[CE3] Beach Bar Environment

Yeah if you're tiring of it perhaps better to end the project on a positive note rather than letting it turn into a horrible chore. Just get the current angle looking good and it'll be a wonderful addition to your portfolio.

As for the colour, that shot looks fine to me. In fact your earlier one looked quite OTT on the contrast when shown on my relatively expensive panel. Are your panels TN ones? They tend to ship with all sorts of crazy settings and it can be hard if not impossible to get them looking reasonably neutral, not ideal when doing visual work. I remember when I first got this monitor all the work I'd been doing on my previous cheap one looked awful because it literally couldn't show the amount of detail this one can — what I thought was white was really light shades of grey/colour, etc.

I think the saturation and hue of the foliage could be turned down a bit and moved towards more pale and blueish hues like in the concept, you could just as well do it in the ToD editor by making green your selective colour and shifting around the appropriate values. Just a thought.

Nice going thus far

The scene is really coming together PogoP. In the last few shots it's starting to remind me of diddy kong racing or banjo kazooie on the n64 colour-wise.. which is awesome btw Maybe not quite so colourful.. but getting there!

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I loved those games so much. Someone get making classic Rare games in CryEngine.

I just got done with doing one at work haha . The treads on your wheel are a tad big, I'd make them probably twice as small! I used a similar pattern as well on mine.

and.. it's just a little detail, but the threads on the wheels seem to be vertically mirrored. if you look at a wheel from the front, the threads look basicly like this:

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could it be that your normal map is inverted? at least on the part in front of the feet and the tires it looks really wrong to me

Nice! I like the colors. Not really a fan of the way the dirt builds up though. It looks pretty obvious that you used the same instance of the brush with some crazy jitter. Try to build it up less uniformly. Maybe I would even remove the red stripes too, they feel a little unnecessary and break the color scheme a bit. Good job man!

Really like this scene, but I can't see any dropbox pictures at work. Anychance you could put your latest updates on a different host?

also it is very easy to see the seam (color and normals) and i would work on spec a lil, it feel kind'a plastic to me

Very solid work! Love the lively palette and the warm lighting! Wouldn't mind taking a few days off at this place.

Thumbs up!

Looks awesome to me, loving the paint scheme on the moped, though I agree the red sticks out a little bit too much.

Couple hints:

Reduce the FoV of your camera, use something like a 25/30FoV, it will make everything less "stretched", and use an actual camera not the perspective viewport! You'll notice the differences when you try it out!

The scene needs a very slight fog. Fog helps everything, it gives depth to the scene and gets rid of the weird contrast. (Check your concept, there's actually a lot of fog going on, it's just a very light one, do the same)

LIGHTING! Place some deferred lights on there to simulate light bounces, and to give the scene a more believable look. At the moment you're using only one light in the scene, the sun. Light bounces around, you can mimic this easlily with as many deferred lights you want / need. Put a low dif value in the light, 0 in the HDR, and a very very low spec value, like 0.1.

Look at the concept, can you see any blacks? Apart from those few leafs in the foreground, and bellow the hut, there's none, the image is actually quite washed out, try and mimic the same effect.

Make the palm trees bigger and bushier, like in the concept, place moar! Also, are you using the vegetation shader? You should tweak the SSS values a bit more.

Your shadows are black/grey, look at the concept, shadows need to be light blue! Tweak your ToD!

The tex of those rocks on the left is horrible, just get rid of them and replace them by vegetation.

Here's an overpaint I did quickly, but as you can see, you really need to nail the fov, it's too high atm.

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Fell free to use it or post it anywhere you want