[WIP] Old Norse/Viking Village

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I started this project as my second environment portfolio piece. I only worked on Sci-fi props and environments so far. That's why I wanted a piece on a historical environment with terrain, vegetation and such. I'm taking my time to make them as good as possible. 

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I started by sculpting and texturing wooden planks and putting them into modular building blocks to use for later
 

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Here are some scene tests I did for lighting and construction using placeholder props and megascans 
 

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Here is some progress albeit it might look backwards since I removed most of the outsourced assets and textures. 
- decided on comp, sculpted terrain and added spline path to it 
- finalized and rendered main trim textures
- I spent too much time to add procedural noise in the engine to vertex paint, but it didn't work as intended so i dropped it. Instead I will create dirty version in substance. 

next:
- improving building thatch roof materials
- creating plain tileable textures for large sections of wood and mud with dirty variations
 - creating terrain mat