[UE4] Post Apocalyptic Desert

kimmokaunela

Unreal Engine 4 project that contains desert environment with abandoned locations to explore. This project also have a drive able car to explore the environment faster. I wanted to put my last few years of work into one project using some of my older models and new ones. Tweaking all of the content to work well together. My goal was to create a base that is both optimized and flexible for all sort of projects and that is dynamic enough.

Landscape is using a material that allows to use adaptive tessellation with distance based blending and triplanar mapping. Project also have over 100 model and 188 texture assets. Level is using a fully dynamic lighting that is optimized to give the best possible performance.

Small video showcasing the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkAg-Y6RF7Y

I´m planning to add more features into this in the future and here is the list what I have in mind: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d2KWLXsR04ro2oxJMs0ctCmnZJsmW_4hpVy48DMaiNc/edit?usp=sharing

Here are some of the shots: 

More shots can be found here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dXoKx

TheLittleJay

Very nice, it looks pretty awesome. At first glance the tiling on your road texture is a bit too visible, and there's some pop-in with your distant props, but otherwise this looks really nice. Good job. 

kimmokaunela

@TheLittleJay Thanks! Good points. I will make those changes and much more soon. 

armagon

That sand/rock floor is amazing. Is that substance?

kimmokaunela

@armagon Thanks! Yes, all of the tiling textures are made in Substance Designer.

Larry

That is great. Also it's the first time i ever saw just dragging a spline in ue4 and creates tileable props... That is awesome and very informative..!Also how many textures do you have for that awesome looking vehicle?
Great work and very inspirational

kimmokaunela

@Larry Thanks! For that car I have 8 different materials. Its quite a lot but there are a lot of details to cover so I ended up with few 2k and 1k textures.

Painblade

2:00 minute mark, the huge collection of debris: Can we do that in Unity too? And are those debris included in the engine or did you first made each of them and added to the engine library manually? 

kimmokaunela

@Painblade I used instanced foliage paint too there to paint models that I made. I don´t know about Unity if you have same kind of tool there. Last time that I used Unity it didn´t have any. I don´t see any issues why this couldn´t be possible there. The thing is to instance all of those models to reduce draw calls. Unity have different kind of batching systems like static and dynamic.

Painblade

@kimmokaunela so you actually modelled the debris assets yourself and used them, they're not default UE assets. Great work and insight, i didn't know something like this could be done,  thanks for the response.