[WIP] Underground Scene

Tavor

I'd like to get some crits on this piece:





It is 2,688 tris.


Diffuse:



Specular:





Normals:




One problem I've gotten already is that in Unreal, without some kind of intense spot light, things get washed out really easily:



I'm guessing it has more to do with my skill with lighting than anything else.

Joao Sapiro

no, it has to do with the fact that your normal map isnt doing anything for the model. i recomend doing a proper High poly for this and bake the normals from it, you would also bake an AO map and it would help the texture pop good luck !

P442

Maybe you imported the normal incorrectly into Unreal.

If your settings for the highlighted area are different, just reimport.

nfrrtycmplx

your eemages are a bit large here sir...

mind scaling them down a bit?

Tavor

Thanks for the comments guys; resized some of the textures as well. A combo of importing it right + lighting + re-baking seemed to help (but still not great ):




This is the hi-poly that I'm using:

nfrrtycmplx

your lighting is hard to read

setup a 3 point light rig on this thing

back-light
key
fill

http://www.utexas.edu/web/video/graphics/3-point.jpg

Then if that doesn't help, it could be a matter of increasing the depth of your normal map.

you might also want to make sure your normal map is being "unpacked" correctly

Tavor

nfrrtycmplx, thanks for the lighting suggestions, I think they helped.

So, I'm happy with the way it turned out in the end. Learned a bit in the process, and I was hoping to get some comments and crits on it




I still want to add some particle effects to it to make it look a little bit more active, though.

Shiraz

I think you overdid some of the scrapes and scratches a bit. Unless someone actively came over and purposely chiseled surfaces which in an event of a fall would be shielded anyway. It just doesn't make sense. Try and think how the device works and try to place scratches and dents etc as to make logical sense.

Tavor

Yeah, the design is a bit funky. Those black rectangles are heatsinks/vents, which is why paint is peeling at the center there if that is what you meant. I hope it'll make more sense when particle effects are added.

Serp

I would work on the base textures a bit more. A few more layers at different opacities. Like this tutorial http://www.artpanda.co.uk/tut/detaillayers.jpg

But then actually I think it's pretty much finished anyway.

roosterMAP

Its a great start! How about some glowing bits on the model. like a little light or something. it would help make it look more detailed.

Tavor

@Serp:

That would work really nicely as a detail texture for up close looks. I'll try to work on a detail texture with diffuse and normals that could fit the bill.

@rooster:

That's one of the things I was going to take away from this is just give my models more detail in the hi-poly. What I was expecting was that I was going to do a lot of detail work in the diffuse, but it didn't work out that way; the end result was that there was just a lot of negative space. So, for the next asset I do for this scene, I'll put a lot more time into putting in medium to smaller details to fill all the negative space.

That being said, this is a video of the particle FX I pulled off after a crash course in Cascade (3-4 days of work). Its a basic setup, I really want to do more with this, but it'll have to be on the backburner for whenever I'm either between assets or want to play with it again; I realized that getting the look I wanted is a project in and of itself, which I don't have the experience/knowledge-base for just yet.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Enx1W7bSs"]Particle FX[/ame]

Tavor

First, sorry about the double post and bump, but I'd like to get some crits on the base/pad I've been working on for the generator :

The path to the pad:


The pad:


Altogether w/tinted glass (aka a semi-opaque plane):


Too busy? I'm planning on adding some more brackets and wires on the side of the pad.

roosterMAP

I dunno abt these two models. I dont like them.

reminds me of star trek for some reason.