Abandoned Hallway

LucasJosefsson

Hi Polycounters! Working on an abandoned hallway environment right now. I found an image that I thought looked really nice, I'm not going to follow the it 100%, more just use it as a referance to start from. The biggest focus of this project is to have nice materials and nice lighting. 

LucasJosefsson

Reference 

Kid.in.the.Dark

Lovely reference choice, I'll be keeping an eye on this

LucasJosefsson

Playing around with some different colors right now. What do you think? Net up is to make the opening at the end.

3DMad

I like the red one ..something about it just suits the scene.

LucasJosefsson

Update! 

Getting close to done I think. I'm gonna add open doors on the left side as the reference. Still tweaking the lighting, when i'm looking at the older pictures I think this one maybe have a little bit too much yellow in the light. What do you guys think? Any feedback about how i can take this scene to the next level is very appreciated!! 

LucasJosefsson

Okay I did some color correction, post processing and added doors. I'm feeling pretty happy with this now andI think I'm going to try to light it in night time as well.  Feedback please!

LucasJosefsson

I added a blue piece of cloth to get something more going on in the scene. 

LucasJosefsson

Does anyone know how to get a softer shadow from the directional light? (The light coming in through the left doors hitting the right side)

B18

Hey Lucas.  I took the image into PS and did a quick update.  I think that this is looking great.  Next step is atmosphere.  A bit of DOF, and some dust particulate in the air.  Looking great.

ParksMarks

LucasJosefsson said:

Does anyone know how to get a softer shadow from the directional light? (The light coming in through the left doors hitting the right side)

You might try using UE4's raytraced distance field soft shadows, which you can read about here;
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/LightingAndShadows/RayTracedDistanceFieldShadowing/

Alternativley, you could do that bouncecard lighting. mentioned here:

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/simulating-area-lights-in-ue4

Your hallway is looking awesome! I'd recommend moving the camera down to at least eye level- you could emphasize the height of the room that way, and avoid some horizontal tangents.

LucasJosefsson

@B18 Nice! The icey blue that you did looks really cool. The dust looks really great as well. If Anyone knows a good tutorial for how to do dust particles, please share

LucasJosefsson

@ParksMarks Thanks for the tips I'll check that out and. And thanks for liking the scene, appreciate that!

LucasJosefsson

I Added some dust particles and a little bit of DOF. I'm pretty sure this is the final shots now   What do you guys think? 

Vincent3d

Really nice! Love the particles and the lighting! How did you get those particles in? Any tutorial?And are you using plane for the light rays or just the one from the directional light?
Anyway,it looks awesome good job!

LucasJosefsson

Thank you! @Vincent3d I based the particles of this tutorial HERE. Yeah the light rays are cones with a light shaft shader. 

Jakro

This came together really nicely. Good job!

LucasJosefsson

@Jakro Thank you, appreciate it!