[UE4] Clean Power Reactor
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I've been working on this small scene to improve my knowledge of PBR theory and creating modular tile sets, eventually it will lead to a large reactor in a separate room
Still a lot I want to polish any thoughts would be great as I've kinda worn my eyes out looking at it : 0
Still a lot I want to polish any thoughts would be great as I've kinda worn my eyes out looking at it : 0
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Everything looks like its the same amount of shininess, is that intentional?
To make a point on the lighting, I think a solid pass will really tie all of your work together. Things feel just very ambient right now. Solid start overall though
One thing I noticed is that the trim on the ground is very clean. Even for a clean enviroment, I'd expect a few scuffs along that from people brushing against it or stepping onto the white trim.
The crate by the door somehow looks awkward. I think it would be a challenge for someone to deliberately put it up against an angle like that, tilting downwards.
I am seriously in love with the floor texture, it makes me want to scuff my sneakers on it1
Please post more!
Secondly, the crits haha...
- There's an obvious dot repeating across your bare white & orange texture... quick fix just scrub if off.. it's tiling across the top two panels connected to your ceiling.
- the way the paint text scraped from the floor isn't convincing imo... it's quite badly scraped off and the floor underneath it doesn't seem to compliment the amount of damage on the text... some bumps or harsher scratches must have come along with the scrapes on the text no?
- the silver panels on the cyan doors, parallel to the red arrows... they seem a little flat across it's outlining... it gives off quite a "sticker" feel... i'm not sure if it's a decal or actually in the albedo texture of that piece of geometry... but either way... a slight bevel on it's outlining would fix that sticker feel.. it's just too flat when you look at the bevel line in the door that leads up into the center of that piece of art.
Keep going! look good still
It may not necessarily match your mood and style, but there's some great execution to check out regardless.
Once you have a general idea of the direction, it couldn't hurt to create a small rectangular cube, apply an emissive material to it, and use it as a temporary light source.
But enough of that, your environment looks really nice, clean cut and interesting shapes and colours.
The only one thing that catches my eye is the grate on the floor where one is facing a 90 degree angle to the one next to it? Was this intentional? The gaps inbetween the grates due to rotation makes the holes thinner.
But overall it is really nice and I am sure will look even better with more work put into it
Thanks Ross
@ skyline5gtr The wall pieces and the cable trim at the bottom share the same sheet I just moved around the centre panel UV's
@ marks I've reduced the intensity of the lumps and made it more of a matte rubber for the centre floor panel
@ross185 The 90 degree rotation was intentional didn't want to have all the lines of the grate moving in one direction, I think the holes looking thinner when rotated is a fov issue. I'm capturing at the default 90 I think :poly122:
@S2Engine Alien Isolation was a good tip! I've introduced a fairly weak directional light, there will be a glass panel in the ceiling eventually and added a lot of small low intensity point lights hopefully this should be a bit more interesting to look at than pure white
@AngryMindtricks Not had an opportunity to update the decal - had a strange issue with parts of it disappearing under different lights so it was toggled off most of the time. I did some material changes to the silver panels so hopefully that has fixed the issue. The orange dot is gone!
@Marshkin I've added some subtle scuffs to the albedo ad roughness for the ground trim still playing around with the intensity. I've removed the crate from that location it looked pretty silly on reflection
@Add3r I've changed up the lighting considerably and tweaked some materials so its not all so uniformly shiny. The focal point will eventually be a reactor visible through the alcove but I've only just started blocking it out was thinking of adding a bright red light in front of the monitor in the alclove as a stopgap
http://chrisstone3d.com/img/dandelion_observation_deck/chrisstone3d_main.jpg
http://chrisstone3d.com/img/dandelion_observation_deck/chrisstone3d_navtable.jpg
Great work by the way, it's looking promising. Few questions:
Did you texture most things individually or use tile-able maps?
What sorta Prost Processing you got going on here? Everything looks so clean. I think I see some chromatic aberration though.
Your chrome pipes, do they use a cubemap or just sphere reflections?
Have you decal-ed a lot of stuff here?
Dynamic or lightmaps?
I suppose a simple screenshot of your workspace would answer most of them haha.
Edit: FULGORE mentioned that you may have some invisible lights (without source). I can't NOT see it now.
The wall panels all share the same page with a baked normal map and a tileable base I've added to for subtle variations in each piece. The post processing I believe is just the default with some minor chromatic aberration at 0.2 some DOF effects for when you are super close to hide any ugly seams or textures
I've used sphere reflections for everything and have a mix of stationery and realtime lights, The smaller point lights are dynamic. The text on the ground and the logo to the side of the door frame are decals although I'm still having problems with them
@FULGORE The phantom blue lights are from a too bright point lights overpowering the emissive elements they are supposed to be emitting from, will rebalance these
@Dobbler Completely missed that, good opportunity for a new ceiling material!
@beefaroni Your shots definitely helped, nice scene by the way. I've started adding more overall variations to the roughness and albedo maps for the wall panels and increasing the edge wear in logical places. Just need to balance it so it doesn't look like its been attacked with a fork
Also, I'd love to see your texture flats.
I'd personally tay away from just floating lights in the middle of your scene. When building a PBR scene, you need to go all in to make the scene believable. You need to match your awesome material work with some realistic/hyper realistic lighting now. It absolutely is a huge step in the right direction now though. Keep at it man! Lighting is an art form in itself truthfully, it is something that is just as hard to nail as the actual art production IMO. Keep it up dude, improvements have already been made.
EDIT: Realized I came off as a total prick, did not mean to offend, think the geo and textures you have are a great start. A little more polish and you will have a solid port piece IMO
@Harbinger Popping some of the panels out is on the top of my list now
I like it much more.
Although I hate it when art isn't practical. that huge curb/bump heading up to what looks like a service elevator is completely impractical and takes away from the believability of the scene. Just add a little ramp or something with caution stripe on it....