Forest Hut

[Nyx.Nim]

Hey Everyone, Starting a new Environment Project Again.

this time its going to be a little medieval type hut in the wilderness.

I’ll be updating the post once i have more to share, i’ve been busy getting ready for my end of trimester evaluation court so i haven’t progressed much yet.

[Nyx.Nim]

Hello Everyone here with my first update with a little rest after the second tribunals

Over the past week because my instructor was away i decided to hold off on any of the modelling aspects because i was unsure of some decisions, but decided to give myself a masterclass on PCGs and the possible workflows like Grammar Splines and all the fun stuff you could do through PCGs ( almost 20 hours of videos haha )

I know Unreal has some Biome PCGs setup but i wanted to build mine from scratch myself to properly learn and im soo glad i did, right now mine has all the basic functionalities you’d expect from a PCG Biome and some more exciting stuff in development (overgrowth on meshes haha)

it has interactions with splines to make paths with variation or just remove parts of the biome.

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[Nyx.Nim]

Hey Everyone, back with my new weekly update

Changelog :

• Finished the blockout

• chose 2 vistas to recreate

  

• Started with the modular pieces and shapes and refined them bit by bit

• Made a checklist of what assets ill need

  • Wooden Door : main and little hatch
  • Wooden Barrel
  • Wooden Broken Carriage
  • Wooden Fence Post
  • Wooden Deck
  • 3 Wooden Planks
  • 3 Stones
  • Broken roof tile

• Did a very very quick lighting mood pass

[Nyx.Nim]

Hey Everyone, Back with another update

This week i did a lot of necessary background work to setup everything.

• UE Native Layered Material with 3 different methods : Mesh Paint, Vertex Paint and RGB Masks it was a pain to figure out the different blend layer setups but worth it

• Sculpt/Retopo/UV and Texturing of a Wooden Barrel Asset to test the Layered Material On.

• Went through Different Iterations of my Wood Material.

• Finalized the UVs for the Modular Assets 90% done the roof tiles still need bevels

• cleaned up the meshes and gave the, equal subdivions for using displacement later

• spent a bit of time in zbrush sculpting some wood and stone assets * they’re done and need to be brought back for retopology and UVs but unfortunately i got sick at this point during the weekend and progress got slowed down as i was bedridden )

• Assigned the Base Materials for the Assets for now, adjusting them later

• For the Roof tiles i separated/randomized the UV tiles in a way to be able to introduce color noise later on.

• Started on Modelling another set Dressing Asset

• Changed the Lighting a bit, currently im thinking about which lighting mood would best help enhance the environment.

• On the side I started on Re-lighting a previous project to bring it up to par with the rest of the stuff on my portfolio

Issues :

• I Still Can’t figure out the yellow highlight on the foliage in my reference and how to recreate it in mine without ruining the balance everywhere else.
• I’m going for visual realism and with my post processing and lighting its looking very opposite so ill need to work on that

[Nyx.Nim]

Hello Everyone back with another update

Changelog :

• Sculpted all of my wooden assets + adjustments after finally getting good brushes
• Used Decimated Meshes as Lowpoly added UV sets for masks and texturing
• Used RGB Masks and Layered Materials for texturing * finally found a good way to add moss
• Lighting Pass
• Slowly Chipped Away at making Fences and Wooden Canopies.
• Added Ropes to some wooden Assets
• used tileable masks to add wear and tear to the ropes

• Adjusted the Clay Bricks on top of the roof’s textures

problems :

• I don’t really like the lighting, i feel like the wood only looks good with neutral lighting and warm lighting washes it out, ill have to re-adjust my lighting and post processing and possibly do another lighting setup
• I tried matching the yellow grass with painting foliage like the reference in the pathway, but because of the lighting the color variation is being drowned out

I still haven’t done any vertex painting on the building mainly because i haven’t finished the stone assets and re-importing them will override the textures.