Forest
Landscape
UE4 Landscape Design
This is an exercise in Landscape Design. I used World Creator, Substance Designer, Quixel Mixer, and Unreal Engine4 for this project. This project was completed in March 2021.
Demo Images
Project Info
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Platform: PC Windows10
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Date of Completion: 2021.03
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Category: UE4 Landscape Design
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Controller: Mouse&Keyboard
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Art Style: 3D Realistic
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Preferred Resolution: 1920 x1080
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Contribution: Individual Project
Background
This is an exercise in Landscape Design. Through this project, I learned the whole process of making scenes and levels with Unreal Engine4.
Art Reference
I want to make a forest scene and there is a big lake in the middle of the forest. So I referenced the game Crysis. The scene design of this game is great. Since I mainly want to practice shaders, materials, VFX, and level building, most of my raw footage comes from the Unreal Engine store, and I further process them to make them available in the engine.
Basic Terrain Design
I used World Creator to create the raw terrain, export the heightmap, and import it into UE4. Then I made further adjustments using the terrain editing tools that come with UE4.
Texture
After working with the textures in Quixel Mixer and Substance Designer, I got all the textures I needed to use and imported into UE4.
Material Scripting
I used the Material function of UE4 and wrote node script to apply the texture to the material. Among them, I only used the Z-axis projection algorithm for the material of the terrain.
Painting Items and Roads
After the above work is done, I used the trees, stones, flowers, and other models in the Unreal Marketplace, distributed them on the map, and made some roads.
Post Processing
In the end, I adjusted the parameters of the lights, cameras and post-processing to achieve the best possible rendering.
What I Learned
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The whole process of Landscape production.
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Search, preprocessing, and usage of textures.
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Processing of scene materials in UE4 Material Scripting.
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Painting and post-processing in UE4.