[WIP][UE4] Rural Church Piano Environment - Finished!
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Been working on this to add some personal work that's AAA quality to my portfolio. I'm starting to see the finish line so thought I'd post it up! Originally inspired by the church in Far Cry 5, I wanted to try add a post apoc infected/zombie spin to it. Ending up finding out that it gets very tropey very fast and dialed down alot of my original props. Any feedback and thoughts welcomed.
Although quite advanced, still WIP and some things are still a greyblock. Walls and floors have not been worked on yet.
DONE! FINAL SHOTS: Main view
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Although quite advanced, still WIP and some things are still a greyblock. Walls and floors have not been worked on yet.
DONE! FINAL SHOTS: Main view
Additional views
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Keep it up dude, awesome work!
I'm glad you guys are liking it. I'm super happy with my progress so far and look forward to finally adding some AAA quality art to my folio
Working on the walls and flooring
Do you guys think it's too busy/noisy looking?
Also, here's a animated comparison from my blockout version of the walls and floors
These are the masks I used in Substance Painter to get the rips and holes
The last thing would be to reduce the brightness (maybe its light shafts?) of the lighting coming through the window on the left, since its a bit abnormally bright there compared to the rest of the scene but has no purpose, pulling the eye away from the center piece.
Another pass at lighting and post processing. Would really like some opinions because I think it's a bit overly processed, but I feel it's closer to what I have in my head for this scene. What do you think?
I'm done! Here are the final screenshots! I ended up re-doing the lighting and post process from scratch. I was having alot of trouble with the bakes so I watched one of the Unreal Academy's lighting tutorial and it helped to setup my lights a little better and to get some GI baked into my scene.
Some quick post mortem notes:
- It took me 3 months to finish and I only worked on it during the weekends. Averaging about 6 - 10 hrs spread over Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. And "crunching" up to 12 hrs the past 2 weeks or so to finish up
- I didn't make any materials from scratch. I actually started out doing that but abandoned it because it took way too long and there are plenty of more talented texture artists out there. The huge majority of my materials were from Substance Share. This saved me a ton of time and allowed me to spend more time making my assets and scene look great
- I made an effort to use the most efficient tools for the job. Marvelous Designer for cloth (flag and cloth covering boxes). Zbrush for quickly banging out extra dents on corners of some of my high poly meshes, sculpting the candles and for using Dynamesh/Zremesher/Decimation Master when I need to crunch a high poly down. The best program I learned and used in this scene was, without a doubt, Substance Painter.
- The best video I watched to learn Substance Painter was the Military Radio tutorial on Gumroad
- Very early on, I ended up watching several tutorials to help improve my overall modeling skills. I've worked in mobile game studios for most of my career and my AAA skills were okay but not up to date. My high poly hard surface modelling improved by switching over to a mainly quad chamfer workflow and some support loop use instead of a pure support loop workflow. I also learned to unwrap better and quicker
The videos that helped me high poly model better, faster and to unwrap faster are all from ChamferZone, specfically these videos. I hope they help others, they really helped me alot.