Environment : HalfLife : Black Mesa Tunnel (Done)

rogelio

Update...  Well I am done now   could keep going forever on this but i think I am going to call it done and move on had a lot of fun with this.





Some break downs here



Ref.  I am not going to follow this 100% just get the gist but I will also add other elements to it.  Still unsure if ill go with either a collapsed tunnel or something else.

rogelio

Still going... some better lighting.  Atm still in the block out stage just getting all the main elements in.  The tunnel will go further just need to keep copying.

OctOstera

Very nice to get to see your progress Rogelio! Looks really solid. Following!

Corley

looks awesome

gerbilho

I like it! Already looks better than the reference image.

pixelpatron

Man, it's getting harder and harder to keep up with all the awesome shit going down on Polycount. Lookin' good.

rogelio

Still going added lamps mid rail and a bunch of wire tweaks.

gsokol

Looks nice so far!  You mentioned maybe having the tunnel collapsed or doing something else, I'm interested to see where you end up in that regard.

Sajeet

Really nice! If you dont mind i would love see the wireframe, im really in to making environments and trying to wrap my head around some of the modelling aspects

rogelio

Messing about. Almost done with the block out.

Sajeet: The wire is super expensive and dense. I am not intending this for realtime or game art anymore.  I could, but decided I just wanted to make a high res envio instead.

gsokol: still not sure what ill do for the end I have something in mind but ill leave that in till a bit later in the mean time I put a slender man.

Sajeet

Ah i see! Well thank you anyway im chipping away on my own subway station/tunnel. Would love to see the final result

Opilo

Wow, that looks so cool! And so clean, it's kinda soothing. Superb work! 

rogelio

Started making some Mats now.  Substance wood material for the rail blocks.  All Substance Designer

rogelio

Now some rough wood to blend to the cleaner one. All substance.

NoRank

Damm, really wanted to see a game ready environment. So far it's looking really nice, I don't even have to say that your materials are amazing as always. 

rogelio

Materials with my new Material Ball Concrete, wood, and wood rough.

rogelio

More Mats Rust with metal bits, Concrete Rough, Wood Rough Edit

NoRank

I had the feeling that the concrete had a really similar color to the woods mat, but now with these details they are really looking different.

EternalEcho

killer mats Rogelio.  I aspire to be a fraction as competent in designer as you are.

Jaston3D

I'm ready to enjoy the show

rogelio

Thanks   More Mats

As you see I am adding a small layer of noise in photoshop here is way too strong lol... but meh more mats

rogelio

Painted Metal

Basic setup

rogelio

This one will be more the Shader properties for everything, but you can see the test. dust material is going to be used on everything in the scene from worldspace slope, ao blend etc to really give that extra touch of detail. Dusty Metal, Dust Mat.

rogelio

Started Zbrushing first assets for the main tunnel.  Making two variants to bake on a low, the rest of the detail will be done with texture blends in Unreal.

xChris

rogelio said:

Started Zbrushing first assets for the main tunnel.  Making two variants to bake on a low, the rest of the detail will be done with texture blends in Unreal.

Are you planning on just utilizing the normal map information from your sculpt? Or do you usually do an albedo pass with a sculpt like this and also do material blending on top of that? Looking good! 

rogelio

@xChris I mostly use the normal, ao, and height maps and run a few passes in substance for edge wear masks to use in engine.

rogelio

Did some more sculpting and baked it in substance designer.  Below is the raw bake, also some wires I am going game res belive it or not we spend way more tri in ND environments so this is not that extreme...

rogelio

Wood Planks so exciting! Images ZBrush, Baked, and Wire. Again just mid size details the rest will be done with tile textures.

DanielR17

Hi Rogelio, do you use UV Master in ZBrush?

rogelio

@DanielR17 nope I uved it in maya

NoRank

Did you use decimate?

So far it's looking really nice.

rogelio

@NoRank Yep though I did some clean up in Maya afterwards

NoRank

So I have a question about that since I don't normally use decimate to build my lps, how do you actually UV something like that? Isn't that a lot harder to make the uvs?

rogelio

@NoRank Yes it does become harder.  Not so much different... it depends on the model.  Also If I was making a an asset that required Tighter UVs I would definitly Retopo cleanly and Uv it properly.  With this kind of general shapes I can afford a little bit of slop.

rogelio

Some props for the scene textured.  Stickers and stuff will be done a bit later.  Not sure if I want to them as part of the texture or decals.

Chimp

lovely work what are the blurred normals for?

rogelio

rogelio

Chimp said:

lovely work what are the blurred normals for?

What do you mean?

Stavaas

rogelio said:

Chimp said:

lovely work what are the blurred normals for?

What do you mean?

I think he means what you use them for in the node graph further up.

Props are looking great man, looking forward to seeing them all in the scene!

rogelio

Stavaas said:

rogelio said:

Chimp said:

lovely work what are the blurred normals for?

What do you mean?

I think he means what you use them for in the node graph further up.

Props are looking great man, looking forward to seeing them all in the scene!

Oh yeah. The reason I am doing that is to soften the normal that is coming from the metal materials. When paint is applied to a surface the surface becomes slightly less sharp due to the paint spreading into the cracks and finer areas so llbluring the normal when paint is applied works as the same idea for the painted metal.

rogelio

It has been a while went to NYC on holidays so here is everything in Unreal now. all uved and ready for materials   Next first pass materials and morel lighting tweaks I need more general ambiance.

sebdeguy

It is absolutely mesmerizing and wonderful to follow you Rogelio. Very inspiring and informative process. And beautiful materials, as always. Can't wait to see next steps!

rogelio

@sebdeguy thanks man   First pass materials now time to grime it up and add the final touches.

rogelio

Black Mesa.  Yep this was always going to be a Half Life Fan piece. 

Syros

Always inspiring, learned heaps, Its amazing to see you use decimation in your asset creation, really smart and fast, awesome \m/  thanks for sharing man, you Rock \m/

rogelio

@syros Thanks   As tech gets faster and we can use more polys we are able to be a little bit more wasteful which is nice.

NoRank

Half life 3 confirmed haha. Very nice job rogelio.

Makkon

This is just beautiful. Amazing materials, solid assets used effectively, spectacular color and light. I look forward to seeing more pieces from you in the future!

As for decimation, I use it at work for stone and wood from sculpted assets too. It's not bad, but needs some cleanup a lot of the time. Might have been a bit much on the large concrete pieces, but no judgement here

Nicorepe

Really cool!

FreneticPonies

Ooh looking good, keep going!

OneHotDay

Nice work !
May I ask since you're working with Naughty Dog , what game engine do they use for their game?  Just out of my curiosity to know.