Wind in the woods - foliage level

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Hi, i was recently working on my foliage assets including trees, grass, ferns and things related to nature. once i made enough of those i decided to put them together as a demo level, so here it is.

There is a lot of movement in the scene so youtube compression messed it up, sorry for that :frowning:
I decided to disable TXAA due to smudging, all lighting is static except dynamic cascaded shadows near canera.
Lightmass took around two hours to compute lighting, lightmaps resolution for trees ranges from 64x64 to 256x256 for big ones.

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give https://vimeo.com/ a go for better compression… its so blurry I can’t even tell if they are nice assets >.<

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At the beginning, it was looking good but after few seconds, it get all blurry and also cut while I was watching in 1080P 60FPS. I had to cancel the viewing :frowning:

But for what I was able to see, it look awesome :slight_smile:

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This is stunning. Liked the variation of the way the trees reacts to the wind. 2 hours on lightbuild! :eek:

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this is from the witcher 3… No wait its Unreal 4!!!

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Looks pretty nice!

I would turn down the strenght of the wind a little bit on the bigger trees though.

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Just by turning the music of you get completely different feeling… and everything seems a bit too fast. I would tune the speed down.
But this looks amazing. Is there a chance for this to become playable?

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Hey, sorry to ask this on an older thread. I was just wondering if your demo is available for download or if you would be willing to release a version of it? Thanks for your time.

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It still not watchable in 1080p :frowning: But I was able to see a bit more today. Everything move way too fast. Like there is a hurricane in the scene! The reaction of branches / leaves must be much slower.

The assets and the scene look awesome :smiley: