World Machine UE4 landscape Studies

tsmith3d

Wanted to delve into using world machine and UE4 to explore compositions and terrain materials.  Any feedback is appreciated
 

tsmith3d

Forgot to add I use the amazing Geoglyph middleware developed by Quadspinner in world machine 
http://www.quadspinner.com/geoglyph/

ZombieDawgs

The lava scene is just incredible. Some of the other scenes have an almost painted look to them too. Awesome work.

Borgleader

I'm really no expert, but I'd like to drop in and say this looks really great. I'm curious however about the amount of post processing work on these screenshots. It kinda looks like a lot of the smoke/clouds and a few other things were added afterwards in photoshop? Could you give a breakdown of the different components? Or maybe an "in editor" screenshot?

tsmith3d

It's a combination of translucent cloud texture materials in UE4 and some cloud brush Photoshop work, as well as the atmosphere and height fog assets for atmospheric perspective.  I'll try to get some breakdown screenshots posted soon. 

macoll

That's gorgeous, love all these moods, inspirationning

tsmith3d

I'd say 4 hours in world machine, then 1,2 hours in UE4, then 1,2 hours in photoshop, the rock assets take about a day or two to make.

Telerak

I love the look of the rock formations/mountains around the Crater shot. Could you post a shot of the node graph of that scene? Really interested to see what you did for those.

tsmith3d

Alien Landscape Study rendered in Ue4.  Assets took about 1 day apiece to complete. Using allot of Zbrush's array mesh feature to get the fractal shapes.

tsmith3d

Working with some cloud planes with textures