Island

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Hey everybody :slight_smile:

A while back I shared my island project. (old version can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaCOTX60jh0)

Three months ago I picked it up again for my graduation project. It is still a work in progress so there are untextured models and placeholders in there.

Software used:
Maya, Unreal 4, Substance Designer, Photoshop and NDO.

More progress shots can be found here:
http://www.joeyrelouw.com/nessebar.html

As always, comments and critiques are appreciated.

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more pictures: http://imgur.com/a/HekcP

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start on using shadows!
Use a dynamic directional light that is movable! :3
And dont bother with Building light… as it always gives mean artifacts and tkes ages…

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well, i should build lights to see my shadows, right?

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Im sry i forgot:

Go to you light preferences in the WORLD tab.
Finy: Force precompile light or so… uncheck it. Aboie the checkbox should be a resolution value 1024 if you dont find it.
After that build light one time. Will take seconds.
Now add the directional light and make it movable.

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doing that deletes all my shadows i had baked after my last build, but it does not replace it with new ones.
The light is moveable and i checked the box ‘Force No Precomputed Lighting’ (mine says ‘no’ for some reason).

so all my dropshadows are gone with this method.

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Do you have andy shadows now or is all black?
And we can reanable the drop shadows with some fancy SSAO later ^^

Just focus on the directional light now.

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Impressive modelling! I agere it would be improved by lighting and shadow work, right now it seems fairly flat.