Thursday 13 November 2014

UE4 Grass Demo

Little video showing off the grass I made for my last project. Couldn't record without that lag, though.


Tuesday 11 November 2014

Hand Painted Practice

Did a little hand painted thingo ~

Sketchfab Link:

https://sketchfab.com/models/08ec216d99b54903a02bf2411b8cf297


Monday 3 November 2014

Vegetation Optimization, Lodding

Lately I've kind of done a 180 on my scene, and have been working hard to get my vegetation to not half the framerate (and I've nearly succeeded!).

Here are some images of how I'm doing the lodding:



I wanted to make the grass thicker as you moved closer to it, so I added a second layer that only appears when close to the camera,

The shader is set up so as to fade out the vegetation as you move away from the object, until the culling distance kicks in.

Video demonstrating this: