[WiP] UE4 Nature Env

mettigel

Hi!
I thought i make a WiP Thread about my Portfolio Project.

This Project is loosely based on this Image:


I set myself a time frame for about 2 Weeks. One Week is over and i have achieved a good amount of Assets.

So here we go :

First of all i made about 4 Rocks.



The cool thing about these Rocks is, that i'm in the Quixel Suite 2.0 Beta. i have to say: This dDo Painter is just awesome !


After the Rocks i tried my first Bark Sculpt ever (which will NOT be in the Project, because it's bad), but i learned a lot.



Then i decided to make a Background Terrain, so i made one in Mudbox / Worldmachine and imported it to Unreal:




(No Lights baked atm).

For the Vegetation i made 2 Gras Types and 5 different Birch Trees. The Grass was made in Zbrush and the Trees in SpeedTree.



Yesterday i finished the Sculpting and Material Process for the Pine Bark, which i will import into SpeedTree for some nice Pine Trees.




For the Techninal stuff. I'm not sure if i should bake the Light or if i should switch over to Realtime. Atm a Medium Light Build takes about 80 minutes on my System (i7 4790K, 16GB RAM, GTX 980, Win10).

So that's it for the moment. I think i will start working on the Pine Needles today.

Greetings from Germany

Philipp

ed_3D

Goodluck :P maybe yolo and give the heightfield GI a try instead of baking it since it's all exterior? I haven't tried it myself, but it seems to have worked well for the Kite demo

mettigel

Thx dude. Yeah i think i will give heightfield GI a try.

So i made a little DIY Character Controller .

http://gph.is/1OylXkt

mettigel

So after many bake or no bake light discussion stuff i changed the System to LPV and this will be awesome .

modsoft

Hey mettigel,

Quick feedback on your tree mesh (since your scene is tree-heavy). Your tree looks a little stiff and 'game-y', it could use a stronger sense of weight on the limbs. See this comparison between the primary shapes of your tree vs your concept:


Notice the curvature profile for the real-life reference. Try tweaking your profiles for the limbs and trunk to react more to the weight of the leaves and branches. Here is a profile I recreated from Far Cry:


Generally a sense of weight and evidence of natural forces will give life to your assets.

mettigel

Hey modsoft,
thanks for the Tip! I will adjust the trees later one. Very helpful .

mettigel

Today is "better Branch" Day .

mettigel

First one done, 6 more to go. Leaf Map Maker is nice, but all these Settings .

mettigel

Made some Birch Planes today .

mettigel

What a producitve Day . Birch Trees and fancy Light stuff is ready .

mettigel

Made a little Test Render today .
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gf43yjSTCg[/ame]

mettigel

Working on the Pine Branches

mettigel

Finally finished the HP Branches. The spPaint Tool is awesome .

oxygencube

Nice, I'm also making a forest heavy scene... Sub'd to see if I can pick up some tips along the way.

mettigel

oxygencube wrote: »

Nice, I'm also making a forest heavy scene... Sub'd to see if I can pick up some tips along the way.

Thanks .

mettigel

Working on the new/final Branched for the Pine like tree .

mettigel

Added a empty Branch today, for some Variation .

synergy11

Nice work!

How did you use the SPpaint tool to make those branches?

mettigel

Thx .
I painted the Needles on the Branch

hmm_rock

Looking nice, subbed!

mettigel

Thank you

mettigel

Tesselation Barrrrrrrrk

mettigel

So let's build better Branches.

mettigel

Making some nice Ground Texture for my UE4/CE³ Scene.