Hi, I'm new here. Feedback and CC would be much appreciated!
Hey Everyone, Glad to be here amongst the Polycount 3d community. To cut the story short and get into the nitty-gritty details... I'm basically working on a 3d environment in unreal engine to revamp my portfolio. The idea/theme of this environment was to create a Cold War-era bunker with some really moody tones and ambient lighting. At this point, I've hit a wall with lighting and bettering my composition, so I'd really appreciate a fresh set of eyes on this scene. I'm struggling to get some bounce light and lighting variation in the scene. Every time I open up and look at my scene, everything seems flat. Anyway, if you have any tips or tricks to share on enhancing my scene for lighting, models, anything really... If you have an opinion, please feel free to share it, I'd really appreciate your input! Looking forward to hearing from y'all! Thanks in advance.
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the attenuation radius for the lights might be a bit big, some of these lights would be fairly weak, so reducing their sizes might help. also maybe get rid of the green rect light and just use emissive for static lighting instead, have you changed the source length on the light tube as well to match it's length? if it's single sided you could probably place the light inside of it or at least a bit closer.
This scene intends to give off a cramped and claustrophobic aura/feel to the viewer. Lots of asset/level density and tight corners. The tiled floor gave off a better feel in terms of composition to me. This bunker is essentially like a makeshift one, a room used for something else that has been repurposed to become this communication surveillance bunker. I can look into changing it if it doesn't sit well with viewers. I can also look into scaling down the grates or removing them completely, was just testing different decals that I made for the scene. I'm not too fixed on it myself.
As for the wires, the big blue thing on the left is a huge electric power panel, it's being used to surge and give power to the tape drive, transmitter etc. Some of the wires go behind the desk to a power plug as well. If it's too distracting, I can definitely look into hanging a bunch from the walls with metal pins. No biggie!
I can definitely look into remodelling the ceiling into a dome shape to make it look more like a bunker as you mentioned above. I followed concepts and several other people's artworks since they did similar projects and didn't have that round dome shape.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kVmr0
Lastly, the reinforced door is a neat idea! Already planned on it and have a rough blocked-out model in the scene. Need to unwrap and texture it.
I genuinely appreciate the help! You've given me a lot to think about.
Thanks again Pixelpatron.
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