GNARWORLD dev-log #10 NATURE AREA Underway! Lost woods lighting and tree modeling in Crocotile.

Ok. so its time for another dev-log because my desktop is getting way too full of progress screenshots. I usually take a screenshot whenever i see something and think to myself, 'whoa, thats cool'. and i guess there have been a lot of those because i have been building the ...

nature district

in Gnar World.

Ok wait, first of all, i went back to brazil and added a cool favela run.

complete with christo the redeemer.

and my version of the Lapa Steps to get back down.

So now to make some trees, i have to hop into Procreate, and then Crocotile. The power went out at my house a lot during this time because we had a lot of storms. so my computer monitor didnt work. i was only able to work in procreate and wait for the power to come back on to fire up crocotile.

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An oak Tree fell in my yard during the storm, so i got to get a nice close-up look at it.

Then i asked the Hive community what trees they wanted to see. They suggested Willow Tree, Birch, and Sycamore. @alienarthive, @oldsoulnewb, @caspermoeller89

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i did add another branch, i just dont have a picture of it here

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Added some pine trees to the mountain.

I also used a flower painting from an artist i met at an art gallery recently.

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I love trees. now when i go outside i see the beauty of trees so much more from learning to model them.

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after

Proton scattered the floor plants

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ok but now for the real win. I really wanted to embody the Lost Woods feel from Super Nintendo Zelda. as a kid i always loved how they did that with the shadows. I wanted the shapes of the leafs to be shadows, and the sun kind of does it but i needed to add spotlights to intensify the visual effect.

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tre-flippin through the woods

and yes we are goin to fix those "motion blur" things coming off the player soon.

Alright so, i dont really have a super good example of how i did the "lost woods" effect haha. but im getting there. the nature world isnt finished. i didnt even show you the intro to the nature area which is a crazy grind -rail path with consequences. The nature world isnt done at all yet but its Decorated, which is needed. now i need to make the routes and make the area make sense.

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above are some random little material textures i thought i would throw in anyone can use.