Final Fantasy 7 UE4 Final update

THE FOLLOWING POST IS MY LOOK BACK AT THE PROJECT AND THE THINGS THAT WENT WRONG AND WHAT I CAN IMPROVE ON IN FUTURE WORK. FF7 AVALANCHE HIDE OUT FINAL SCENE UE4 (SORRY ABOUT THE WEIRD URL CARBON MADE WOULDNT ACCEPT ANYTHING RELATING TO FF7 AVALANCE HIDEOUT OR BARRET) https://ehhfrsh.carbonmade.com/projects/5606820#26 BARRET CHARACTER FINAL UE4 https://dkcjdcjv.carbonmade.com/ […]

FF7 AVALANCHE HIDE OUT UE4 “NOT LONG NOW”

In the last post I listed off most of the main things I needed to get done and after a few sleepless nights the scene has started to come to life. All of the assets have emissive’s were needed and opacity for the glass meshes. All the materials have roughness and metalic maps/constants applied ( […]

FF7 Scene update for UE4

First off Happy New year all. This post will be about the progress made in texturing the scene. Over the last 5 days after I have been texturing the scene and at the moment I am far from happy with it. Though on the plus side I have 12 weeks to improve and much of […]

Floating Geometry plus progress report and future plans

Ok short post showing the floating geometry I have made to project some details onto my low meshes. I think around 12 of the meshes will be relying on sculpted detail for the normals and the rest will be utilizing these floating geometry pieces as well as asset specific pieces like the chopping boards, hobs, […]

UNIQUE OR MOVEABLE OBJECTS IN THE SCENE AND BEYOND

This post is basically documenting my work flow further so as to make up for the lack of posts in the next few days. Its basically a link to an asset list have created on Google doc sheet that states the stages each asset has been through so i can use it as a check […]

New day new problem

So although the image might not be that clear the normals are projecting fine on the meshes no black seems so no problem there. This issue i have is with the light mapping on the table legs. I have created the table with modularity in mind so one sculpted plank and one leg mesh both […]

Problem solved continued

So all i did was decimate at 30% in the end i tried as low as 22% all the way up to 29% of decimation reimporting into max every time and it turned out 30% was the magic number anyway. So i tried using the lowest sub div again just to see the result as […]

Problem solved

So originally i was decimating the mesh at 20% so i tried 30% and got alot cleaner result although my PC aint what she once was so its slowing it up a bit. Think ill try 25% and see if i can still get a good result.

Normals Issue or is it ???

So as i said in the previous post im having an issue with black areas on my TV asset when its imported into engine. I open my max file with the decimated mesh (703k verts) and was going to start retopping the mesh to get a better and lower game mesh to work with. But […]

Work flow and baking good normals

So one post after another because that how I roll but anyway I have already written down in my notes a workflow for trying to achieve good normals for my low poly as I feel comfortable in all the other areas like texturing,light mapping and applying collision to the assets but good normals are important […]