Brushify - Creating Photorealistic Trees For UE4

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With Unreal Engine 5 around the corner, I've been preparing to update the Brushify asset library with new reworked scanned assets. This video is a brief overview/behind the scenes of how I create complex Tree models for Brushify Packs using a combination of Photogrammetry, Procedural Generation and Hand placement. This workflow is a simple to execute, cost effective foliage pipeline that gives natural results. It's very similar to the techniques used in many AAA game titles (open worlds like Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA V, Last of Us, Far Cry series). This video serves as both an educational tool for all artists, as well as a useful way for me to document my own workflows when creating new assets for Brushify. It should serve as a good orientation/starting point for anyone wanting to understand the processes that go into creating foliage for games.

Hardware:
Camera Equipment:
Body - Panasonic G80/G81/G85 US: https://amzn.to/2NSDDjd UK: https://amzn.to/3eaGY7N
Wide angle lens - Sigma 16mm f1.4 US: https://amzn.to/3uP8duJ UK: https://amzn.to/3sMfA4e
Telephoto lens - Olympus 45mm f1.8 US: https://amzn.to/3sPiOUx UK: https://amzn.to/3kGqAgs
Shotgun Mic - Rode VideoMicro US: https://amzn.to/3eahg3w UK: https://amzn.to/2NRAxfm
PC specifications:
CPU - AMD Threadripper 1950x - US: https://amzn.to/3qp8vFf UK: https://amzn.to/3e8gnbw
64GB Ram - G.Skill Ripjaws V - US: https://amzn.to/3uVwkI8 UK: https://amzn.to/30a84DU
1080TI - US: https://amzn.to/3qgqNrV UK: https://amzn.to/3kJA7n9

Software:
Blender: https://www.blender.org/
Agisoft Metashape: https://www.agisoft.com/
Modular Tree for Blender: https://blender-addons.org/modular-tree-addon/
Topaz Gigapixel AI: https://topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai/
Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/

0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Choosing an object to Scan
1:33 - Dealing with the Weather
1:48 - Capture Technique
2:12 - Agisoft Metashape
2:40 - Mesh Cleanup, UVs & Creating Game Mesh in Blender
3:20 - Reprojecting Textures onto Game Mesh
3:54 - Game Mesh in Unreal Engine 4
4:05 - Capturing & Processing Branchlet textures
6:27 - Generating Procedural Branch Structure in MTree
7:20 - Creating a tiling Bark Texture
8:39 - Merging the Trunk with Generated Branches
10:51 - Previewing in Engine
11:05 - Creating Branchlet/Leaf Meshes
12:28 - Populating Tree with Branchlets/Leaves
13:40 - Procedurally Generating Leaves in MTree
14:19 - Previewing the Asset as a Forest
16:21 - Recap and Method Overview
17:44 - Creating an Environment with the Asset
20:00 - Final Result Real-time in Unreal Engine
21:01 - Subscribe, Big thanks & get scanning!

The music is from Scott Buckley, a super talented composer so check him out!
https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/jul/​
Music: “Jul” by Scott Buckley (licensed under CC BY 4.0)

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