UDK water garden

Dave3d

Hi guys here my latest project that i am doing for college, ive been working on it part time for about a week, everything is made by me apart from the sky, I have a made custom water shader plus animated trees and grass. the ground is hand modeled and uses vertex painting to hide repetition.
im looking for feedback as it has to be finished in a few days. thanks!


Heres a quick flythrough video (qualitys not great):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIJQtI9l_4&feature=youtu.be

jackalope

You should turn the fog down a lot. I'm having trouble seeing anything.

locater16

I like the idea of the fog, but it is a bit overdone. You're getting some terrible shadow map artifacts along the edges. The grass is too repetitive, all oriented the same way or something? Either way don't have them show up in the shadow map, which is way too low res to capture the detail required. The water looks like something from the deep ocean than a calm pond.

Really do enjoy the foggy/gold lighting scheme though!

praetus

The fog is pretty ridiculous right now. You may want to tone it down. Also, is it supposed to be an actual fog or more of an atmospheric post process? because if it's the latter it should also be tinted so that it color grades objects in the far distance. Grass looks good as overal layout goes, but it is incredibly easy to see that they are small clumps of grass.

Also, I'm not sure if you're going for a perfect lake look (being a water garden) but the banking looks really smooth right now. If you're going for a more natural look I would throw some rocks or something to break it up a little bit.

Dave3d

update:

praetus

I don't know if it's artifacts or what but there is something weird going on, on the left side of you're pictures. Is it a watermark or what? At the very least good deal getting rid of the fog.