V3 VIDEOS OLD OUTDATED. FOR V4 I RE-MADE THE ENTIRE PACK. IT HAS BETTER MODELS AND BETTER SHADING.

NO V4 UNREAL ENGINE PACKAGE INCLUDED. PLEASE BUY IT IN MY FAB PAGE IF YOU WANT THE UE PACK ONLY. It is called Floor Grates Pack JFG V4.

FAB LINK: https://fab.com/s/794ef9848105

IMPORTANT V4 3D Marketplace Edition will not support Parallax or POM as my Unreal Engine Marketplace package since that is done specifically for Unreal Engine. V4 update here is mostly the new Models and Textures, which are updated for better shading and cleaner textures plus more Grate Floor Variations. Any PARALLAX marked content is more like an extra design variation I am providing to the package. These work the same as the Default Grates.

LEGACY = Anything below V3 release or anything old or outdated. You will still have access to these contents. No plans to remove right now but in the future these may disappear at any point if needed. It is old outdated contents. Left them in-case these were needed by you if you already purchased or if you liked the contents. Thanks for your understanding. A README is included as a .PDF if interested in the LEGACY contents. Available in the downloads section.

V4 PATCH NOTES - 3D MARKETPLACE RELEASE - 12 / 20 / 2023

Floor Grates Pack JFG V4

This update brings much more variation and fixes in the 3D models.

V4 General Patch Notes:

V4 Features:

• +Re-made all grates lowpoly models from scratch in order to improve shading
• +Re-baked all grates from their revised high_polygon models [Note: High Polygon models that I made for baking textures are not included in this package].
• +New PBR baked texture set now includes fixed normal and shading.
• +Added CLEAN and DIRTY variations for all grates and their variations. Now you get 1 of each. But note, each is a PBR texture set and 1x material.
• +Added a new batch of grates called _Opacity_FULLGRATE which is the entire grate baked in a plane mesh. This variation is meant to possibly save polygons if needed or re-use the textures if needed without having to use 3D models.
• +Re-organized all pack contents in order to provide better access to all contents. Naming conventions used: SM_ / M_ / T_
• +Any files marked as LEGACY are old or outdated. But I will be leaving them here for reference

V4 TOTAL Contents:

• .50 Unique Grate Designs
• .FBX Files [Includes OPTIONAL textures_attached file variations for quicker usage] = 960 Files
• .BLEND Files [Includes OPTIONAL textures_attached file variations for quicker usage] = 12 Files
• .PNG and .JPG 2048x2048 Resolution Textures = 2587 Files
• IMPORTANT: MY HIGH POLYGON SOURCE BAKING FILES ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE, they are extremely messy. SAME WITH ANY SUBSTANCE PAINTER FILES. Just the final FBX files, Exported Textures from Substance Painter and my .BLEND files.

DOWNLOAD SECTION

Key words:

• LEGACY = OLD but still available as of 12/20/2023 to download. may be removed in the future.
• EXTRA = Pretty much what it says
• OPTIONAL = This is an extra optional file in-case you need it. It is usually heavier than its default counterparts but it is meant to possibly provide an easier pack usage. This will usually include Textures_Attached Files. Their download is totally optional.
• Note: Some downloads are split in parts. The goal was to have files less than 5gb.
  • Anything not marked with that is the default content. Usually the files will not have the Textures_Attached so you will need to manually tell Blender to find them.
  • A read-me is included to do texture linking in-case needed. Please do not be afraid by this wording, it takes less than 1 or 2 minutes possibly, maybe less. Not sure if the textures will load via default. But all the information is there and will take less than 1 or 2 minutes to link/find the textures. You just need to find the folder in which they are. NOTE: You do not need, absolutely do not need to set-up the materials for each grate or input every single texture to each model. That was part of my job on releasing this pack. The only thing you need to do is to find the missing files via the small window in Blender, it is just locating the textures folder wherever you decompressed them in your hard drive. Readme included with instructions. Depending on your PC, the textures may take a little bit to load. Thanks!

SPECIFICS:

SHOWCASE SCENES [FBX / BLEND] = 6 Files

• Vol 1 - Grates 1-11
• Vol 2 - Grates 12-50
• Parallax Unreal Only Variations - many grate numbers - [NOTE: PARALLAX DOES NOT WORK IN BLENDER OR BY DEFAULT IN UNREAL. MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR MY UNREAL ENGINE V4
• MARKETPLACE].

4x Grate Design-Batches for the Scenes

• 1 GEOMETRY_ONLY = ONLY AVAILABLE FOR GRATES 1 to 11 = 44 Meshes with 1 Unique Material Each – PolyCount varies. HD Grates and Bars 600-7k verts. There are only four highpoly models. HD GRATE / HD GRATE BARS 10 / 11 60k-110k verts. These are HD Grates 10 & 11 and HD Grate Bars 10 & 11. These 4 meshes alone raise the polycount of the entire pack by a lot, beyond this most is lowpoly.
• HD_GEOMETRY_GRATE = 1 to 11 Only
• HD_GEOMETRY_BARS_ONLY = 1 to 11 Only

2 HYBRID_OPACITY_AND_GEOMETRY = Covers Grates 1 to 50 = 100 LOWPOLY Meshes 1 Material Each

• LOWERPOLY = Grates 1 to 50
• Unique Mesh 1 = 1- 4, then 12-50. 36 tris.
• Unique Mesh 2 = 5- 11. 34 tris.

3 OPACITY_ONLY = Covers Grates 1-50 = 200 Planes 1 RE-USABLE Material Each.

• OPACITY_Bars_Only = Plane with the grate bars baked on it in a full 1UV space. Materials are re-usable
• OPACITY_FULLGRATE = Grates 1 to 50. Same as above but it was the full grate baked.

4 GRATE BASES = 4 Meshes 1 Material Each

• Individual Grate Bases = Each 96 tris
• Base 1 = 1-4, then 12-50
• Base 2 = 5-11

Two variations in total for each Grate Batch and Variation: CLEAN & DIRTY. This means you should get two textured variations of each version of each grate. 1 to 50 and all their batches.

.BLEND file with all Models at Origin 000

.FBX files with Individual Exports at Origin 000individual fbx = 497 files.

PBR Textures

• BaseColor, Metallic, Normal, Roughness, Occlusion
• Alpha Channel is included in the BaseColor Texture.
• EXTRA - Alpha Only textures included in the package. Not used.

- All Files include a Readme aimed mostly to first_time users [BLENDER only]:

• Instructions for how to do texture linking / missing files search if using the light no_textures_attached files
• Instructions for Opacity Material fixes [RARE] for Blender versions before 4.0. This fixes any opacity issues with the .FBX files if importing these to Blender and not using the .BLEND files for any reason. This issue is not happening anymore in 4.0. The fix is just to change the material from wrong import messed up setting to Alpha Clip in the viewport material settings. This was an issue with Opacity and FBX files in Blender before 4.0.

- EXTRA - Blender Screenshots Render Setup, mostly made for Cycles. Works with EEVEE too. But it is a very simple setup.

• Textures attached and default no textures attached versions available
  • Grates Vol 2 - 12 to 50 I had to split in 3 parts. My PC ran out of memory and the scene behaved really bad if I tried to render it all at once. So it is split in 3 Parts.
  • MY RIG FOR RENDERING THIS WAS: RTX 3080, RYZEN 9 5900X, 96GB RAM DDR4 3200MHZ, BLENDER 4, CYCLES AND EEVEE, WINDOWS 11.
  • Note: I cannot guarantee these render-setup scenes may work on your PC sorry. I have no idea if they will or not, especially at Cycles. These should work alright with EEVEE too. I included them as extras in-case you needed these.
• Some shots that do not look super flashy are with EEVEE. Usually the ones with the blue neon lights are made with Cycles.

QUICK 3D MODEL SPECS:

• Models generally are UV unwrapped. Most of the times manually
• Naming Conventions: SM_ / M_ / T_
• General Model Size: 1m x 1m x height varies depending on the grate base. For your default entire grate. Default Blender measurements.
• Quad-Based.

PACK IMPORTANT NOTES - PLEASE READ BEFORE YOUR PURCHASE!

1) +VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: FOR THE SCENE NUMBER 3 Contents!!!: WHILE MY FILES ARE MARKED AS PARALLAX OR POM IN THAT SCENE. SAME WITH ALL FILES RELATED TO IT, BUT READ BELOW.

PARALLAX IS NOT MADE TO WORK OUTSIDE OF MY UNREAL ENGINE MARKETPLACE PACKAGE. NOT INCLUDED HERE. PARALLAX WILL NOT WORK IN BLENDER OR UNREAL BY DEFAULT. NO HEIGHT_MAP TEXTURES WERE MADE OR INCLUDED. THIS SET-UP IS MADE FOR MY UNREAL ENGINE MARKETPLACE AND MASTER MATERIAL SET-UP. WHICH IS NOT INCLUDED WITH THIS V4 3D MARKETPLACE PACKAGE AND IS NOT SOLD OUTSIDE OF MY UNREAL ENGINE MARKETPLACE PRODUCT PAGE AS OF NOW. THESE GRATES HAVE A DIFFERENT DESIGN OR DIFFERENT TEXTURING. THESE FUNCTION THE SAME AS VOL 1 AND VOL 2 WITH A SLIGHT TEXTURE CHANGE. INCLUDED AS EXTRAS FOR YOU TO HAVE MORE DESIGNS.

2) FOR FIRST TIME USERS AND IF USING THE NON_TEXTURES_ATTACHED VERSIONS OR IF USING BLENDER BEFORE 4.0

All Files include a Readme aimed mostly to first_time users [BLENDER only]:

• Instructions for how to do texture linking if using the light no_textures_attached files
• Instructions for Opacity Material fixes [RARE] for Blender versions before 4.0. This fixes any opacity issues with the .FBX files if importing these to Blender and not using the .BLEND files for any reason. This issue is not happening anymore in 4.0. [PS 12/29/2023: After testing all files, I was wrong, the .FBX without textures attached opacity import needs manual work. Instructions attached. Versions with Textures_Attached unaffected.]
• Rev. Update 12/29/2023 - Instructions to fix FBX BLENDER 4.0 IMPORT OPACITY ISSUE NEW with DEFAULT NO_TEXTURES_ATTACHED .FBX files only. Light disk space size ones.

3) Textures_Attached Optional Files included for many of the pack contents if needed separate download.

More info in my ArtStation page: https://artstn.co/m/1VjlK