Arctic Cliffs

Arctic environment, designed with Lumen, Nanite and other Unreal Engine 5 features in mind.

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Features:

• A set of realistic, handfully crafted Nanite meshes of ice sheets, rocks and ice pieces of different sizes.
• Materials with several layers of detail maps, which use RVT blending with landscape snow and Streaming VT to lower GPU memory footprint for high-res bitmaps.
• 2-layer Landscape Material, using RVT for blending with assets.
• A practical example of using Water plugin functionality and SingleLayerWater material - using water wave asset, waterline and underwater postprocessing, ocean foam, waves SSS, multiple LODs and minimizing tiling repetition functions.
• Custom Niagara-based floating ice blueprint, with shader-based buoyancy through Water plugin wave data.
• Niagara particle effects of snow and falling ice debris.
• Custom Volumetric Clouds material based on volume textures from the Volumetrics Plugin.
• Image Based HDR hemisphere sky background as helper or substitute to the Volumetric Clouds.
• Full-featured example location and assets overview map, set up with Lumen lighting.