Cave modelling

salimmatta

Hello guys,

What is the best way to create a cave scene for a game? Because I though modelling it will take lot of time and besides it will be super expensive as polygons, I use unreal engine 4 btw.

Thank you!

Mant1k0re

Hourences has this article for instance.

http://www.hourences.com/tutorials-cave-modeling/

But really I think the way to go these days its to make it modular. I would suggest you download skyrim creation kit and look at the way they did their caves, for instance.

salimmatta

Thank you mate!! much appreciations!

Eric Chadwick

Also check out "Skyrim’s Modular Approach to Level Design" here:
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Modular_environments

Eric Chadwick

Hourences' tutorial is great, but it's from 2008. It's a bad idea to use a complicated modifier stack like he has in some of his screenshots.

 
Most of these modifiers are vertex-count dependent, so if you change the vertex count below them, they will be reset or will make bad data. Just something to watch out for.