My Landscape/Enviroment wip (heavenly inspired by The Witcher 3 demo videos)

[anonymous_user_53f03c13]

If I may have word of advice.

I wouldn’t focus on looks or materials at this point. You have set yourself to monumental task (4k terrain!). That terrain must somehow populated. With things. Lots of things.

I would start from researching how to populate this area with minimum effort. Creating procedural blueprints which will automatically spawn assets and how to create content to make procedural world possible.

I can tell from experience. If you are planing to populate it by hand… You will quickly burn out and throw it all to hell (;.

Edit:
For this big level, you don’t want to use lightmaps. Really. Even Daniel Wright in one thread advised against it ;p.
Even if you manage to build it. Lightmaps will eat obscene amount of memory, while loading.

My 4x smaller level, with lightmaps build, is about 500MB. And it’s not even 1/4 finished.

@;157800

He can still use a 4km terrain and focus only in the playable area, leave the background stuff for later.

Thx for the heads up! Much appreciated!

Started the procedural thing with the material already but the material is complicated. Is there a way to trow a material in the material?

For example. Can i use a rock material with diff speec normal ao in my terrainmaterial or must i do it with layerblends for normal speec and so on? Would be nice if i could trow a ready material in.