[UE4] Cyberpunk topdown shooter game [WIP]

turbinea

For a while now I've been working on my personal project. Finaly i got it into something i can show so, here it is.
Topdown shooter in cyberpunk-ish setting. Made with Unreal engine.

cg_michal

Looks beautiful, and I'm looking forward to this game, I will follow the topic.

Chidambhar_Swaroop

wooh !!! Looks nice... Looking forward ...

lotet

thats sweet looking, love the last shot with the sun coming on through the buildings.
Subbed.

r4ptur3

awesome!

Filip5

It reminds me of alien swarm on steam. It ts is a nice work.

PolyHertz

Looks great! Reminds me a bit of Ruiner.
Keep us posted.

Generic_Human

this one is looking really good !

garcellano

oOOoo, nice!  

turbinea

Thanks guys for nice comments! I somehow managed to record short clip showing the game in motion.
EDIT: For some reasons, embedded video wouldn't play for some people so perhaps this link helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtlincgUrCk

faith_august

This looks very cool!

lotet

Even bettter in motion, I see the embedded video though, so it looks like its working.
I assume the anims are placeholder, cause they look a bit wonky in places.

kohg

Dude, this looks stunning. You did it all by your lonesome? What was your inspiration?
Have you played shadowrun returns? you should give it a try

turbinea

Yeah, anims are temporary, i just cobbled together simple system to see how it feels in game.

I played Shadowrun, but sadly I don't have much patience for turn based combat. Somewhere in the middle of second turn I'll start telling myself: these enemies should be dead by now. But no, i have to go trough few more turns. Beautiful game, but gameplay style is not for me.

As for inspiration, it's all usual suspects: BR, Gits and so on. Plus realworld places like Hong Kong, some Chinese cities and so on.

Apocrs1980

Solid work man, loving the environment and lighting!
 This looks very promising.
Reminds me of a top down Contra, hopfully you plan to have large boss enemies that would be sweet.

DannyArt

Wow! This looks amazing! Following this topic!

Guma3D

Looking awesome~!

snake85027

looks awesome, how did you do the textures for the walkways? Also can you explain the UV layouts of the walkways as well. Its complicated and I like how you dont really see any patterns, so just curious on how you accomplished that. thanks

turbinea

thanks guys!

Large boss is on my wish-list but since I am the one who makes things happen here... we'll see

@ snake85027
The variety is quite important to me as I prefer to avoid repeating elements if I can help it.

I have several tiles i combined into variable combinations, here a the ones I use most. i have more of them but I use them only when I remember I have them


As for the mesh and material.
Mesh is flat plane with texture tileable in all directions. The black lines you see are strips of polys that hover little bit above main surface and those strips have simple material with normal map showing panel gaps and other small detail. There is thread on this forum about star citizen technique. Basically same stuff except i avoid fancy blending lines into underlying surface, polys are just hovering above surface.

In the material i use texture mask to blend between two materials, that's where you can see those larger scratched areas.
Then you can see some of the panels darker than the others. In my material i have small section that takes my tint mask and it uses colours of that mask to tint the material. This is supported by unwrap that is divided into areas of the tint mask.
I myself am not sure if I make enough sense. Hopefully this image will add some clarification:

Crazy_pixel

The deepth of the buildings and streets is really nice, I have the feeling on an endless city.
I hope that your project will be a multiplayer game ^^

What is the Plot behind your project?

macoll

I am not a fan of TopDown but you did an amazing mood job man! I just want to play

turbinea

Thanks guys, it's nice to hear you like it.
@Crazy_pixel The plot mainly revolves around gang infested lower parts of vast megapolis and hero's quest to gtfo from there. There is obviously more to it than that but that's still very WIP.

snake85027

thanks for the explanation on the tiles, i love cyberpunk

lotet

that tiny story summary gave me a kind of judge dredd vibe, I like it.

Luxap

Daaaaamn, this is looking super sweet man, love the gritty feeling and the balance between the colors!

marks

Came into the thread not expecting much but that is cool af 

turbinea

Thanks guys for kind comments, here are few screenshots of progress i made in past week or so.

lotet

Looks good, when can we see some more gameplay? also whats the plan for the character?

turbinea

I need to finish/make few more tiles to get enough playable space. That's ~2 more weeks, hopefully not more. I'll make some videos then. Afterwards I plan to switch my focus on the characters, weapons and so on.

CarlK3D

I like the look, keep us updated.

turbinea

So, after about a month of environment building i have longer video to show

Next step - characters, weapons, fx. Wish me luck!

Few screenshots:

lotet

wow, you've really been building away I can tell, that scene is massive. cant wait to see the rest

not sure if it fits your gameplay, but it would be really cool to see some crowds of people walking around in that environment.

TheoClarke

This is really inspiring. I love the lighting and use of particle effects. Great work so far.

I would suggest adding more props to the playable area, e.g trash cans, boxes, benches, food stands etc to add more flavour to the areas. You could use them to really clearly define what an area is and what happens in the area, such as putting a bunch of tables/stands to make a market.

turbinea

Thanks for suggestions guys!
I want civlians only in few areas. General idea is that  these city levels are being 'slowly' abandoned by the authority and gangs are filling in so, first sign of trouble and anyone not willing to fight runs away. It ties to story and gameplay but that's way to early to even think about it.
i will definitely add some clutter there, some of it will be there just so player has something to demolish

alex_kim

Super awesome!

I wish one day I can play your game. :-)

FreneticPonies

Loving how this looks, especially all the steam. Just make it local co-op, not crits I just want to play !

Larry

Hey mate this seems very very nice and i would definately play such a game! One thing i have as a suggestion, usually these kind of environments with so much metal in them, they have a "colder" feeling, so you might want to tweak the lighting from this yellowish warm color, to a bit cooler one.  Just a suggestion though!
And one question, all these cables, seem like alot of geometry for a little visual payoff. Are these cylinders indeed or just something else?Do you have them as modular pieces or individual pieces?

Menchen

Larry said:

Hey mate this seems very very nice and i would definately play such a game! One thing i have as a suggestion, usually these kind of environments with so much metal in them, they have a "colder" feeling, so you might want to tweak the lighting from this yellowish warm color, to a bit cooler one.  Just a suggestion though!
And one question, all these cables, seem like alot of geometry for a little visual payoff. Are these cylinders indeed or just something else?Do you have them as modular pieces or individual pieces?

Those are probably planes/quad strings with the "cables" texture

turbinea

Larry said:

Hey mate this seems very very nice and i would definately play such a game! One thing i have as a suggestion, usually these kind of environments with so much metal in them, they have a "colder" feeling, so you might want to tweak the lighting from this yellowish warm color, to a bit cooler one.  Just a suggestion though!
And one question, all these cables, seem like alot of geometry for a little visual payoff. Are these cylinders indeed or just something else?Do you have them as modular pieces or individual pieces?

At the moment i am working on characters, so there will be some time until I'll start doing another pass on environments, but I will definitely keep colour scheme in mind. Variety of visuals is very important part of game feel, so thanks for the suggestion.

Little bit too late I found out that there is a 'Cable' shader in unreal so the cables are just meshes with triangular profile. Polys facing up have same smoothgroup so cable looks more rounded than it really is.
I will look into that shader later, it seems very useful thing but i need to find out how expensive it is compared regular geo.

I think cables are quite important part of the scene as they provide parallax movement and help define vibe/feel of the environment.

Assets are in variety of groups ranging from single hanging cable to bundles of cables. There is quite high amount of cable in the scene shown bellow and in total it is around 27k polys. Nothing really, considering budget of modern games.

shayleen_hulbert

Love the colour grading in this! Really cool stuff!!

Vendetti

ooo this looks so pretty 
excellent work! 

turbinea

It's been some time since i posted anything so perhaps short video wouldn't hurt.
Still has some visual bugs, sound glitches a lot, but it's something

lotet

something feels of with the characters movement, Im not sure if its in the animation or the actual move and rotation speed though.

other then that its looking really cool, glad to see your still working on this.