Joseuz and Mike - you clearly have many techniques in use there that are a mystery to me, the lighting/shadows are epic.
Heat - you've definitely used the basic techniques like I have, and there's nothing wrong with that if you get something that works
The thing I find with many games/graphical images is that everything's so shiny, life isn't like that, walls don't reflect like mirrors, cars don't show every reflection in detail.

All textures in mine are drawn from scratch, I think that helps in getting the image you want rather than working within someone else's constraints and you can build in the shading you want (although this was very quickly done here), what I've done comes nowhere near to any Rad imposed limitation and is merely 3 textured/bumpmapped meshes and a pointlight

Good stuff everyone and these could easily be put into a decent horror/shooter game to challenge other engines if well applied

Heat:
Pros: stay a nice effect
Cons: too much reflection, as if the walls were waxed
Recommendation: you can use a lamp in the corner to the light of the walls have a better effect

Cyper:
Pros: excellent lighting, good details, appropriate use of normalmaping
Cons: ceiling texture do not match the scene
Recommendation: add details to the roof or something that differentiates the walls from the ceiling example: a cable

Mike
Pros: good lighting the walls, floor, and roof match
Cons: I see no cons
Recommendation: use normal maps

Danipren
Pros: has a good atmosphere of terror
Cons: the roof has no lighting, I think no roof
Recommendation: slightly obscure texture ceiling carter

Joseuz
Pros: you tell me
Cons: you tell me
Recommendation: you tell me 

Hey Guys, this is what I managed to put together:



It's not as good as the other stuff here, but I enjoyed putting it together. Rather than trying to match the original image as closely as possible, I instead tried to make a scene that was comparable graphically.

I don't think I even came close! Regardless, I'm still pretty pleased with my efforts.

I wish I could have lightmapped the whole scene, but I'm still getting my head around Giles at the moment 

Cheers,


George

tile texture squares

Cyper...
  how'd you do the weathering on your walls... detailing and getting the right mix of textures is, i think, a key part of making
  believable scenes... and is also one of my big problems...

I used to 'borrow' textures a lot but when Grim and I decided to get more serious he photographed every surface in his office building during his lunch break, this gave us a huge library of custom resources all for an hours work (but he is a professional cameraman with kit that costs more than a family car so you may not be able to match his quality!). Playing with these in Paint.net can give you loads of weird variations, for example a marble tile with colour inversion and a bit of a hue change is a dead ringer for rusted metal- see attached (that's a kitchen tile)

In this case though, drawn from scratch with Paint.net
for the weathered plaster bits -

draw a rough blank shape in black
select the shape and render a rough, small scaled cloud over the top
add a new layer and copy in the cloudy shape again over the top
on the top layer effects>stylize>emboss
select the layer properties and set to multiply and alter the opacity to taste
merge the layers
effects>dents  - low scale, med refraction, med roughness, low tension (to taste)
add a new layer and paint in some black shadowing and white highlighting at opposite sides
blur then change layer opacity till it looks subtle
flatten the image
overlay on the wall texture

when combined with a subtle bumpmap it doesn't look too bad

I've found you can achieve a lot with paint.net using lots of layers, effects, practice and imagination - that full texture took about an hour from blank screen

As for tiling/uv my workflow is, as always, sketchup and paint.net, so projected textures which are technically UV'd but I re-position and re-use the same texture repeatedly

Sorry for the long winded reply, anyway I'm off back to the land of Unity.
Great having a quick catch up, I'm sure I'll pop back soon 

...and great work everyone, the challenges bring out the best in you all, keep 'em up

how'd you do the texture mapping and the soft lighting...

For the textures, I just used sketchup to place, scale and rotate them. Since I was only dealing with a fairly simple model, I didn't bother making any UV maps. Bumpmaps for all of the textures were made with SS bump generator (an excellent piece of free software, by the way)

In Rad I also set the mipmap LOD to a negative value, (-3 or -4) for most of the models to try and keep things looking sharp when viewed on an angle/at a distance.

The lighting was a little awkward. It makes use of a few point lights, and the technique probably wouldn't work as well applied to a larger scene. However, lightmapping could probably achieve the same effect.

The first thing I did was create a sunlight object and set it to pitch black. I only wanted light from the pointlights to affect the scene. One PL was placed near the light, another by the window and another behind the camera. These last two pointlights were intended to even out the lighting in the scene.

Every surface in my scene uses the same shader, the bumpy/glossy shader from the systemshader addon. I adjusted the bumpmap height and glossiness (and the reflection/refraction settings in the case of the floor)  for each surface until it looked right.

For the walls, I only used a tiny amount of glossiness, and a very subtle and noisy bumpmap texture to ensure that light from the PL 'scattered' when it hit that surface. I also had to set the PL light distance of the main light right down (10m or so) so that the walls didn't reflect bright white.

Compared to the default settings for the bumpy/glossy shader, all of these surfaces use way shallower bumpmapping and much less glossiness.

Anyway, that's the end of my rambling. Hopefully someone got something out of it.

I guess it's time for me to comment on other people's stuff...

Heat: Your scene is pretty glossy, but I think that's okay. Things like gloss and bloom tend to look 'realistic' in games even if they wouldn't in real life so much. The textures are also well bumpmapped (light reflects off the right parts of the texture etc.).

Joseuz: Your scene is definitely my favourite  I like the style, and the lighting and texturing are excellent. I guess the only problem I can see is the fact that the carpet is glossy when it should perhaps be more matte.

Cyper: Your Rad scene looks really good. Professional too. How did you light your scene?

Mike: I like the lighting in your scene. Pointlights or Lightmapped? The textures could be a little more detailed, but that's kind of a non-issue considering how easy it is to fix.

Danipren: You definitely have an eye for texturing and lighting your scene. The colours are nicely balanced with nothing appearing out of place.

I think that's all guys. This was fun; I hope there are more competitions like this in the future.

Cheers,

George

My lighting was a bit sparse...1 pointpoint, 1 low level coloured sunlight and a bit of fog, shadowing on the ledges is in the texture

my summary now there all in...

Heat - a simple scene, too much gloss and bump, but practice and tweaking will get you there quickly
Joseuz - Voodoo lighting, still no idea how you do that, the scene looking down the corridor is worthy of AAA
Mike - your scenes always look great, they have a 'solid' quality to them
Georgio - I like that, the gloss levels are perfect
Dan - that could be nicely scary with some good sound and a bit of flicker on the distant light

Surprised you didn't enter DogT, thought this would be something you would go for.
Hope there'll be another challenge in the future