[UE4] Islands Environment [W.I.P]

Cattus · Mar 2018

A level in ue4 i'm working on . it all started with making a few palm trees and then it went from there. The ocean water is a community project water from ue4 forums.
Link : https://github.com/UE4-OceanProject/OceanProject/tree/4.18

Cattus · Apr 2018

Made more progress with the foliage and the look of the level

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/a7/phptste2ie15.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/rp/0qdrgopmojlf.png

ANıL İŞBİLİR · Apr 2018

Great palm trees, do you have a subsurface map texture for them?

Cattus · Apr 2018

Not for the palm fronds no, i just used the more saturated version of the base color for the sss. But i do have one for banana plants

Kaine123 · Apr 2018

damn, this is really good. you could really easily recreate wake island from the battlefield series with what you have so far!

i might suggest tho adding more color variation to the vegetation (along with some dead vegetation too)

you could just add the speedtreecolorvariation node to your material and that would prob get the job done.

RustySpannerz · Apr 2018

Wow, looks beautiful! It feels quite stylised, I think it's the boldness of the colours, it really reminds me of some of the classic games set on islands.

Cattus · Apr 2018

Finally managed to make a good lookin grass

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Cattus · Nov 2021

This section haven't been update in 2 years. In that time I've completely redone everything in the last 6 months and the whole project is close to completion. During this project I've learned a lot about making foliage. The map has a blueprint utility widget slider that controls the weather wetness of the materials and wind speed at the same time. Here's some of the screen shots that demonstrate what's been done in the last 6 months.

Cattus · Nov 2021

And Here's the stormy weather variant

https://youtu.be/QeloBDuo7g8

Cattus · Nov 2021

Added a falling leaves to the environment to make it more allive

https://youtu.be/b4j87MGIbgQ

chien · Nov 2021

i like the grass, palm tree and ocean material, how you make the rocks?

stoli · Nov 2021

Wow, amazing progress. I like the vegetation as well. Would you mind sharing of your process how did you create the vegetation?

Cattus · Nov 2021

stoli said:

Wow, amazing progress. I like the vegetation as well. Would you mind sharing of your process how did you create the vegetation?

Thank you, i was using Maya to create all of the vegetation.

Omar_Souissi · Nov 2021

Great! can't wait to see more, I really like the storm scenario

Cattus · Nov 2021

Thank you !

Cattus · Nov 2021

Cattus · Dec 2021

Did a draft for a trailer that suppose to show the environment and how the weather can be changed . Not fancy editing and music so far.

https://youtu.be/RywCnVE10LM

Cattus · Jan 2022

A final version of the cinematic is done. Im planning to release the environment on January 12th. Probably there's gonna be a playable demo aswell.

https://youtu.be/gz7uE1a8dgQ

nastobi123 · Jan 2022

Cattus · Jan 2022

There's also a playable demo that you can check out here: DEMO

This was my most time consuming project that I've started back in 2018, but then scrapped and returned to it in 2021.

It took about 8 months to complete and was a great learning experience for me.

https://youtu.be/wg9pXkw-l-M

Enkarra · Jan 2022

Woooow!!! Such a great job!

Cattus · Jul 2022

Second iteration on the particle system for wind and rain, I've added the water mist particles that can spawn on any surface around the camera and then get blown by wind + individual water molecule particles + the giant mist particles that are spawn at 300m above you. You can see it mostly in the tree canopy. Also the wind now carrying leaves branches and palm leafs. There's also a perlin noise that adds wind gusts to particles.

Right now I'm kinda struggling with overdraw and not really sure how to get the look and density that I want without killing the perfomance.

https://youtu.be/hvPjeGsmwu0

https://youtu.be/XATo6UNu55E