Railroad Refueling - Environment[UE4]

AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

Hey Polycount. This is going to be a progress thread for some work I've been doing on the side. I've noticed that I've been procrastinating quite a lot in the last few weeks and its starting to bug me that I can't seem to shake it. So it was suggested that I start making a habit of daily work and daily posting, even if it isn't a ton of progress just some guide rails to get me back on track.

The concept of this environment is based heavily around a now deserted refueling station for a rail-line. I've always been very taken in with the Destiny-Earth architecture which is really similar to a brutalist style architecture. Lots of concrete, hard angles and fun shapes., think the Forerunner buildings from Halo. I want to play a bit with some scifi elements as I imagine this station was build in the near future and is now being re-explored in the far future.

I welcome all feedback and critique!

Link to Ref Imgur gallery http://imgur.com/a/7bsPy

Day 1: Some initial blockout work and testing in Unreal. A biggest chunk of work that I did over the weekend really, but we'll call it Day 1 since I am starting this trial from this point.

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AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

Day 2: Only a little work today. Added some train car concepts, I like the idea of them being magnatic rather then traditional train. I also added in a simple block for a fuel station and I'm still liking the idea of it being a liquid they're transporting. Took a day trip to do some bouldering in upstate new york and took a less then pleasant fall so I got home and did a little bit of work between icing my ankles. Hopefully will expand on the fuel station a bit more tomorrow.

Poinball · Oct 2016

Sup ! The angle of the train track is to eavy, im sure a Train cant pass without derails

AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

Day 3: Lost a little work because windows updates. But nothing major that I can't remake if I want, not really feeling the transport car, that might get nixed. Mostly focused today on getting the alcove aligned to some measurements so I can start laying out the pieces smart like. Still just playing around with the design.

@Poinball Are you saying the tracks are raised up too high? Sorry if you could clarify what you meant I'd appreciate it.

AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

Day 4: Getting some tanker ideas filled down quickly, starting to fill up the space and get a better idea of how I want the structure to be. Still a bit slow on progress but I'm happy that I'm able to make time to keep working.

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AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

Day 5: Working with some beams and further filling up the space with detail and structure. Also a bit more clean up work on the sizing of the larger pieces of the environment. Spent a lot of my time working listening to a combination of the music of spheres and doom 4 soundtrack, just trying to get into the right headspace. Hoping to have a lot more time to work this weekend! Yay!

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AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

Day 6: Working on a lift/loading section. Railing is super rough right now.

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AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

Day: 9 Took a few days off to catch up other work that needed to get done. But as I've rounded the first week or so I've already felt like I've learned a ton about blockout phase and really getting more into the right mentality of just going at it and trying stuff out. There is something to be said about finding your creativity when it isn't there, but I don't yet have the words to do it justice. Anyways, here todays work, filling in the space further and giving it more interesting structure.

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defragger · Oct 2016

he means the heavy incline. Railroads usually have very smooth inclines of 2 - 3 degrees maximum.

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AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

@defragger Ok, I understand and that makes sense. Fairly easy fix as well.

Day 10: Changing up the rail lines to look more similar to magnetic lines. Also doing a little restructuring so stuff fits together better.

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AdvisableRobin · Oct 2016

Day 11: Started working on some of the more low hanging fruit as far as creativity is concerned and blocked out the main doors to the tunnel.

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AdvisableRobin · Nov 2016

Getting some of the latest work inside of Unreal

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defragger · Nov 2016

looking good! Its always a good idea to place some dummy characters in the scene to get a feeling for scale and perspective.

Railroad Refueling - Environment[UE4]

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