[UE4] C5 galaxy reimagined

bsichterman

I decided to start a new personal project: the C5 Galaxy with a sci-fi twist. (interior only)
I never really made a properly planned environment on my own so it is about time to jump into UE4 and create a nice portfolio piece. 

The interior is very cloth heavy so I will have to use a lot of Marvelous Designer which provides a nice challenge. 

Here the picture that started it all together with Paul Pepera´s awesome latest spaceships:


I want to do something special with the interior, like having a submarine dropping system or something interesting/scifi to break up the emptiness. Not sure what this will be yet but hopefully something comes to mind along the way.  Suggestions welcome of course



Latest update:

bsichterman

I started a simple blockout of the scene. So far everything is fully modular and coherent to UE4 units. 

bsichterman

cancelled-reserved

bsichterman

Set up my blockout scene in UE4, and started making the first assets.

Quick marmoset renders:

UE4 Scene:

Did not do much lighting yet, gonna start that once I finished most of the assets.

CybranM

The cloth is looking really nice, what resolution are the textures?

bsichterman

@CybranM
Thnx! 
Right now all the cloth panels are using the same 4k texture. Might downsize this later to a 2k if needed.
I've had to deal with a lot of extreme optimization at work lately so decided to go all out on this one and not care too much about texture resolution. 

bsichterman

New screenshot from UE4, still working on the clothpanels. Hoping to finish them this week so I can start beveling them hardsurface edges!!
Lighting is fully dynamic now so no more baking, with the help of @DriesDeryckere , thnx Dries!

Also I decided to throw away my current submarine design and go for more of a research kind of submarine with lots of mechanical and moving parts. Update on that soon  

bsichterman

Working on a second layer of wall panels for behind the cloth. Because this is gonna be covered with pipes, random equipment etc I'm not making  detailed highpoly meshes. Instead I just add some rivets and small panel bevels with NDO and create generic tiling materials with DDO which I can quickly throw on any geometry.

And  I quickly added some red point lights because that makes everything look cooler right   

bsichterman

Started working on a tiling floor material. About 3 hours spend on it. Modeled a highpoly, baked it on a plane, added a few rivets with NDO and threw it in DDO. Did not do any painting yet, these are all slightly modified smart materials.

rdhalla

Wow this looks great. I am not a gaming artist and I have always worked in films. I love what game artists can and the quality you guys produce. I want to get in to game art. Is it hard?

Regarding your scene looks very nice to me As I said I am no pro in gaming,. but this blows my mind. the clothing looks very nice.
Thanks for sharing.

bsichterman

@rdhalla
Thnx a lot !
It depends really how much time you spend on learning it I guess. I've been doing it for almost 4 years now and devoted a lot of hours per day on learning it. If you're already doing art for movies then it wouldn't be that hard to switch I guess. The basics are very similar. The main difference with game art is that you really have to focus on performance so you will have to optimize a lot which brings some technical difficulties. Hope that helps, feel free to send me a PM if you have any more questions

bsichterman

Alllrighty, the project was on hold for a while but I started again. Here is the latest screenshot from UE4. Found out all my diffuse textures had the wrong SRGB setting so fixed all that, and worked on the ground mesh and materials a bit more. Up next: the benches on the side, more different wall-panel configurations and after that cargo! Bot gonna do the random sci fi addons like the submarine, but instead gonna combine different visual interesting elements from existing planes. Also gonna try the planar reflection from the latest UE4 update. 

wester

Love this it's coming along beautifully!  

amirabd2130

this looks great so far. looking forward to this

macoll

Will follow your nice scene thread, gg

xChris

Looks great! I eventually gotta jump into marvelous designer, love the results your getting for your environment! 

garcellano

Oh man, that cloth is looking pretty neat! Yeah I'll have to try out Marvelous Designer.

bsichterman

Thnx all!
Flew over to Holland to finish graduation at school, so no updates for a few days but going full power ahead when thats done

xChris

bsichterman said:

Thnx all!
Flew over to Holland to finish graduation at school, so no updates for a few days but going full power ahead when thats done

wooo congrats!

bsichterman

Thnx xChris!

I finally graduated so got more time to work on this now. Added some benches and roof tiles. Up next some more different wallpanels and wires cables etc.
Here is the latest screen: 

Seraphinn

Since your going for a sci-fi twist maybe adjust the cream coloured material to make it more like a hexagon pattern. Kinda like its both insulation and armour plated like Teflon on stab vests but with more hexagon or similar shape pattern? 
Looks amazing anyway mate no matter what. TBH its looks like a photo atm. really good work and congrats on graduating

bsichterman

@Seraphinn  
Thnx!
Im not entirely sure if Im going for that sci fi look anymore, I think I am just going to combine different interesting elements from different cargo planes instead. 

bsichterman

Yesssss, some more progress. all the new models reuse textures form already made models, simply modeling and overlaying UV's at the moment to save texture space. 
Still working on the walls, planing to have that finished within a couple of weeks and then its time for cargo.

bsichterman

Aaan took a break from the wallpanels and made a generic storage box. Quickly placed it in the scene to see what it looks like, gonna add straps and a metal platform later. Not sure about the scale, maybe Ill scale them down later.

gametime

you're doing great. Don't really know what to critique on here

Justin Wagner

Stunning

bsichterman

Thnx guys!
I still want to do something special with the cargo/interior, give it a story or twist but having a hard time to come up with any ideas. Suggestion welcome!

ANıL İŞBİLİR

bsichterman said:

Thnx guys!
I still want to do something special with the cargo/interior, give it a story or twist but having a hard time to come up with any ideas. Suggestion welcome!

Looking great, I really liked the ceiling material. Why not load it with a vehicle or a weapon really sci-fi, kind of an alien artifact maybe.

bsichterman

Thnx! Been trying some stuff and I think the weapon idea has the most potential, gonna start concepting this weekend

bsichterman

Was on holidays doing nothing for the first time in months when I remembered I still have this scene laying around. Now with volumetric lighting in the latest UE4 update it might be interesting to continue the scene I suppose... first test:



I still dont know what to fill the room with, might just go with ordinary crates and stuff. Or I put my scifi trike in here, but it probably doesn't do justice to both. Dunno  

macoll

Long time no news but still looks cool 

bsichterman

Thnx!
Here a super tiny small update, made some trims with pipes that im gonna use just about everywhere

bsichterman

Created a few new blockout pieces to see if it has potential, still not sure but im just gonna keep truckinnnnn. I really wanna start a new scifi scene completely reliant on costum normals and deferred decals but I should really finish this one first. The struggles 

bsichterman

Im still not feeling this scene... I think Im gonna abandon it again because its really not leading anywhere I want. Also I completely planned this wrrong when i started this months ago. So Im gonna start something new, completely reliant on master materials and custom normals with deferred decals. 

macoll

You can call it finished you know...;) nice scene btw