Fishing by a Lighthouse Breakdown
When i was a kid my parents used to take me and my sister on something call Lighthouse hunting on our summer vacations to the northeast coast of the United States. We would go on long road trips through the US East coast just to see a particular lighthouse and stop by all the lighthouse gift shops we could find. We come back to Canada with bags full of Lighthouse postcards and wooden Lighthouse miniatures. I want to capture a particular feeling I had when My family visited a Lighthouse in the fall. The feeling of things are always moving and changing but that ok and it ok to live in the moment. I also want to tell a small story of a Son and his father meeting again to go on a fishing trip after a long time part. I think I have achieved this goal.
Learning goals
My goal with this project was to create an outdoor environment in Unreal Engine with all of foliage. I also want to try some photogrammetry material workflows. I jump around many different software with this project. and learn all of the different and fast workflows I had all of help from my mentor Jobye-Kyle Karmaker. I took his Mentor Coalition and skill tree mentorships and he help me all with learning the workflows to achieve this environment. He is a really great teacher and was so supportive and insightful and I am so thankful for His guidance.
References
When I start this project I knew I wanted a small number of high-quality assets that could be reused around the scene.
I use Marvelous Designer to create the blanket.
Zbrush was used to add wood details to to the bench in the planks and then bake on to a Low ploy
I use World Creator to create my Terrain. This tool has so much power and speed when it comes to making landscapes and is very easy to learn I would recommend it to anyone wanting to create landscapes.
a mix of My own photo scans and substance designer was used to create the material for this Scene
Old Metal Wired Fence Nodes
For the small foliage, I use Speedtree and for the textures, I use a mix of photo scans I made, Megascans and Textures.com. My mentor Jobye-Kyle Karmaker showed me so many different tricks for creating small foliage in Speedtree.
I want an easy way to create fall leaves and lost mail. I found use Speedtree leaf meshes to work real well for this
All my trees were done in Speedtree. My mentor Jobye-Kyle Karmaker taught me how to create assets in Speedtree for games
For the house, i want something that could be rapidly changed and very modular. I also use the start content smoke sim with a few changes. I add the smoke sim very early on in the project. I feel add thing moving in the environment can help you get a feel
For the lighthouse same as the house want something very modular. My mentor Jobye-Kyle Karmaker Showed me how to use Decals which was use for all the rust and dirt
