[UE4] Fantasy Tavern - no shinies! (almost)
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I already did once Fantasy Tavern, and posted here, but here is another take on it.
Crits are welcome. There is still room for improvement So I will take anything (;.
Crits are welcome. There is still room for improvement So I will take anything (;.
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Loving the look and feel of the environment and the lighting is awesome.
3 minor things kinda jump out though:
>In images 1 and 4 there seems to be a weird glow from the fireplace
>In images 3,6 and 9 the central column gets really bright at the bottom and I don't understand where that light is coming from.
>In the last image, your chair/stool seems to have the same color as the floor its on and it kinda disappears.
Cheers
btw, great work
But there's some troubles. The light bleeding through the tables from the candles on them is always present. I'd really honestly expect the bottles to be nice and shiny and reflective. The puddles don't read well at all, I had to take a minute to figure out what they were.
Appreciation that there's shying away from just making everything chrome certainly. But that doesn't mean you can't use some proper environment maps and whatnot, with all you're fairly rough surfaces it should be well controlled.
That or you can fill with ambient light that's at a cooler light color, and make the candles fill the areas with warmer more defining light.
Of course, that all depends on the art style of your game.
Honestly. Safety if not my issue even if it look cool for only 5 mins and then blow up
On serious note, treated wood is not that easy to burn.
As for leaking lights there and there. Particle lights do not cast shadows, which in turn cause leaking. I tried to minimize it on candles.
Unofrunetly UE4 do not really support reflections on translucent surfaces. I mean in theory it does, in practice.. Well it is still deferred rendering, which means it have it's problems with translucency. And there is no finished forward pass for translucency. Though from what I have seen in code, there is some work on it.
Though they should be shinier now! Not sure if that's better though.
I also personally liked all the smoke, but hey maybe that's just me. Good job!
On consoles you might decide for player, on PC... You just give option in settings menu.
Also on the chandelier it looks like you just have a point light floating in the middle of it ring and it's cause there to always be a really bright glare off the inside of the chandelier and causes it to look very unnatural. I dont know if you plan to keep the candles static or not but you could probably use lightmapping or decals to fake shadows casting, candles in a dim room have a tendency to cast shadows at their base, at least from my experience.
Setting up an SSS/transmission shader would also probably work wonders for the candles to make them seem more waxy and have light partially pass through it like this.
The lanterns are also incredibly bright, what's in the lanterns to make them shine like that? normally it would just be oil which while it would burn brighter than candles it still wouldnt be bright like a lightbulb. Taverns tend to be dimmer, the current lighting makes me thinkg it's lit to set the mood of a nice sit down restaurant.
I had to decide whether I want it be more dark and you can't really see anything, or over bright and make it brighter, but at least you can see what is going on.
I will try to tune it down, but I'm not sure it will work well though.
I have SSS for wax. It just doesn't work for some reason. Probably should figure out why it doesn't work.
As for chandelier you are right about it. Decals are out of consideration I have decals on roof and I bet you can't see them. I can't as well (;.
Lightmaps are also out of consideration. Since there is limit t 4 overlapping shadows for stationary lights, and static light shadows looks like crap. I think I will lice single light in middle, just move it to bit different position.