Sci Fi Corridor

Hermit_Homeboy

I am making a sci fi corridor based on this piece by Ricean Vlad.

My goal is to make it with only a handful of texture maps. I didn't make any high polys. I'm still figuring out Substance Painter but I think I figured out a proper workflow by organizing the assets that share uvs into it's own material and export them as a sample .fbx for painting. The ones below are just texture sets 01 and 03. I'll then vary the modular pieces further with the UE4 material instances. The only ones not sharing uvs are the doors because i plan to just make them vary with, again, the UE4 material instances.

Anyway, any critiques or helpful links/tips to an efficient ZBrush->Maya->Substance->UE4 pipeline that deals with modular assets are very welcome! Because I'm just flying by the seat of my pants here trying to figure it out.

Hermit_Homeboy

I'm gonna consider this first set finished unless there's any large critiques anybody has that I can get to.

Hermit_Homeboy

More modular pieces from 2 texture maps

Hermit_Homeboy

Slowly coming together.
Almost finished!...I think. Just have to finish off the doors and get down and dirty with the UE4 Materials. 
This project is taking *a lot* longer than I originally planned. But I'm using this as an opportunity to teach myself a proper game artist workflow.

Hermit_Homeboy

Finally, the doors! With a little extra work to make the red paint capable to change colour in it's material instance.

Now, to do the decals, a little vfx, and lighting...

Hermit_Homeboy

Final layout of all the meshes. Still fiddling with the lighting because I think I can get more out of them. Then it's some decals, some small VFX, and the part I'm most excited to get to: getting stuff to animate on the screens!

Hermit_Homeboy

static noise + flickering + panning textures =

Andreicus

I think that for the last gif, the one with the moving code on the display, it would make more sense if the rest of the hud was moving as well because the lines of code doesn't really blend well together with the rest of the hud. It seems that they are pasted on top of them. 

Hermit_Homeboy

@Andreicus Thanks for the input! Since my initial material had mask and emissive parameters, I was able to just make a new instance and changed it up for on the of them.



And with that, I am calling this! Done!!! Here are the final renders in Unreal Engine 4. With an added decal and some subtle dust motes as a little finisher.

artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GXdRB4





I'm still open to any comments, critiques, tips, tricks anybody may have and I can learn from and bring my future projects.

Hermit_Homeboy

@Andreicus Thanks for the input! Since my initial material had mask and emissive parameters, I was able to just make a new instance and changed it up for on the of them.



And with that, I am calling this! Done!!! Here are the final renders in Unreal Engine 4. With an added decal and some subtle dust motes as a little finisher.

artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/GXdRB4





I'm still open to any comments, critiques, tips, tricks anybody may have and I can learn from and bring my future projects.

CybranM

Why'd you keep the side polys? Theyre never going to be seen

Hermit_Homeboy

@CybranM Ah! Right! They aren't necessary. I had them initially because I thought it gave a tangible thickness but yeah, it was never going to be seen and it's really just for me. But you're right, I'll remove them because they're not needed. Thanks for pointing it out!

TheGabmeister

Hmmm..... Although you mentioned that this is done, I think you can still push the lighting a bit more to really make this scene awesome. You can take a look at sci-fi corridors in ArtStation and see how they make their scenes stand out.

Examples are the corridors from Doom (2016) which I've been recently studying. The artists do an amazing job of contrasting the lighter and darker areas against each other. Some of the scenes also have excellent implementation of bloom, fog, and volumetric lighting to deliver moody and atmospheric themes.

Hermit_Homeboy

@TheGabmeister Ooh! thanks for the suggestion! I'm still trying to figure out how to properly use lighting and fog to my advantage. But I haven't used Doom or anything like that as reference until now. Thanks! That's a great idea! I think I still have a ways to go but here's what I was able to produce.

TheGabmeister

Definitely looking better