Shack (UE3) [update: september 5, Near final screenies]

Yea, Hourences. Misterbister (admin on leveldesign.nu) said he was missing a backdrop too (and he'll probably be nagging me if dont make one. We're pretty much nighbors:)). I was considering not making one but im starting to change my mind so i probably will get started on the it. I'll vtxlit all the small prop-like things like buckets, bottles and shovels and what not. Ue3 is a compleatly new environment for me so im pretty much learning as I go. So all feedback on technical issues is most welcome.

The actual level file is about 13mb and the package file, containing all content, is 130mb. It takes about 5 minutes to rebuild on my laptop (3ghz, 1gig ram)

Watermaterial looks VERY interesting and and i have been searching high and low for any or all info on how to make one in ue3 so anything you can toss my way would be put to good use

Im away over the weekend but i'll get on irc next week.

Jeanpaul, yea created everything you see in the scene. Tools of trade is Maya, Modo, Mudbox, Photoshop and Unrealed for Roboblitz.

Whoops didnt realize there was two pages in the thread ;D

Thanks for all the feedback. Flickering lights would be cool but we'll see, i think it'd be a wee bit heavy. Foggy particles will be added to the scene. I've added volumetric lightbeams sipping trough the holes in the walls. it looks neato and i'll post some pics when i find the time.

Thanks for all the feedback and comments its apprechiated

Sopa_de_letras, screenshots will do that. Once you see it in motion and move around you'll notice the specmap doing its work with highlighting different areas and in different ways (Example. the moss on the mountain in the background doesnt bouce light at all whereas the rock-foundation does. A small yet important detail)

aevirex, I made the basic shape in Maya, landed on about 3-400 polys, then brought the model into mudbox and used my Wacom to make all the fine details (the highpoly model is around 2 or 3 million polys i think). Then i made a low polyversion based of that high poly version (3500 polys) and i rendered out the normalmap and an ambient occlusion map from the highpoly. It took some tweaking in Photoshop to make it look right. Based on the Ambient occlusion map i made the texture.

The rock in the scene went trough the exact same process. I havnt used mudbox before but its an amazing tool and i never wanna be without it =)

Roboblitz also is a very small game. The arcade version is like 49mb so they had to use alot of tricks and do stuff as cheaply as possible. i dont have that problem

no.

all geometry was made in maya, modo and mudbox. the "walls" around the scene is addative BSP just so the fog looks good and to use as backdrop later.

in UE3 you can choose if you want an additive or subtractive scene when you create a new level. Not that it matters in terms of quality, just how you go about doing things.

Update in first post. check it out

Cheers

I made the sky really bright at first but toned it down after hourences noted it. I'm gonna play with pulling down the master light to see how it looks. Don't wanna touch the fog cuz it lets you see just enough at this point.

Another big update in first post.

Psyshokiller, thats what i was going for =)

KungFuSquirrel, i'll fix thumbs when i get home from uni today.

The fishnets are gonna be removed cuz they suck. I havnt been able to get materials in UE3 to work using an alphamask with normalmap, let alone get it to be lit.

Thanks for the feedback