CIRCULATION: A Dark Mechanical Labyrinth (Work in Progress) [UE5]

[@DevEnabled]

The sound and art style here are just spot on. Nice.

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much, trying to make something special.

[@randomdude-t9j]

the sounds are so cooool

[@kioly_ah]

非常有意思的设计

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much

[@tinrats]

Firstly, absolutely love the style and sounds! Brilliant. You mentioned in a previous video about asking questions... I'm just starting to learn Unreal 5 and I come from a loooong background in 3ds max. I was just wondering if you had any advice on material creation? Specifically adding the dirt, grime and rust? In other applications they would be multi materials (which I know you can do in Unreal even though tricky), but really interested in your approach? Is it just diffuse rust on the texture map or does it have alternative properties so it doesn't reflect as much? Any info will be great. Many thanks.

[@olegklaus]

Hey, if you want to just recreate the material I made a screenshot of my Master Material (But keep in mind it is adjustet to the lighting in my scene): forums.unrealengine.com/t/circulation-lost-in-a-dark-mechanical-labyrinth/1341129/17 On the Unreal Forum I am posting Updates and more technical things how I make my assets. I am working with blender and with some exceptions making my materials directly in unreal. I want to avoid baking because Its a very slow and rigid process. With unreals materials I have much more freedom. I should probably make a tutorial but here is a short answer: You can use the Lerp Node with quixel "imperfections" textures and connect them to the roughness. So yes, you can set the rust to beeing not reflective seperately from the main surface. And also set seperate colors as well. Btw. The Unreal Forum has really good learning videos as well :)

[@tinrats]

@@olegklaus Thank you so much for answering, I had stumbled on that lerp node so will look closer into that and I will be sure to follow your progress as the game looks great.

[@olegklaus]

@@tinrats no problem, glad to help 😁

[@randomdude-t9j]

seriously though

[@randomdude-t9j]

this would be so cool if it was on playstation

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much, appreciate it. Well the X Box controller works already. But I have no idea how to port to PS. But I am sure it shouldn't be a big issue with unreal.