UE4 - Project: Star Bounty - L04
Polycount thread progress: https://polycount.com/discussion/207840/wip-ue4-project-star-bounty/p1
Coming back from my learning experience from my 2nd Year project, I took what I understood with me and sought out to improve my snow assets on this new scene and this time with my varrying control and freedom over what I'd like to create without restrictions from my last snow environment! I had quite some fun trying to learn and create the gem shader as well as a better snow landscape mat.
Level04 Overview for Project: Star Bounty, recorded via Nvidia shadowplay in realtime.
Had to restart this Gem Rock shader about 3 times!
Lightning Effects by Kidman Lee
Gem rock, close up on tech vein glow.
Built an extra area leading up to the chasm for the Project.
Was feeling the Warframe Fortuna vibes so I had some fun trying with this small area as I wanted to try my hand on playing with much bigger shapes.
Adopted the Snow Speckel effect from my last project in 2nd year, credits to Mark Ranson!
Learned how to make this shader from a tutorial video online!
Trying to keep a neat graph.
Most of my snow assets are actually from the grass level but with the new snow shader.
This was my Node setup as well as my attempt to keep a clean node graph in UE4. I had to restart the shader about 3 times to get the results I wanted while watching tutorials online!
Initially an idea for the snow speckle from Mark Ranson, I utilized the nodes and inserted a panner and stretched it's coordinates giving the gem rock a really strange tech vein glow tavelling across it's surface.