Abandoned Subway Stations - UE4

stefmen

Abandoned Subway Stations - UE4

As my graduation project I'm working on a Abandoned Subway Stations in UE4.
I'm planning to post my progress from beginning till the very end here.

Latest screenshot




The beginning

So to start off with here are some blockouts:





And the first material made with substance designer:

[Deleted User]

Those broken plates damage looks more like corroded metal than broken plate.

fongoose

HI,

Nice Blockout. Should look awesome. The tiles should be smooth so try taking taking the bumpyness out of the normal map. The grime in your diffuse map should also apply in your spec map. The more grunge, the less shiny the tiles will be. Hope this helps

m4dcow

fongoose wrote: »

HI,

Nice Blockout. Should look awesome. The tiles should be smooth so try taking taking the bumpyness out of the normal map. The grime in your diffuse map should also apply in your spec map. The more grunge, the less shiny the tiles will be. Hope this helps

^This, I would actually make the grunge in the diffuse a bit more subtle too.

stefmen

Thanks guys for your fast feedback, I will defenalty look into it.

Filcomet

The lights you are using in your textured model are not really working with your textures, it seems unshaded. But you are doing great.

stefmen

Filcomet wrote: »

The lights you are using in your textured model are not really working with your textures, it seems unshaded. But you are doing great.

True it was a quick screenshot made in Keyshot, here it is in UE4


Next stop is changing the way the tiles are damaged.

stefmen

I just finished the damage of the tiles so it looks like they broke of instead of being rotten.


*The material is only going to be on the pillars, but for now i assigned it to everything so i could check my uv's

stefmen

ProjectEagleeye wrote: »

The brown really doesn't work well, also the damage does not look like broken tiles at all.
For example in the render of the pillar the places where there are no tiles (=brown texture) has a splash like shape. The tiles would not break like that. The brown beneath the tiles looks simply brown with very slight color variation. Usually tiles have some concrete underneath, with a rough surface. Things are a little hard to describe, but I would suggest to take a look at this
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=65161&PHPSESSID=8tms6f192ddpgu8dub3jbskrv6

You have a good start, but there is still room for improvement.

The pillar has no longer the splash like shapes, as you can see in the latest screenshot. It are hard angles now.

For the brown part you have a good point there

stefmen

I wans't quite happy how the first blockout turned out so I desided to go for a more traditional subway station with only one tube and a high seeling.

max blockout


UE4 screenshot

stefmen

Some more new screenshots

stefmen

played around with the light and fog.


Next stop, sculpting the ceiling.

stefmen

Update:
added some props, and started adding a lot of decals with graffiti

CandyStripes05

graffiti looks good, subd for more

stefmen

@CandyStripes05 Thanks.

Here's a new update with more graffiti, new roofstructure and posters.

CandyStripes05

the wear and tear on the cross beams looks upside down, it looks like damage done by leaking water over time which defies gravity :P

too many skids imo, show some of the track and break 1 or 2 skids or have them missing a board or two

looks good so far, nice to see it slowly coming to life

Cay

Finally, Another subway scene :P
I like the tile's pattern.. there's no obvious repetition.
Umm... It's kinda weird though that you don't get any kind of bounce lighting from your lights.. it's completely black above the shadow "line", while the rest is well lit
And you got a few light sources in there that have no model/source counterpart.. floating.

It's still a wip though, keep going.

stefmen

@CandyStripes05
Good ones thank you for your feedback.

@Cay
Your right that some light sources are still floating those will become emergency lights and oil lamps.

The overall idea behind all the pallets is people lived in this station so the filled the tracks with them so they can place some beds and stuff on there to live in the station. But more of that will become more clear in following updates

stefmen

Here are some new screenshots.





Next stop is more small props like cans of food.

Cibo

The floor with tiles is not the most common way but to fit the tiles diagonal is maybe to much unique architecture.

The pillars are good but the clipping in the arc is heavy. Maybe dont make the tiles this high the same with the beams which are tiled to.

The ceiling is to dark. It looks like raw concrete without paint.
Watermarks can help for the muddy look or when you have open fire smoke stains.

JustGarry

Watch your graffiti placement, it's very colourful which means that the eye is drawn to it making it hard to get a good composition (could desaturate a little) also realistically the graffiti would mostly be human height, i.e. not much more than 6 feet, the graffiti on the crossbeams doesn't make much sense.

stefmen

I call this project finished for now...