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Something for the weekend - Part 35 - The tube

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August 31, 2018
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Hi,

This tube station is a 3D render which I modelled, based on a scene from a James Bond movie (Die Another Day). It is not an exact replica of the film scene but it is loosely based on the station features and camera viewpoint. As is the way with these things, it took a bit longer to make than I initially thought. However, I learnt a few things along the way so it was a good exercise in 3D modelling and texturing.

So for this weekend's challenge, I bring you the empty old station. What will you do to bring it to life?

Anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.

Anyone is welcome to have a go - whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert.

There are no prizes - just the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun.

When posting back your edited images please use jpeg and downsize to 1200px on the long side.

To download the image below in jpeg format with ICC color profile (sRGB) and without the forum scaling artefacts , right click and then use Save Image As /Save Target As (or similar depending on your browser).

Dave

sftw

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JR Boulay

Community Expert

I'm sorry I missed out on this challenge, placing a swimming pool in a Paris metro station was an exercise I had my trainees do for years.
Here's a variation.

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

jane-e

Community Expert

The Metro in DC is having so much trouble with fires, smoke, derailing, crashes, and closing stations that I'm pretty sure this is what we would see.

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1staidresponse

Participant

Really cool work. Love the design and textures. Still learning photoshop myself so, I will have to wait to take a crack at bringing your scene to life. But it's just cool that these forums have interesting dialogs happening here. I thought it would mostly be all technical jargon and IT stuff. Thanks for the conversation.

Kelly D.

EMT

(graphic designer by night)

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angie_taylor

Legend

Love it Dave :-)

OJits

Participant

Well here is my attempt! I am teaching myself Photoshop I Have had no past experience and this is what i came up with!

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Hi

Jacob - Scary pic. The tunnel walls come together like a beak, and those eyes........!

Barb - I love it. Lots of little stories going on there. Like Jane, I think the cow is a great touch. I am concerned over what the "30 seconds later pic" would be like , the headless cow, legless girl, flat mouse......... or will it turn out OK?

OJits - welcome to SFTW and to Photoshop. I hope she doesn't step on the live rail as she walks into the clouds !

Still plenty of time for more images, keep them coming !

Dave

Barb Binder

Community Expert

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

jane-e

Community Expert

That's awesome BarbBinder! Yay, and welcome to SFTW!

The cow is a nice touch!

jane-e

Community Expert

I just noticed the mouse on the tracks, BarbBinder. The poor thing!

Trevor.Dennis Mean? Who, me?

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Colin Holgate

Inspiring

One nice thing about having the model is that you can do stereoscopic.

Colin Holgate

Inspiring

Dave kindly let me play with the model. I have some plans for it, but first thing I tried was to get it going in Unity. That is not an easy thing to do! Importing FBX makes all of the materials lose connections to their textures, and you have to manually hook them up. With the materials having a base, metallic, normal, height, and roughness textures, for each of perhaps 50 elements, it takes some time.

Here's a screenshot of how far I've got so far.

davescm

Author

Community Expert

Hi Colin

That workflow is similar to what I do when creating it.

1. Build the objects

2. Add a material (just as a placeholder)

3. Unwrap the UVs

4. Export as fbx to substance painter

5. Build and paint the materials in layers within Substance

6. Export maps for Basecolor, Metallic, Roughness, and Normal - I may also use height and transmission. The size depends on the detail required and it's position in the scene

7. Plug those maps into the Principled BSDF shader in Blender

8. Add any adjustments to the maps as required (e.g. a curve between the map image and the shader

9. Render

I saw your comment in your PM on the Blender interface (which I agree takes some adjusting to). What works for me is:

a. Change the mouse buttons so that the left mouse button selects (rather than right) just as in almost every other app I can think of.

b. Work across 3 monitor screens with the node editor and UV editor on the left, the 3D view on the middle and a GPU render on the right.

A couple of comments on the model which may help:

The "way out" lettering has a transmission property and there is a lamp inside the box.

The lampshades have sub-surface scattering added in Blender

The Normal maps are in Open GL format for Blender

Looking forward to seeing what you do with it

Dave

Semaphoric

Community Expert

This sort of thing actually does happen, when long-forgotten water mains break, or when worker drive pilings into the river bed a little too far.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Semi, nice idea, but you could have had a surfer riding the wave. You good at doing water, although the side tunnel flow is a bit Salvador Dali.

Rista's is more Inception than James Bond me thinks.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

James Bond you say? This comes from a conversation about very early computer games, and specifically the orginal Doom from the nineties. It's about the only computer game I've played on a PC (I did all the space invaders type games on BBC Micro and Amiga 1000) and I'd said how the big red monsters used to scare the bejezus out of me.

I was talking about the spherical beasts that appeared towards the end of the game. You'd be reversing and firing as fast as you could, and I used to physically back away from the keyboard. The shape didn't fit this composite though

Colin Holgate

Inspiring

Would you be willing to post the 3D model somewhere? For what I have in mind glTF would be best, but any format would be convertible.

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