Rage inspired scene

Serp

It's a wip. Based on the screenshot from Rage below this. I've included some props from my Plaza scene I made.






Hmmm. Mine looks very white and blow out. Any advice on this? I might make the floor darker or something. Or mess with the scene effects.

Without lights:



I think the lighting is letting it down. Looks better without lights lol

whipSwitch

I 'd say the biggest issue at the moment is you scene has a distinct lack of color. almost everything is gray. If you look at the Rage scene, almost everything has some color to it.

BlackulaDZ

I agree about the lighting and lack of color, I suggest playing with post processing, and changing the color of the lights as well as their strength

Cyrael

honestly imo I think its just the lighting, there's too stark a contrast between the really hot spots and the really dark spots, if you fix this by evening it out a bit, if you look at the rage screen its not quite such a stark contrast, but still has enough contrast to look nice.

In the rage scene it looks like there's some nice colored fill lights going on to simulate the GI effect, whereas in your scene it looks mainly like youve got your key light and thats it..

its def. a really nice start though. and with some tweaks could be on par with the same quality as that rage scene. nice work :-)

Serp

Yeah your right I just have the key light because I thought that's all they had in that Rage screenshot. But now I'm thinking that they must have used more. So I'm adding more coloured lights at the mo.

Serp

-Added more colour to the floormore
-Grime to the walls
-Made the sides of the image darker
-Added lightbeams at the back
-More coloured lights
-Slight Dof
-Slight overall fog and another fog at the bottom

Even though the detail I've put in the textures is harder to see, I'm going to show the unlit version in my portfolio anyway. So potential employers can see.

I may even stick in my purple gun as a fps gun.

Jeremy Lindstrom

why is there an intact window on the ground?

Kevin Albers

Nice progress! I would either get rid of the light near the top left of the door, or tone it down a bit and have it match the color of the main light, so that it comes off as bounced light from the main light source. Also, the fog seems too strong, like there has been a gas attack right outside the room.
Keep it at...should be a nice piece once it's all done

haiddasalami

bring the saturation of red up more!

ZacD

Yeah the intact window doesn't make much sense. and rotate the stop sign a bit, its too head on IMO.

Gilgamesh

Jeremy Lindstrom wrote: »

why is there an intact window on the ground?

I was going to say this, what is it's purpose. Not many fully intact windows with zero damage just lying around, especially in a post-apoc world/scene like that.

Zack Fowler

To get the look of the Rage scene, one of the main things you need to do is play with post-process. It looks like they've reddened their shadows and midtones. Here's an example I whipped up using Color Balance in Photoshop, and you should be able to get similar results using the post process options in UDK (which I assume you're using here).



The per-map UDK color balance post process settings can be found under View>World Properties, and then WorldInfo>Default Post Process Settings> Scene_ High Lights, Scene_ Mid Tones, and Scene_Shadows.

Serp

Thanks dude!!! Yeah that's more of what I'm aiming for.

So did you just add more red in the shadows and midtones?

Zack Fowler

I pumped up the greens for highlights a bit too, not as strongly as the red for the shadows though. Definitely play around with it, it seems like there are more blues in the Rage shot than my mockup for one thing.

Be careful when working on a scene with this much post process though, you'll want to flip the post on and off often to make sure your textures make sense in a neutral scene rather than relying on the post too much.

raul

looks cool, tho it seems to me like your just using that picture alone as reference. You need to start thinking of the history of the elements in the scene and how they tie together. Also, some things, need a second grunge pass.

Looking sharp!

zxcman

keep it up!