[WIP][Environment] The fog and the city

conflig

Hi. I am working on a scene based on concept art by Ismail Inceoglu
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/K2Ke9



The goal is to create an environment for a 3rd person game. Similar to Uncharted series. 


I have my basic Blockout done and now I am working on assets and lighting. (All artificial light are just a place holder)
I would really appreciate your thoughts about the lighting, composition, mood.. pretty much everything   





As my main inspiration (besides the concept) I am using Uncharted The lost legacy. I am trying to create a mood similar to those images below 





Some technical things 
I am using fully dynamic lighting 
All main building are modular with an tileable textures




I have created 8 metal pieces with 3 different textures variants. From them I have created all shops, small building and sime details on the main buildings 

PolyHertz

Seems like a good start.
The torn cloth in the reference image, along with the smoke effects, are what I think will really sell the scene once you get to them.

conflig

Still working It is lots of fun so far and I am constantly forgetting to update this thread  

conflig

Ok.. So as I was building the scene I was focusing on being as faithful to the concept art as possible. But I have ignored the player perspective..  

So have remade the right side and created larger cities around the main area. And I think it helped a bit.. 
Right now I will focus on mid and small props to fill the shops.

conflig

Hi. The scene is finally done 

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VdQl2X



[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDZUbW1OWB0[url]

I hade some problems with the fog sheets (p_mist_lit_still) form epic.. they were working great in the editor but now in the cinematic.  The problem was in LODs you need to change setting to "Direct Set" 

Also, the camera exposure was different from the editor. I hade it set to a specific amount but again, in cinematic it wasn't working. I hade to go to the Post process volume and set it in Lens/exposure and exposure compensation.

If you have any question or critique please go ahead

TheGabmeister

In my opinion, I think you can improve the scene by adding more contrasting elements with the lighting. Try increasing the contrast in the post-processing settings as a test to see if you like the results better.

Shirk

I think the scene could benefit from having some details above the shack heights, like light posts, power lines, etc. 

conflig

TheGabmeister: Thank you! Well, I had a much more contrasted image before and after iterations, I have turn it down a bit as I thought it looks better. But maybe that was because I was looking at it for too long.

Shirk : Thank you! Also a good Idea. It would really helped to sell the scene from a players perspective