Shack (Scene in Unreal engine 3)

[Drevlin]

Shack

Information:

This is my test platform for getting experience in Unreal engine 3. All content you see has been crafted by my aching hands.

The actual setting started as a vague image in my head that I ironed out as I went along.

Production time clocks in around 3½-4 weeks spread over a number of months.

The scene consists of 41 meshes, used 616 times and adding upp to a bit over 50 000 polygons.

Tools I've used:

UnrealED (Roboblitz)

Maya 8.0

Modo

Mudbox

Photoshop CS3

NOTE:

As this is just a scene rendered in Unreal engine 3 and not an actual level I have not included a download link. Sadly another project now takes my full attention or I would've made a fly-trough trough the scene and post it but I'm putting that thought on hold for now.

Wireframes, assets or whatever will be shown upon interest.

Thanks to:

Hourences, for providing tutorials trough his site and his artistic and technical advice on IRC.

Family and friends, and especially my brother David for lending me his laptop to work on the scene during the summer.

Everyone in #terrafusion on quakenet for feedback

Everyone in #Unrealed on both Enterthegame and Quakenet for feedback

And everyone else who provided feedback and critics but does not fit into any of the above groups.

Enough talk. Here are the images of the scene.

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[Buddy]

It ended up looking nice, what I don't like is the amount of pipes

Other than that

GJ

[Pericolos0]

I like the pipes, just need more variotion in them, some thicker ones etc . pipe-jungle!

This ended up looking really really cool! keep it up

[Zeta]

bootiful

[El Moroes]

wow It's really beautiful! I like! I think that the pipes are original ! Great Work man !

[Algor]

good stuff, great atmosphere. nice use of minimal content.

when you say 41 meshes, are they entirely modular pieces? or is that mostly modular, and then the shack structure is one mesh, etc.

[Lee3dee]

the atmosphere is outstanding reminds me of a level in Myst. For the god rays, did you use a mesh? I would like to see some of the modular pieces that you created and their materials.

[Jenn0_Bing]

Yeah, i agree with Lee3dee. Myst was one of the first things that popped into my mind with all those pipes, has a similar steampunk feel. I like it, nice work.

[Sindwiller]

Hawt man

[-HP-]

Great work indeed...

[Drevlin]

Thanks for all the comments

Algor, Alot of it is modular. A few examples, each of the 4 wall in the shack is an individual mesh. The wooden bridge consits of about 10 plank thats just repeated over and over.

The metal plates are all individual meshes. The pipes consists of about 5 or 6 different peices that are scattered about plus one that i built specific for the shack structure with pipes leading trough holes in the wall etc. The mountain structure is repeated alot if you look closly but i think its generic enough to make it work while keeping it interesting.

Trees and rocks are all individual too. The lanterns actually consist of two meshes: One with the actual yellow/orange glow to it that doesnt cast or recieve any shadows and then the cage around it that casts shadow to give it the nice shadows from the cage ^^

Then theres alot of single wooden poles, planks, barrels, crates, gastank. All individual and scattered about.

Lee3dee, yes. They're meshes (god rays? Been listening to Bungie podcast, have we? ) I tried a new method of doing em compared to a previous project that I worked with using unreal engine. Rather than using a cylinder i used a sphere that i scaled around alot. The results worked but there was no bigger difference otherwise so it was all rather pointless ._.

I made the volumetric shader (read "looked at existing ones in roboblitz and copied it).

Any specific models you care to look at?

[JakeParlay]

yeah reminded me a bit of myst as well. very cool, thanks giving us a peek

[Rick_D]

Lee3dee, yes. They're meshes (god rays? Been listening to Bungie podcast, have we? )

they're called that in a shitload of places tbh

[Drevlin]

Rick_D, yea started to notice it more and more too.