working on a cool scene. watch the progress (and help please.)

shdw · Mar 2013

I am trying to turn this cool concept image into an environment in UDK. I intentionally chose a fairly simple scene as I am pretty much starting out and I didn't want too big a bite right now. I'd say I am fairly advanced with Photoshop but pretty much a noobie when it comes to texturing.

This is the concept I am turning into a real scene.

And this is what I've got so far.

My problem

What I currently struggle with is how to overlay decals in photoshop like way. I found out that there are some blending presets in the material editor but none of them seems to make it look natural. They always introduce some level of opacity. How can I deal with this?

/anty/ · Mar 2013

Modulate shader with values you need. You could push it above 1 if needed. As well this will allow you to overlap them without problems.

solarSailor · Mar 2013

use udk's decal feature.

Jeff Parrott · Mar 2013

Cool concept. Your lighting is really off. I would work on matching that before you go further.

DWalker · Mar 2013

The concept is a bit narrower than your scene (~90%) and taller (2 more tiles, ~115%). The text is also off - "05" should be the height of "Observation", and "Observation" should be ~60% of its height. The font itself doesn't really match. Look at the 'O's in particular. The concept font is a fairly standard sci-fi font, and is narrower. The "<<" should be ~133% larger. Overall note that the concept artist used the tiles as a convenient grid - almost everything is aligned to a tile or the midpoint of a tile.

working on a cool scene. watch the progress (and help please.)

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