UE4 Apartment; looking for feedback

ParksMarks

Hello Polycount, Baby's first post here!
I've been working on an apartment scene in UE4. My design brief is  "an industrial-style loft apartment owned by snooty retired folk"
My goal is to get it polished enough to use for various lighting setups. I want to do at least four setups, each of which carries part of a story
Being my first UE4 scene, I'd imagine that I've fallen into some traps that I dont know about. I would appreciate any feedback Polycounters have on this.
Thanks:D

PS: next steps! I wanted to keep all these lighting setups in the same level- is there any convenient way to do that, assuming I want to use lightmaps?

robochrish

This is looking good! One thing that I noticed is that the back of the couch and the wooden ceiling beams feel a little sharp edged. Maybe bake some smoother edge normals to use on these edges?

ParksMarks

An update;
https://youtu.be/Jkrt9WA2szY

vertex_

The sofa is lacking material definition. Look at the detail on the following image of a 3D sofa. The folds and and linen pattern on the fabric define the material. I would recommend sculpting some detail folds in ZBrush and baking them into your textures.



Looking forward to updates on this, you've put a lot of detail into this environment that I think will be enhanced by some tweaks to the materials.

ParksMarks

hi, thanks for the feedback:D
I remodeled some of the couch, and added a new trim/seam material, as well as a linen texture I made through B2M.  I was hoping to avoid doing any additional zbrush/marvelous designer, But ill redo the couch if you're not liking where this is going.
PS: next on my hit list is that pew in the forground