Challenge: Merlin's Cave
[June - Aug 2019]
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My winning entry for the Artstation Challenge "The Legend of King Arthur" in Game Environment / Level Art!
It is a complete and closed game environment created with Unreal engine. It was super fun participating and I learned a lot of new things!
Created after the beautiful concept "Merlin's Cave" by Jeremy Paillotin (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/v1xgnx).
Thank you everyone for giving me feedback and helping me improve!
You can buy the environment here:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/merlin-s-cave-environment
And find the full challenge blog here:
https://www.artstation.com/contests/the-legend-of-king-arthur/challenges/69/submissions/47009
Material breakdowns:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oOPY34
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oOPgww
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6a5W3O
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/banX8E
80lvl Interview: https://80.lv/articles/001agt-004adk-making-a-merlins-cave-in-ue4/
Detail Shots and Breakdown below
Interview with 80lvl: https://80.lv/articles/001agt-004adk-making-a-merlins-cave-in-ue4/
progress gif
asset breakdown
all the book piles
main assets untextured
main assets with wireframe in 3ds Max
there are only 3 base basalt column models, with 3 premade groups for easier placement
breakdwon of the candle model. Almost all other models are textured with the trim sheets
all the books share the same uv space
I planned to build up the shelfs with the visibility to the player in mind
the book shader consist of 4 different texture layouts, which are used with a flipbook node, random world space color variation and also the ability to mask out paper edges via vertex paint
mask out paper edges with vertex paint
breakdown of my automatic dust overlay shader system