An exercise in modular textures - Scifi lab UDK

Snefer

Edit: Updating with link to download and video

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Soo... I have been doing alot of remapping of UVs lately, and I wanted to try to see how far i can push things with one modular texture.

The goal is to make this entire scene using one 256*512 texture.

Sofar I still have some of the texture left to use, because I will need to add some more details and custom stuff to it when I build more props. I realize this is not really the best way to build an environment, custom stuff is almost always needed, but its a good exercise to see just how far you can push things, and how much mileage you can get out of one simple texture. Also I know that the style I have chosen is probably almost optimal for this kind of work, but it can be applied to most situations.

Here are some early WIPs and a few props:

jeremiah_bigley

Well damn. Really nice work... You can't do this and then not show us the texture. :P
How much planning was involved?

passerby

man snefer your fast, this and your last scifi scene, and your the king of modular textures too. I like your use of lighting/shadows and cubemaps to break up the tileing a bit.

is the glass it's own shader and texture or it is on the original texture sheet.

Jernej

love it!...keep it up

Razorb

ya this is awesome! polycount should do a fun environment challenge with the same texture requirements : D!

really inspiring stuff mate, MORE MOREEE!

Clark Coots

geez awesome work. that's super efficient, and the texture quality from 256x512 is really clean and nice. I'm shocked I don't see pixels

R3D

Well colour me impressed!

Belias

nice work!

mLichy

Very cool stuff.

Oniram

amazing work. can we see the texture?

edit: also.. since it looks like your assets are all greyscale.. are you using all 3 channels of the texture?

cupsster

nice, very nice! [texture and wires?]
please

Snefer

Thanks for the comments :] I will do a complete breakdown of the scene after I have got a bit farther and finished the core stuff :]

jeremiah: I will show you the texture, as soon as its done ^^ Still adding stuff to it And almost no planning at all actually. Or well, i did think through what I wanted from the texture though, but not realyl much planning when it comes to assets. Im just amking stuff up as I go.

passerby: the glass is its own shader, yes, but no texture. :]

Oniram: yes, I am using all channels of the texture. The assets are not grayscale though, as you can see there is a red wall, and the decals have color aswell. Havent decided on colourscheme for the scene yet though :]

toxic_h2o

Snefer you are the man, I'm really looking forward to the break down of this.

Jesse Moody

using some color tinting to change things up a bit with the red?

Very nice use of stuff here.

Take notes people.

Would love to see your texture sheet Snef

Jessica Dinh

That is nice! The lighting is perfect :0

chadabees

This is very impressive so far. You are so fast and efficient!

fearian

Christ Snefer you are a MACHINE! Go go go, I can't wait!

Kurt Russell Fan Club

Snefer, great work! Really smart texture usage and the props and lighting are gorgeous.

Is this normals and diffuse in that same 256x512?

Gryx

That's some really nice work, The lighting is really nice. An all on a 256x512 - Are you a wizard?

Minos

Looks promising and nice exercise!

Electro

Very nice! Are you adding padding in-between each modular piece so there's no bleeding as you get to mips? I'm experimenting with the same technique with my stuff, although I'm not up to the same stage as you yet.

Idea being to minimise draw calls

megalmn2000

Awesome like always! Can't wait to see more progress!

build.

I just don't understand how you can be so awesome. Nice and solid so far. I'll jump on the wagon of "show me moar!!" as well.

Computron

Allright, show us a breakdown of how its done please. What textures do you have in there and what is being done in the shader (diff, spec, gloss, and channels please)?

sneakymcfox

Seriously inspiring, can't wait to see the textures

Stertman

breakdown or it didnt happen!

Wiktor

Very impressing!
Can't wait to see more updates on this!

Gooner442

great work, love the lighting, wanna see more!

[HP]

Snefer I love you.

Snefer

whoop, lots of replies ^^ its one normal and one diffuse texture. No specular, gloss etc. Everything is taken care of with those two textures. I will post textures and breakdown, as soon as the texture is finished, im still tweaking and adding to it :] Also have some choices left, need to decide what to do with some technical choices.

here are some more adventures in tilingland, a monitor and a bench. ^^ will post some more updates later

Oniram

are you going about making high polies and baking them down for everything here? or is anything done with just a low poly and nDo or something similar?

Snefer

EVERYTHING is made with just a lowpoly. Not a single highpoly model sofar, except for the basetexture (and that is just because thats how i roll, could have done it in nDo in 15 minutes probably...)

Snefer

OH LOOK ITS A CRATE!

Prophet

Looking pretty good!

megalmn2000

Hehehe! I'm getting pretty excited!
Can't wait for more progress again!

Gyrfal

Looking great, I was wondering how you were getting the reflections? Are you just using the ImageReflectionSceneCapture actor?

Sorry if the question is dumb, I've been out of using UDK for a while so I'm trying to get myself reoriented.

IxenonI

haha cool

Curios to see how it holds up with a proper diffuse.

d1ver

great experiment, dude! Looks solid so far. Really curious to see how far you can push it.

Snefer

Gyrfal: yes, and a cubemap aswell. and some faked highlights. Im mixing it a bit depending on what looks good on what surface.

Some stairs, a ventilation shaft, endless joy of uvmapping!

ljsketch

Awesome stuff indeed. Let's see more .

Clark Coots

i gotta try something like this sometime. It might also be fun for someone to post a texture and see what other people come up with, be interesting to see the different types of crates/stairs/walls etc and how other people use the texture in creative ways. Are you still using the 256x512 for the stairs and crate and vent? have you started any unique textures?

adam

Show the texture as you make progress

Lonewolf

Jungsik

what the..how..??? T_T so good

SsSandu_C

Relly nicee! That grate vent makes me want to pull it out of the wall and bypass the guards... stealthy... stealthy I'm kidding. I like how everything is coming along. Lonewolf's cats are right.. hehe

Skillmister

Please post the texture I'm trying to make a modular building right now and its confusing the hell out of me!

Alberto Rdrgz

This is a cool project.

Limewax

Skillmister wrote: »

Please post the texture I'm trying to make a modular building right now and its confusing the hell out of me!

I am with Skillmister... student as well here, trying to make a kit at the moment and using this as direct inspiration. Such magic must be revealed!

Great work

Snefer

Soo... here it is. Im still not finished with the texture and shader, got a bunch of things I want to fix/change/add still, but this where its at sofar. I will give more explanation of how I work with it later aswell :]

Oniram

so in unreal (i assume this is unreal) do you just go back in and add a 0,0,1 to the normals? thats an awesome idea to use the blue channel for masks. awesome breakdown. one question though. how do you go about adding color to the objects? do you just have a couple materials that are just fully colored? id love to see a breakdown of your material

cupsster

colored lights maybe?