Category: Animated Strategies – Unreal Engine

After some tweeking above, I downloaded 2 light models from the Quixel store and placed them, as I wanted to make sure that there weren’t any areas of light that it wasn’t obvious where the light was coming from:

I placed lights in all of the downloaded lights which are in the main corridor and above the operation table. I also added flashing lights to the light above the op table and in the server asset. I added a post-process to effect the bloom and the temperature of the atmosphere in my rooms. This is currently infinite, and effecting all of the scene. These are some of the cameras I have placed, and I plan on animating them in the next few days:

Some of these screenshots are a little too dark, I plan on trying to lighten the view of the server, and from behind the operation table on the shelves. I also might add some sparks to the open cables in the room, I’m not 100% sure yet – but Henry gave me a couple of good references for the Niagara system that I might utilize.

References this week:

Started with some basic fog which added an ominous feel to the scene, and pulled all of the other lighting way down so that the scene was dark:

Added an emissive to my GIF files:

Added some emission to my splatter:

Added in some more emmission with the doors of the life pods. Unsure about whether or not this might be a bit too much?

Added a simple point light above, as it’s a lab setting I thought I should add some ‘dull’ hanging light vibes:

Added a purple tinge to light as contrast to green:

I used a tutorial when making the lighting up for my TV screens, which was really helpful:

 

Today, I began setting up my UE Scene:

Some updates to my UE5 scene.

 

Maps used for the bubble particle.

References and resources:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-create-a-terrain-with-a-picture/683462/2

http://clipart-library.com/free/green-splatter-png.html

I also made up a little rough story board:

 

I spent today updating and finalising my textures with GIF images:

   

I also Modelled, UV’d and textured (in UE5) a puddle:

I imported my textures into UE5 and updated them, however there are still things that need to be fixed with this, mainly around glass and emissive textures:

I also have some prototypes for the GIF images that I want to put inside of my monitor assets. I will translate these on to larger canvases that will fit into their respective monitors: