LIVING STEEL - TECH ENVIRO [BIKE GENERATOR] - NEW3DGE

Hello ! I'm happy to show you my Technical Art work on LIVING STEEL ! For this first project on our last year at New3dge, we were free to create a universe for a game, from scratch.
Here I will talk about the tools I developped for the Environment Artists of my crew.
The Bike Generator was a really thrilling challenge and an important one. We explore a biker's headquarter, so we need of course, a lot of bikes.
So may I say, have a nice ride through this post. Hope you'll enjoy it !
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The Rookies 2024 entry :
https://www.therookies.co/entries/33260
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LIVING STEEL :
https://www.therookies.co/entries/28992
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My Crew :
https://www.artstation.com/arthur_franchitto
https://www.artstation.com/leaconte
https://www.artstation.com/irkyzz
https://www.artstation.com/jojo-zhouzhou
https://www.artstation.com/axelzender
https://www.artstation.com/leni-martin
https://www.artstation.com/nicolas_cabete

I Collaborated closely with Arthur Franchitto to split properly the 3 models of motorcycles he realized, that I use in my system.

So I developped a system that allows environment artists to efficently create several bike variations. You can edit different parts of the bike, its color and some other parameters.

Here is an example inside the environment with the random generation checked in.

Construction Script Nodes

Communication with the actor component to set the meshes and the materials.

The Body of the bike as a Skeleton, contains sockets, that alows the parts to relocate properly

The bags [Yellow Boxes in Graph] are more specific with more conditions. So they can adapt themselves to different configurations.

Then [Green Box], I used the diffuse and the MRAO maps as masks from the texture work of our Vehicle Artist, on top of a Car Paint Shader to have more control on the colors.