[UDK]Engine_Room

samgriffiths

Hello,

I've been more of a lurker for the last 2 years, I'm 19 (20 in 1 month, not young anymore holy shit) and first year uni student at abertay. I don't have experience with environments as I am a character artist but I am looking forward to learning alot.

I have 3 months to make this full environment (hard deadline), I have 1 week experience in UDK, I am looking for crits on everything except lighting at this point.

I believe the perspective in the concept may be off a little.

Concept is from NS2 NATURAL SELECTION 2



Here is what I've done so far;












Those tri-counts in the viewport don't represent the Low-Polys, so don't be hating me about that, I'll post wires etc over the weekend.

Thanks alot

Matroskin

looking as a nice start so far.
I love that ceiling support. Mind posting texture flat for that one plz?

Oniram

really great! textures for both pieces are awesome. just a personal thing tho.. nothing that has anything to do with you or your work.. but for future reference would you mind getting shots in perspective instead of orthographic?

Phones

I agree I definitely like that ceiling support. Some wires would be nice too (cause i'm a noob/curious)

roosterMAP

interesting architecture. cant wait to see more.

samgriffiths

tileable beam for the roof and other areas, I feel like I rushed the texture because this will be hardly noticable with the lighting I will use.

more updates to come later today.

samgriffiths

I love the way my props look great in the 3ds shader, but as soon as it hits unreal it either looks like it has no spec atall or the normals don't look like they work :S

will figure it out.

roosterMAP

Also, redo the diffuse for the floor. Its too high contrast.

G3L

Love your texturing Do you primarily work with photosourcing on the textures?

samgriffiths

Yes, 70-75% is probably photos mixed together.

ajr2764

Great concept to work from. The first thing that jumps out to me is scale/proportion of your blockout compared to the concept. Your scene looks too cramped to hold the massive machinery. All dimensions of the room needs to be adjusted I feel. Really digging the texture work so far especially on the ceiling support. Look forward to seeing this come together.

igi

nice.Looks promising.I especially like your specular maps and those brush strokes on the diffuse.Those are works really well.Defineatly gonna watch this thread.

I think you making great work on environments,maybe switch yourself to an environment artist

samgriffiths

experimenting with unreal materials, got the floor slightly like the 3ds max shader..

Going to watch some more gnomon dvd now :P

popngear

Nice work on the floor texture. Just the right amount of variation on it so it doesn't look tiled. I would try adding in the scratches into the normal map as well as maybe a very very slight dental metal layer. However, if you don't like that idea, to save texture memory, you could reduce your normal map down to a single tile element and then tile it using a TextureCoordinate in the UDK material editor.

samgriffiths

more updates coming soon.

Alberto Rdrgz

LOL Sam i was expecting a big update and you give us pipes!!!

samgriffiths

I'm sorry

Big update coming soon, I just took some time learning materials and decals in unreal .
xD