[UE4] Ocean Floor Environment
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Just started an underwater scene using photoscanned assets. Its been two weeks and the project is roughly done. I'm surprised how fast it all came together this time. These eroded rocks gave me the idea, initially I just wanted to scan them for the UE marketplace, but I started playing with them in an scene. I'm happy with the results so far, but I lack the knowledge on the underwater world, so if you have any recommendation, please don't hesitate.
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I dived at Aqaba, Jordan. if you google "Cedar Pride" you'll get some good reference for a sunken ship, you'd be surprised how much actually grows on the metallic surfaces of the ship, maybe you can do the same with the airplane, feels a bit disconnected right now.
mind sharing your shader for the water? I've tried to do it once for a uni project I had, but could only get the effects visible when viewing from above the surface, not underneath
Water shader is not so special. Just untick the cast shadow option in your plane mesh in the scene. Also the subsurface shader helps.
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Update:
My first impression is it's too gray overall for the ocean. Coloring looks a bit more like a lake or stream. You could take a look at some ocean reef docu footage. First hit:
The moray eel is probably the weakest part right now. Animation is a bit too jerky, unnatural.
The constant slow-in slow-outs of your camera are really distracting and unnatural. Try just switching to another camera without the curves.
Also I think you can still push the post processing to be a bit brighter/vibrant?
There's one part at 0:59, where the eel suddenly jolts upwards, which could use some work.
Still a couple of little jolts in the camera work, but otherwise... nice!
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/G2oWW
I wonder how are you managing the path the schools of fish swim at, care to share?