UE5 Environment - Overgrown Temple
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Hello. I am happy to finally share a personal project that I have been working on. I made the dragon to practice my zbrush skills and when I finished the model, I decided that it would be fun to try and build an evironment around it. The dragon statue is based on the Naga statues from Thailand. The environment is also based off the temples found in the jungles of thailand.
My goal for the environment was to make something that would fit into a game world. I would love to hear your opionions on it.
My goal for the environment was to make something that would fit into a game world. I would love to hear your opionions on it.
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Really nice work, congratulations. You've tried to capture a realistic image and you've succeeded. However, perhaps some adjustments are needed to the vine leaves on the top of the dragon statue. The fact that the leaves are coming out of the statue kind of detracts from the realistic composition you've achieved. I think intensifying the moss painting on the top parts of the statue could strengthen the feeling of it being abandoned with vines covering it. Additionally, I'd like to mention that I particularly liked the decorations you used on the statue.
I'd like to ask you a question: What resolution of materials did you use on this model, and do you use a specific texel density ratio?
Keep up the good work
All materials use 2k maps. As for texel desity, I aimed for 10.2px/cm. Most building pieces are all at 10.2px/cm. A lot of the details on the buildings were made with a trim sheet so there are some pieces that are a little lower and higher. The statue has custom baked maps that are about 18px/cm. I didn't aim for a certain texel desity number when I made the statue, I just wanted to make sure it was not lower than the models around it.
One thing you could do to improve the details on the assets in general is displacement maps. I noticed from the close-ups that you're only using bump mapping. You could vertex-displace these or just use parallax mapping if you don't want to use a lot of resources. Parallax mapping is quite cheap and it improves the realism a lot compared to just normal maps.
Cheers!!
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Modules created this way could be roughed up using booleans, applying a second material ID to cut out parts.
Keep it up!
scene is too noisy, and has an undefined focal point.
- there are no shapes helping to draw your eye to the focal point
- no contrast in lighting or contrast in colour/etc that help push you to the focal point
- there is foliage everywhere and no variation or breakup.
i would pull the camera out a bit and use the triangular shapes of the structure to draw the eye down toward the statue, and use foliage to cover areas for the eye to avoid, and non foliage areas to provide contrast to help push the eye through the scene.
you also lack depth, so I’d provide a foreground element to help you middle ground focal point, and allow the background to help push depth, think about value ranges, and utilize lighting to help, right now your scene is still very uniformly lit, maybe that’s just a light angle direction adjustment because you obviously have good shadows in the dark openings.