Apartment Assets [WIP]

noosence

First time posting a WIP thread here, but I have been working on some assets for an apartment scene. Trying to achieve a "lived in" look with everything. I am using Substance Designer 5 to procedurally generate all of my textures.



Ceiling Pendant Lamp



Lamps and first pass of table inside UE4



...and second pass of table within UE4 with some updated textures and a lighting rework.

Any C&C is welcome, thanks for checking it out! =]

noosence

Okay just a quick post of the table final pass (I hope ._.)

noosence

Small update.



Ok so this one is not completely procedurally generated, but i thought it was funny =]

RogelioD

Any company relation to "Les Geo: Faceting Machine Maker" ? :P


haha your Mug is pretty great xD

noosence

Another small update, been busy at work and haven't had time to work on this that much the last few days -_-



@RogelioD Hahah yessss! and thank you sir! So I read on your blog you've just started at Bungie? How does it feel to be a made man?

noosence

First pass on this bar stool.

noosence

Got the wall and floor textures started today, and decided to take a screenie of my blockout so far. The lighting errors are from me just pasting the texture onto my block out material
o_o but all in all I think this scene is coming together. Hope you like and Crits are welcome, and probably needed! =]

Tobbo

Cool scene. What do your high poly meshes look like? And your normal maps? I ask, because some of your edges on your objects look pretty rough. If I had to guess I would say that this is probably due to your edges being too tight.

It's a cool scene and looks like it's coming together, I just hate to see it suffer due to this glaring issue.

If you want to read through these threads they may help:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81154

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107196

The materials and lighting looks solid.

noosence

Yeah I have been having a tough time with my normal mapping, I've read through both of those threads multiple times, and it still hasn't quite sunk in yet. So here goes all of the HP with and without wire frame and their normal maps.











Thank you so much for taking the time to crit @Tobbo, I've been waiting for some pointers =]

supaclueless

You should try looking into softening the edges for your HP model as they seem too tight for the overall scale of the scene and the normal map detail is just being lost due to the distance you are generally viewing the objects around the room.

Tobbo

Some of your edges on your bar stool do look pretty tight. I would try and bevel them some more.

Also something to keep in mind is if you have a hard/sharp edge you have to split the UVs into separate islands and you have to have edge padding for each island.

noosence

Alright I'll try to redo some of my bakes tonight. Would you possible have any references? I'm still trying to wrap my head around hard surface modeling. I think I might be sticking to the reference too much, but I'm not sure of where to pull things back in order to get a good bake. Thanks again for the help!

Tobbo

Have you seen this yet? Here's another great explanation:

Are you asking for references of how beveled your edges should be? Or where your edges are too sharp on your objects?

Stranger

This wont show up good at all on a normal.





This will show up pretty good and look good far away

noosence

@Tobbo that is amazing thank you so much!

@Stranger do you have wireframes of those two examples? I can see what's going on but not completely.

Stranger

noosence wrote: »

@Tobbo that is amazing thank you so much!

@Stranger do you have wireframes of those two examples? I can see what's going on but not completely.

im just moving the control edge farther away to loosen up the edge.

noosence

I rebaked the table and chairs and got some wider bevels on them.

noosence

Sorry it has been a bit since I've gotten the chance to work on this. I have got another small update, just some ceiling lamps and some doors added. I also recreated the temporary walls into a poly mesh and am working on fixing the lighting. Hope you like it so far! as always looking for crits. =]



new door



and new lamps

Tobbo

These are looking much nicer! Good job!

noosence

@Tobbo Thanks for the support it is very much appreciated =]





another small update. Added some trim, a few paintings to the walls and a first pass on the TV stand.

Nick Holdorf

I would add another light in the living room and another more like a sconce near the door.

Nick Holdorf

In the cone shape lights you could definitely get rid of about half of the edge loops. If its a straight edge then there is no reason to have to many in between.