Radio Nowhere (Complete)

MBS320

Pun in the title aside; This is the current environment I'm working on. Its based on this beautiful resort a friend visited a few months back and I was so taken in by the architecture and style, that I just had to work on something similar.

This is the original block out-




Here's my current level with most objects modeled and set in the scene with a 1st pass on lighting-




Speaking of which I'm currently have errors with the light map bakes in the level. I'm getting a powdery effect towards the far corners of the room. Almost as if its not sampling enough or something. I've tried-
1. Increasing lightmap density resolution.
2. Increasing num of light bounces, indirect lighting quality and turning down static lighting level scale to 0.5, but it didn't fix this.

Any suggestions?


Thanks

Olingova

Hi there

Already looks good, could you maybe show your lightmaps UV? Maybe its some kind of bleeding, the easy solution would be to use higher padding for the UV 2. Lightmap resolution always help obviously but its highly related to the perf you want to reach. Keep it up!

MBS320

Olingova said:

Hi there

Already looks good, could you maybe show your lightmaps UV? Maybe its some kind of bleeding, the easy solution would be to use higher padding for the UV 2. Lightmap resolution always help obviously but its highly related to the perf you want to reach. Keep it up!

The UVs are flattened/automatic unwraps cause I'm still finishing the block out stage. I havent thought about padding, but I'll try that. Thanks!

RustySpannerz

Looks very nice so far, very atmospheric! 

MBS320

RustySpannerz said:

Looks very nice so far, very atmospheric! 

Still some way to go, but thanks

MBS320

Moved all the final low poly assets to Unreal, then baked them with Painter and then finally exported the texture maps out and synced with Unreal Engine. 2 hours of clicking and clacking and I can finally do a 1st pass of textures with this setup.






Roughness and AO is off the charts lol

MBS320

Its amazing how much time just flies by in Designer, and not even more than a 1st pass for some of these lol.

MBS320

Redid the lighting and postprocess. Then, did a 1st pass on more props.

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First pass on most things done. Already on the second. Better lighting and post process too.

MBS320

I felt like the environment was lacking story telling/narration + it was falling flat towards the far corner of the room, so Im pushing this more from an abandoned to a desert outpost setup. I spent the past few days modelling, unwrapping and baking some more assets. I'm not set on the final layout of them nor do they have a 1st pass of textures, but this is where it is right now.

MBS320

Finished texturing the new props. Also did a 2nd pass on some of the other stuff in the room. I also selected my 'money shots' and now working towards better lighting/composition based on them. I'm currently between light map builds so some stuff looks weird (like the white desk for eg.)

I'll post more once I have a better light map build. Currently I'm averaging 3hrs per light map build

MBS320

Close to the end for this project. The only major things left are all decals maps, wiring and I have to get the camera depth fade to work with the light shafts.

MBS320

Small adjustments...

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And its finally complete! I'm not too happy with the roughness values of the level which I toned down a little too much in the hope of making it dull and drab. I mean I got the dull/drab look and feel of what I wanted, but I feel like i should've exaggerated the roughness more so that it was artistically on point- but oh well. On to other things!

Artstation Post: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WDZwv

Quick video render I made using Sequencer....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t23CXgAFaf8


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