Vacuum Pipes
Hey everyone. I’m back with an update.
I’ve been slowly building up more detail. There is still quite a bit of empty surface area but I’ll be tackling that the next days. I spent 2 days doing just cables and greeble details and it was quite exhausting at some point.
As such today I took a break from that and worked on the overall picture, atmosphere and lightning. It’s not final but at least now I covered the big hole on the ceiling that I had in the placeholders. I had Directional Light coming from there and once I got rid of that everything went quite dark and I had to build it up bit by bit.
Upper Parts
It was good fun and I finally got to do some pipes on the upper part of the Stargate portal too. It was empty before but you could not see it because of the limited camera angle. I intend to have video with movement at the end and different FOV and as such I had to put detail up there too, I could not just ignore it.
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GIF progress animation:
I had an interesting challenge with the Volumetric Fog. Once I closed off the ceiling and removed the Directional Light, the Volumetric Fog turned pitch black-like. You can see it in one of the steps above, though in movement… oh boy… it was much worse looking when flying around. I had to tweak a bit but ended up with result I quite like. I did not want to give up on Volumetrics and disable them because that removes my eerier blue glow I so much want.
Still haven’t tried any materials, textures or colors. I am purposefully keeping myself away from that for now though. I think there will be plenty of time for that once I have all of the geometry and shapes and silhouettes in. That’s what I am focusing on now.
I know its bit too gray now but I’ll be playing with that soon, as a reward once I make even more cables. :)
Thanks for reading.
Until next time,
Pete.