Redwood Style Plants and Scene Unreal Engine 4
For this scene I first modeled the plants that I wanted to create then sculpted them in blender. Afterwards I baked the various maps, AO, normal, e.t.c using substance designer. And then textured them using various substance designer nodes. Highly recommend this tutorial to learn https://80.lv/articles/free-foliage-tutorial/, and thank you Karen Stanley because it was extremely helpful. Also shoutout to polygon academy and this tutorial for tiling textures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziIY674NAw&t=596s.
This is a result of me voyaging to try and improve a lot and learn new techniques, still not happy with some of the things but decided it was time to move on and improve for my next scene. Some of the notable things are, improving on using substance designer to make textures for things like tree bark as I ended up using textures.com for the tree and ground texture. Also I couldn't quite get the lighting to what I wanted and I plan to focus on improving that A LOT!
Lighting Option 1, Mayan temple was modeled in blender and textured using a tiling texture I made in zbrush and textured in substance painter.
Lighting Option 2
Fern Type 1
Still have a lot to improve on making these, the tiling texture was sculpted in zbrush, and baked and textured in substance designer.
Ground Ivy Clump
An earlier screenshot of the scene
The Mayan temple that I modeled in blender and used a tiling texture for. The bricks on the side of the staircase are a texture from textures.com
Fern Type 2