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

Sarah_Tse · Oct 20 2025

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

Here is my progress now:

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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.

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

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Test out result:

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

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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 · Oct 21 2025

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 · 11:22AM

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 · 11:35AM

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?

ALL Tell me one tiny minuscule detail that you love about a favorite Zelda game - the smaller the better Heres mine in LttP I love the sound of Links sword when

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

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

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