Enviroment WIP thread

Herman the sherman

Hello
Im Currently working on an enviroment, the plan is to make some sort of sci-fi/industrial thingy. and id like to get some feedback and critts to help me make it better than ive done before. so hit me

Ive worked up a rough sketch of the level(might add more rooms if time allows)
and started on a door and some tubes of nasty stuff.

the plan is to import it into UDK once ive got a proper foundation that im somewhat happy with.



heres what i got so far:

Jungsik

hmm can you post your rough sketch?

Illusive

i like where this is headed, looks like your off to a good start

Herman the sherman

Jungsik wrote: »

hmm can you post your rough sketch?

Hi, the "sketch" is the rough block out that ive got there, it might not be so much of a sketch but it might give an idea on where i want to go with it.

Herman the sherman

Illusive wrote: »

i like where this is headed, looks like your off to a good start

Thank you.

Herman the sherman

Small update:
wall segment and some flor-tiles.

Herman the sherman

Pillar, level update and so on:

Alberto Rdrgz

this is looking real cool, i like that pillar prop the most.

glottis8

is this for low poly environment?

Herman the sherman

Alberto Rdrgz wrote: »

this is looking real cool, i like that pillar prop the most.

Thanks!

Herman the sherman

glottis8 wrote: »

is this for low poly environment?

yeah, im guessing itll land around 60-80k tris in the end. well see. its an enviroment that ill pop into udk once i have like 80% of the stuff.

what do you think of it so far? any tipps/hints or critts?

glottis8

Herman the sherman wrote: »

yeah, im guessing itll land around 60-80k tris in the end. well see. its an enviroment that ill pop into udk once i have like 80% of the stuff.

what do you think of it so far? any tipps/hints or critts?

I like it a lot... and its busy. I would just say a little more detail on your textures where its a hard edge... so it doesn't seem as chopped. How close do you think you will get to see the props? Just.. over all your scene from afar looks neat and with lots of detail.. but if you get close you see hard edges that are not hidden by your textures... thats all i would say for now. I like it tho. I want to see how it looks with more work on it.

Herman the sherman

Quick update. been strugglin abit with UDK:

vofff

your scenes are too dark

snow

Your assets are looking good! I see you like adding scratches around the edges of your props, these scratches are to add character, but I noticed in particularly on the floor tile that yours are looking very systematic, which kind of defeats the purpose. Almost like you could have run a filter over your normal map to produce those scratches. I'd add some a bit more around the place and have some of your edge scratches bleed in a little, and maybe reduce the amount of scratches you have along the edges at the moment, less is more! Best of luck!

BradleyWascher

Your assets are coming along good, i would also agree your lighting is hurting you right now. Once your meshes are all done go back and give some focus with lighting were you want us to look. Maybe push the amount of light coming from your glowing bits right now but a dominate light source is what you really need. I like were its going, keep up the good work.

Ampaist

i think it could use abit more colour.. add so more orange in.. your lighting needs alittle work but i dont think u have focused on it yet.. i think if u put some style into how u set up your lighting it could look really good

Herman the sherman

vofff wrote: »

your scenes are too dark

yeah, it was a fast "lighttest". working on getting on it atm.

Herman the sherman

snow wrote: »

Your assets are looking good! I see you like adding scratches around the edges of your props, these scratches are to add character, but I noticed in particularly on the floor tile that yours are looking very systematic, which kind of defeats the purpose. Almost like you could have run a filter over your normal map to produce those scratches. I'd add some a bit more around the place and have some of your edge scratches bleed in a little, and maybe reduce the amount of scratches you have along the edges at the moment, less is more! Best of luck!

Thanks for the feedback, i will reduce the scratches

Herman the sherman

BradleyWascher wrote: »

Your assets are coming along good, i would also agree your lighting is hurting you right now. Once your meshes are all done go back and give some focus with lighting were you want us to look. Maybe push the amount of light coming from your glowing bits right now but a dominate light source is what you really need. I like were its going, keep up the good work.

Thank you. i am trying to get a good lightsource atm, just not used to UDK

Herman the sherman

Ampaist wrote: »

i think it could use abit more colour.. add so more orange in.. your lighting needs alittle work but i dont think u have focused on it yet.. i think if u put some style into how u set up your lighting it could look really good

Thank you!

Herman the sherman

Quick question, does anyone know why the shadows on the floor (which are comming from the bars) arent being baked?

Ampaist

u may need to incress the light map res for bsp's default is 32.. but the lower the number the high res the map is try 4 if u still dont like it try 1. that could fix your issue this will incress the baking time

Herman the sherman

Hi, if anyone is online at the moment, what do you think of this? is it all over the place or is it looking ok?

Ampaist

it looks abit over lit to me now.. they afew different ways and pick wat u think is best

Herman the sherman

Ampaist wrote: »

it looks abit over lit to me now.. they afew different ways and pick wat u think is best

to many lights or to bright?

Herman the sherman

jrmenace

add a lil more light plus add some more highlight colors too the textures lil more metalic

Herman the sherman

Never mind the ssao, i know it looks bad. but how is the rest? still to dark? critts please?

Ampaist

its coming along nicely. when u added those more lights did u tune down your spots? it depends on how heavy u want your bake to be is how far u want to go. show us a screen of just lighting

jrmenace

lighting is much better than the pervioous one