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Done at last

first, here's some screenshots of my file organizing in Unreal Engine itself

now here's some pretty pictures I took of everything while flying around

I am very pleased with what I have made here and am personally quite impressed with myself for being able to make 2 entire Giant Birch World Complexes and a room in a house from nothing but a sheet of numbers and a description in just 2 weeks.

Obviously there are some things I feel could be better, mostly the textures which seem strangely pixellated (especially on the bookshelf but it's really everything) but overall I think it's very cool and it was lots of fun to create

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Unwrapping the Birches

the process of unwrapping the Milky Way and Sesaris Paired Birch World Complexes has been a herculean task but I mostly expected it

my first attempt involved attaching the entire model together

which did go pretty well initially

it went a lot less well when I attempted to do flatten mapping on all the faces and it took 27 hours to get 68% done with "building cluster data" before crashing

probably lucky it did crash because otherwise it would've gone on to the next step "mapping faces" and then the next step "finding dead space" and "collapsing clusters"

so anyway, after deciding that fully unwrapping the entire thing was unpractical I thought of a new method

what I did was detach a lot of the objects into structure catagories for example all the Computing Bands in the Sesaris Birch World Complex

now that I have a bunch of groups of things insead of 1 giant things it should unwrap in a much more timely manner

this was the unwrap of the JVH-Gates placed around the complexes, due to the size of all these structures I'm only really gonna do flatten mapping since cleaning it up won't make too much difference I think

I didn't need to unwrap the Jump-Vortex Hypertunnels inside the gates themselves as they are just gonna be glowing

this was the unwrap for the Milky Way Birches and Frame cluster which includes all the Birch Worlds, Pylons, Star Habitats, Farming Disc stacks, Dimensional Support Anchors, Shipyard/Forge/Refinery Bands, Star Habitats and Defense Bands

this is the unwrap for the Sesaris Birches and Frame cluster

this is the unwrap for the Milky Way Computing Bands cluster, what it contains is pretty obvious

this is the unwrap for the Sesaris Computing Bands cluster

this is the unwrap for the Milky Way Alderson Discs cluster, also pretty obvious what this one is

this is the unwrap for the Sesaris Alderson Discs cluster

this is the unwrap for the Milky Way Ringworlds and Networlds cluster which contains all the Milky Way Complexes Ringworlds and Networlds

this is the unwrap for the Sesaris Ringworlds and Networlds cluster

this is the unwrap for the Milky Way Habitats cluster which contains all the regular habitats, not the Star Habitats

this is the unwrap for the Sesaris Habitats cluster

turns out the Topopoli by themselves still have a zillion faces and take ages I'll try unwrapping but if it doesn't work I'll just export them and stick some sort of metalic colour material on them in Unreal Engine

as for texturing everything else

I went in the same order as unwrapping starting with the JVH Gates (in Substance Painter)

this is the Birches and Frame cluster of the Milky Way Birch World Complex in Substance Painter

this is the Birches and frame cluster of the Sesaris Birch World Complex in Substance Painter

this is the Milky Way Computing Bands cluster in Substance Painter

this is the Sesaris Computing Bands cluster in Substance Painter

this is the Milky Way Alderson Discs cluster in Substance Painter

this is the Sesaris Alderson Discs cluster in Substance Painter

this is the Milky Way Ringworlds and Networlds cluster in Substance Painter

here's an in engine progress image I took while waiting for the next lot of texture maps to bake

this is the Sesaris Ringworlds and Networlds cluster in Substance Painter

this is the Milky Way Habitats cluster in Substance Painter

another bonus in engine screenshot

this is the Sesaris Habitats cluster in Substance Painter

I have come to the conclusion that texturing the Topopoli in engine instead of unwrapping their UVs is a good idea

done

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updated cool room pictures

added another gravchair behind the bookshelves

added the gravity distortion around the drones from their flight

and the lamps

i also found this really cool effect for the Birches by turning it to reflections lighting mode

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Vase and Cups

side table decorations

Vase in Substance Painter

Cup in Substance Painter

Vase in engine

numerous cups in engine

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Micro-Forge

last main desk thing

texture in Substance Painter

in engine

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Toolbox

the other main desk thing

in substance painter

on the desk

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EM Matter Synthesiser

trying to finish up the main desk objects

apparently I forgot to screenshot it in substance painter

oops

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Audio Nulling-Field Generator

next thing to be textured

here's the texture

and in the engine

also I got these potentially temporary Birches outside while the real one tries to unwrap

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Drone 1 (Flat) and Drone 3 (Pointy)

time to texture both other drones

Highlighting the glowing parts on drone 3

Drone 1 textured

drone 3 textured

flat drone in scene

pointy drone in scene

all 3 drones in one image

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Armchair and Side Table

now I decided to finish my chair and table stuff

presumably

Armchair texture

Side Table texture

in the scene like this

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Texturing the Lev-Lamps

like Drone 2 (Lamp) the lev lamps are 90% glow with a sensor strip

here's the highlighted glowing parts

sensor strip

look at them go

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Bookshelf

next was time to take on the task of texturing the bookshelf

the many colours of books were slightly annoying to make but I eventually was shown the fill tool which made it a lot faster

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Texturing Gravchair

technically the Gravchair didn't need any texturing, just to be put into Unreal Engine

it looks suitably like a gravity distortion

here's some other images of the scene as a bonus

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Texturing Drone 2 (Lamp)

finally got shown how to select only parts of models to give them the glow texture

yellow and red are wher glowing will happen

sensor strip

glowing bright

still working on the colour of the red glow but it's getting there

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Texturing the desk model of the FUDS You Cant Help Deny Forever

I thought texturing the Forest ship would be good to do now

it was pretty easy, just 3 colours

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Texturing the work tables

next up was the tables, a big feature of my scene

found this for the rug

the tables are metal because I thought that'd look better for tables that jewelry is made on

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Texturing the room

now it's time to start texturing everything and putting it into Unreal Engine

starting with the room

it took a bit to reaquaint myself with how to use Substance Painter

carpet and panels

walls and doors (and ceiling)

very easy