John Douglas McCormick
Creative Director & Principle Artist @ Violet Flame Studios
Ascension World Building Sprint
Personal World Building and Environment Art Project using a combination of Free and customized Epic Store Assets, and models authored using a Blender > Substance > Photoshop > UE4 Workflow
Heightmap created with Illustrator, Photoshop and World Creator 2 - Shaders built in UE4 using maps baked in World Creator & Substance and Authored in PS
Test using specular highlights to create sight lines to lead players eye through the landscape
Open valley showing skyline silhouette
I wanted to trial a unified Rock Shader between the Landscape Cliffs and the Rock Assets - with a Z up top layer of the surrounding Landscape
Gods eye view of the sector
Surrounding landscape to show scale
Top down of landscape layout
Rock Shader
Shader Complexity