THRONE ROOM - The Vendan Throne - Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith

Whelp...


Thought i'd go ahead and enter the fray. It's been too long since i've done a personal environment and this competition peaked my interests.

I checked out substance designer and decided that it's a pretty awesome tool so i figured i'd try and use it to the best of my ability in creating the textures for this scene.

I had some initial inspiration sheets compiled and laid out but i'm not going to post the because as i was modelling my block out scene it sort of organically turned into something else.









Here's some initial substance designer tests i did.

I created some substances that took normal and height information as inputs and then used that to generate finer details. You can see a stone and brass substance applied to a trim sheet i made here:




I'll start getting more granular with the assets as soon as i'm satisfied with my blockout. Cheers!

Ryan Smith

Been playing around with substance designer lately, trying to learn some decent techniques for generated worn edges and finer details.

I need to finish out my blockout asap so i can start modeling my environment =/

Orb

that stone texture is looking very good, just the right amount of details for great readability. Cool to see something clean for once when a lot of people tend to put way too much grunge on that kind of texture

d1ver

Great to see you join Ryan. Looks good so far. I'm loving the layout. Anything planned for outside of the main area of interest?

Ryan Smith

Here are some Substance updates.

First one is the brick with a maskable paint layer that adapts to the curvature and cavities of the underlying brick. i'll probably use that functionality in UE4 as a vertex paint mask or something.





The next three are just simple tile patterns that i can blend together with a master mask. I'll use it to get varying tile patterns and colors throughout the scene when i need to.







Cheers!

Ryan Smith

Alright well i've spent enough time learning Substance Designer 5.0 so i figured i'd post some updates to some of the textures that i've made to get started with.












And a preliminary shot in UE4 -- i've been experimenting with the Distance Field AO and how that looks here. Also making sure that the colors go well together and all that.