Exterior Light Studies

[rabellogp]

@OWSON;692804

Hi, great job
mind if i ask how did u do ur landscape? did u use UE4 landscape tools or do it in 3d software?
also how big is ur landscape? ty

Thanks.
I’ve used Google Earth + Sktetchup + UE4 Landscape Tool. I used a Sketchup tool to grab real topography information of a real location from Google Earth. It’s been a while since I did this though, so I can’t say if Sketchup still has this feature… Then I exported the terrain geometry from Sketchup to 3DS and created a grayscale elevation map which I applied on UE4 Landscapes to get the elevation I needed.

@hoanganh461;693588

Hi, Can you share how do you set foliage type to landscape materials ?

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I’ve just followed this: Grass Quick Start in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.3 Documentation

@melvixo;695832

@rabellogp Hi, Are you using distance field occulsion from the skylight to get shadows cast between the leaves or cascaded shadows works just fine, seems this only works with movable skylight though. Also for the trees shader are you using the two sided foilage shading model with masked or translucent blend mode?

1. I’m using Distance Field AO just for the rain light scenario. In that case, I’ve set the skylight to movable. For the other light scenarios I’m relying on default AO.
2. Two sided foliage for everything but the billboards.