[WIP] The Legend of Zelda Inspired UE5 project- Goddess Statue in an Underground Cave

Sarah_Tse

Hey! I will be posting WIP of my Level 5 Interior Hero Assets brief here.

 Here is my progress now:


PureRef: 
 
My idea is to create a underground cave scene with anicent stautes. I will be making rocks textures in Substance Designer and scuplt in Zbrush. 

Blockout: 

 

I did quick block out in Maya to test out the compositin of the scene. I want the sun light scome from the back of the great staute. 

 

Assets: 

I tried different approaches to generate maps of the rock textures in the past three weeks. Including creating materials in Substance Designer and scuplting in Zbrush. 

 

Assets 1: After I finish scuplting in Zbrush, I create a plane and bake it in Substance Painter.

Then, I created a material set up in Substance Designer for the rock texture and generate extra texture maps.



Test out result:


Assets 2: A pebble-stones materal made in Substance Designer. 




I will create more stone asstes, then I will import them in Unreal and test out the material parameter and blending.
Please tell me your thoughts and what improvement can I do on this project!
Thanks for reading 

Eric Chadwick

Hey, your images are all broken. It looks like you copy-pasted directly from a Discord post. To attach images here, you'll need to drag-and-drop each image. Or you can use the Attach Image button and paste a URL (as long as it's a publicly-viewable image address).

Sarah_Tse

Eric Chadwick said:

Hey, your images are all broken. It looks like you copy-pasted directly from a Discord post. To attach images here, you'll need to drag-and-drop each image. Or you can use the Attach Image button and paste a URL (as long as it's a publicly-viewable image address).

Thanks for the reminder! I had reuploaded all the images. Does it shows normally to you?

Sarah_Tse

 

After seeing Ankit Garg's redesign of Link from the Nintendo series The Legend of Zelda, I decided to redesign the goddess statue from the same series to be my hero assets in the scene. 

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bg0LZr

 

 

 

(The Goddess statue from The Legend of Zelda series)

 

 

I am aiming to redesign the statue as a European-style sculpture. Here are a rough concept art I did:

 

 

 

Here is what I have now. I used the cloth simulation in ZBrush for the head assets, which is quite useful. It is still in the blockout stage, so please tell me if there is thing that I could improve on it! : 

 

 

 I also started set dressing in my Unreal scene. Some screenshots:

 

 

 

For the past few weeks, I had been solving the texture tiling and height blending problem. 

 

 

 

(Landscape texture tiling control and height blend) 

 

 

 

 

Here is my progress on my hero asset, textures and assets that I have finished and imported into Unreal now. I will import more sculpted rocks this week and set dress the scene!  My next step for the hero asset is to add the details to the clothes and the wings. I am testing out nanite and displacement right now as well. Please tell me if there is anything that I could improve. 

I heard about the UE5 new 5.7 Mega Plants and I would like to try it to create some foliage or trees . I am a little bit concerned about it. Should I use other software such as Houdini or Speed Tree? 

(The Forgotten temple from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) 

 

Sarah_Tse

Got some feedback from my lecture, and he suggested me to get a concept for the scene. This two concept art are made in Midjoureny. I will refer to this two concept while making my scene

 

 

Trees are not in these concepts but I think it will be cool to having trees on the wall. I will use houdini to generate some roots as well

 

Testing out Houdini's Tree Generator:

 

 

 

 

I will try to use SpeedTree to make some vines and plants as well. 

Sarah_Tse

Some more updates on the Houdini tree:

 

High poly:

 

 

Low poly (Remesh and Reduce poly nodes)

 

 

FBX exported to Unreal: 

 

 

 

I think it looks nice so far. my next step is to apply some simple texture by using reality scanning, and bake out the branches. 

Sarah_Tse

Today's Progress

 

Applying textures to assets  

I tried to scan a tree trunk texture, but I had some technical issues. I will try to do it again. 

 

Tree:

 

 

 

Lighting test:

 

 

 

I am also trying PCG to make Ivy on stones. I used the realistic Ivy meshes that I found on rex, but the meshes only got one side, so if I have time, I might make some Ivy meshes by myself.

 

Sarah_Tse

Thanks for Neil and classmates gave some really nice feedbacks to me, here is the list of things that I should fix:

Hero assets:
- change the wings shape 
- scupt more cloth folds (refer to references by Neil) 

Enviroment: 
- add some (pillar) (refer to Zelda’s game)
- add some ruins around the water near the wall
- fix specular roughness on wall & floor
- decrease the minmium scale of the PCG ivy 
- fix the water and ground blending
- add more rocks between water and ground 
- add decals on wall 
- add moss 
- add caustic lighting reflect on the wall
 

Lighting:
- greener tone (references) 
- lower fog intesity
- Fix god ray lighting
- lighten the back of the staute by god reay so it will form contrast (refer to references) 
- enviroment composition:  move the left point light towards the middle, to darkness the outer area & lighten the right upper corner