Following my work on the Tropical Foliage pack, this time, I’ve shifted my focus to creating an underwater scene. I’ve made significant improvements to the Master Material used across both projects, adding new features and fixing bugs. These updates include Vertex Color Material Blending, Distance Field Blending, Specular Dimming, a second layer of WPO bending, and support for Emissive effects.
The foliage is designed to support both Nanite and a traditional LOD system. Using a Nanite-oriented workflow, each leaf is modeled individually. The LOD system, on the other hand, uses classic masked, two-sided material properties.
The swaying motion of the plants, reacting to underwater currents, is achieved using a similar technique as in the Tropical Foliage project, with pivots stored in UV channels through Ghislain Girardot’s Blender DataBaker.
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