Welcome to the week three round up of the Hangar 45 student project! Here you will see some of the progress I have made with this task on a weekly basis and see me talk about some of the challenges and (more importantly) solutions that I deal with. Modeled Mechs – 1 This is a…
Welcome to the week two round up of the Hangar 45 student project! Here you will see some of the progress I have made with this task on a weekly basis and see me talk about some of the challenges and (more importantly) solutions that I deal with. Kit Work Seeing as how most of…
Welcome to the week none of the Hangar 45 student project! Here you will see some of the progress I have made with this task on a weekly basis and see me talk about some of the challenges and (more importantly) solutions that I deal with. This post will be about some of the work…
Dis iz sumtin’ to tink abut… As a character and environment artist, I often see myself working on projects that rely on making something… impossible – spaceships the size of cities, giant lizards that fly, characters that bend the laws of physics and countless more, while I often find myself analyzing and studying real world…
In this blog post I shall sum up some of the ideas and technologies that I have implemented into my project as a result of looking at some of the forefront products in my field. A good place to start is my recently developed workflow using Unreal Engine 4. This was engine was chosen not…
Colored specular maps are a common feature of all offline renderers and a good deal of realtime engines, however Unreal does not support this in the 4th iteration of their engine, opting instead to rely on Metalness maps which while overall better looking can greatly limit the material possibilities.After countless hours looking through engine notes…
While a large portion of the materials for the project are PBR metals where surface textures will added to material instances with altered properties, a few materials will use added effects like Fresnel effects to reflections or roughness to add a more cinematic feel to them – the example here would exaggerate the rim-lighting on…
For this project I will have to create several custom shader materials. One example of this is my current solution for volumetric light. As UE4 does not currently support this feature and has god-rays only as a screen-space effect, I developed a simple shader with custom textures that creates the effect of a fog that…
Due to the nature of the environment it was clear that I would have large flat featureless planes. This introduced the issue of tiling. Solution 1 To combat this I created several decal materials similar to the caustics approach that modify roughness, reflection and normal. Solution 2 Another approach was to overlay the same texture…
Colored Light Textures Colored lights is what I’m using as an approach to compensate for UE4’s inability to support colored texture lights – in offline renderers this allows users to project colored images which are blurred and create the illusion of a complex lighting environment off-screen. Caustics When it comes to shiny translucent or chromatic…
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