For two days I was working on a model of a car. This took me slightly longed than expected (the model isn’t as detailed, but it takes a while to make it). I’ve already unwrapped it and textured as well. I’ve also made different maps (roughness, metalness etc.), which then helped me to create a final material in Unreal.

I am not super happy with the actual model and texture, but it is a jeep that may be found in a place like rainforest area. I also had to find a way round to do not model the interior of a car. Because of that, the windows doesn’t looks as realistic as they should, making this car unable to be used. I may rethink adding the interior, but at this stage, I’m a bit behind, so I’m trying to save some time as much as I can.

I had several problems with the car texture and couldn’t get the details I needed into the roughness map. The dirt on the car should be lest shiny than the metal part of the body, but each time it was really hard to achieve with no reason.

The roughness map seam to have all the details required to be able to get the shines of the car, but it didn’t work for some reason. It worked at the end, but it took longer than expected and several tries as well.

I know that this could have been compressed into one texture, but I never had an opportunity to learn how to do so. Right now is not the best time to experiment and spend even longer on trying to get it right, so I decided to leave it as it is. I may learn how to make a proper packed textures in the future, bur for the purpose of this project it’s working well enough as it is.

I have also added emissive elements for the light and actual light to make it slightly more interesting. I may also make a car alarm going on, but I’m not sure how long that would last until the car’s battery would run off…

In overall, I am not as happy with the final look as I could be, but I believe that I have to live it as it is because of the lack of time. I may come back to this at the end of the project if I’ll have any time to spare.

As I still had a bit of a time this day, I’ve finally made the windows for my shed!

I’ve used several different assets to create this one, but at the end it looks perfect, as I’ve imagine it. The wall fits perfectly with the other walls but adds a lot to the actual livability in the shed. Now it become to looks a bit more like a small house than a normal shed, but it’s fine as it fits with the idea perfectly.

Today is a big day I would say. I’ve managed to make a lots of small assets that will fill the shelves in the shed. I won’t explain much as most of them are just simple models, but I have already unwrapped all of them, so I only need to make some final textures.

I am really happy with this hammer, as it took me a bit to create it. It could have been slightly slimmer at the top, but the geometry is really clear and simple.

I know that those boxes are gonna be really small in a game, but just that bit more geometry will make them looks more realistic. The real boxes are never a perfect cubes, so that’s why I’ve decided to add that bit of a geometry to the actual model.

The last asset is really high poly even after deleting most of the invisible geometry, but I didn’t wanted to do it any other way (alphas). I’m still gonna make a normal map for the area in between the wires to add some more wire onto it, but I really wanted to get those main details as the actual geometry. I believe this looks much better, than details on the normal map.

It was a good day and I’ve catch up a bit with the schedule and assets list.

Today I’ve decided to work on the interior a bit more, but I guess it wasn’t a good day, as I only managed to finish three assets. One of them is actually bigger and slightly more complicated one, but it’s still only one asset.

Although it’s a bit blocky, I wanted to have several open drawers to make it more interesting. This took me some time, as I wanted them to feel quite natural.

This desk is more like a working area rather than a sitting area with a PC or something on it. Because of that it has that one side with a longer countertop. The design is simple again, but I’ll add some normal maps and more interesting materials to make it a bit more interesting.

Because it’s a working area, I’ve also made a saw. In fact, I’ve made two different ones (one that will be hanged on the wall and normal usable one to be placed around). The only difference is just in the additional nails as hangers.

I don’t know how I’ve managed to make it as high poly, but I’m fine with it at the end. It’s not as bad, so it will stay as it is for now. I may come back to it later and edit it, but only if I’ll have enough time.

Today I was working on several different doooors. I wanted the shed doors to be quite similar to the actual shed and be a part of the actual walls, so it was quite hard to came up with the idea of how it should all works to fit perfectly.

I did the walls yesterday and they fit well with the rest of the shed, so this was time for perfectly fitting doors. I only knew that I want them to have double wings and have only one opened. This required some small fitting manipulations (shortening several plans that won’t be as much visible). I also had to came up with an idea for a perfect hinges that would make it looks realistic. I also had to add planks on the top, as there was a huge gap between the walls. This is the final result for the main doors:

Although those doors looks very simple, I was struggling a lot while making these. The most problematic were the lock as the planks had to be cut in different places. Luckily they were just simple rectangles, so it was easier to do, but it still have me some problems.

Another complication came with the actual lock placement. I had to rethink how it works several times before I got it kind of right. Because of that I’ve made a lock separately first, then I’ve added it to the closed doors (which I’ve later used as additional back doors).

As I’ve already mentioned in this post, the most time consuming were the hinges. I was redoing them several times to make it looks realistic, but at the end I believe I’ve managed to do so. I know that they won’t be as much visible in the game (just a bit), but every single small bit adds realism to the game like mine.

Another doors that I was working on today were the internal ones. I’ve decided to block the view to the second room, as now I’m planning to use that space for a bathroom area (every liveable space needs one right?!). I’ve used wall model as a base for it (as it has to connect with that) and added the doors that I’ve made for the other doors (I hope it makes sense).

I decided that I want them to be slightly open, to have a small view on the interior. I’m not planning to model a bathroom, but I may place some other things to block the view of it. I just thought it would make it more obvious that these are doors (as they are mostly gonna have similar textures as the walls).

I was thinking about adding a handle, but resigned on the idea at the end. It would looks kind of weird to have a handle inside a shed (even if it’s a liveable area). The last thing to do to the shed walls would be adding windows, so I’m planning to do so tomorrow.

Today I’ve decided to make several first interior assets for the shed. I’ve also made final touches (UVs) of the walls and ceiling. I’ve also had to add tree unique ceiling parts as I’ve decided to have an L shaped shed at the end.

I didn’t expected it to take such a long time and lots of working back and forth, but I’ve managed to make it fit perfectly at the end.

I know that I still have a lot to finish on the main shape of the shed, but while looking at such an empty room as this, I had to fill the interior with something. I’ve decided to make shelves, so they will perfectly fit the empty walls, and make a space for the additional assets. I’ve eventually made three slightly different versions, but nothing as crazy in design. The shelves are simple as most of the shed (there is no modern design in any shed I’ve ever seen so…).

Each shelve was aligned to perfectly fit the shape of the wall (the curving in the centre fits a wooden philar on the wall). The difference between each of them is just in length and weight (the bottom one is much wider than others). The bottom one also has several more support as bigger and heavier objects will be placed on top of it.

Except the shelves, paint can and paint brush were the first assets I’ve made for the interior of the shed. I already had some boxes to fill the area with, so it already makes an interesting packed place.

However, the paint can is slightly high poly, I’m planning to use it as a big asset as well as a small one. This require an sufficient amount of tris to looks good, so I’ve decided that it’s still ok and works fine within a budget.

I’ve focused on the first building that I have in my level – shed. I’ve made several assets today, but it’s only a start of an actual shape for the shed. I’ve made walls, ceiling and a face for the outside area, which is just a shell for the final design.

The walls have two different sides (external and internal), so I don’t have to make several assets and align them together in the final level. I wanted to make it a modular because several reasons: first it was easier for me to create a final shape of the shed with the modular design, I could have change the size of it anytime, without having to model additional bits; second I know that many buildings are now made out of modular design, so I wanted to show the ability of doing so in my own work.

Each wall has a LEFT and RIGHT version of it as there are small differences in the placement of the wooden parts. This had to be done mostly because of the ceiling (it also had to be flipped to align it perfectly). Eventually I’ve ended up with multiple assets with the same geometry, but just being flipped. I’m not exactly sure is that the right way of doing so, but I still found it easy to manipulate.

All of those main parts of the shed have already been used to create a final shape of the shed in UE4. I’ll be adding several different parts to them, to create the final look (windows, doors, side walls etc.) but I’m happy with the amount of work I’ve done today. This is a huge step forward in creating this project.

As I said before, I’ve also made a fence that will be placed right next to the shed area. I’ve made two different versions of it as I want the player to be able to jump through one of them and get inside the fenced area. There will be a power-plant that will light up the lights in the entire area.

So far I’ve a great speed so if I’ll keep it up, I may be able to catch up with the work that I wanted to have at this point.