[UE4] Fiefdom - Motte and Bailey Castle Student Project

RobeOmega

Most recent update:

"Fiefdom is a project set in early medieval England. Based around Anglo-Saxon and Norman architecture/culture. We will be creating a real time cinematic based around a Motte and Bailey castle based on various historical references. 

We will not be sticking entirely to the real world as we would like to take some liberties with what can be included in the surrounding vistas/scenery and so we can make changes for visual interest.

 

The Team: Kieran Young, Me 

Keep in mind that these are still very rough block outs so there is a lot of stuff missing. The buildings do look a bit generic at the moment as I haven't started doing unique blockouts for them, these will be coming soon. Lots of areas aren't detailed yet, we have plans for these which will also be posted soon. Landscape has not been sculpted yet either. Stairs up to the tower will be added soon. Ground materials are placeholders from CGtextures.

Currently just a week in so everything is still in a temporary state and things are still in planning.

Feedback welcome!

RobeOmega

Made a test of one of the straw building roofs, Kieran added some alpha cards to the end to break it up a little bit and add some more interest

RobeOmega

Sorry for the lack of updates, we kept saying "we will add something else before posting" and it never happened until now.

Eventually we are going to add cart tracks, footprints and wear decals to the roads so they look less flat, I still need to sculpt some height into them. We'll be adding grass meshes into the gaps and around the town soon so it should look more interesting. 

The door is placeholder, will be making a nice final mesh soon.

We are planning to add a ton of plants and crops to the gardens at some point, these most likely wont be fully completed until summer, the pictures below are pretty much the look we'll be going for. It should add a ton of colour and make the town feel less empty. 

The layout now. The top left is going to have more farms and some wood cutting areas that we saw at mountfitchet. The bottom right next to the castle building is going to have stables and some dove cotes. 

We originally had a hill around the wall but I forgot to add it back in, that will be added back soon. I still need to do a lot of set dressing with wood piles and stuff, so the buildings should look more interesting fairly soon. 

http://www.therookies.co/game-of-the-year/vr-ar/fiefdom-vr-interactive-museum-experience/

RobeOmega

Kieran made a cart. I helped the render look a little better by adding some of the other props to the render. I also changed the skybox to something less UE4 default and changed the lighting a bit to fix with the new skybox.

AlirezaMorgan

Intresting work in progress 
i like where it's going 

Krystian_Zem

Nice, loving it, shadoversity from youtube would approve ^ ^

Doxturtle

Here's our hand in for this project, we have a lot left that we plan to improve upon and add over our summer break so all critique is more than welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhxfYAoyOJs

Doxturtle

An update that we forgot to post, featuring new lighting. In other news, we made it to the Rookies VR game of the year finalists and are in the voting for people's choice award. If you like the project we'd appreciate a vote (you can vote on games through the Rookies facebook page)

Doxturtle

Me and @RobeOmega did some more work on Fiefdom a while ago but forgot to post it. There are still changes we'd like to make but we have other commitments at the moment. 

oraeles77

I was looking through briefly, and I was thinking 'I wonder if they visited Stanstead Mountfitchett?' and I saw the word 'Mountfitchett' in the title. hahaha.