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[WIP] Lisbon Street - Unreal Engine 5
Hello everyone.
I am close to wrapping up a portfolio project and I hoped to get some valuable feedback mainly on composition, lighting and colour grading from you guys.
My goal was to capture a narrow, Mediterranean style, iconic Lisbon street in a small diorama, by using only a handful of modular assets.
I textured everything using only two trim sheet (one for the environment and one for the tram), two tiling texture and an interior cube map texture for my windows. The tram also has a secondary UV layout for dirt mask.
Each building blocks were built using static mesh instances and for the down pipes and cables I used blueprints.
You can see my three key shots below. I kind of finalized my lighting, lifted up shadows and done a slight colour grading pass to make the materials more readable.
I am also planning to make a short (1min max) video montage with some closeups and material break downs.
Thank you guys for watching and sharing any thoughts.
I am close to wrapping up a portfolio project and I hoped to get some valuable feedback mainly on composition, lighting and colour grading from you guys.
My goal was to capture a narrow, Mediterranean style, iconic Lisbon street in a small diorama, by using only a handful of modular assets.
I textured everything using only two trim sheet (one for the environment and one for the tram), two tiling texture and an interior cube map texture for my windows. The tram also has a secondary UV layout for dirt mask.
Each building blocks were built using static mesh instances and for the down pipes and cables I used blueprints.
You can see my three key shots below. I kind of finalized my lighting, lifted up shadows and done a slight colour grading pass to make the materials more readable.
I am also planning to make a short (1min max) video montage with some closeups and material break downs.
Thank you guys for watching and sharing any thoughts.
Z0ltBa
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Re: What Are You Working On? (3D) 2026
Hi everyone.
I am finishing up a portfolio project and could use some feedback on lighting, composition and colour grading here.
Thank you.
I am finishing up a portfolio project and could use some feedback on lighting, composition and colour grading here.
Thank you.
Z0ltBa
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (101)
Decided to give this a go, begun blocking out the shapes and trying to find the camera angle. It was quite difficult to get it to somewhat match the reference, for now it will work. Next up some rocks and more detailed pipes.
Azlios
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (101)
Here's my first update!
Originally I was planning on trying one of the props, but since this stylised scene is made of simple repetitive shapes and textures I decided I could bash it out pretty quickly. So far I've blocked out the scene using Maya and Unreal Engine, and added some base materials and lighting. It was challenging to get all of the values correct, some of them are still a little off but hopefully I can fix most of this with post processing.
Next steps are to create some tileables, set up my master material so I can get some vertex painting in for the ground, then create a decal sheet for all of the stains and colour variation. Decal sheet will include normal decals for edge wear/cracks, leaks and stains and seams for the wall panels.
Originally I was planning on trying one of the props, but since this stylised scene is made of simple repetitive shapes and textures I decided I could bash it out pretty quickly. So far I've blocked out the scene using Maya and Unreal Engine, and added some base materials and lighting. It was challenging to get all of the values correct, some of them are still a little off but hopefully I can fix most of this with post processing.
Next steps are to create some tileables, set up my master material so I can get some vertex painting in for the ground, then create a decal sheet for all of the stains and colour variation. Decal sheet will include normal decals for edge wear/cracks, leaks and stains and seams for the wall panels.
kit3clarke
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Re: RadCity: UE5 mid-poly assets
@aumramaram you mean like an ambient cubemap? there's only one skylight (+lumen) for now for all the daytime lighting, i'm trying to get a bleak look (sort of like in The Road)
this week I wrapped up more cargo train wagons for the train triage area in the map:
made a roof kit to be used on most roofs:
and now working on game buildings, the railyard (the main hub in the game for missions) :
npcs are placeholders from fab for now until I get the time to make them
huffer
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Re: How to model hard classic victorian couch
Welcome to Polycount!
A good way to learn how to model complex shapes is to give it a try, and post your attempt, like Fabi_G suggested. Then people are more likely to suggest ideas how to improve what you have. For example see How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
Polyhaven has a few similar chairs. They show only the lowpoly versions with baked textures, but examining them might give you some ideas.
https://polyhaven.com/a/ArmChair_01
@FrankPolygon has some amazing resources on modeling softgoods https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2783158/#Comment_2783158 but many of the core subdivision modeling principles can also be applied for things like the wood scrollwork.
A good way to learn how to model complex shapes is to give it a try, and post your attempt, like Fabi_G suggested. Then people are more likely to suggest ideas how to improve what you have. For example see How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes - (Post attempt before asking)
Polyhaven has a few similar chairs. They show only the lowpoly versions with baked textures, but examining them might give you some ideas.
https://polyhaven.com/a/ArmChair_01
@FrankPolygon has some amazing resources on modeling softgoods https://polycount.com/discussion/comment/2783158/#Comment_2783158 but many of the core subdivision modeling principles can also be applied for things like the wood scrollwork.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: RadCity: UE5 mid-poly assets
@jstins nice! I think a lot depends on game's viewpoint, since mine is top-down there is so much you can get away with and a lot that just doesn't matter at all.
For all the hard surface stuff I did the end result is pretty much identical to what I'd achieve with baking, except silhouettes hold up better with all the chamfers and extra details. If it's a first person asset I think a zbrush sculpt (but not quite millions of triangles) pass over them would be cool with dents, welds and others that will hold up better as geo not as texture details
I tried different methods for more organic objects, either zbrush sculpts but decimated so I can unwrap and texture them easily, like the bricks debris and concrete panels here (very fast but messy):
but for others I just did the normal workflow, retopo, and bake, (because baked curvature and AO detail was better). in my case I'm not sure it matters
huffer
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Re: Shuttle Altair
Update: Calling it done! Just have to adjust a few things with the textures and presentation. Now I just need to rig it for practice, then unreal engine scenes!
Edit: Uploaded better renders.
AtomicArmy
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