[UE4] Spooky Forest Church

Shirk

Working on a spooky forest scene in UE4 that I hope to finish in the next couple of days. This is still an early WIP, but I think the atmosphere is solid.

John Baxter

Fantastic! I love the mood.

FreneticPonies

Nice lighting and atmosphere, now lets see that church!

Macebo

Really cool buddy, the atmosphere is solid indeed! I can imagine a horror game with this setup *-*

It reminds me of the movie "the witch", i can't say specifically why, but my guess it is because of the mood + church + fog. 

friedwelf

I'll admit, I was looking for a creepy silhouette seeping out of the mist. Definitely hit the horror vibe, great work.

Jakro

@Shirk Loving this so far! I know this is still an early WIP and the church isn't done but I would suggest when modelling to make sure that the silhouette of the church is broken up. Also the rocks are sticking out to me, they look like someone came with a truck load of really round rocks, all around the same size, and began placing them all over the scene. Looking forward to seeing how this comes scene turns out!

bigodon

creepy enough place
also loved the mood, this going to looking good

X-One

Very nice start. Mood is great.

Shirk

Thanks guys! I hope once I have the church worked on that the scene will begin to shape up even more. Heres a very bad quality video of some of the rolling fog. Im not sure if or how to post webm videos on polycount.

Macebo

2spooky

Caiterade

Holy crap dude! The spoop factor

Zi0

This has a lot of mood, very nice and creepy!

Sheers

Creepy atmosphere! I'm excited to see where this goes.

zombojoe

It reminds me a lot of those horror mods on the source engine.

RustySpannerz

Amazing atmosphere! Good job on the lighting, I really struggled with that overcast type lighting in ue4. 

VeryCrunchyTaco

This looks amazing!  Love the mood, can't wait to see more. 

rgbeard

Really cool! I like the lighting and silhouettes a lot! If you are going for that smoke moving maybe give some of the grass and twiggs some movement as well.

joelpattie

Awesome work, really liking the lighting! Gives me the creeps just looking at the images xD

Chimp

Looking cool. I would add some height variation to the landscape as it gets toward the trees, seems a bit flat world right now. Even further back, some banks and hills can let you have a bit more depth to the forest without needing endless trees or to push the fog too far (though obviously the fog suits)

Shirk

Ive got some work done on the interior of the church, not entirely happy with it right now.

Elithenia

This is a cool project!
Looking forward to seeing it come along

SpaceRogue

The outside shots are looking amazing and you sure have the mood pinned down! As for the inside shot, I don't know U4E that well but maybe try to get the light of the candles to feel more like its actually coming from the candle, maybe with an Emissive map to get the wax ,at the top, to look like its being lit transparent ? 

Shirk

SpaceRogue said:

The outside shots are looking amazing and you sure have the mood pinned down! As for the inside shot, I don't know U4E that well but maybe try to get the light of the candles to feel more like its actually coming from the candle, maybe with an Emissive map to get the wax ,at the top, to look like its being lit transparent ? 

There is actually something odd going on, current Im using SSS to simulate the glow of the candle, but its only working from certain directions.

Shirk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fVnMKDV9rY

Shirk

Shyralon

The armosphere really is on point!
How did you set up your sky/lighting? Is it just atmospheric/height fog or are you using some custom HDRIs?

Shirk

Thanks! Originally I just had a PostProcessing volume with some colour changing, and a stationary skylight. Ive added a very, very dim directional light. Atmospheric fog is used to replace the skybox as well. There is no custom HDRI but I might look into it. 

Shirk

Nuclear Angel

I love where this is going! What are you planning to add to the scene? I personally would like to see if you could get in some color somewhere, like having a crashed car for example with the tail lights lighting up an area with red. Just my opinion, but I am looking forward to see what you are going to add to this.  

Shirk

Nuclear Angel said:

I love where this is going! What are you planning to add to the scene? I personally would like to see if you could get in some color somewhere, like having a crashed car for example with the tail lights lighting up an area with red. Just my opinion, but I am looking forward to see what you are going to add to this.  

Thanks! Its quite hard to think of ways to add sources of colours to the scene without drastically changing the colours in the scene, and breaking a specific vibe Im trying to get. I have added a small crude camp site, but aside from this I think Im going to wrap up the scene as I dont want to clutter the forest since its meant to be empty and dead.



Also here is a comparisons between Epic and Low settings aside from the resolution, both get 120 fps on my 1070.