At this point, I’ve made more shed assets. This is still require to make the area looks real and occupied by the human beeing.

At this time there is not much left to do, but I still want to make some more assets to finally finish the area.

When you think about the radio tower used in a field for a communication, you think of an old, rusty, tall, metal tower. I wanted to have something much more modern and common, so I’ve decided to have a round, hologram radio tower. This idea just popped into my head randomly after making the fence and looking at many google images of a radio tower.

The radio tower itself, didn’t took me as much time and unexpectedly doesn’t have a high tris count, but creating several different parts that will fill the top of it, did. In total, I’ve spend entire day working on the radio tower and its parts, but I think it was worth the time.

I know that most of those parts won’t be much visible from the bottom, but I wanted to give them enough details to at least looks good even in the close up. I’ve also made several versions of a disc just because it will looks more natural to have a small variety. Each part perfectly fit the shape of the radio tower, so there was no problem placing them around.

I’ve used similar material as for the fence, but this time, there stripes that goes up, are much bigger. I’ve also added another layer of stripes on top of that to create an even more interesting effect.

The radio tower looks so huge now, but there is no trees that would surround it just yet. The trees themselves will be really huge as they usually are in a rainforest, so the proportions of the tower should work pretty well. If not, I can always make it a bit smaller at the end.

Today I was working on completely random items, but I’ve managed to made quite a few big and important ones. I’ve made another desk, as I felt like the shed interior is still empty. I’ve decided that I’m gonna make another desk, this time more like a sitting area with a chair and PC.

It also has an open drawer and will have something inside to make it looks more realistic. It also will be a place, where I’ll put a very important item for the gameplay – a map. I want the player to be able to find it in the game and use it to find their way around. The area itself is not gonna be as big, but a map may help to orientate in the space.

The rainforest area isn’t just a shed, so I’ve made a fence that will be placed all around the lab area. It has few different parts that now I’ll be able to make a proper fence. It’s again a modular design, as I still don’t know the exact placement of the fence.

The fence is a high hologramic fence, that is suppose to keep the dinosaurs out of the lab area for safety. It may be switched off at the beginning and the player may want to turn it back on again during the gameplay, so I’ll have to learn how to make it work.

Although it’s slightly high poly, I believe it’s the absolute minimum that’s needed to make it looks god. I’ve also already unwrapped it and placed materials onto it, so it starts to look pretty good.

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.