My First UE Project! (Better Trees) [7]

The song is Blue Sky in Green from the Cozy Coffee Shop channel, very relaxing work music.

For those new to the series, I'll give you a brief run down of what it's been the past few months. It's essentially a developer journal I'm keeping to track my progress weekly. You may think; "Oh, but what if some other developer takes your idea!?", Well, that's not really a problem to me, if you recreate my work than you deserve it all power to ya'. I'm designing the project in such a way that it can be a game about anything after all. RTS, FPS, RPG, I'm setting it up to where I can pivot to any genre. So, if you're inspired by it, by all means I'd like to see where you take it. The fantasy medieval genre is generic enough.

Now, my old trees had these janky opacity masks that made nanite unusable and honestly didn't look very good. Instead, I modeled individual branches with individual leaves to 'fluff up' the tree a bit. It's a ridiculously high poly mesh, but with nanite or billboards they're optimal enough. The tree trunk branches, the big straight ones- they look a bit off still. Can't quite put my finger on it.

I also arranged a quick nature scene outside the city to get a feel for what the surrounding forest may look like. Makes me want to add even more rock variations. Their textures also stretch in some places.

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