Sullum97 Irish Bar Looking for critique!
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Cheers everyone, I hope you're having a lovely start to the new year and you are all making successful art! Here's a piece I've been working on for about 2 1/2 -3 weeks. Modeled, unwrapped, and base textures are done. Going to start prepping it for Unreal 4 to make it all pretty and what not. But first images and please feel free to tear it apart and give me critiques, I always want to improve. Last image is my reference I used! Thanks!
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I know you said that the textures still WIP, but I really hope you do something about the wooden textures. They're all very tile-like.
@Shrike Roger I will work on the legs in the front as well b/c they're curves really help make the chair instead of being just straight up and down like I have now. Ty for the critique!
@Joltya Tyvm, I will absolutely work on the tiling of the alcohol bottle, and the wood, most of my uvs are stacked for the wood so that's why they are tiling but I will work on it and improve it. Ty again for the suggestions!
Also I do somewhat have a question about how you brought everything in to UE4. I'm assuming from the 3DS max version, you only brought in one of each piece (i.e. the lamps, bar stools, etc) individually and then made clones of them in Unreal?
I'm looking forward to seeing how it all looks with the normals etc applied ^_^
One thing I noticed though. I don't know if it's just me, but the sign above the main door looks stretched.
The lighting could use some love, especially when it comes to having shadows. Feel free to mix some stationary and dynamic shadows in there to get some interesting shapes of shadows going down from your light sources. You can do this with static lighting as well, as long as you bump up the default shadow resolution per asset, as well as having your environment split up enough. (I'm not sure if you made the objects seperate when importing into unreal engine 4, but you definitely should if you didn't already.)
I'm not entirely 100% sure about what you should do with the glass covers on the light, whether their emissive should be bumped up to get a little bloom going or the cover more transparent. Perhaps since that's tecnically a cover rather than the bulb (I believe), you can make it transparent with a low roughness to amplify highlights, and then have a simple modeled out lightbulb inside it which would be the part that would have an emissive texture/mat. So I (think) would look like the bloom is shining through from the bulb while keeping the glass/ceramic nature of the cover, although I'm not entirely sure as I have yet to put an emissive mat with bloom side of a transparent material. I'd also keep the very tips more of a bronze metal or whatever material that bronze looking color is in the photo.
@Robochrish Ty kindly I appreciate it. I will look into re-exporting it, I wanted the text to fit within the frame so it is stretched a bit.
@Deathstick Ty so much for the very insightful critique. Somewhere in the frenzy I completely forgot about the baseplates, I am not quite sure why, but ty so much! I wholeheartedly agree on the lighting I have no idea what I am doing, I am goign to attempt to look up some tutorials or tool around a bit to get it to look much better, I was going for a closed off afternoon lighting scheme. I'll also take a look at the opacity on the shades and the emissive as well. Once again ty greatly for the critique!