Rural House Environment [WIP Concepts]

hostilis

Hi, I started my new environment project for a 3rd person psychological horror game but it has been later changed to a 3d environment showcase.


Here is the new floorplan of the house I whipped up.




The floorplans was based on Old Colonial Houses in the Philippines.

Comments and Crits are welcome.

aajohnny

Sounds cool, i'll be watching.

hostilis

Here is a sample design I sculpted that I want to implement.



Vector design my team member created that I can use as an alpha.

Oniram

cool sculpt. and neat idea using vector images, im sure that makes workflow a lot easier.

hostilis

Long time no post, been working hard on this project here are some WIP shots inside UDK.







The textures are still WIP. still struggling creating a decent texture.
Crits are welcomed.

Oniram

i absolutely love the lighting in this scene. only crit i have so far is that the wood is looking a bit too specular. if its supposed to be then its not glossy enough. its kind of at a neutral stage right now and doesnt have much material definition. aside from that id say its looking solid.

are you using BSP for the walls and floors? or meshes?

hostilis

Here are the high poly and low poly models.

















I'm sure anyone of you can help me become a good artist. Crits are welcomed, Thanks.

hostilis

Hi Oniram,

I'm using modular pieces for the walls and stair pieces. I'll later post some screens showing modularity of the environment.

hostilis

Here are the modular pieces of the environment.









Crits are welcomed, Thanks.

PatrickL

The legs on the piano look sort of blobby instead of having crisp edges. The bottom of your guitar also looks like it has some bowing normals as well. Other than that, it looks like an awesome project so far. Keep it up!

Perfectblue

Loving the ornate sculpts in the furniture pieces so far.

nevets2001uk

This looks great to me and I find the modular breakdown very interesting as I'm just planning my first environment for UDK and want to modularise it as much as possible. Are you able to share how you set up the grid and are using it to space elements.

What grid size you used and how the pieces fit onto it?

keres

I am so digging this! Great job!

Alberto Rdrgz

Love what you got so far, only crit is your shadows in the lighting are looking super dark, add some ambient lights or bounce lighting to lighten it up a bit! great job tho!

Scizz

i love this. this looks really good! basically 2 scenes in one. with a little lighting and texture changes you can make a darker/horror scene as well. = )

Edit: yea i didnt read i just looked at the pretty pictures. now i know that thats what ur going for haha. sorry.

Jbird

Looks good, keep it up!

Jungsik

DUDE...dude............nice

G3L

Hey, this is looking pretty interesting! Will be following!

Also, is it the renderer or is it the spec on your last asset presentations that's making it look so shiny? I think the wood could use a little less of it unless you're trying to go for that new wooden plank look on it but it would still need some tweaking. Other than that this is gonna be pretty awesome I feel ><

RexM

The material setup and the lighting are perfect, love the soft look to everything.

Harry

the grand is a little bit out of place imo. Saloon grand would be way more fitting, but you already gone and modeled it so i guess it's way too late

Serp

Wow looks real. Is this the power of the latest UDK? Looks like real life.

gsokol

Looking great. I really like the stairs and handrails/banisters.

I like how the lighting makes everything feel soft.

Your props are coming along well...I really like the clock.


One thing about this scene though...the atmosphere doesn't really make me think "psychological horror." The colors are just borderline cozy looking to me.

Maybe try playing with your light a little more to see if you can make the atmosphere a little more creepy.

I did a quick little paintover, just to see what a different mood would look like.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j203/white99stang281/Sample1_georgesokol_paintover.jpg

I used a lot of blues and greens..makes it a little more eery. The red light coming through the door is supposed to give you the feeling that you aren't alone, and that there is something seriously creepy going on beyond those doors. I may have missed the mark there .

hostilis

Wow I didn't expect that many people will comment in my work.

@nevets I used 8 3ds max units for this project. I divided and planned the modular pieces in photoshop by using the grids.

This is my personal technique in planning modular interior like this.



I created simple representations of the modular assets and snap them to the grid so that the floorplan and the level will be the same. This might be time consuming but this saves me from pulling my own hair.

@alberto, thanks for the crits, I'll experiment on the lighting.

@gsokol (sorry forgot to change my first post) I'm disappointed that this project is no longer a game but a environment showcase (lack of time). I'm going to try to play more with the post process effects and lighting. Thanks for the paintover I'll definitely use it as a reference.

Thanks for the crits/comments .