Free Tutorial: Approaching Modular Foliage in Games

Jobye-Kyle Karmaker from Respawn Entertainment shared a bunch of useful information and tips on producing modular vegetation from scratch. It was a gamedev talk at Digital Dragons 2019.

Here’s some slides from the presentation:

Almost every slide has a detailed note that explains the things you’d see on the screen. At the end, there’s also a bunch of useful takeaways.

You can download the full presentation here (download the full 2GB .pptx and open with PowerPoint, won’t work with Google Slides)

Also, Jobye-Kyl kindly shared useful links that he referenced during the talk:

• Photoshop Blurred Edge-Padding Dilation script
• “Rendering the World of Far Cry 4” by Stephen McAuley
• “So…You Want to Sculpt Bark?” by Steven Oberman
• Ivy Growth 3DS Max Script

There should be a YouTube video posted by Digital Dragons eventually but, as for now, you can follow the artist to keep yourself updated:

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