Lighthouse Shore (UE4 Environment)
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Finished up with the polish stage on this 10 week student project.
Final Video:
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OEm-SBOe4I[/ame]
Final Beauty Shots:
Original Post:
Entering the final stages on this environment in UE4. This has been my first attempt at creating a large natural environment. Most of my older works were interiors or city environments, so overall I'm pretty happy with how my foliage work came out especially. Sti planning on adding in a few elements like a small shed next to the lighthouse, but I went ahead recently and took some high res shots of the whole scene in its current state.
http://s18.postimg.org/neseaiafd/10_22_1.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/p1d0hzx3d/10_22_6.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/t1k5u8nk9/10_22_2.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/dlb6xp8ax/10_22_7.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/owdum2f61/10_22_8.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/f6lvbrt55/10_22_4.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/o0crsvg3t/10_22_3.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/3y7onzfbd/10_22_5.jpg
Final Video:
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OEm-SBOe4I[/ame]
Final Beauty Shots:
Original Post:
Entering the final stages on this environment in UE4. This has been my first attempt at creating a large natural environment. Most of my older works were interiors or city environments, so overall I'm pretty happy with how my foliage work came out especially. Sti planning on adding in a few elements like a small shed next to the lighthouse, but I went ahead recently and took some high res shots of the whole scene in its current state.
http://s18.postimg.org/neseaiafd/10_22_1.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/p1d0hzx3d/10_22_6.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/t1k5u8nk9/10_22_2.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/dlb6xp8ax/10_22_7.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/owdum2f61/10_22_8.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/f6lvbrt55/10_22_4.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/o0crsvg3t/10_22_3.jpg
http://s18.postimg.org/3y7onzfbd/10_22_5.jpg
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Planning on doing a proper video of the scene when it's totally complete for my reel. And yeah djoexe, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter actually ended up inspiring the visuals here a lot. I loved what they did with rocks and foliage specifically in that game.
great job on the scene's composition and color palette!
The foliage shading was something that ended up being a real annoyance actually. UE4 doesn't currently have a good way of doing back face shading without flipping the vertex normals automatically for the back face. I ended up having to brute force the problem and use duplicates of the foliage geometry for the back faces just to get the shading to work. I really do hope they eventually add a good foliage shading model as a default option. I find it kind of weird that one isn't there already.
Mind doing a breakdown of your foilage materials, lighting and atmosphere setup?
I think I'll do some detailed breakdowns when I'm totally done with the scene. As of now I'm still working on this scene for a class, under deadlines, so my time to put stuff like that together is limited.
Been working on some more minor props for the scene. Again, thanks to everyone for all the positive feedback. I plan on posting some more updated full images tomorrow, better showing off my recent work, but for tonight, here's this one:
Breakdown please
I think the only thing that maybe could use some adjustments thus far are your pine trees, maybe an edit in the texture could help a little bit but they feel a little lacking in density, could probably use a bit more branches I think
Overall looks like a great scene so far, keep up the awesome work.
Very inspiring
I think I used a weird version of the image URL on that last update. I changed it back to the version I used on the first set of images.
Went ahead and rehosted on imgur.
I really like the scene and you've done a great job on the composition of your images. I do think the trees look a little thin on foliage perhaps.
Edit: I think the trees look good in all the images except the last one, that's the one that makes them look that way.
Love the last screenshot between the trees
(No issues with broken links for me)
A couple of new shots showcasing it:
I love that idea... Any thoughts on making that available? Put it up on the UE4 market place for a few bucks and I'd buy it.
I get that they are thin being close to the water but they are the same consistent thinness even deep into the forest. The lack of variation (they all have that same "pointy spear" shape), the odd sharpness of the tops, just throws off a very well crafted scene. I mean, even the grass is high quality! Trees could use the same love.
Video:
[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OEm-SBOe4I[/ame]
Final Beauty Shots:
It's really not enough to even offer to sell. Just a scene I can use to take quick shots with a custom background color and HDR lighting. If I wanted to make it a presentable tool, I'd have to make it a lot more automated.
Thanks!
I'll be doing some simple breakdowns of my foliage workflow as well as how I worked around some of UE4's limitations there.
a++ work man