World of Real Time Discoveries

FINAL UPATE

Hey guys this is my final post. Took some time to complete. Had some struggles and issues but learnt a lot through the process. I guess blocking and layout was the most important part of my process as I am always trying find the right depth and spacial feel of the environment. Lots of moving around was done and what I loved about Unreal was that is was real time. I could explore different ideas, compositions and I could immedaitely see the result. Most of the assets I used were from Quixel. Some assets were mixed, some were slightly retextured. I really enjoyed looking through the Quixel library as there are abundance of resources that could give me inspiration and ideas. (The spaceship model is from CG Trader by Shturman. I just UV unwrapped it and textured it in Substance Painter)

I tested out new techniques such as using fog cards to create more atmosphere and mood; and also to optimize my scene since it was rendering in real time. I tried Niagara and built some simple particle effects to create some moving pixels, in order to give some life to the environment. I also tried the Runtime Virtual Texturing (RVT) to blend my assests with the landscape (used a height map). Played around with the volumetric cloud system and studied a bit on the Movie Render Queue to try and get some nice renders. I tried a lot and learnt a lot. I will continue to improve and build upon what I have learnt.

I hope everyone learned a lot through their process and good luck to everyone. Thank you to The Rookies for hosting this contest!

Minor updates. Starting to play around with cinematic shots and working on smaller details.

Spaceship model from CG Trader by Shturman. I just re-textured it to fit it to my environment.

Made some big changes that I was at first hesitant to do. Now I am playing around with lighting and adding some vegetation and smaller details to the environment.

Unreal layout continued...struggling to get the right feel of depth

Continuing to blockout and move assets around. Trying to get a sense of space and explore the composition of my environment. I am also playing a bit with the lighting as well, to see what affect it has. With the real time rendering it helps a lot to move things around easily and be able to quickly see what could work in camera and what does not.

Reference

Rough Concept Sketch

Rough Blockout v01

Rough Blockout v02

Unreal Assets Rough Placements