War of steel (2023 - 2024)

Sci-Fi mech battle royal game sert in outer space. Created in Unreal Engine 5 for PC platform by Glinda Games.

My role in the project was Lead Artist then moved to Art Director.

My responsibilities for the project included:

• Setup VFX development pipeline with reusable core components

• Create Niagara Systems with exposed parameters for Environmental, Weapon, and Ability VFXs

• Setup 3D asset creation pipeline for efficient rendering performance and development

• Create and maintain art development schedule & milestones

• Responsible for creating and designing 3D environment assets for use in Unreal Engine 5 which are well optimised for Nanite and Lumen

• Create PCG tools to quickly iterate level design

• Create scalable materials to be used in Environment and VFX

• Rendering & asset optimisations

• Identify and resolve CPU / GPU bottlenecks using profiling tools

• Direct and provide feedback to internal artists and external contractors

Landscape Material

• Auto aligned textures

• Layer blending logic for various biomes (Rocky, Snow, Canyon, and Sand)

Space Architecture Material

• Auto aligned textures

• Layer different surfaces depnding on Vertex Colour mask

• AO data baked to Alpha vertex data

• RGB = surface layer mask Alpha = AO

• Each surface has it’s own exposed parameters

PCG Asset Spawner Tools

• Ground scatter for debris and ground cover

• Points can be filtered from material types, e.g. paths

• Points can also be filtered by actor tags

Foliage

• Nanite compatible foliage created in SpeedTree

• AO and Wind data baked into Vertex Colour

• Created materials and textures

Rock Material

• AO and Curvature data baked into Vertex Colour

• Vertex Normal based texture layering

• Supports use for different biomes

• Dirt cavity parameter

• Samples landscape RVT for smooth blending with the landscape

World Level Design

• Height map data generted with World Creator

• Generated splat maps

• Use World Partition for streaming in components