Week 3 Reference and Blockout

                                                                                              This is the node work for an Island i built in World Machine, only took about 10 minutes to do and can be tweaked even further. Just a placeholder area. 

The Final version of the Island. This one is a 2k sized island. I can make it a 4k for higher resolution then resize it to a 2k .raw16 file, which is the heightmap file type UE4 accepts and has an easier time working with. 

The Island from an aerial view within UE4

Closer view, with the cove that Michael was talking about.

Another View

The Cove

The water you see is a ocean shader plugin that can handle buoyancy as well and here are some vids to show you what I mean. This will work, for now, as the placeholder for the buoyancy puzzle foundation. 

Playing with the Speed of the waves and wave height. Good speed for rivers.

Buoyancy Vid

Showing the scale of just this beach area. 2k island is still really big!!

Entering the water and movement underwater

Jumping into Water, and Vignette Effect when Underwater 

Let me know if the links for the vids dont work for you. I have a lot of reference images, but I will save those for later. Just wanted to show how quickly things can be thrown in to the engine. All this took me about an hour to get in and working.