Into The DataCore - UE4/Substance Designer Scifi Environment

A mini scene and lighting study done in Unreal Engine 4. Base materials created in Substance Designer. Medium poly + decals workflow and tiling textures were used for the entire environment. Environment Art/Materials/Lighting - Tim Simpson
Particle effects - Wiktor Öhman
Inspiration - Beeple, Star Wars, Destiny 2

[@hypersapien]

Reminds me of my favorite parts of No Man's Sky- the interiors of space stations and the Atlas

[@PolygonAcademy]

hypersapien oh cool! I still gotta play that game, looks fun!

[@dev_alpha5064]

Are this availablein ue4 marketplace. I really want to buy it.

[@Nashfanfl13]

I know this video is older but Tim could you by chance could you tell me how you went about making the trim sheet are these designs/textures from reference? I'm blown away about how cool this looks and shocked to know that it came from only 1 trimsheet.

[@PolygonAcademy]

pretty much the same workflow as my trim sheet tutorial series, just with scifi shapes and designs, but the overall process is pretty much idential, mapping interesting panel lines and details with just bashing around the UVs on meshes haha.

[@Nashfanfl13]

@@PolygonAcademy great thank you following along with that series now.

[@frosti8787]

This is stunning! Definitely gives off No Man’s Sky vibes. I really love your work

[@knl654]

TEACH US.

[@jinglebells9727]

What a nice atmosphere! Love it ❤️

[@Dj3ndo]

Awesome! And that ME Music fits it so well!

[@PolygonAcademy]

cheers! I am a huge Mass Effect fan haha.

[@MarcusRamsey]

I'm confused about texel density. I watched a tutorial where he said 256 x 256 units equals 2048 resolution. Same centimetre units for unreal engine he was using as a display in 3ds max. saying 1 unit is 1cm. He had the mannequin next to the trimsheet, but another texel density tutorial said it's 400 x 400 units equals 2048, He also was using the same Centimetre units which is what unreal engine uses. he did not have the manikin in that scene, so i couldn't see the comparison. I have my Maya grid and measurement units set to centimetres, but i'm confused, is it 400 units or 256 units to get to 2048?

[@PolygonAcademy]

texel density is whatever you decide you want it to be for your project. everyone uses different metrics, the more important thing is that you are consistent with it as much as possible. for example, most ps4 games like god of war/uncharted aim for 256-512px/m density depending on the game. so a 4m section of wall would most likely use a 1024 texture tiled 4x. a more modern/future looking texel density would be about 1024px/m or higher. so in your case a 400 unit square wall would be a 2048 tiled 4x or one 4k texture, but those are still pretty expensive and not used a lot. im going to make a video explaining texel density soon :)

[@MarcusRamsey]

@@PolygonAcademy Ah ok I think I understand a little better now, thanks man! Hope you are doing great!

[@botgamers7755]

How to make this environment

[@PolygonAcademy]

I used the mid poly star citizen technique, google that and there are a few good tutorials :) maybe i can re-open this scene and do a little breakdown too if you want

[@botgamers7755]

Thank you very much

[@botgamers7755]

I did not find any helpful thing on Google. Can you show us a tutorial?

[@MarcusRamsey]

@@PolygonAcademy That was helpful. I found alot of information about vertex normals and decals. Been playing around. I would definitely love a tutorial because I'm curious about the workflow you used to get it in unreal engine. There seems to be multiple ways and software to go about it and I'd love to know how you did it :)

[@PolygonAcademy]

Marcus Ramsey yea i will probably demo it in future :)