[UE4] Watch at the peak

Ubuska · Jan 2016

Hi! I started new environment.
This environment is inspired by Witcher and Skyrim and it will be sat at the peak of the mountain.
Here are some references I use

Right now I'm finishing blockout.

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Mr Significant · Jan 2016

Subbed, I saw your last enviro, this will be amazing!

Ubuska · Jan 2016

Thank you!

Ubuska · Feb 2016

Made main floor texture and painted snow, gravel and mud using vertex colors.

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pixelpatron · Feb 2016

lookin pretty good so far. needs that next gen muddy wetness though.

Montreseur · Feb 2016

Height blending is looking great on your materials, snow always looks neat with height blending.

Ubuska · Feb 2016

Andrew @Thoughcrayish made new mountains (background ones).

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Chaged stone texture, made adjustments to floor material. Also finished wall highpoly piece, doing retopo now.

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Ubuska · Feb 2016

Textured building, armory and smithy (will make another texturing pass later). Made boulder wall lowpoly and texturing.

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Ubuska · Feb 2016

Added some effects (snow and wind), textured props (barrels, stump, tables).

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Ubuska · Feb 2016

Made stone wall piece, dressed up the scene.

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Jaston3D · Feb 2016

Good work on the stone wall! The boulder wall just looked way to unnatural when it went all the way around. Solid update! I'm looking forward to seeing how you dress up the scene some more!

Ubuska · Feb 2016

Made some weapons and props. Next will be flag, roof, furnace, and torches.

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hmm_rock · Feb 2016

The snow dusting on the planks is looking nice! I like the overall cold blue tone, and with those bright orange torches, I can't wait to see more!

Ubuska · Feb 2016

Almost finished this scene. Will make some more props (tower in background, flag, shield, texture roof) and make decent lighting and post process (lighting is very rough now).

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Ubuska · Feb 2016

Added shield and some other props.
Andrew worked on lighting and post proc, final screenshots below:

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Btw, I already recorded a video, but I still need to finish editing. I will post result soon to wrap up this thread. Thanks for watching!

Ubuska · Mar 2016

Today I made the video, it have some different, more darker post processing effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDuhRLxW1nA

EpicBeardMan · Mar 2016

Hey, the visuals of this scene are pretty good. There are some overly glossy objects like the piles of wood with snow on them. Snow overall is not that glossy unless it's started to melt on certain parts.
The layout of the scene/level is good. Not too overcrowded with pointless assets.

But, big thing here I notice is the scale discrepancy. Scales here are a bit off on some assets like the shield, which are way to big in accordance the rest of the scene. And even those piles of firewood are too wide.
My advice is whenever you're modeling is always to have a human reference near the asset you're currently modelling. It will help you get the full sense of scale. So watch out for that in your future projects.

Cheers!

FreneticPonies · Mar 2016

I'd agree with @EpicBeardMan on the scaling, it feels odd and nothing seems to be to a definitive scale, either stylized or otherwise. I'd suggest putting in the stock mannequin model to have a human sized scale to work off of.

The chimney for the small open hut is also far too flat/low poly for the texture that suggests nice round and bumpy stones being used. I'd either re-texture it as smoothly cut stone or remodel it to look a lot more natural.

Ubuska · Mar 2016

Actually while modelling blockout I used human scale figures a lot (you can see it in the beginning of this thread). Shield is supposed to be this big (although it could be a little smaller). The wooden pieces don't use unique textures and don't have highpoly version, I think I could use highpoly bake though.
I'll watch out for that in future projects, though. Thanks for your input!

[UE4] Watch at the peak

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