Modular research center [WIP]

kelheor · Oct 2016

Current status: Environment is ready.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LF_-Sh9eec

kelheor · Oct 2016

New update.

I played with colors, materials and lights to make environment more interesting visually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG4_XeC8PaQ

kelheor · Oct 2016

Not too many changes today, because I spent around 2 days and did hundreds of lightmap rebuilds by experimenting with lightmass settings and UV for lightmaps.

Still have some issues, but now I know how to fix them.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/2c/p2d578msbfkn.jpg

kelheor · Oct 2016

I think I found the best settings for lighting. Now I have no visible artifacts and a pretty good quality while most of my lightmaps have 64x64 resolution(walls and floors have 128x128). To build a whole level on production quality I need only a 2 hours.

Adel0n · Oct 2016

Love the tree and colors, good progress!

kelheor · Oct 2016

A little update. Now all doors have a unique sign on them. I used a generator to make text for signs, so don't ask me what they mean.

Image: https://forums.unrealengine.com/images/smilies/smile.png

kelheor · Nov 2016

All rooms in a basic complectation now are ready.
Now it's time to add details, polish everything and make some optimizations to complete this environment.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/bh/disxd29zvstw.jpg

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pixelpatron · Nov 2016

Sauce

you mind showing your modular pieces for a breakdown?

KurtR · Nov 2016

Very cool and great way to exercise modularity. Thumbs up!

chrisevansart · Nov 2016

Very cool! loving the size of the environments!

kelheor · Nov 2016

pixelpatron said:

Sauce you mind showing your modular pieces for a breakdown?

At this moment I have something like this:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/hl/d00f7c1edpqn.jpg

macoll · Nov 2016

Looks kinda 'Mirror's Edge' to me, i love it...you could sell it at the Epic MarketPlace you know

kelheor · Nov 2016

Environment is ready.

I updated the first post, so you can see the final screenshots and trailer.

My goal has been reached. I learned how to make modular environments from scratch, how to configure lights and reflections, how to optimize level, how to use sequencer and a lot more.

I think I made a good basis for the near-future environment, which can be extended by additional props to suit different needs of different types of games.

I will try to publish this environment to UE marketplace. But because I used 4.14 for making it, I have to wait for the new UE4 release and after that around 1 month to complete submission process.

And now it's time to find a new project...

Modular research center [WIP]

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