[UDK] Scottish Highlands Environment

Brownie2010

Hi, this week I started work on creating an environment based on the highlands of Scotland for my portfolio. I would much appreciate any feedback and critique anyone may have.

This is what I have so far:





I plan on adding some grass/shrubs and maybe rain and particles but I am unsure to what else?

Many thanks

Brownie2010

Update: Added the grass and water plants.

Brownie2010

Update: Added the grass and water plants:

RobeOmega

good work
But look at how repetitive your grass looks when you look at the hills it may start to look a little uninteresting

orihaus

Looking nice!

The terrain and terrain texture could do with a lot more variation though. Run it through something like World Machine! The grass has very visible tiling and the normalmaps are a bit too prominent.

Tomo009

Something that popped up to me immediately, the grass texture has a few notable repeating features that betray the environment pretty quickly.
One is the lighter green strip that seems to split the whole thing, it looks like the entire environment has had the lawn mower treatment, very cleanly as well.
Another is a diagonal highlight that creates an obvious grid pattern.

Also, not sure if it's the normal map, though that is my guess, but something is making it look more like material than grass cover.

Hope I could help.

Brownie2010

Thanks for the responses! The tiling seems to be the big issue and I really like the idea of using World Machine to add more variation. However I have never used it and can't get my head around the process.



How do I export the terrain from UDK to World Machine? I tried exporting the Height Map but how do I get this into World Machine? And then back into my UDK scene?



Thanks for the help!