Medlabs Corridor - UDK (Image Heavy)
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EDIT: Finally added low poly wires and flats. C&C welcome.
Hello all,
This is my first major environment piece using UDK. My focus for this environment is to create a mostly sterile environment, with almost no wear/aging except for the floor and the corner structures which are focused on being the oldest structures in the corridor.
I would like as much honest feedback and critiques as possible, please
A few notes: Lighting is not final, some assets are still wip and the fan is actually rotating. Hoping to get a in-game fly through together soon so I can show off the animated materials.
Screenshots:
Quick and dirty renders of some High-Res Models:
Finally the low poly goods:
Hello all,
This is my first major environment piece using UDK. My focus for this environment is to create a mostly sterile environment, with almost no wear/aging except for the floor and the corner structures which are focused on being the oldest structures in the corridor.
I would like as much honest feedback and critiques as possible, please
A few notes: Lighting is not final, some assets are still wip and the fan is actually rotating. Hoping to get a in-game fly through together soon so I can show off the animated materials.
Screenshots:
Quick and dirty renders of some High-Res Models:
Finally the low poly goods:
Replies
Currently I am using a lightmass importance volume for this. I am starting to wonder if that is necessary for this scene. Should I only use the lightmass importance volume for large outdoor scenes or would it be beneficial with something on this scale as well?
Quick update before bed. I removed every light I had in my scene except for one spotlight. Now all the lighting is derived from the emissive map from the ceiling light fixtures.
Hoping to get some texture flats on here tomorrow sometime.
scene seems kinda flat at the moment and the materials have no definition.
your highpoly's look great you jsut need to play with the material on your LP's more
So you decided to make it have fruity rainbow patterns instead?
Floor lighting is used to guide and direct people through aisles and corridors, anything else is doing the opposite. The emergency signs and other directional aids (floor level, key pads, etc) would be illuminated. You should focus on designing things for more logical and purposeful applications.
@Rojo- The lighting being busy as far as too much brightness? Or are you referring to too much glowy bits? I like your idea with illuminating the emergency signs.
Thanks again, fellas.
Thanks so much for taking the time to do this paint over, PixelMasher. I was very excited to see it. This helps tremendously. Thanks again!
It is much less apparent the brighter the scene gets, I don't mind them so much in PixelMasher's paintover. But you could improve the scene composition and aid gameplay by giving the lighting a purpose, by using it to draw the eye and guide players like bugs to a lantern.
I like this type of lighting- just has that crisp movie look to it- nice work man-
I have been busy optimizing my meshes as well as textures/materials. Spent a good chunk of my day getting uv's ready for lightmaps. As you can see there are some lightmaps that need some work but for now this is where I stand:
Thanks again for the input guys, I really appreciate it. Keep it coming
-Pushed the lighting some more.
-Crates are now textured.
-Finished up wall textures and Material.
-Added in some random junk.
-Additional material and other under the hood optimizations.
Still looking for critiques on lighting as well as everything else. I will post some texture flats as well as the low poly stuff later today. Thanks guys.
Here's some constructive feedback for you:
Consider adding some small points of coloured light (like Epic uses on all of the Gears' armour) on your environment assets such as doors or floor pieces.
The bright circular vents on the walls near the floor look too flat and too bright. Try using either extra geo or a bump offset to push the lightsource back a few inches behind the vent grate. Also consider leaving a dark circle in the middle of the emissive circle to suggest an air duct that recedes further into wall out of sight.
Consider adding some smoke, steam, fog or dust effects. This could go nicely around your lights and along the floor or ceiling. You could also add some vertex-painted condensation in the material on walls near any steam effects.
Try and push your post-processing. Some more contrast between highlights and shadows would make the lighting look a lot more successful.
Adding custom lens flares and bokeh shapes would give this a real nice sci-fi film feel.
Hope this helps - keep on truckin!
I agree with most of what Stitch says, especially with the floor and little colored lights.
But in my opinion I wouldn't add any bokeh or more atmosphere effects, unless they are actually coming from something and there's a reason to have fog/steam/smoke. I wouldn't expect to see a lot of that sort of thing in a clean sci fi corridor like yours (yeah sure in a more gritty/dirty Alien style corridor though). And fog/steam/smoke could ruin some of the nice tonal variation you have in your textures.
Watching this, looking good.
As for adding lights to the floors, i'm not sure how it's gonna work, I already have point lights there to show lighting from the ceiling fixtures. If I add in some more it may wash the floor out. Maybe I should tweak the ones already there?
I have been reading up on particles and plan on adding in some steam/smoke in subtle ways, especially with my ceiling fan. I also already have fog in the scene, maybe I could try boosting it a bit. And as far as post processing goes, I shall mess around with some settings.
@Fomori - Thanks, man! I was reading up on bokeh shapes and such, and while it sounds interesting and something I would like to try, it is not possible for me to implement into my scene as I am still running a DX9 video card
Keep it coming!
Updates:
-Did some more lighting. Added in some spot lights on the walls and some point lights on the doors.
-Added in some particle effects; frost coming from the ceiling fan, steam and heat shimmer coming from the lower wall ducts, and some subtle dust around the lights.
-Been messing around with some post processing. Added in some bloom and Dof (which will be in the next update once I get my lighting finalized). Below are 3 images of different lighting/color ranges. I would like your feedback as to which one is more appealing/looks better or do they all suck? Thanks, guys.
I will compile a list later of all the specifics but just comparing the new renders with my previous ones will give you an idea
Here are a few quick screens right out of UDK. Critiques are welcome and I look forward to your comments/crits.
The lighting is alittle weak to me. I would say to unify the lighting color palette alittle better. Have the greens from both ends of the hallway connect by another strip of green lights in the middle to help lead the eye to points of interest. In this case the doors, and then the path to the doors. I think that purple/light blue light color at the top is throwing the color theory on the whole room off.
This way when you add your monitors you were talking about they can be a nice accent color like a deep blue or deep red.
Here's a quick lighting paintover of what I meant.
Hope this helps! Looks really nice so far!
Your work is awesome btw!
Tweaked ceiling lights color from a purplish tint to a more greenish to go along with the doors.
Also toned down the lighting from the support columns as it was a tad over powering. Crits and comments are still welcome!