[UE4] Station C3 - Sci-fi Environment (WIP)

Yesterday I updated unreal from version 4.11 to 4.12 After I converted the project I noticed that things looked different. Everything is darker, more contrasty and some materials way more reflective. If you look at the floor this is very obvious. The rough areas on the floor turned almost white in version 4.12 I already tweaked a lot of parameters but I still can't replicate the look I had in version 4.11... Any suggestions?

Quote from Klassic

17 minutes ago, Klassic said: Honestly, I like 4.12 more

Yes you're not the first to tell me that

I feel reflections may be a little too strong. I guess I'll have to rework the roughness map

Quote from Minos

18 minutes ago, Minos said: Did you try rebaking the map?

What do you mean by rebaking the map? You mean the level light build? If that's the case yes I have rebuilt the lighting.

This is a bug. Answer from one of the Unreal developers: " I was able to track this down. I hoisted the max roughness mip count out of the shader into the c++ side and the "- 1" to get the max mip index was still being applied on both sides (in c++ and hlsl). I will have this fixed in the next HotFix. Thank you so much for reporting it. "

I'm having a hard time making this glass material look right inside UE4. It's very different from what I get in Substance Painter as you can see. The glass is not a separate object, it's part of the same mesh, so when I set the material to translucent inside UE4, other parts of the mesh get transparent too... so I decided to try changing the material blending mode to masked. Now the object is opaque but the glass transparency doesn't accept intermediate values: its either is completly transparent or completly opaque... Any clues on how to solve this? Thanks.

Quote from spence

35 minutes ago, spence said: Masked blending mode is for "cutout" style masking - either the material is completely opaque or completely transparent, but never anything "in-between". Maybe separate the glass part into its own mesh/material?

Yes. I tried making everything in one material but didn't work. With a separate material everything works fine.

Environment Update

Quote from BJA

20 minutes ago, BJA said: Nice updates! Are you still making a space station? looks more and more like a night club/bar/restaurant to me.

Thanks for commenting. Yes it's still some sort of sci-fi environment. This is a mall/restaurant area. Right now it's not looking very sci-fi, I agree with you. When I looked at these last images I had the same feeling. My goal was a low tech not very futuristic sci-fi but I guess I have to "sci-fi-it" a bit more.

Concept for a sci-fi column that I'll be modeling next

Small update. Column is not finishied yet.

Sci-Fi Environment WIP (UE4) Here's a small update after a long pause. Sorry about that, I'm going to post more often from now on. The fern is from megascans

Testing my brand new fern, made with megascans textures.Also testing sound occlusion. You can hear the sound change as the player goes to the back of the column (turn up your sound!)

Sci-Fi environment WIPSmall update. Changing the look of the large windows.

Here's a quick sketch I made for the new windows with a super dirty paintover in photoshop. Instead of being a station in space this will be a station settled on the bottom of a sea of methane, in the moon Titan. I thought it would look cool with an underwater (methane in this case) view. Some of the ground mud and rocks would be in contact with the external glass for a cool effect. I imagine submarines passing by with strong spotlights to illuminate their way.

It's been hard to get some time to work on this, but here's another update.

New windows.

Playing with LUTs.