{"id":2922,"date":"2015-10-13T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terrymatthes.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2024-03-06T20:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T20:10:35","slug":"ue4-mesozoic-forest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/2015\/10\/13\/ue4-mesozoic-forest-update\/","title":{"rendered":"UE4 Mesozoic Forest Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve completed a cycad as well as a test for ground cover. I&#8217;m aware that there was no grass in the Jurassic period, these grasses are just place holders for ferns cards. The real test was to see if dynamic raytraced lighting shadows the individual grass cards and they do. The video below is made with no baked lighting. It uses <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.unrealengine.com\/latest\/INT\/Engine\/Rendering\/LightingAndShadows\/LightPropagationVolumes\/\">Light Propagation Volumes<\/a> that can be enabled in UE4. If you&#8217;re interested in creating a similar scene with completely dynamic lighting I suggest you check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Unreal-Engine-Lighting-Rendering-Essentials\/dp\/1785289063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this book<\/a> to get a better understanding of light in the Unreal Engine.<br \/>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><div  id=\"_ytid_41684\"  width=\"1080\" height=\"607\"  data-origwidth=\"1080\" data-origheight=\"607\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FPuuiEAlj2g?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=3&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade no-lazyload\" data-vol=\"0\"  data-epautoplay=\"1\"  data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/FPuuiEAlj2g\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve completed a cycad as well as a test for ground cover. I&#8217;m aware that there was no grass in the Jurassic period, these grasses are just place holders for ferns cards. The real test was to see if dynamic raytraced lighting shadows the individual grass cards and they do. The video below is made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,343,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-game","category-modelingsculpting","category-unreal-2"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cycad.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrymatthes.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}