UDK Environment Effects: The Lighthouse [Finished at last :D]

**leviatan1001** · 03-27-2011, 07:00 PM

Here is my last personal project, a small rocky island with a Lighthouse on the top.

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And a video!
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More development info here

I made the whole scene except the crab. I also made all the postprocessing from scratch with hlsl.

Cross Processing
Bleach Bypass
Custom DOF
Custom SSAA
Lens Distortion with chromatic aberration
Custom tonemapper with controlled eye adaption

I hope you like!

**Coxy** · 03-27-2011, 07:55 PM

Very nice work here, everything looks great, the way the waves hit the beach, the lighting effects it all looks top notch. Great work i remember seeing an old video of this ages ago its good to see that its finished looks like a professional job.

How did you go about modelling the island if you don't mind me asking? Was it sculpted in zbrush or something?

Great work keep it up.

**TheDopefish** · 03-28-2011, 12:31 PM

Awesome work and it looks great!
A few notes:
- The sound volume of the waves varies alot, and the sound seems to indicate more stormy kind of waves than is shown.
- The foam for the water as it hits the beach looks like two layers parallaxing over each others. Perhaps that could potentially be improved?
- The video ends before the sound does.

Minor things, so really great work

**leviatan1001** · 03-28-2011, 12:42 PM

Hehe, yeah, im a little bungler and lazy sometimes xD
Thanks!

**wtfboomheadshot** · 03-31-2011, 07:05 AM

Saw this on YouTube a couple days ago. Very nice work.

**ilguano** · 04-12-2011, 10:28 AM

Fantastic work! Can't wait for your next piece.

**horoxhoro** · 04-12-2011, 10:39 AM

awesome 10stars..!!

**Chosker** · 04-12-2011, 02:42 PM

awesome! been looking at it since it was WIP and it's great

btw you could you elaborate a little on your SSAA implementation? I tried it but it doesn't look good, and it doesn't really get to process all edges

**foad-torfi** · 05-15-2011, 03:05 PM

very nice

**leviatan1001** · 05-15-2011, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by Coxy

Very nice work here, everything looks great, the way the waves hit the beach, the lighting effects it all looks top notch. Great work i remember seeing an old video of this ages ago its good to see that its finished looks like a professional job.

How did you go about modelling the island if you don't mind me asking? Was it sculpted in zbrush or something?

Great work keep it up.

Thanks! Here is the info you are looking for

**leviatan1001** · 05-15-2011, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Chosker

awesome! been looking at it since it was WIP and it's great

btw you could you elaborate a little on your SSAA implementation? I tried it but it doesn't look good, and it doesn't really get to process all edges

Thanks! Here is the method It looks pretty bad most of the time xD I have tried many methods, such as DLAA, NFAA and all of them stinks... Ill resume the hlsl work as soon as my 3rd oildfield remake art is done, at the end.

**Parkour131** · 05-25-2011, 01:20 PM

Just like real life.

**Chosker** · 05-25-2011, 04:07 PM

oh thanks for the info about the SSAA.
looks good in object-vs-background edges but, just like mine, won't take into account edges that happen when 2 surfaces meet. in other games that use SSAA these edges are found using the scene normalmap texture (available in deferred rendering engines) to find differences in the normalmap. UDK won't give access to the scene normalmap texture so we can't detect these edges

**seenooh** · 05-27-2011, 04:00 AM

Great work. Can you show us a wireframe plz?

**MaKiPL** · 06-11-2011, 05:41 AM

I don't like the water. Water looks so artificially. But whole scene is OK.

**makan ansari** · 06-17-2011, 07:06 PM

It's real time! lol i though these are pictures with V-Ray or something!

**micahpharoh** · 06-18-2011, 12:06 AM

hey, looks great

**frostymoss** · 06-18-2011, 05:48 AM

Great work, I've been following this for a while. Very impressed.

**JmPrsh153** · 07-10-2011, 03:40 AM

hey just wanted to say great piece of work here good job, with the shore foam, i have created one using tutorials but i dont really get no where near the same as yours, my shore foam goes up and down with the waves etc. but my ground doesnt go damp, would you know why this is?

**leviatan1001** · 10-23-2011, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by MaKiPL

I don't like the water. Water looks so artificially. But whole scene is OK.

Me either!

Ive done a better ocean the last month. Its a pitty I didnt wait until having a better one :/

**ironbelly** · 10-24-2011, 08:14 AM

The fact that this is being promoted by epic in their latest nature walk series makes what I'm about to say redundant but beautiful work on this man, this piece is absolutely stunning!

**leviatan1001** · 10-24-2011, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by ironbelly

The fact that this is being promoted by epic in their latest nature walk series makes what I'm about to say redundant but beautiful work on this man, this piece is absolutely stunning!

Oh, thank you a lot! ^^

**weephun** · 11-07-2011, 03:54 PM

Thanks so much for making such a great scene and putting it out there so we could highlight it! http://www.unrealengine.com/insiderb...cation_edition

**leviatan1001** · 11-07-2011, 03:59 PM

Thanks to Epic for bringing me this amazing technology to expand my self through the polygons and code

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