Digital Landscaping & ArchViz

I have been inspired by the works I have seen around the interwebz and would in turn like to share some of my experiments in rapid digital Landscaping.


A Walk through the Woods : Forest Environment

When I imagine such an environment I think of sunrise or sunset and the fog that settles between the trees.
Color bleeds from the sky and lush vegetation takes over.





Depth and Fog play an important role in generating the feels.




River Environment






Feel free to ask any questions or give feedback.

 

Are there meant to be pictures here?

 

I see 4 pictures

 

I try and keep prototyping to 5-10 minutes. And spend another 5 or so on Image Effects and atmospheric tweaking.

 

beautiful!

is this the standard unity water? Did you model the characters by yourself?

 

Cropped from one of your images:



What's up with these trees in the distance?

 

Thanks. It is the standard water included with Unity 5. I just changed the reference to the specular GameObject.

I think it might be something to do with the Depth Of Field image effect on that camera. Or Ambient Occlusion. Some issues with Speedtree and AO.

 

Some of my interiors rendered in Unity 5. Realtime GI.

 

Some more. Realtime GI

 

Editor View.

 

Really impressed with your results. Are you using free assets? And what's your performance like ? I'm working on a lighthouse scene myself but I am creating all of the assets which is a long process. Also the fog you are using is it the fog that comes with Unity or you made some with particles?

Thanks,
Vincent

 

Forgot another thing, what skyboxes and water are these?

 

I am. Materials are substances on a custom tessellation shader. Rocks are by Manufactura K4. Plants by Nobiax / Yughues. Grass is a png on a plane. Walls are unity cubes.
There is no fog in the scene. It is probably the 3 bloom scripts that contribute towards that.

I made this scene in 2 minutes and spent close to 3 hours on image effects and getting rid of artifacts in the output. (Fireflies etc)

As for performance. It is a 2m x 2m scene surrounded by a skybox. I get 300fps in editor when game view is maximized.

Honestly it feels like years ago that I made those. I don't have the scenes and didn't keep track. All i know is that the water is unity water. The skyboxes were most definitely free. The people were quite expensive.

Regards
Gerard

 

The final image looks very impressive, good work. I saw the base of the system is rather dark in lighting, can you get the same result by starting at a more vibrand state before filters are applied ?

Also does Scion do most of the work in getting this look ?

 

Thanks nasos

You can yes. It all comes down to color grading and exposure. I was just aiming for dusk/dawn look with heavy contrast.

Scion does a lot, but Color Suite script does some tone-mapping and adjustments as well.
Also there are 3 or 4 bloom scripts attached to that camera.

 

You use Unity's bloom or other ?

 

Here's a draft render of a scene I'm working on. Design by Gerard Slee.

 

Unbaked

Baked

Baked + Color Suite

Baked + Color Suite + Scion

Baked + Color Suite + Scion + SSAO



Baked + Color Suite + Scion + SSAO + SSR

 

Hi Gerard, I saw you have some really nice panorama view from the camera view, How did you do that? Are you using some kinda of replacement camera shader or other tool?