Viking RTS - Dev

Ra6ga5ka

Hey,


I Started a personal Project besides University to keep my Skills and Knowledge up to date. I want to show the game and all the assets and tech I create for the game to get feedback from you guys. And I also want to Stream while I working.


I want to show here the most recent Screenshot.

Ra6ga5ka

Here are some Pictures from the Materials i created in Substance Designer.
That shows a 3D woodplank Material I use in Substance Designer to atomate my texturing process

Thats the grass ground texture. created with Substance Designer

That shows my procedural bark texture Its a fully 3D texture to apply in Substance Painteer.


Currently I working on some normalissues with skinnedmeshes in Unreal

Ra6ga5ka

Fixed that normal issue

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Addet some Grass. i will continue adding more vegetation in the next iteration

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Some flowers.

Meloncov

Your ground foliage is looking nice, but the branch cards on the pine tree is looking pretty wonky, I think because you're trying to jam too much onto too few cards. I think you could afford to use a larger number of smaller cards.

Ra6ga5ka

Hey Meloncov, thanks for the good feedback. I am finished now with the groundplants and will continue with the Treework and will add a lot more triangles to the Tree and create LODs.
The Trees are ab bit more work, I will have 3 states:
The tree waving witcher3 like in the wind.
The 2nd treemodel should fall on the ground and the 3rd state is the remaining Stump.
I also want to use the leaf textures for bushes and smaller trees.
The states are also seen in the screenshot. They are all the same Tree. the tree can fall and wave in any direction.

The Images below show the ground plants I use with all LODs and a previewshot of the ground coverage in game.

Ra6ga5ka

Now I am happy with the ground coverage and run some tests on the trees. but im still not happy. I will continue on that until I got the right Workflow.

I think Speedtree is not a sollution becouse I want to have different states as I mentioned before. But if you have some good tutorials about speedtree. I am always happy to learn something new.

Ra6ga5ka

Worked on a ground texture for my forest.


now i need to add more plants to the forrest!

Ra6ga5ka

Working on a Day/Night cycle:

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Implemented my dynamic cloud system to my time of day controller.

My next Task will be adding rain and fog. this is going to be a big challange becouse it have to be dynamic and fluid aswell.

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First rough test with world creator an the now cliff texture. I also work on a Water Material.

Tomtegubbe

What are you modeling the landscape on, sort of looks like iceland but probably a bit too many trees for that. Nice job though.

Kaine123

I'm noticing a lot of repetition in the cliff material. A solution might be to lerp between two different sized textures randomly with noise. 

Ra6ga5ka

Hey thanks for the feedback. About the trees: I need to have trees becouse I want to build a RTS type game.
I will have a look at the cliffs anyway becouse i am not happy with the stretching in some areas. i think of a 3Planar sollution and nice Idear with the bigger Shapes. Maybe i try to add an additional layer.

Ra6ga5ka

Now I have a lot of ambient and weather conditions prepared.
Fog, clouds and snowfall/rain and dynamic wind objects still missing... So a lot to do. But i couldn restist to play and polish one lighting cenario a bit.

And want to show my current Progress of my terrain and the dynamic snow feature.

Ra6ga5ka

Aufter month of fighting with the Performance and the Terrainsystem I want to show some Progress.
It was really hard to keep the Performance while adding more dynamic features to the Terrain. Like dynamic snow and Wettness
I also Polished the Ocean material And started to work on my dynamic trail system.
I left the Grassblades for now because I need to find a performant dynamic sollution for hiding the grass below the Trails.

Ra6ga5ka

Placed some plants. The Trail is far away from done I need to correct the spline Tangents and Roll automatic that they fit the terrain.
Math Math Math.

Ra6ga5ka

Building a new House. Just a really simple one.
But I achieved some improvements in my Workflow and increased the visual quality of the thanched roof.

Elithenia

This is coming along nicely 

Ra6ga5ka

Thanks Elithenia thats helping me to keep on with that project.
I started to create a few more assets.