[UE4] Abandoned Hallway

Shirk

Over the last several weeks Ive been assembling a scene in Unreal for the Modular Environment course on CGMA with Clinton Crumpler. Its a 10 week course, which Im aiming to complete the environment in, and then release on the Unreal Marketplace. 

My goal with the scene was to create a small environment that I can focus on more details and lighting. I chose a location based off of the Kindergarten in Pripyat, but did not aim to follow the references completely. 

Here are some images of progress over the weeks 

Week 2:


Week 3: 


Week 4: 

Week 6:


Week 7:


I still have a few more weeks until the course ends, but any feed back at this stage is appreciated! 

Shirk

This week is the 8th week. Ive got a bit done this week with some smaller details, as well as changing some of the atmosphere a bit more to reflect a more intriguing space. 

pixelpatron

Mighty damn fine if I can say so. How much of the course covered lighting? (looks great)

ZombieDawgs

I really enjoying the sparse fog from the previous images more but regardless this whole project looks great.

Shirk

pixelpatron said:

Mighty damn fine if I can say so. How much of the course covered lighting? (looks great)

Only one week is dedicated to lighting, but we havent got there yet (week 9). I mainly took the course to get feedback from Clinton on my work as I often dont get any proper feedback and he is a fantastic environmental artist. 

ZombieDawgs said:

I really enjoying the sparse fog from the previous images more but regardless this whole project looks great.

I decided to go for a more dusty look after I got some feedback, and so changing the fog around was a good choice in that respect. It really helps define objects and separate them from the background better. 

Ashervisalis

Fine work you have here Do you think the course is worth the price?

Shirk

Ashervisalis said:

Fine work you have here Do you think the course is worth the price?

It completely depends on what you expect to get out of it and your level of comfort. The class says its geared towards advanced users, but Ive found a lot of it to be basic foundational information, a lot of it is theory based. So your mileage my vary.

RyanB

You've captured that spartan Pripyat look.  As a crit I would say the door frames and edges need some broken edges.  The tile in a few spots is too clean and needs some more depth.  Good stuff.

Shirk

Some more stuff so far this week.

bigodon

Fantastic light/illumination 😲

Shirk

Heres a comparison image from roughly the same angle. Week 3 vs Week 9.

fideorubio

hi @Shirk amazing work I love the material work on your scene are you using substance or quixel ? and would you mind sharing the process of achieving those craked effects on the walls 

Shirk

This is week 10, the end of the course. All I have left at this point is cleaning the files up and fixing a few lightmapping issues. 

cmc444

Wow, what a great transition this scene has made of the last few weeks!

Shirk

Finally getting around to finishing this. Pretty much final, just have to finish up some collision for a few props and then its done! 

CybranM

Looks fantastic
Personally I'd remove the letterboxing, I think the images would look better without it

Shirk

CybranM said:

Looks fantastic
Personally I'd remove the letterboxing, I think the images would look better without it

Its actually there because the UE4 Marketplace requires images to be 1920x1080 and the images were taking at a different aspect ratio. 

tinyworlds

Stunning work! Love the lighting and materials especially. Well done.

Zubnero

Nice work, would be interested in your approach to the peeled wallpaper on the final image  

Shirk

Zubnero said:

Nice work, would be interested in your approach to the peeled wallpaper on the final image  

A few people have been interested, but its just using parallax occlusion mapping, nothing fancy. 

tonyblu331

This is looking amazing!

hamigua123

It's a very nice environment! Could you share some process or tips about the lighting?

MustafaAl

wooow amazing work 
good job

Shirk

hamigua123 said:

It's a very nice environment! Could you share some process or tips about the lighting?

A lot of the lighting is faked, but a big portion of it is due to using GPU lightmass. 

Skamberin

Incredible environment and assets, I'm working on something similar at the moment, also set in Pripyat, and the way you've set up the peeling walls and general debris is inspiring!

Could you give some insight into how you created your props? Are they all using unique bakes or sharing a library of tiling materials and trimsheets?

Shirk

Skamberin said:

Incredible environment and assets, I'm working on something similar at the moment, also set in Pripyat, and the way you've set up the peeling walls and general debris is inspiring!

Could you give some insight into how you created your props? Are they all using unique bakes or sharing a library of tiling materials and trimsheets?

All the props are unique, except some such as the wall trim, some radiator pipes, and the metal bars which all share a simple trim sheet. 

nastobi123

damn, this is amazing work 

Shirk

The scene has finally been released! 
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/abandoned-russian-building