are you using a global environment probe for a base. and local cubemaps to help gather important interior reflections?

Ervin

Looks fantastic. The only thing I would say is that with the sheer number of lights turned on the interior looks too much like a presentation center or something, rather than a natural home.

TrevorJ

this is all kind of awesome, looks great man

serriffe

Cryengine is still awesome-- nice work guy!

Kridian

I just want to spend a virtual Christmas in that cabin!

What's for dinner?

ParoXum

Obligatory praise here: Looking awesome! Now I get why you made so many knives months ago. :P

oxygencube

My jaw is on the floor. Fantastic. Would love a breakdown on this! :poly124:

polygoo

so awesome!

CordellC

good

Brygelsmack

That looks fantastic. That wooden living room table looks great.

Some asset breakdowns would be sweet. Bra jobbat!

djoexe

holy balls.....stunning work

Bigglesworth

Fantastic. And your Crysis 3 maps - the most beautiful game so far.

jacob07777

I feel dead inside... Nothing will ever be as beautiful as this. What do I have left to live for O_o

This is so good! Amazing work man honestly top notch.

nathdevlin

Stunning work, beautiful lighting and in general some great detailing. I love the antler chandelier.

The only thing that jumped out at me was the use of a normal map ( or the diffuse/albedo being used for shinniness / roughness ) on the dark worktop surface. I would expect this surface to be smooth.

Overall .... WOW !!!!

Alfred1992

This is probably the prettiest game scene I've ever seen o.o

karatekodden

Thanks for all the kind words!
Im really happy you guys seems to like.

maxmead: Its all made in one scene. I think I'm going to upload a camera flythough without any cuts to show the scene as a hole. Ive been working on this on and off though the year at evenings, but its really the last months Ive been pushing it to its finish state. Steam tells me that Ive been using CryENGINE 400h = 16 days


gametime: Thanks, I agree that the background mountains could have had a little bit more detail. I changed the view and lod distance for the renders. The first plan was just to have the mountains as a background from the interior, not to actually create an exterior. The hightmap I generated from world machine is a 4096x4096 but I could probably gone bigger. Might do a test to see how much difference it makes

steve0: Im not using Light Propagation Volumes since its been removed in the 3.6 version. Im using one big global environment probe for the exterior and then I have smaller ones for the interior. For the Global one I set the sort priority to 0 and the smaller ones to 1 which means they will be rendered on top of the global one.

Ervin: That was actually one of the intensions, I wanted it to look a little bit like a promotional commercial for the lodge

nathdevlin: I think I actually have some of that albedo information in my smoothness map, I remember it almost looked to smooth and perfect without nothing in the texture. I have also seen some marble floors that are a little bit more rough. But im gonna try to decrease the noise or remove it completely to see if I can archive a different look. Thanks for the input!

Thanks for all the comments!
I will defiantly do a breakdown of the lodge in someway, but first I'm going to celebrate christmas with some swedish meatballs!

Stay Tuned!
Cheers

synergy11

Nice work
What was your workflow for the grass and plants?

Did you use Speed tree or xfrog type software?

spahr

Wow, brilliant work. I'll be honest, kinda made me feel bad about myself haha. Self esteem is riding pretty low right now. Seriously though, hats off, this is really some of the best environment work ive ever seen, really great stuff, and going right into the inspiration bank. Thanks for making such pretty stuff

karatekodden

synergy11: Thanks! I pretty much hp modeled everything in 3ds max. Sometimes I imported a texture to a plane in 3ds max and then shaped the geometry after the reference picture. I then made some interesting shapes (bend, twist, ffd) to get enough variety. If i needed more detail I imported the object to zbrush for some sculpting. Then I rendered everything to a plane in 3ds max.

For one of the bushes I used fibermesh i zbrush to generate leaves to some smaller branches. I didnt use speedtree or xfrog.
I will try to cover this as much as possible in the breakdown

karatekodden

Hey Guys,

I added a new video on YouTube with one camera fly-trough to better show the layout of the scene.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRtlTyU_dQ"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvRtlTyU_dQ[/ame]


You can download the raw-video here (60fps):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ktkp4liqqnh2fck/mountain_lodge_nighttime_flythough.rar?dl=0

Cheers!

JamieRIOT

That new video is so f'in perfect. Beautiful work.

karatekodden

Some people were curious on how the scene runs when walking around in it. So I made a little video. Im running on Very High settings with tessellation and the fps is around 55-60. Remember that nothing is really optimized. If that was the case I think I would have had a more steady fps.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDEyM4qsvbo"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDEyM4qsvbo[/ame]



Im still thinking of releasing the hole scene for you to download.
Cheers

whats_true

Those table lamps are like, glowing orbs. They are so bright and yet they do not even for a second give off the same intensity to the surrounding objects. Tone them down by 50% and at least let them give off light and not just be bight for brightsness sake. This popped out at me in the daylight scene, were you cannot even see what those lamps are lighting up in the scene. Infact, just turn them off in the daylight. No need to have them on then. Same with the light bulbs for the ceiling fan. The cup holding the light bulbs for those is not even bright at all?

The gold under the helk head is crazy bright at night.

My favorite scenes are the close up night time shots. Great work.

karatekodden

Did a few renders of some highpoly assets. Will add some more later.

currve

I've already seen your CE3.com thread, these assets are just outstanding. I'm looking forward to your release of the scene! Thanks in advance joakim