Good day to everyone reading this. My name is Flavio. In the coming weeks and months I will be posting regular progress on my new project here. The project is a tropical island, situated in the Caribbean. I got heavily inspired by Far Cry 6 for this environment, which you will be able to see by the reference board. I will make my own water shader and make modular kits for all the buildings, which will then be textured using the vertex painting feature in Unreal.
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This is the main ‘‘hero’’ shot, which I will edit to make it look like it has been shot on a drone as the height is in line with a drone flyby.
Hero Asset: Vintage Speedboat.
Starting tomorrow, I will get to texturing this beauty for the next four days.
Item 1 done this week:
Boat Texturing finished! 8 Udims in total. Loving the wood, seats, flags and deck. When my teacher gives me the feedback on it, I will upload the new revision, so stay tuned!
PS: Upon my teachers request I thoroughly revised some parts of the mesh to more closely match the reference.
Item 2 and 3 done this week:
- Bookmarks!
- Vertex Painting
Starting now, every time I upload, you will get the environment photographed from these 5 angles; That is of course if I can’t make them any better
Here are this week’s bookmarks. I worked on implementing palm trees and doing the first foliage pass.
Here you have two shots that show off the house. I think with some better lighting I can make the house look amazing in Unreal.
So I completely reworked my idea with this project, the old one was horrendous indeed.
Things Done This Week:
- Added Water Body Actor and Landscape
- Mesh Painting on Island
- Adding Foliage
- Cinematic Sequence (5 Shots)
- Progress on Church Modular Kit
- Redone Bookmark shots
Here you can see the modular kit that I started working on. It is based on a church in Guadalupe and I like the concept a lot.
Hey everyone! Here are the bookmarks for this week. I decided to turn this church into an Uncharted style ruin, which you will see textured and sculpted real soon.
DONE this week:
- Turned wooden planks on blue house into flat planes, baking the planks from a HP.
- Added more wear and tear to Boat to more realistically portray Boat’s location and situation
- Various foliage painting
- Color Grading
- Continued Church mesh and turned it to into a single mesh, instead of a modular kit
- Did Church UVs
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Hi there @RadycalMemev2,
Hope you’re well and having a wonderful week so far 
Really like the palm tree appearance and the clearness of the water. Just an absolutely stunning environment through and through I look forward to seeing the little details you add to this!
Hey everyone!
This week’s progress is here.
Done this week:
- Textured the Church
- Adjustments to Water
- Added more variety to Foliage
- Adjusted Sky HDRI and Lighting
- Added Megascans Landscape in the background for immersion
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Thank you so much! I have just updated it.
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Wow, love the lighting. Added so much warmth to the scene The vines climbing down the church are especially stunning - especially alongside that water 
Super impressed by every detail of this environment.
Thanks for continuing to share and I hope to see more!
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Back this week with some HUGE changes to my environment. I really love how it is turning out at the moment.
I also adore how for the first time, this environment’s art consistency feels a lot more like that of an actual game. This is something I really tried to achieve this week.
Things done this week:
- Lighting Changes (Getting rid of flatness)
- Sculpting of Landscape
- Composition changes of scene
- Addition of stairs and cliffs
- Art Directing of foliage, textures, PP
- Vertex Painting of Church
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Bookmarks up for this week. After a talk with my teacher we decided I should follow one singular reference for the cliffs, foliage and so I picked Varkala Beach from India. The main reason for this was that my scene was not making geographical sense as I had elements of both desertic and oceanic mixed in one, which is something that you cannot find in real life.
Changes done this week:
- Cliffs Sculpt in Zbrush
- Cliff Texture creation / Painting in Substance Sampler / Unreal
- Landscape Sculpting and Painting
- Foliage Redone
- Church Building Interior added
- Church Building Vertex Painting
- Planning of new props (Beach Bar)
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The flowers! They’re gorgeous Such a wonderful way to contrast the yellow/red of the building and hillside. Beautifully done, as always!