Sink world - UDK Environment

MeintevdS

First off, it's my first environment so I'll go slowly. I'm gonna take my time and learn as much as possible from this project.

Sooo the image I'm using as reference is the following, it's by feng zhu:


Just for the record, I'm not going for the exact copy but just for the main layout of the middle part.

This is where I'm at, at the moment. The outside dome is obviously getting pimped some more. I'll add a door and maybe some sort of pillars or windows or something. Might even decide to drop a part of the dome and put a balcony there.
This is still a block out, just to get an idea of the size.


(Materials, lighting and such are all temporary and the materials are obviously UDK materials.


And I'll just start my first post of with a question:
The middle part I'm pretty sure on how I wanna divide it into chunks to model/bake. But the outer dome is something I'm not sure about yet.
How would you guys go about making such a huge part of the environment? All in UDK? or just 1 huge model? or maybe chop it down into several smaller parts?

It's my first environment and I'm sure it's full if mistakes, please tear it down and tell me what the best approaches are to things. Not just tech things, but also design wise

Thanks for the views and possibly crits!

sltrOlsson

I can't say that i'm 100% on these kinda environments. But as with all things make a proper blockout first. As for the background-ish round wall i say work with tiling materials.

You should defenetly take a look at Virtuosic's thread It's very close to yours in a lot of ways.

You should check into how to set up advanced vertex blevning materials for the big walls to. Tutorials done by Virtuosic to

MeintevdS

Thanks dude, I'll look into it oh man those shaders look so confusing ....