[UDK] Studies Room / Library Environment

- all modeling done in Blender
- furniture models have their normal maps baked from high poly geometry using a cage mesh and xNormal
- 2 scene capture actors (512x512px @ 60FPS)
Triangle Count: ~61,000
Texture Memory: 30MB + 28MB lightmaps



Lighting Setup #1

Lighting Setup #2

 

  

[UDK/UE3] Distort/Animate UV Texture Coordinates

Using shader math to modify/distort texture coordinates can make for some nice and simple (or even advanced) effects. The main advantage of this method is its high quality (no texture compression, color banding) without the need to create external texture maps (e.g. flow maps) or to use other methods to alter UVs (e.g. vertex colors).


Base Texture

Wavy Effect

Twirl Effect

Once you got the math done it'll be pretty easy to implement some texture movement/animation.

You can find 2 GIF examples below:
http://www.abload.de/img/distortuvs01mlp1p.gif
http://www.abload.de/img/distortuvs02rvou4.gif

[Recources] Anisotropic Maps

4 anisotropic direction maps, 512x512px .png, use for whatever you want. Depending on your target application you might want to swap color channels or fill the empty channel with a different base color.

http://www.abload.de/img/anisodir01kmozm.png
http://www.abload.de/img/anisodir02zar4k.png
http://www.abload.de/img/anisodir03mfr63.png
http://www.abload.de/img/anisodir04p2r4z.png

[Blender/UDK] Low Poly Rock Formations

Highpoly sculpted in Blender
Lowpoly manually retopologized
Normal + AO map baked in xNormal using a Cage
Triangle count: ~800-900


Blender

UDK