Handpainted forrest environment in UE4.

Mark Skovrup

Hello. This is a project I am currently working on. I would like to share my updates here. 

Its a top-down, handpainted environment. My plan is to make some kind of stone altar to light up the forrest while it is a little dark. feedback is very welcome.

Some of the textures so far. 
I am not sure what to do about that grass texture.

Next will be some more tilable grass/dirt textures to mix it up. 
Made a dirt placeholder for now.(brown grass texture)

Robert Berrier

Nice start! and hi
I like your idea about blending different grass textures. Though perhaps still add a little dirt or color variation and contrast to this one aswel.
Now it feel too "bland". Perhaps it is also missing some depths?

Goodluck!

Mark Skovrup

Time for an update

Changed light settings, and changed the colors of a lot of the model textures. updated the grass texture with some more contrast, dirt and detail. Also made another one with some flowers, to mix it up more. Added a dirt texture, some lianas, a bush and grass models.

Next week is stone week

Mark Skovrup

Robert Berrier said:

Nice start! and hi
I like your idea about blending different grass textures. Though perhaps still add a little dirt or color variation and contrast to this one aswel.
Now it feel too "bland". Perhaps it is also missing some depths?

Goodluck!

Thanks for the help! I tried it out, and it got a little better

Row'

Your scene looks really good so far, keep up the good work! I'm impatient to see more

Mark Skovrup

Update time again
I made  some new tilables for grass, and fixed the dirt texture as it was easy to tell it was tiling. Added some rocks to the scene. The ground textures now blend a lot better. I slightly changed the light settings.
The ground textures for now. The grass/dirt one is not done yet, but it looks pretty good in the engine so far.


and the rock

Edgar T

Love the stlyle!!

Maybe you can add more color contrast on the textures. Right now they look flat. Adding more interesting variations will increase the level of the environment.

Keep it up man!! Looks great so far!

Dragonar

it's really cool dude !!

Keep it up !

Mark Skovrup

First off, thanks for the feedback
Time for an update :chuffed:
I made the ruined altar and added some particles. Changed the light settings again.
Next thing is to make the scene tell more about what happened at this place. I tried out adding some blood on the ruin, but it got to messy to read. So I am not sure about what to add next. It is going to be some pretty small assets, footsteps or something. I'm still thinking about adding some blood trails leading into the deeper forrest.

Cremuss

It looks cool man! I feel like the blue atmosphere is really too much and too strong. Otherwise I feel it's still a little empty and flat. Why not add some height to the landscape? keep it up

Vollgaser

what is "handpainted" in those textures? the foliage textures just have one colour and a gradiend for the tint/hue.

Nomad - Nicolas Pirot

Great looking work there, I particularly like the contrast between the fires and the fog.

Azaraen

Cool! How long did it take for you to get this far?  

Mark Skovrup

@CremussThanks!. And sure. I'll try to make some more height difference on the landscape. not sure what to do about the fog. I wanted to have blue foggy surroundings with a little orange light, in hope for a nice color contrast.

@Vollgaser Im going to add some more defined highlights on some of the foliage. I agree, they look a little flat.

@Nomad - Nicolas Pirot Thanks!

@Evolvyn I think I am almost 4 weeks in now. :chff:chuffed:

Mark Skovrup

I call this project done for now, as I won't have the time to work on it for a longer period. I added some spears to the scene, changed light settings and fog density. Added some more hight difference to the landscape, and refined some of the textures. Thanks for your time!

amirabd2130

this looks really awesome