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**Daedalus51** · 06-30-2015, 12:42 PM

Very cool man! Like it

Just one question...how does lightmass handle such dense foliage and landscape size and how much Ram do you have? I tried baking landscape with foliage and I have 16GB....constantly get out of memory crashes with the trees from the kite demo

Would really love to know how you made this work technically^^

**rabellogp** · 06-30-2015, 05:38 PM

Originally posted by Daedalus51 View Post

Very cool man! Like it

Just one question...how does lightmass handle such dense foliage and landscape size and how much Ram do you have? I tried baking landscape with foliage and I have 16GB....constantly get out of memory crashes with the trees from the kite demo

Would really love to know how you made this work technically^^

Thanks!

I'm not using static light for all that foliage. It's indeed too RAM consuming...

The only foliage with static light in this scene are those around the pool and the big trees (pines and palms). All the grass and background forest have dynamic lighting only, with shadows for some lods. This method worked fine before 4.8 version because I could turn everything off for short and dense foliage, even dynamic shadows, and then turn "inset shadows" on for some objects that I want to cast shadow over the foliage. So I could have I nice balance between quality and performance, since there wasn't dynamic shadows being cast for every single piece of grass... But inset shadows are not working on 4.8 anymore, it looks like a bug. For now I'm using shadow cascades to replace that trick, problem is that shadow cascades get very ugly with high distance radius.

I also have 16gb and even with dynamic foliage, this scene is already consuming all of it to build lighting... I have already optimized lightmap sizes for every asset. I'm heavily considering an upgrade to 32gb.

**A-J-K** · 06-30-2015, 07:12 PM

hey, very nice scene!
I'm very curious about your FPS ?

**rabellogp** · 07-01-2015, 08:22 AM

Originally posted by Adik View Post

hey, very nice scene!
I'm very curious about your FPS ?

Thank you!
I'm getting 35~45 fps. 1080p, gtx780.

edit: Actually I just got some extra fps with some tweaks, 40~55 now

**Twein** · 07-01-2015, 12:42 PM

Originally posted by Daedalus51 View Post

constantly get out of memory crashes with the trees from the kite demo

Did you try this solution? Virtual memory (slower RAM)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...#1TC=windows-7

**Daedalus51** · 07-01-2015, 05:20 PM

Originally posted by Twein View Post

Did you try this solution? Virtual memory (slower RAM)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...#1TC=windows-7

Yeah...just checked that as well and it was set to 4096. Increased it to 16k now and had no issues so far

But it slows it down additionally even though it doesnt crash anymore^^ So far, I also split stuff up into seperate streaming levels and its working out. Lets see what happens as I fill the environment down the road

Thanks man and cheers!

**DenisViz** · 07-02-2015, 09:11 AM

Very cool made, especially grass. Tell me please how getting ground texture color for grass

**serriffe** · 07-02-2015, 01:00 PM

wow that's looking great! keep em coming

**rabellogp** · 07-02-2015, 05:07 PM

Originally posted by DenisViz View Post

Very cool made, especially grass. Tell me please how getting ground texture color for grass

Thank you! Take a look at this: https://forums.unrealengine.com/show...olor-variation
That's the method I've used.

Originally posted by serriffe View Post

wow that's looking great! keep em coming

Thanks, man
I'll post a video soon

**Cretz** · 07-03-2015, 11:12 PM

Parabens!!!

Estou impressionado com seu trabalho, estou desenvolvendo um condomínio tambem mas como é meu primeiro espero que tenho um bom resultado. rsrsrs

Abs!