[UDK] Snow landscape

nightfrontier

Hey!

Lately I have been playing around with terrain generation in various applications. I never really took the step from generated terrain to realtime 3D terrain - but with the new landscape feature in UDK I wanted to see what I could put together. This is not a gameplay scene and I did not work under any texture or polygon limitations. Everything is created by me including terrain, textures, particles, lighting and the sky.

I used World Machine to generate the terrain which I then exported as a height and color map. I used the height map to create the landscape in UDK. The landscape use two different types of materials, snow and rock, and the exported color map is overlayed on top of the snow and rock materials to break up repeativeness.

Tidus

Christ, that's impressive. Really atmospheric. The only critique here is that your texture has a visible pattern (first picture, left), the clouds look quite flat and the horizon looks surreal, though this might be on purpose.

nightfrontier

Hey Tidus. Thanks for the feedback!

Here's a fly through of the scene.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9gnqsTHv0"]UDK Snow Landscape - YouTube[/ame]

AlanSMitchell

good job

Jessica Dinh

That looks really nice! I've always loved snow environments :]

nightfrontier

Here is a detail lighting shot of the terrain, from a different angle. The snow material has an angle dependent sparkle effect that you can see in this shot. I remember the first time I saw a game with that kind of effect. For me that was Day of Defeat: Source. That game had some really cool levels with great texture and shader work. Still admire much of it today!

mohq

This is amazing
and to be honest I've been inspired by this since the first time I saw it I've always wanted to make landscapes like this, especially the snowy mountain ranges.

I started my own UDK project, its been several months since I've been learning it and finally started a landscape, it's almost finished!

Thanks for the inspiration! love it

ASGUARDVIKING

This is an awesome scene the way you made the fog work in the scene is sweet. I am using a similar workflow for my terrain. How did ya use the snow, was it just a plain texture or was it from World machine?

I looked at your portfolio and saw the other snow images with the tower..... dam thats sweet, very nice job!

ZeroStrike

Wow I am really liking this snowy mountain range. Makes me want to make some. Do you make the terrain just in udk or did you import a height map from world machine or something similar?