Underwater Scene | UE4

MaxHoek

This is a graduation project for our university

Feel free to comment and give us some feedback/critics

Current status:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJUGSN64EGo[/ame]

You can see we are still Whiteboxing...
Still no lighting placed

Some Pics:





At the end you can drive with this submarine in firstperson mode:
Still WIP




First ideas for shape of the underwater station:



For now i will update this thread every week.

Next steps:
-finish the blockout
-ground and rock textures
-blockout underwater station



Tim Maas
http://www.timmaas.de
http://linkedin.com/pub/tim-maas/b7/293/252

Max Hoek
http://max-hoek.de
http://linkedin.com/in/maxhoek

MaxHoek

WIP:












Every cable in this scene is an instance and are alligned with an "Path-Deform" modifier. So its easy to unwrap and easy change to lowpoly.

MaxHoek

Here the Updates to our Unreal Scene:

In the past days we created a lampsystem and the pipelinesystem. Every cable is a spline, so can be changed on the fly in the engine.
Still nothing finished, blockout status...

MaxHoek

Like i mentioned before, the pipeline and the cable system in the engine are splines.
Here you can see the nodes:

If you have any questions to this, ask me. I will try to answer.

nastobi123

This is fantastic. Dat Fringe tho.

MaxHoek

Now I finished the baking for the submarine. the whole cockpit have less than 55k tris.

...quick render in Marmoset

Next step ----> texturing

Shyralon

I really like this, can't wait to see the textured submarine, it looks great already

amirabd2130

looking forward to this.
submarine looks good

John Baxter

Looks amazing! There's a bit of a normal error on the middle cable coming down from the center console on the cockpit model, though.

MaxHoek

Yes you are right! I will fix this, thanks!

foreverlost

This is looking great. Thinking of getting any fish in there?

SHEPEIRO

Looks good. I would try some fairly heavy distance based blur (could hack the dof) to match the fog visibility to mimic the light scattering through the dense medium and maybe reduce the fogging a touch (maybe might be spot on already see when blurring is in)
This along with heavy flaring/bloom from lights can give a really good volumous feel to the water without destroying the visibility completely

timmaas

we plan to use a particle effect to spawn/despawn fishes in the scene:


although we are working a lot on improving our grass, plants and foliage



and we are working on improving our staion vista

MaxHoek

@SHEPEIRO thanks for your detailed help! Its very heavy for us to tweek the fog and postprocess to get the best underwater result. I will try to do what u told us.

DanielR17

Hi,
I also recommend the bloom usage. And I personaly think it's too blue. You can try to play with greener tones maybe or just desaturate what you can within your postprocess volume. Just suggestions.
The cockpit seems "pwah pwah pwah". Means incredible. Really good.

MaxHoek

Thanks for your feedback @DanielR17. We definitely need to change the overall look of the scene. Like the postprocess and other stuff. Bloom is a good idea, for now we have just a little bit, i will try to improve this some more.
Also i am very pleased to hear that you like my cockpit. Its a mess to texture it, but i think i could handle this

timmaas

We are still working on our Projekt. We updated thel lighting, the fog, the postprocess,the grass, added plants, added props and we are working on particles, fishes and a lot of stuff. Although we improved a lot of textures.
Take a look and feel free to comment our work.
Regards Tim

jayceel

Great work! When looking at all the screens I think upping the contrast would be great!

Ged

good work! its a bit flat at the moment, definitely needs more contrast in the foreground and more dramatic lighting to guide the eye

Mr_Cake_Fingers

Looking fantastic, I love when devs put care and attention into underwater scenes in games, so its great to see a project like this coming along so well.
I do agree with some of the above posts, that none of the colours are really popping. Giving either the organic of man made props more contrast would not only look nicer, but would also be a great way to show the disparity between the two.