[UDK] Finishing Brawl Stage, SSBros - Great Bay

ZacD

I plan on finishing this, and one or 2 other pieces before I start sending out my portfolio. I'll be getting it into the udk engine pretty soon, the latest render was done in Softimage. I unfortunately didn't have enough free time to finish this piece in time for the challenge.




Working on some rocks for the cliffs by the beach. I'm pretty new to the whole sculpting thing, I like the look of the rocks, But I need to change the shapes and placement and make it tile.

http://i.imgur.com/lwDVc.png

Katori

I like the rocks as well, they fit very well with what I perceive to be the style of the piece. The turtle, moon, and hut are great highpolys as well. Can't wait to see the final piece!

ZacD

Decided to change the look of the rocks,

ZacD

gave myself a paintover

ZacD

http://i.imgur.com/Ae3nX.png

ZacD

jimmypopali

Is this a re-imagining of the level, it looks like there is a mayan temple in the back.

ZacD

Yeah I'm trying to figure out my exact twist, I thinking an Aztec vibe.

ZacD

ZacD

How do I get reflections for the ocean water in udk?

Dani

I suggest you look at this tutorial for that, http://www.hourences.com/ue3-water-outdoors/.
I guess you are going for a bit more of a cartoony look but that tutorial should give you a good basic understanding of setting up a water material in UDK.

ZacD

I believe that tutorial only reflects the sky.

nrek

This should cover what you need. And if you want more info look up SceneCaptureReflectActors on the UDN.

http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UT3_Water_Reflection_Tutorial.html

ZacD

nrek wrote: »

This should cover what you need. And if you want more info look up SceneCaptureReflectActors on the UDN.

http://www.chrisalbeluhn.com/UT3_Water_Reflection_Tutorial.html

Thanks, that took a while to set up, I think I got most of it working, but any idea why the transparent parts ontop of the reflections?

ZacD

okay there is reflection on top of the trans, it just looks like shit, so i'll have to look at the opacity parts of the shader more, anyone good with shaders wanna take a look?

ParoXum

You might want to work with more opacity on your water, and use a pixel depth node like this:




You can ignore the tide stuff, or not. It's always good to mimic the water going up and down.

ZacD

Thanks Pax, got it fixed, now to add the foam, and figured out what my light map is doing



whats the 1-k thing and the param?

ParoXum

It's 1-x one minus node, and the param is just how far from the edge you want the foam to go.

ZacD

The foam looks great on the beach, on the poles, not so much

ZacD

Grrrrr I found a better tutorial that I'm going to use, time to remake the ocean shader from scratch

http://www.johnheeter.com/oceantut

Oniram

wow. awesome find on that tutorial

ZacD

Also I cant get xsi to export the 2nd uv channel properly with fbx

Sukotto

Nice job but what's the 're-imagining'? It's looking pretty similar to the original

ZacD

I want it to be kinda stylized realisitc, kinda in a modern aztec tribal jungle area, vague I know.

Oniram

the water came out great.

jimmypopali

The water shader is looking really good now, suits the style.

With the Mayan/Aztec theme you would have stuff like skulls on daggers on the beach and broken bridges over hills and broken down old/attacked boats on the shore etc. - I dunno, just thinking out loud

ZacD

ZacD

small update

ZacD

working on the last fore ground prop...

ZacD

new terrain

ZacD

Testing the foliage out

ZacD

More tests, foliage hates me

ZacD

G3L

Ooo I like the new water!! Definitely fits the scene much better than the realistic one!

Maybe add some foliage with a contrasting color from the ones you already have? Even though I like how you played with the scale on them, it'd be nice to have a lil color here and there on the background