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Extension Weeks: Modelling & Retexturing Objects for Environment

With the extension approved until 14th April, we have been refining the environment and memories objects.

Objects modelling, & texturing

Some objects that needed to be retextured and look more destroyed were a fire extinguisher hose, a converse shoe, spectacles, some vents, pipes, etc. So I destroyed some of the mesh in Maya and then retexture it in Mudbox, using the stencil tool to add some dust, mud, and rust effects. Then I relinked the textures in Unity and exported the Unity package ready for VR girls to use.

Fire hose retextured in Mudbox
Fire hose remodelled in Maya
Fire hose remodelled in Maya
Fire hose remodelled and retextured render in Maya
Fire hose remodelled and retextured render in Maya
Fire hose remodelled and retextured render in Maya
Fire hose linked textures in Unity
Rusty vent texture in Mudbox
Rusty vent texture in Mudbox
Rusty vents retextured, Maya render view
Rusty vent texture relinked in Unity
Rusty vent texture relinked in Unity
Rusty vent texture relinked in Unity – exporting package
Old cardboard and papers retexturing in Mudbox
Old cardboard and papers to fill up environment, Maya render view
Old cardboard and papers to fill up environment, Maya render view
Old cardboard and papers relinked textures in Unity
Rusty pipes texturing, Maya render view – lowered metallic effect and specular so the metal would not show that polished
Pipes rusty texture, Maya render view
Pipes rusty texture relinked in Unity
Converse shoe retextured in Mudbox
Converse shoe laces retextured in Mudbox
Converse shoe retextured, Maya render view
Converse shoe textures relinked in Unity
Converse shoe textures relinked in Unity

I also needed to model a clock to add to the waiting area that looks like brutalist style and rusty/dirty/destroyed. So I modelled this in Maya taking a reference picture shown below and then added some texturing in Mudbox. Then as with the other objects, I relinked the textures in Unity and exported the Unity package.

Reference picture of Chernobyl clock (Skrypko, 2016)
Clock modelling in Maya
Clock modelling in Maya
Clock times design in Illustrator
Clock design linked in Maya
Clock weathering texture in Mudbox
Clock weathering texture linked in Maya
Clock Maya render
Clock wood texture relinked in Unity
Clock times texture relinked in Unity

Team meeting

In this team meeting, we started off by reviewing all the elements that needed to be amended and finished off by next week:

  1. Walls and floors texture: it needs to be more weathered and not looking that much like ‘just concrete’ building. This means, that it should look like the walls were once painted but with the weather and all the time that has passed on, this paint looks peeled off, dirty, mouldy, with some graffitis on top, and maybe some rusty pipes sticking out. Also, we agreed to add several murals instead of one, showing some advertising.
  2. Waiting room: the floors water should not show like rippling and more like still and stuck water. Maybe one or two ripples from drops that are falling from the open holes on the broken ceiling. Also, the chairs in the waiting area should be arranged in circular rows of chairs around the fountain in the centre. We also need some plants like lichens and moss showing on the floor, and walls, but these should look not too green and more greyish/brownish (less rich colour). Maybe we could also add some roots coming in through the ceiling holes and also we could add moss on the corners of the walls.
  3. Lights: the circular lights style is not working, so the lectures changed their mind and requested them to be a strip lights instead with some ends falling out. They also considered that there should be some electricity running in the building so we could show some flickering lights.
  4. Pikachu toy: it is not destroyed enough so Klaus suggested to add some cigarette burnt marks to it.
  5. Objects: need to add more objects like oil barrels (were homeless people make these fires to warm up), tyres, a shopping trolley, etc.
  6. Barriers: they need to look more destroyed.
  7. Cell: the ceiling is too high, the broken wall at the end of the cell is too narrow (need to be more destroyed or completely open), and we also need to add a control panel were the people could choose the different experience they wanted). Also, the pod where the skeletons are, blocks too much the view of the deer and would need to be changed or removed. If it is removed, the skeletons would be on top of a hospital-like chair that would be moulded and destroyed too. Lastly, the deer should move left to right and more slowly so it is more visible.
  8. Corridors: they could have like a bumping rail on the walls (like the ones hospitals have).
  9. Ghost particle: The particle type need to be changed as they are too stable/defined. It needs more random effect with more glitches and noise (not hologram-like). Also, we should be able to see only some parts of the memory ghosts and not the full body.

Objects modelling, & texturing after meeting review

After this meeting, I fixed the Pikachu toy with the cigarette burnt marks, and later on also fixed the face as they mentioned that the face was not recognisable so I removed some of the dirt and burnt marks. Also, I retextured with dirt, rust, mould, and mud splashes the rest of the models for the environment as requested.

Pikachu cigarette burnt texture in Mudbox
Pikachu cigarette burnt texture in Mudbox
Pikachu cigarette burnt texture in Mudbox
Pikachu cigarette burnt texture linked in Maya
Pikachu cigarette burnt texture linked in Maya
Pikachu cigarette burnt texture relinked in Unity
Pikachu burnt marks clearing around the face in Mudbox
Pikachu dirt and mud splashes clearing around the face in Mudbox
Pikachu final textures relinked, Maya render view
Pikachu final textures relinked in Unity
Texture used for barriers rust effect (Quixel)
Barriers retextured, Maya render view
Barriers retextured, Maya render view
Barriers retextured, Maya render view
Barriers retextured, Maya render view
Barriers textures relinked in Unity
Barriers texture relinked in Unity
Barriers texture relinked in Unity
Oil barrels remodelled in Maya – I only took top part off the model
Converse show remodelled in Maya
Converse show remodelled, Maya render view
Remodelled Converse shoe, textures relinked in Unity
Remodelled Converse shoe, textures relinked in Unity

References

Quixel. Rusty Painted Metal Sheet (online). Available at: https://quixel.com/megascans/home?category=surface&category=metal&category=corroded&assetId=tj2xahsbw [Accessed on 9 April 2023]

Skrypko, I. (2016). Radioactive clock in pool in Pripyat school, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (online). Available at: https://www.alamy.com/radioactive-clock-in-pool-in-pripyat-school-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-image365494939.html?imageid=D670F65E-1F10-4EE1-9347-11A715502AE5&p=1146864&pn=1&searchId=44a812789b720a47c9d6917d5a1ccea3&searchtype=0 [Accessed on 19 March 2023]