Jack Gathercole - Games Art Student - Work Thread

Zakara

Hey Guys! I'm working on a project for University, I have to create an environment (interior/exterior) in Unreal 4.

Just starting off this discussion with my most recent asset, a Persian rug created with the use of parallax occlusion mapping. I'm fairly new to UE4 so my node tree might not be fully optimized for performance, so would appreciate crit towards this asset.

Hope you like it!



Node Layout:

KaiserKloud

I like the parallax effect, hope somebody with some info about it can helps you, i'm curious to learn more about parallax.

Zakara

KaiserKloud said:

I like the parallax effect, hope somebody with some info about it can helps you, i'm curious to learn more about parallax.

Thank you! It's really effective once you understand how the value parameters work

ahmeduchiha

the rug shape is a plane ?? 

Brian "Panda" Choi

This turns me on.

aclund3

I can't imagine the mesh is a single plane if it has 280 tris, hahaha.  How did you go about creating the mesh for this?  Super interesting and looks pretty good

Kanni3d

Nice results! I've done this similar POM on a rug as well. There's a video on youtube of someone going over it pretty well, explaining the math behind some of the nodes. 

The mesh is just chamfered rectangle pretty much with one smoothing group.

Zakara

ahmeduchiha said:

the rug shape is a plane ?? 

As @Kanni3d said, the base mesh is a very thin rectangle with a beveled edge just to support the smoothing once imported into Unreal.

Zakara

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

This turns me on.

I'm crying XD ahaha, thank you! 

Zakara

aclund3 said:

I can't imagine the mesh is a single plane if it has 280 tris, hahaha.  How did you go about creating the mesh for this?  Super interesting and looks pretty good

Believe it or not, its just a rectangle with minuscule edges just to provide some depth. Simply created a cube primitive in Maya, stretched and squashed until happy and beveled. Done. Thank you for the kind words!

Zakara

Kanni3d said:

Nice results! I've done this similar POM on a rug as well. There's a video on youtube of someone going over it pretty well, explaining the math behind some of the nodes. 

The mesh is just chamfered rectangle pretty much with one smoothing group.

Absolutely! It's a really nice way to give off the effect of fabric tufts that make up this style of rug. 

aclund3

If anyone could link the video that @Kanni3d mentioned I'd appreciate it.

@Zakara That's really interesting the mesh is so simple, but then it really does make me wonder why so many tris, and what they're doing...

Kanni3d

@aclund3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hoT8fJJgoU

aclund3

Awesome! Thanks @Kanni3d

Zakara

aclund3 said:

If anyone could link the video that @Kanni3d mentioned I'd appreciate it.

@Zakara That's really interesting the mesh is so simple, but then it really does make me wonder why so many tris, and what they're doing...

In all honesty, I could reduce the tri count, but as i'm working to deadlines for this project... it would be something I came back to

Kanni3d

@Zakara I wouldn't fret, those tri's are peanuts, and are crucial to have that sort of result, as it wouldn't come out as well if the carpet was just 1 polygon plane.

Zakara

Been working on a blockout of my environment in Unreal 4. It's taken longer than I thought, but because I was working to an exact scale.. it should be worth it. Precise measurements were used from sources released by Hannibal's directer Brian Fuller.

Design Documents:



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