Next update is done! I’ve mostly been working on going over the landscape again and trying to finalize everything as much as I could before I would start adding vegetation to it. Also worked on taking a lot of the large noise out of the high poly sculpt and getting the larger forms more defined. You can see a before and after below. Next thing I’ll be doing with it is cutting it up into tiles and using the Dynamic Topology sculpting mode to polish it a bit more. I think it should work well as a way of creating the final landscape meshes because I can have more vertices in the areas that need more detail, like the cliff edges and streams, and less vertices in the rest of the landscape.
I also thought I would try using SketchFab as a bit of a Game Design Document for the environment. That way everyone can see the bigger picture of what’s going to be in the environment and what goes where, and I’ll be able to update it as the game progresses. You can read more about it in the For You the Viewer section of the description, but I thought it would also be a good way for others to be able to give ideas for what could be in the different areas. I was able to get a little bit of a day/night cycle in there as well when the animation is turned on, but if it’s running to slowly with it there, let me know and I’ll take it off.
(I wasn’t able to embed it, so here is the link)
I’ve also updated the first post with some other new things, as well as a list of things I’m planning to add to the game. So take a look and let me know what you think.
Lastly, you can see the progress I’ve made so far on the aspen branch that I’ll bake to a plane below. I’ve finished creating the branch and right now I’m working on modeling and putting textures on the leaves. I thought I would model 6 unique leaves altogether, then arrange them into several different bunches for each direction that the end of the branches go in: up, down, sideways, then duplicate those bunches over the branch. I have three of the leaves done so far.
