[WIP] Generic Crystals in Cave Scene UE4 :(

Shounak

I have been working on this environment for a month now.

I got the idea from here. I am familiar with UE4 but this is my first attempt at an environment. I wanted to practice Houdini , Blender & UE4 & this scene looked like a good start. I will post breakdowns in the upcoming weeks. Please gim me feedbacks (´･ω･`).

Shounak

Water material still wip.
Using a placeholder normal map & a simple sign wave for displacement atm.

Shounak

Using simple meshes with a bit of noise on them

Shounak

This one is probably at the final quality. I baked the AO , Curvature & some other info in the vertex colors.

Shounak

Added new Rocks



Little demo of the rock generator 
https://youtu.be/YyxpWrQDDqc

Shounak

Added new crystals as well

Shounak

Changed the scene lighting as well

Little overall view of the scene in youtube
https://youtu.be/WLVfSTVg4vU

Shounak

Finally added some proper Water waves texture
Short demo here
https://youtu.be/jBvdgTnSpro
Made a ocean sim & just tiled it & baked it on plane

Olingova

I think you would win a lot by trying harder to make your work appealing in the wording as much as the render, removing that sad emote from your title and try to make it sounds cooler than "the generic crystal cave" would be a good first step.

I also see the same pattern with your lighting, imo your screenshot is taken from one of the worst angle where it's too dark to really understand the scale or volume in there, you video show other way better angles that you might want to show more

Shounak

Shounak

Made the Cave top Darker & added small crystals to make it look like stars in the Sky
vid link here
https://youtu.be/-gXdXxxC3XU

Shounak

Olingova said:

I think you would win a lot by trying harder to make your work appealing in the wording as much as the render, removing that sad emote from your title and try to make it sounds cooler than "the generic crystal cave" would be a good first step.

I also see the same pattern with your lighting, imo your screenshot is taken from one of the worst angle where it's too dark to really understand the scale or volume in there, you video show other way better angles that you might want to show more

Yea you are probably right . I am not very good at this stuff ._.
As for lighting I still have a lot of work to do

Shounak

Made multiple mat instances of the crystal
& added offset to the sine wave

Shounak

Finally made the main crystal Material

Shounak

Made changes to the small crystal material
With the "perinstancerandom" node I can randomize the parameters of all the small crystals

RustedFaith3d

I really love the foggy liquid. Looks really interesting.

Shounak

An update is  a long due 
Will be adding the breakdowns soon

Shounak

Added Dripping water on all rock materials

francisbaud

I like your crystal cave! The water dripping on the rocks is well done. I'd swim in the waters of the first GIF!