Peter Monga

Animator. aka Fold Up Studios. Currently making Little Barrier

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@BangMingYong Yes, this was in Unreal 4.17

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Just found a video of a fun little VR experiment I did back in 2017

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@ars3d Thank you! I have a bunch planned 😎

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Kiwi cam! Virtual puppet walking through a procedurally generated forest in #unrealengine #ue5

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@SyrslyWasTaken Thank you ☺️

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I've recreated a chunk of Little Barrier Island (a small island in New Zealand) in Unreal for my animated series. Thought it would be fun to do a comparison with reference I used.

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@oxygene46 Top one is Unreal 😄

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Longer, 4k60 version https://t.co/d7wbzXv4rY

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Taniwha's Lair in Unreal Engine. Shape inspired by Māori wharenui (meeting house), with interwoven tree roots resembling kowhaiwhai patterns on wharenui rafters. Kauri gum seeping from the roots to form stalactites. Pounamu (greenstone) walls. More on ArtStation (link in bio).

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7)Jay Fo
https://t.co/derixwufh4
10)prune7549
https://t.co/j4nXawiCqi

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Tracked down credits for the real photos:
1, 8, 9) Hauturu Supporters Trust
https://t.co/BFsHTzs9IF
Flickr
2, 5) Jake Osborne
https://t.co/MZOLsLDddA
4) christtine
https://t.co/Ft7sTAR915
3, 6) Keith McSporran
https://t.co/3png9GIGAw

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@snyderwick I'm using the Fluid Flux plugin

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@clearly_outsane @recplayrewind Oh, yes. I'm just manually painting the textures and using splines to position PCG scatters. I do this because I am too lazy to learn gaea or world machine type programs. So we are both lazy, just in different ways 🤝

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@clearly_outsane @recplayrewind Nah. One mistake I made though was that I sculpted in all the detail in the mountains, but then when I populated it with trees, all the detail got softened. That's why my peaks are a little rounder than they should be.

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@illustratedicon Wow, that looks like a cool project! Check out this channel for help learning PCG https://t.co/4rbkJ9ePHS

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@vincent33995273 This guy's vids are what I used to learn PCG https://t.co/4rbkJ9ePHS

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Using Unreal's PCG tools to build forests. Pretty happy with how these wall sections are coming along.

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@vincent33995273 Totally understand. Even when using Unreal I will sometimes develop a thing, only for Epic to change something or release a better version making my thing redundant 😆

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@illustratedicon Id doesn't show in the above vid, but inside the forests look like this:

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@illustratedicon PCG+nanite+VRAM. It takes a lot of work to set up, but it allows much more flexibility. My PCG graphs are set up so I can define areas using splines, then adjust the size and density of the trees when needed. Also I can populate different species depending on certain rules

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@clearly_outsane @recplayrewind For sculpting I just used the landscape tools in Unreal. Textured using landscape paint layers, although most of the landscape textures are covered with geometry. The only ground textures you see in the above vid is the patch of dirt beneath the copse of trees.

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@rbredow @agraphafx Wow, thanks Rob!

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@recplayrewind From LINZ, a New Zealand land data service. Although it didn't look too great so I ended up hand sculpting it.