Dead Space Pod Bay [UE5] & [UE4]

In this personal project, I brought assets from an older project I worked on and optimized them for a game engine. This scene is using 4 materials total, with material instancing being used for the majority of assets here. I created a material that takes a base material and then a mask pack, which included edgewear, a dirt mask, and an aged mask. This allowed me to use the same basemetal texture on every single asset, allowing for more flexibility and optimization in the final result. I still baked 1 to 1 maps for the main objects, such as the pods and the frames around them. But these assets were colored using the pack mask workflow (extracted from Substance Painter). Update: Re-lit this project in Unreal 5. The top two images on this page were done in Unreal 5, everything else was done in Unreal 4

Unreal 5 Render

An example of a Material Instance for hero objects (with baked 1 to 1 normals and AO). I created a pack mask of 3 different masks extracted from Substance Painter and put the AO in the alpha channel.

An example of a purely tiling Material Instance. This allows the user to control the amount of tiling per layer of the material, so it is specific to each object. This way Texel Density can be controlled more precisely.

Above are the retopologized assets for the in-game scene. Below are the hi-poly original assets. I leveraged quad-based modeling to make it easier to reduce and UV the assets for the game scene. (They are in Maya's hipoly preview mode)

This is a Redshift render to show off the hi-poly assets.

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