[UE4] Forest Environment

Bart Spellson

Hello everyone ! it's been a while since I didn't post anything here. So since I have some free time now, I'm working on a small environment. My goal is to get close to a realistic style and improve my skill as much as I can on Speedtree and UE4. So for now it will be a simple forest then when this one will be done, I'll move to another one and try to post as regularly as possible. There is just a few to show for now and I haven't yet set up the ue4 materials so it's a simple set up for now. 

C&c are welcome.
Thank you ! 

Result : 




Scene : 

Spoon

Love the first shot. Really nice!

AtticusMars

Looks really nice, but also looks nothing like your reference

Bart Spellson

Thanks Guys ! 

AtticusMars : I know, I'm testing out my meshes first then I'll start to construct the scene to get close to the reference. 

Bart Spellson

Hey guys ! here an update of my work. I've made some trees and set up the materials. They have Lod's properly set up to 2 and share the same texture. I will do some fern for my next step.

Speedtree shot : 



UE4 :

bjporter

Starting to look nice.  Are you using any speedtree assets, or all hand made?

macoll

He uses Speedtree
Love it, gg

Bart Spellson

Thanks guys !  

bjporter : Yes, I am using speedtree to create the vegetation but it's hand made. I do not take the assets from the library. One year ago when I was learning speedtree, I did open the trees from the library to looks how they made it and learn from it. I did also look at some scenes on UE4 marketplace to understand how they set up the materials. It is how I learn so far since there is no tutorial on speedtree except from their official page. You have to look on how other people does and try to replicate with your own style and look at references. Then I still have a lot to learn today and with the coming of speedtree 8 it's going to be more intense  

Bart Spellson

Heya ! I'm done for the first environment. I will move to another one. 

You can find other of my personal works here also : https://www.artstation.com/artist/lamotterudy

here the final update : 

FreneticPonies

A solid result, though for the future you'll want to vary the color of the grass and leaves more, as they ended up too uniform.

Bart Spellson

Thanks ! Then yes I agree it's too uniform. I will pay attention about this for the next environment with grass and leaves. Thanks for the feedback (= 

Bart Spellson

Just did a quick close up of the grass before going to sleep that's it nothing more.