[WIP] [UE4] birch forest (C&C welcomed)

Sherif3142 · Sep 2017

hello everyone, I hope you're doing well.

I've been working on this project for about a week, just thought I'd share my progress with you and hopefully get some feedback along the way.

here are some of the references I'm using:

so here's what I've done so far,
this one was made in substance designer:

this one too was made in designer:

this stripped bark/ rough wood texture was done using a texture from texture.com as a base.

some sculpts ,
dead tree :

stump :

low poly models:

branches and foliage texture,

and finally some textured assets:

I'll work on the ground texture next,will update soon.
thanks for reading :smile: .

Phong · Sep 2017

textures are lookin nice, but i've never seen a birch tree look like the dead one you made. too wiggly and bumpy. birch is generally very linear.

Xendance · Sep 2017

Yea the geometry looks odd to me too. Birches are usually like this over here: https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/10/10/12/06/birch-483361_960_720.jpg

In bogs and mires they can be crooked but they're still relatively thin and smooth without any bulges like that.
https://esan.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Suot/010516f.jpg