Gods of War Check-In 2: The PCG Era

 I took a step back from doing the asset manager because it was repetitive, and instead moved towards a more procedural direction. Using Unreal's PCG system, I have been working on creating a procedural environment for our scene. I used multiple different techniques to achieve the environment including self-pruning, spline sampling, normal to density conversions, spatial noise, and a lot of difference calculations.

For the meshes I used a single conifer tree mesh, three large fern meshes, and three small fern meshes.

This is the base I was working with.

Surface Sample (for Trees)

Post-filter and upper/lower bounds (for Trees)

Normal-to-density calculations (keep only flat surface)

Trees rendered (from above)

Large Fern Density Sample

Fern + Tree Difference Calculation

Large Fern Render

Small Fern Density Sample

Small Fern Render

Tree, Large Fern, and Small Fern Render Combined (from above)

Tree, Large Fern, and Small Fern Debug Combined

Spline added to create non-spawnable section

Render + Spline

Main Spawning Blueprint for Foliage

Applying Spline Data for non-spawnable area