{"id":198,"date":"2015-05-17T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T10:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.br9732.com\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2022-05-02T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T20:15:15","slug":"blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/br9732.quentinlengele.com\/index.php\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade Runner 9732 – Dev Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This page is dedicated to major development updates on Blade Runner 9732.\u00a0The project\u00a0is currently made for fun and during\u00a0free time. If you want to know more about the early stages, you can check my blog post here,\u00a0Project Genesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n \n FINAL RELEASE <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

As I didn’t receive any news from anybody, I made a final release containing minor updates. Two months ago, Jamie Costa (friend and voice actor from the US) sent me a huge list of recorded voice audios imitating Rick Deckard. It surely brings more realism to the experience and he made so many takes that<\/p>\n

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\n \n DMCA TAKEDOWN FOR COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Fri, March 16 2018, NO FEEDBACK Here we are. Since the DMCA takedown on Steam in January and the shutdown of my Youtube videos, I sent a couple of emails to the plaintiff and to Warner Bros. but they don’t seem to have to time to answer. As I don\u2019t have the time to fight<\/p>\n

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\n \n 48. PUBLIC RELEASE <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Public Release is now available on Steam or via VivePort. You can now download the experience (1.002) from my Google Drive, right here. I hope you’ll enjoy this small VR tour. Thanks to supporters and followers for waiting so long. If you have remarks or if you want to report bugs, you can do it<\/p>\n

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\n \n 47. MAIN MENU & VR DETECTION <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Main Menu is ready now. Here is a small 3 min Japanese Traditional Music to stay in the mood. This menu is the first screen appearing after the user has launched the game executable. if a Vive headset is detected, the game will switch automatically to the VR intro and calibration scene. Stay tuned! Free<\/p>\n

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\n \n 46. 4K SCREENSHOTS <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

I just rendered a few shots in 4K resolution. A bit heavy to load, sorry :\/ It seems that Google Chrome is messing HDR JPG quality files badly… You’ll have a better rendering under Firefox or another browser.<\/p>\n

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\n \n 45. PANORAMAS <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Some followers asked me for 360\u00b0 panoramas of the scene. Unfortunately, I cannot get the Ambient Occlusion post processing effect running on these shots and the light is not exactly as accurate as the Unity build for HTC Vive. Anyway, here are a few shots, thanks Sketchfab \ud83d\ude09      <\/p>\n

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\n \n 44. RAIN & DEPTH OF FIELD <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

I just added storm ambiance sounds and rain droplets on the balcony. DOF will not be activated in VR but it makes a quite interesting rendering.<\/p>\n

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\n \n 43. HTC VIVE PREVIEW <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

At last I can show you some progress on the VR implementation of the scene. I’m now working on interactions with objects like glasses, bottles, gun, … Rachael still needs to be finetuned (textures, animations) but she already offers some presence in the apartment. I added a small script on the “look behavior” so she<\/p>\n

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\n \n 42. BATHROOM & RACHAEL <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

As promised to the followers, here are several screenshots about improvements on bathroom assets. I also started the implementation of Rachael character inside the apartment. She’s now wandering through the rooms and looking at you when you get closer. I’m planning to build a more elaborated Animator Controller for her (playing piano, drinking vodka in<\/p>\n

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\n \n 41. REAL-TIME FOOTAGE <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

This is update #41 and here are a few build notes: New lighting setup. No more Direction Specular Lighmap, only Directional. New Reflection Probes setup. Less probe instances, high quality only when needed. New Post-Processing beta4 implementation Finetune particle systems City mod & texturing enhancement (Substance Painter) New Police Spinner animation & textures Better Global<\/p>\n

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\n \n 40. GI & BLASTER <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Here is the latest\u00a0lighting setup\u00a0made with Unity 5.4. This time it seems to be right: Dark but not too dark, hazy and\u00a0foggy with\u00a0subtile\u00a0HDR settings. I also\u00a0changed a lot of light sources and I used Global Illumination with emissive materials as much as possible to get a better mood. Many items are now detailed, almost all<\/p>\n

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\n \n 39. HDR & POST-PROCESSING <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

I finally got some time to work on HDR rendering seriously\u00a0and here are some results. Quite hazy but it should be to stick with the movie atmosphere. For now, all the lighting is Baked GI (Unity 5.4.0) plus a few area lights. I’m waiting for updates (I encountered\u00a0several\u00a0bugs with directional\u00a0specular lightmaps)\u00a0to implement Real-time GI and<\/p>\n

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\n \n 38. MINI BAR <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

This piece of Deckard’s apartment was a mystery for a long time. I\u00a0googled\u00a0quite hard\u00a0on minibars, cocktails buffets,.. even\u00a0darts… but\u00a0I found nothing looking like this: At that point, my only hope was propsummit guys and Andrew Pokon made a wonderful discovery. He finally spotted the unknown\u00a0buffet and bring us the answer\u00a0on Blade Runner Propsummit Facebook Group.<\/p>\n

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\n \n 37. LIGHTING AGAIN <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

As I mentioned in my last video preview, I’m not happy with lighting in the scene. I started a complete new lighting setup and here are some shots of it. Hope you’ll like it.<\/p>\n

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\n \n 36. GAFF ORIGAMI <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

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\n \n 35. FLOOR IMPERFECTIONS & CORRIDOR PROPS <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

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\n \n 34. NEW LIGHT SETUP <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Lighting is important… and it takes much more time than I though…. But here it goes, I started\u00a0a complete new light setup in the entire apartment. I’ll try to get closer to the movie to offer a\u00a0faithful experience.<\/p>\n

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\n \n 32. NEW PIANO MODEL <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

The piano mesh\u00a0had a lot of problems and a new topology had to be done. UVs were a real mess, it\u00a0took too much space in\u00a0lightmap. I would like to make it “playable” with moving keys\u00a0when a song is\u00a0playing.\u00a0You should except to see Rachel sitting there of course. I jumped on the occasion to test Substance<\/p>\n

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\n \n 31. GENERAL PBS ENHANCEMENT <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Almost all the objects of the living room are now physically based rendered. Lighting parameters were finetuned and there is no artefact anymore, light bouncing is much better!\u00a0UV2 for lightmaps are optimized and all the scene is fitting in one single (directional)\u00a0lightmap. The scene is now rendering in Deferred mode and linear color space. It<\/p>\n

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Improvements on Esper Machine, again. This time, all the materials are correctly physical based shaded and the VoightKampff has found his true place \ud83d\ude09 Other previews will come as soon as the video sequence and screen animations are produced.<\/p>\n

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\n \n 29. KITCHEN ENHANCEMENT <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

I made new\u00a0textures and UVs\u00a0on every kitchen object to\u00a0get better realistic results. It also optimizes\u00a0lightmaps, they are now smaller and less expensive.  <\/p>\n

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\n \n 28. RACHAEL INTO THE APARTMENT <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Life is coming into the apartment. You should see Rachael wandering there, smoking her cigaret, asking questions to you… Deckard: Remember when you were six? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. You were going to play doctor. He showed you his but when it got to be your<\/p>\n

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This weekend was dedicated to Substance Painter training and here are more realistic and good-looking lift walls and doors. Other props enhancement will follow.<\/p>\n

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Latest Oculus SDK\u00a0is now implemented and the user is able to walk around the apartment for the first time. There is still a lot to do\u00a0to optimize the VR experience and avoid\u00a0framerate drops but some assets have already a really immersive aspect.<\/p>\n

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Scrolling lights on the Esper\u00a0was buggy when the user starts\/stops the machine. This is fixed by resetting materials on “OnDisable” event. It helps to avoid unwanted loops in the scroll animation.<\/p>\n

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Sofa UVs were not perfect and lighting artefact appeared at several places. This is now fixed and emmissive materials are now working correctly too. Otherwise, the sofa is not the final one. A more accurate mesh and substance materials will take place.<\/p>\n

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Milk and Belgian beer bottles can now\u00a0be found in the fridge. The fridge door is done with a Gaussian blurred glass, just like in the movie, lighten from Inside.<\/p>\n

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The city buildings are completely remastered with better textures and meshes. Lighting\u00a0is directly baked in 3DSMax with Mental Ray.<\/p>\n

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The previous\u00a0Esper Machine was quite lowpoly and not fitting with the high resolution environment.\u00a0Now, the screen submeshes are OK for light reflection and video material mapping.<\/p>\n

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\n \n 18. Light Baking iteration #5 <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Each object is now correctly uvmapped and lots of\u00a0light artefacts are gone. The whole project is using 5 lightmaps (4096×4096, Directional) in total, much better than 16 (2048×2048) from\u00a0the previous bakings.<\/p>\n

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