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Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Hey everyone, starting a new environment project and wanted to share the process. :) The scene will be a small-scale desert communication relay setup, focused on a contained area (~25x25m) with a strong focal point and clear composition. For this project, I’m focusing on improving a few key areas: * Stone sculpting and… -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Here’s the finish line. This project has officially reached the end. Overall, I’m very pleased with how it turned out. The past week became very much a polish phase. Every time I thought I was done, I kept going back and asking myself: “Can this be pushed further?” That mindset carried through the entire final stretch.… -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Another update for this week :) All images below are directly from Unreal Engine. Over the last couple of days I’ve been focusing heavily on refining details throughout the environment, especially terrain variation, material breakup, and overall cohesion. I’ve also been adjusting the horizon and surrounding landscape to… -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Hi everyone, here's a brief lighting update. :) Been spending quite a bit of time tweaking the lighting lately, mainly adjusting the sun angle and experimenting with different moods for the canyon environment. It’s interesting how much the entire scene changes just from relatively small adjustments. Some setups looked good… -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Sure thing! Make sure to get those rocks mashed into your terrain sooner, rather than later. Quick paintover... Blockout is super important for figuring out what kind of rocks you actually need, and which you don't, plus any different kinds of rock assets you wish you had! -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Also, if you're baking a normal map from those high-resolution sculpts, then it would make sense for you to sculpt the striations into those. Another reason to consider using tiled textures, instead of sculpting unique whole-rock normal maps. What's the current texture resolution you're using for each rock? -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Another update. I’ve now moved into the material phase and started working on a first pass in Substance Painter, using my low poly rock assets. Right now I’m focusing on establishing a solid base, studying reference closely to get a more believable balance between exposed rock, wear, and surface variation. This is still an… -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Thanks, I really appreciate the detailed feedback! =)@Eric Chadwick You're absolutely right about the striations, that’s something I’ve been working on improving. My initial pass relied too much on surface noise, so now I’m focusing on introducing broader, more directional layering to better match sedimentary formation. I… -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Good start. But you need to get those horizontal striations in there. Right now your rock textures just read as semi-random noise, rather than the geological structure of sedimentary layering as seen in your references. It's actually a really cool process, how these types of rocks formed over… -
Re: Finished - Desert Communication Relay – Environment Scene
Here’s another update for this week. :) I’ve spent some time iterating on the rocks, with the goal of making them feel like they belong to the same environment. I focused on keeping a consistent shape language and making them read as if they were formed from the same type of rock, inspired by my reference. The idea was to…
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