Empire State UDK

Arac

Posted a WIP of this earlier in the WAYWO thread.

This is a model that I'm working on for my portfolio and for a small UDK game (Sky Soldiers).
I wanted to keep everything as efficient as possible and stay within a 2048² texture space. Right now I'm using less than that, but I still have to add some unique details here and there.

The top part of the building is almost finished. Biggest pain in the ass so far was getting all the lightmaps to work correctly and not mip out to soon.

The textures themselves are still very WIP, especially for the bottom part.

Anyways, here are a couple of night shots, still need to tweak the lighting more, and add extra spotlights. I'm also going to make a day shot at the end.

haiddasalami

Looking good. Wondered how you broke up the textures for the window lights.

Striff

Really love the lighting.

Arac

@ Luke: I'll post all of the texture sheets once their finished. Here's a clearer picture of the windows:



and here's a picture of the real thing: http://0.tqn.com/d/manhattan/1/0/n/V/IMG_7241.JPG

@ haiddasalami: All of the windows are one texture. I just offset the UV's of the windows so that some of them are lit (controlled by the alpha channel). In the same way I can control the height of the blinds for each window individually:




I'm Almost at the bottom:

Really liking it so far.

I admire the art-deco styling around the windows, which I'd imagine took some time to produce.

My only real criticism is the way you can present this. Maybe building up a few tower blocks to surround it with in the distance (these could even be fairly low poly etc, and then use dof to blur them) and I bet it would improve the final image overall for presentation.

Arac

Yes, I was planning on making a really low poly version of the chrysler building and maybe adding some generic buildings aswell.

I might even add some roads if time permits, but I don't have that much time to work on it anymore.

polygonfreak

Any chance for wire frame pics?

Arac

Finished this just in time, had to rush a couple of things, but all in all I'm pretty satisfied with the result.

@polygonfreak: I'll post wires later


Day:











Night:

Arac

Oh, and here's the texture sheet someone requested:

duxun

how did you make the clouds ?

tristamus

duxun wrote: »

how did you make the clouds ?

I'm guessing post-processing.

popngear

Looks good except for the DOF. Is that done in post or UDK? It just looks odd because it starts very suddenly and harshly.

Arac

@duxun: The clouds are actually 3D models, they're based on this tutorial: http://stephenjameson.com/tutorials/faking-volumetric-effects/

@popngear: The DOF is from UDK, I'll try to tweak some values

c0ldhands

it will help with a picture showing the whole object (like the base of the buidling), wireframe is encouraged too

16bit

Arac wrote: »

@duxun: The clouds are actually 3D models, they're based on this tutorial: http://stephenjameson.com/tutorials/faking-volumetric-effects/

Thank you sir, I have been trying to remember that link for some time.