Tropical Village

[anonymous_user_8bf8ca23]

**Update May 25, 2016
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Tropical Village has been finished and here are some up to date screenshots and video

Tropical Village is a high quality nature and modular huts pack with over 230 assets to build a beautiful and lush nature scene. The bamboo and metal huts can be built using hyper modular pieces to create a multi-level interior and exterior building. Populate your Tropical area with over 85 props and vegetation assets ranging from oil drums, rocks, banana plant, and fishing boats.

**Features:

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• **Game Ready Assets **- all pieces are optimized to work for games with proper collisions and LOD
• Ability to create multi-level floors with interiors - we give you hyper modular pieces that can be mixed and match to create an endless variety of building huts
• Pre-built huts - easily drag and drop these completed buildings into your scene
• Dynamic Material - range of parameters that can be adjusted to give a large variety of different visuals for any of the assets
• Smart Tintable Materials - foliage has parameters to adjust roughness, subsurface scattering, and tint.
• Triplanar mapped rocks - allows for texture fidelity to stay consistent no matter what the scale of the model
• Tileable terrain textures - paint walkways and dirt paths, help break up ground with variation. Also comes with height blended rockfaces.
• **Tons of vegetation **- coconut palms, banana trees, ground plants, leaves, bamboo, avacado trees, etc.to help fill up your scene

**Screenshots
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Video
**Tropical Village Demo + Breakdown - Unreal Marketplace (Released Link in Description) - YouTube

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Hey guys, here again and some more WIP projects we have going on. Trying to keep everyone in the loop more and get feedback while these packs are being made

Don’t hesitate to give critiques, feedback, and suggestions!

**Some early art dumps

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Tropical Village is a high quality nature and modular huts pack with over 230 assets to build a beautiful and lush nature scene. The bamboo and metal huts can be built using hyper modular pieces to create a multi-level interior and exterior building. Populate your Tropical area with over 85 props and vegetation assets ranging from oil drums, rocks, banana plant, and fishing boats.

Features:

• Game Ready Assets - all pieces are optimized to work for games with proper collisions and LODs

• Ability to create multi-level floors with interiors - we give you hyper modular pieces that can be mixed and match to create an endless variety of building huts

• Pre-built huts - easily drag and drop these completed buildings into your scene

• Dynamic Material - range of parameters that can be adjusted to give a large variety of different visuals for any of the assets

• Smart Tintable Materials - foliage has parameters to adjust roughness, subsurface scattering, and tint.

• Triplanar mapped rocks - allows for texture fidelity to stay consistent no matter what the scale of the model

• Tileable terrain textures - paint walkways and dirt paths, help break up ground with variation. Also comes with height blended rockfaces.

• Tons of vegetation - coconut palms, banana trees, ground plants, leaves, bamboo, avacado trees, etc.to help fill up your scene

[anonymous_user_8bf8ca23]

A few more updated shots! Bambooooooooo

[Amievil]

Awesome keepem coming!

[Jago138]

very good work, can’t wait to see the final

[Juxtapox]

There’s very little contrast in the assets and their material. I’d like to see more.

[macoll]

Looks good even if the lighting is temp

Keep up!

[anonymous_user_8bf8ca23]

Tropical Village has been submitted to the Unreal Marketplace and should be live within 3-4 weeks

[PolyPixels]

Tropical Village has been released on the Unreal Marketplace! Grab it now

Tropical Village in Environments - UE Marketplace

[rYuxq]

I have one question:

Is there a reason why one would create grass with grass stalks that are arranged in a way, that they are all on one straight line (sometimes they are copy pasted and turned around)? You can see that very clear on the last showce picture.

[PolyPixels]

@rYuxq;549130

I have one question:

Is there a reason why one would create grass with grass stalks that are arranged in a way, that they are all on one straight line (sometimes they are copy pasted and turned around)? You can see that very clear on the last showce picture.

There are tons of ways to create foliage grass and we have decided to stick to this way. Most of the time grass is on an alpha card so the cheapest way is to have it on a plane (as you have stated above). Most games turn their grass to face the path of the player and “fake” the look of a full scene. As you can see from the finished product, we tend to duplicate and rotate the grass to create a fuller look.

[rYuxq]

@PolyPixels;549843

There are tons of ways to create foliage grass and we have decided to stick to this way. Most of the time grass is on an alpha card so the cheapest way is to have it on a plane (as you have stated above). Most games turn their grass to face the path of the player and “fake” the look of a full scene. As you can see from the finished product, we tend to duplicate and rotate the grass to create a fuller look.

Ah I see, I was just asking because every now and then you see people choose to not have them all on one plane and use transparancy, because that slows performance down