[WIP] S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Kordon bridge fan art modeling

Sanekum

Inspired by Stalker 2 teaser, I decided to make fan art of the famous bridge from the first location of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Blender for modeling and UV, UE4 for real time

Olingova

Model looks already super detailed, noice!!

Sanekum

Olingova said:

Model looks already super detailed, noice!!

Thanks man, I want to try bevel with weighted normal for geometry, parts of the bridge are quite large and texel density is not enough for baked normal map.

Sanekum

Quick look in UE4

Sanekum

Quck material test, damn I love weighted normals
I’m gonna do layered tiled materials with RGBA masking, like EPIC did on Paragon assets

Sanekum

Started packing texture sets, separated groups by materials, it seems to be an endless process 
there are free spaces on the atlas, I think I can pack better

Sanekum

Quixel Megascans + UE4 Layered materials with RGB masks.

So there is 3 textures sets for masking layers, all proceduraly generated in painter, no normal map backed for geometry

Olingova

That's already looking dope!! Super inspiring stuff

teodar23

Looking good!
Max user here. How is the face-weighted-normal workflow in blender? Semi-destructive? Fully non-destructive? I bet its better than max's workflow...

Sanekum

teodar23 said:

Looking good!
Max user here. How is the face-weighted-normal workflow in blender? Semi-destructive? Fully non-destructive? I bet its better than max's workflow...

Thanks man, the face-weighted-normal workflow in blender is fully non-destructive.  
Very simple geometry + Bevel modifier(Chamfer in Max) + Weighted normal modifier, can be switched on\off anytime

birb

This is turning out great! You got a good eye for color, mixing all manner of grunge in a very appealing way.

Sanekum

Small update, trying scuplting in Blender

Sanekum

Remodel some parts, moving to finish 

Sanekum

Slowly but moving

Sanekum

Autumn mood

Sanekum

Train asset modeling in process

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Update on train

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Olingova

That clean modelling is sweeeet !! Did you also continue the sculpting? I am curious about how Blender sculpting behave Looked good although a thad too "soft" i would say

Sanekum

Olingova said:

That clean modelling is sweeeet !! Did you also continue the sculpting? I am curious about how Blender sculpting behave Looked good although a thad too "soft" i would say

Thanks! after I finish modeling all the parts I will start sculpting, I will add imperfections and damage, I do not have much experience in it yet, so I'm also curious  

Sanekum

Base model is done, next step is to sculpt over some parts

Sanekum

First test with sculpting 11mln tris, Blender 2.90.1 is handle it very smooth
Will try to match the refference as much aas possible in the final result

Whoolkan

looking great man. i'm quite curious about the texturing workflow you're using for the bridge

Sanekum

Whoolkan said:

looking great man. i'm quite curious about the texturing workflow you're using for the bridge

Thanks! For Bridge im using Paragon workflow with layer materials

For wagon I want to try classic PBR atlas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVes6OUyzdw&feature=emb_logo
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Rendering/Materials/LayeredMaterials/index.html

Sanekum

Made an unwrap and baked maps for texturing, while this raw test of materials, I will work on the RGB maps in more detail.

RGB mask map is 4k and each megascan layer is now 2k, at the end I'll reduce the resolution

Sanekum

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Getting closer to refference