3D Landscape Concepts

3D Landscape Concepts

What is a 3D landscape?

A 3D landscape is an area of land that you manipulate into what you want around it.

What are the tools we need to create this environment?

There are many different softwares that you can create a 3D landscape on, such as:

• Unreal Engine 4
• CryEngine
• Frostbite

i created a simple house in unreal engine 4, the tools that helped me create that were:

• Objects e.g. walls, doors and stairs
• Lighting effects
• Textures

Why would we want to do this?

To create our game?

What are the elements that make up a 3D landscape?

• The weather
• day and night
• Foliage - trees and grass
• rocks and pebbles
• water
• buildings

the weather - adds reality, because if you just have just one weather type in your game, the mood will stay the same, but if you add thunder, lightening and rain then its going to add a different atmosphere to the game.

day and night - if you just have a game where its day all the time, its eventually going to get boring.

Foliage - makes everything look more realistic