Laying out Uv's

The remainder of the day has been spent finishing off lay outing out the UV’s for my structures ready for a heavy texturing weekend. This whole process has been a huge learning curves having not experienced laying out UV’s in the past I can now move forward from this familiarity with the basic knowledge covered.

I’d like to be very experimental and see what kinds of texture maps I can create this is one of the main aspect in which will make or beak my environment and really bring it to life. To capture the aesthetic I’m going to re-asses the designs, influences, inspiration that have been collected over the duration of this unit. Sourcing these will really help me as I can notice elements which could play a part in my environment at this stage.
Whilst taking note of the thought process as well modifying the UV’s in the texture editor much more attention was taken on finalizing details in making sure I remember to constantly make full use of the 0 to 1 place, this is an area that needs to be considered when laying out Uv’s, its important that I’ve identified this early ensuring things are done a little more accurately in the future.All the important section of the texture placement have been covered and ready. A few of my UV texture examples are shown below.

Physical Sun and Sky Lighting

I’ve spent the morning learning about some lighting techniques within Maya and testing out the physical sun and sky tutorial as this will be a major part in the overall lighting of my scene. In doing this process it has enable me to take note of rendering time and also the importance of gamma correction as this can change a scene significantly. I have also come to a conclusion about the intensity of the lighting on my environment and the settings within metal ray here are a few examples from the tutorial.
Without Physical Sun and Sky

At the moment no lighting has been applied and it is noticeable that the render is fairly mild.

With Physical Sun and Sky

Variation 1

Variation 2

Variation 3

Variation 4

Variation 5

Variation 6

Variation 7

The metal ray nodes have now been applied is it now noticeable the dramatic change.

Maya modelling work update

Maya Work
The modelling process has been a long one and now ready to finish up on it for now. In order to get the maximum efficiency from the sketches of my environment, time was needed on the models (examples below). Being low res however simplistic this classified the structures and pieces of geometry as games models so very pleased with the outcome achieved here. In the past I have created scenes on a much smaller scale so therefore things are much broader now on this unit, from my experiences of modelling I’ve used basic techniques keeping things very low key and manageable, as one of the main aims for this unit was to push myself to explore more boundaries this has resulted in undertaking a higher level of understanding. Some of theses goals include laying out UV’s, texturing and lighting appropriately.

 

 

Structures

Details

Concepts are complete.

Stage for the art of my transcription project is now at a satisfctory state and happy to continue with the modelling and another element to conclude my assignment. Once having sketched my environment adding colours and detail in Photoshop helped dramatically with the visualization in Maya, below are various some but practical details used in my final concept.

These are the final concept of my scene.

Concept 1

Concept 2

Concept 3

I felt that by starting off with basic black and white colour value on the two preliminary pieces allowed me to further develop a more complex colour concept as the final rendition oozes depth in the main concept its clear enough for me to give a good repetition towards the structures in my Maya work, it is important that the detail are flushed out enabling a better understanding for my texture ect, the idea was to create an depth study for all three however proving to be time consuming therefore in order to achieving my deadline this needed to be cut short. very pleases with the outcome here.