ballroom UDK
polycounter lvl 10
Hey you guys,
Just wanna post some new work.
See if you like it and feedback is welcome.
It's a school dance game project.
Just wanna post some new work.
See if you like it and feedback is welcome.
It's a school dance game project.
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As for the lighting, I feel the yellow really washes out your colors - it feels like a very vibrant place, but the oversaturated yellow dulls it down. Also, the skybox outside clashes a bit - my gut preference would put it at night, but it could also be nice if you brighten it up and get some god rays streaming in
You've also got a hole in the geo in the third picture.
Great work though - really captured an elegant feel
The time period is 18 century ballroom.
The level is for a dancegame. So i don't think i can put alot of probs in the centre.
But maybe i can decorate the sides?
I will see what i can do with the chandelier.
Your right about the repetitive of the level. But i don't know what i can do about it. Because I want to keep it ellegant. So i don't want to put some curtains down. It would seem a bit odd in a "perfect" ballroom. So what do you suggest to break the rep but keep the clean elegant look.
I can expirement some more with some different light settings. I will post some updates.
and the third image has a very hi speclevel. So it's all white :P
Yeah you could decorate the sides, there're always those chairs for people to rest in, maybe you could even add a long table with a fancy cloth and a bunch of covered dishes and silverware for hors d'oevres and drinks. I still think it would be cool to open up the stage and put the orchestral equipment up there - chairs, music stands, perhaps a few instruments even.
Yes, I'm surprised how nice they turened out. It's just a simple plane with only verticle edges. No simulations or sculpting only a noise filter that only effects the Y axis. And I put in one horizontal edge to give it the drape effect at the end. But the dynamic lights really make it look good.
Well done man
Good job!
It seems that the cristals didn't had any spec.
So now they will stand out:P.
Maybe a little to much?
anyways i found some holes in the roof i need to fix
more detail on the lighting tweeking coming up
don't know about the light settings
chandalier seems dope though
what do you guys think?
I agree with you that breaking up the repetition would take away from the ambience of the room, as the style and elegance of architecture like this comes from repetition. If you wanted to add variety I wouldn't change the existing elements but add further little touches.
Small paintings between the lamps would add a variety of different colour touches along the wall. As a suggestion in keeping with your theme, character portraits in ovular frames would suit it I think.
If it's a school dance, you could probably get some more varied detail and colour going in there with some decorations that have been hung up especially - maybe some bunting or streamers, an inexpertly painted hanging banner, balloons, streamers. That kinda stuff.
Reeeally reminds me of the opera house in the last season of Battlestar Galactica
I tried to give the scene more contrast by giving the chandeliers a smaller radius. But big pieces where left in the dark. So the room needs a bright chandelier to brighten up the place. I also don't know if introducing a new color to my pallet is a way to make more contrast.
Fote 1
Everyone who thinks the purple/blue scene with high contrast is the way to go.
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aye looks perfect for some oldskool reflection mapping (ie alpha floor and flipped geometry.... this method can provide lovely results as you can stylise the underside geometry to just provide vague shapes and push values such as brightness and even blur the reflections somewhat with clever use of alpha and textures so that say the props and pillar bases can be nice and sharpe while the roof can be nicely blurred
like this
This lighting is so much better!!
Yeah, agreed with Mind. I saw you were trying to try out the contrasty route luck6, but I think it would've needed more push in certain directions. It could be done, just would take some tweaking. Of all the images you've posted thus far I think the one Mind quoted is best.
Also seconding what Jackablade said about bunting, streamers, and an inexpertly painted banner.
I tried to get the settings from the image.
And added the cubemap.
this is the result atm.
here you go
The wood looks a bit tiled, maybe use checkerboard tile flooring like in your reference photos? Right now the only wood in the scene is the flooring and it looks a tad out of place. The bloom also seems a bit high.
Like the scene, Your tapestry work is really selling it. Come to think of it you could throw more tris at the tapestries on the side, round them out and add some depth, they're a bit flat right now.
the cubemap has been set under emisive
i think it overpowers the shadows
but i have a question
is there a way to freeze a cubemap from moving?
because my cubemap is great with reflecting all the collums
but when i move, the whole cubemap moves
so all the colums are miss alligned.
And also i was wondering.
If it's posible to increase the resolution of a object lightmass?
just like surface resolution on building blocks
Are you just lighting with emissive? cause there are no shadows to ground those columns
lookin good though keep it up
if you follow my suggestion and add the bottom section of the map flipped underneath the floor (alphad out as it goes up/down) then add four sections of the cube map to a flipped skydome... you should be able to get somethinkg much more similar to the image (flipped characters and props to can be done) also adding some refraction to the floor an a normal map can stop the image being too perfect
Do you mean duplicating the whole level underneath, so you play the level with dubble the amount of polys?
or just a way to create a better cubemap.
I think this can help.
http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=733910
bang on then just a kindoff box or dome with a blurry version of the roof/walls behind that