[UE4] GAS

Mathew O

Progress:



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So I decided to start a new scene a couple of days ago, more learning needed etc. Also I'm building this in Modo instead of Maya, forcing myself to learn it basically. So there'll probably be a lot of dumb mistakes in this thread! 



Right now I'm thinking I'm going to build a pretty regular looking art deco Gas station that could easily look straight out of the 50s but I also want to plug a very modern mech into it, I'm thinking the mech will be slightly animated and will look like it's powering a closed gas station somehow. It's a little inspired by fallout so I can't wait for my art book to arrive.

Mech Design so far:



My plan is to hopefully wrap this up within the next week or two before I get back to work so hopefully this thread will help with my motivation.

Feedback welcome!

DInusty

it begins.

Jack M.

I like what you have so far. Right now though I think there's some composition issues in regards to object placement and perspective. 

It's pretty flat as is. You might consider rearranging things in the scene to get some nice foreground elements and background elements.

Right now the angles and perspective lead me right off the image as well. If you could try and push towards the sign through some additional color, guiding lines, and lighting I think it would work a lot better.

I know it's pretty damn early in the process to be giving crits like that but just thought I would pitch in some ideas before you got too far in.

Mathew O

No that's awesome Critique, thanks Jack  

SaferDan

This is really cool so far. The idea reminds me alot of Simon Stalenhag's older stuff! 

http://www.simonstalenhag.se/

Mathew O

Haha I actually started this after buying a print of Simons work for my wall  

Mathew O

So I've made very little progress lately, not what I was hoping for but I've been side tracked. The last few days was spent figuring out how to bake / UV in modo. 



I've baked down the legs for the Mech, I'll do the body when I'm happy with the High Poly for it, I've also messed with my composition slightly but I'll think about it more when I have more assets in the scene.

Mathew O

I got my materials, decals etc set up in UE4. Here's a progress shot of that for the legs, Next is to finish the body and get that ready for the engine and then I'll work on the scene

Mathew O

I've been making a little turn table video to try and learn matinee + attempting to rig and animate. Here's a progress shot from tonights work:

Ged

this looks great so far, I need to learn some matinee soon too, let us know what resources you found to learn from if you find any great tutorials etc?

BARDLER

Looking good! The one thing that jumps out to me are your highpoly edges are really really sharp, and the edges are falling apart in unreal.

Mathew O

@BARDLERsome of them are definitely too sharp, I used the rounded edge shader in modo and never built a high poly in order to speed the process up but I haven't totally got the hang of the shader yet, I'll attempt a bit of re-baking and testing with it soon. Cheers Matt

@GED Thankyou dude, If I find anything good I will link it with the video I add

Mathew O

I eventually want the mech to move as it pumps power into the gas station in my scene so I figured I'd attempt to Rig it and animate it now as a test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAHhZTVeA18

This was the only real material I need to use the very basic matinee stuff I used: https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Matinee_Basics:_Creating_Your_First_Matinee_Sequence

Mathew O

Just a small bump, I've been working on this on and off in my downtime. There's still quite a lot to do but here's a WIP

Nuclear Angel

Impressive what you have successfully done with matinée, it will be fun to see you finish this. Will the end composition look like you have it now though or are you going to make more of a vide? 

Mathew O

Yeah, I plan on this being my final comp but i'll share a few other angles and I plan on having a short video aswell

Debasish

Awsm...

Mathew O

Couple of progress shots, I've been popping some random props on the back wall. Adding some gently swaying corn in the background and generally trying to remove alot of noise and everything was starting to compete for attention a bit  

Eric Chadwick

This is looking great. A couple things that stand out to me are how your blacks seem too monochromatic. Try pulling them up with a dark hue, a little color grading for the shadows.

A little fog would go a long ways to add depth in the scene. The first shot in your last post especially, but the others too. Rainy days are never crystal clear, not even when it's just a trickle. You could also try a little height fog, which is often better than pure depth fog.

The rain splashes are really noisy, and only seem to be showing up in the mid-ground. 

The rain drops themselves seem too sharp and in-focus. Too frozen-in-time, which make the scene seem even more static. I'd suggest trying some motion blur, or using a pre-blurred particle texture.

This scene is really coming along great, love seeing it come together!

Mathew O

Thankyou for the awesome crit man! I'll try and address it all

another caveman

Hey there

Good job on this so far !
I especially like the corn field shot.
I'd be curious to know a little more about it if you don't mind of course. Did you make your alphas [they're alphas right?] out of photography, or did you re-model a few leafs and baked it ?

Thanks
adrien

Mathew O

I just finished up a mech that was distracting me so time to try and finish this scene up! I've been flying around and taking notes about what to add / change. I want to keep a lot of colour but limit it to a few complimentary colours so that it doesn't look like a rainbow explosion

In the mean time, I added a temporary fence to tame that crazy corn!



@another caveman, I actually started out by building a sheet up multiple leaves and stalks from photo sources and then built the plant from those. Sloppy but it does the trick :P

FreneticPonies

Your thing looked done a while ago, nice work in continuing though!

amirabd2130

great job

Mathew O

Hey, thankyou guys So I finally made managed to figure out how to rig up my mech in modo, he was previously rigged in maya which killed any kind of iteration for me as this is an all modo scene otherwise. My tiny brain really wasn't enjoying that bit but it looks like it's working now, so hopefully I can start figuring out a power pump animation for the mech now and we can start getting some progress!

Mathew O

So making the rig / a test animation work in UE4 went much easier than I expected

Mathew O

Plugging away on small propping and material changes, I've been messing with the glass and adding some basic shapes inside the building to give some parallax when the camera moves. I'm probably going to take part in the modo vehicle challenge on artstation so I imagine this will slow down but here's a screenshot of where I'm at

Tobbo

I'm really liking where this is going - great mood and atmosphere. Nice work!

dystopianghost

Looks great awesome stuff, the material work is amazing. 

Gaurav Mathur

@Mathew O, looks great, and I'm always keen to see MODO at work on game stuff.  What are you using to generate textures?

macoll

Looks great, gg

Tomiajayi

looks amazing! not much from a full blown prerender.
what kind of polycounts/textures are in here? 
can you post a 3d viewer version ?

Nicorepe

Looks amazing man I really love the layout and dressing of the scene. Did you created a background story for the scene at first?

gfelton

Looks fantastic, love the "Keep Clear: Sentient Machinery" label

Composition--C

Dude, this scene is absolutely gorgeous!! This really inspires me to continue to work on my own UE4 project and reminds me what a joy it is to work in that engine.

mcgillchris

Any chance I could get a breakdown of that grass? Scene is looking gorgeous

Ohios_007

bad ass!

amirabd2130

this is looking awesome

Scott Ruggels

All the station needs is a coke machine of a similar vintage to those Gelbarco pumps. Looks great.

Murasam

@Mathew O There is so much awesomeness going on in this shot. The lighting is great. The texturing is top notch. My eye can't move fast enough to absorb all the greatness.