Foliage - Need some advices

Dragonar

Hi there

I made a foliage and I need some advices.

I must to do a normal and specular map so don't worry I will do that.

I left some space on my UV for the other foliage like grass.

Tell me what do you things and if you have some ideas to improve it.:poly142:

MooseCommander

It looks very nice for a handpainted foliage. I would maybe reduce the glowing around the edges of the leaves or at least change the tone so they don't look so neon, but other than that I think it is good so far. Make sure your normals have enough bend in them to help give this some real depth.

DWalker

I'd work a bit on the shadows in the main cluster to give it a bit more depth. You could also add drop shadows around the individual leaves & the vine.

Dragonar

Thank you for your advices .

@MooseCommander : It's true ^^ I will change a little the tone for don't look like neon

DWalker : Yeah I will add some shadow paint on the texture. About de drop shadows, it's normal you can don't see on my render because it's a unlit render ^^

JWalk

What's your workflow?

Also, I'd be tempted to include the grass on a different texture sheet. Mainly because if you wanted to tint either the grass or the vines you'd need to use two separate shaders- so you might aswell just use another texture for grass instead of trying to fit it in on the same sheet.

Additionally, if you wanted to create a wind effect (for example)- you would want to control the effect separately for each asset in each shader.

Dragonar

Hi

Here you have a render with light/shadow and with Normal/Specular map.

And because I am a good men I put a tuto/work flow. :poly124::poly142:

Of course any comments or idea to improve it is welcoming.

And sorry for my bad english.

Fenyce

Nice workflow! It's looking good. I guess I'll give that a try.

Dragonar

Cool Fenyce don't hesite to post your that on this thread.

Dragonar

Hi .

Here the new part of foliage package. Tell me what do you think .

Comments or idea to improve it is welcoming.

Tobbo

The textures themselves are looking nice. If you're going to have the grass be relatively straight take out the 2 horizontal edge loops. Or better yet, make some use out of them and add some bends.

Something you want to strive for in vegetation is to hide the fact that it's an actual flat plane texture. Bending the plane so it's not straight vertically or horizontally helps hide that.

Also, your grass blades and leafs seem way too dense (except your single leaf vine, it looks about right). Try and make some more use out of transparent empty space to help give more variation and break things up a bit. This will also help hide the fact that it's a flat plane texture.

Dragonar

Hi ,
here a fast render on UDK with 3/4 foliage mesh. Tell me what do you think.
Comments or idea is welcoming.

Anchang-Style

The post is a bit heavy can barely see anything

Dragonar

What do you mean @Anchang-Style ?

stevston89

There is soo much bloom and depth of field you can't see a thing....

Dragonar

Oh ok, sorry.

It's better now ?:)