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A planet horizon view from space with the sun shining towards the camera, reflecting in a large river and lakes seen on the surface of the planet in unreal engine
A surface view of an icy ocean planet, the is reflected faintly in the surface of the planet
a mars like planet
A low orbit view of the surface and horizon of an earth like planet with various lakes and a river network reflecting the light of the sun
single page of a paper about how to create procedural planets in unreal engine
single page of a paper about how to create procedural planets in unreal engine
A zoomed in surface view of a red planet showing various mountainscapes
A view of a red-purple planet from space, the shadow side disappearing into the blackness of space
a surface view of a purple planet, a small sattelite is visible orbiting
A far away view of a mostly red and purple planet with some green spotting
A far away view of a mars like planet
A far away view of a mostly red and purple planet with some green spotting
View of a moon from space, craters of various sizes visible casting shadows along the terminator line
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Large scale celestial bodies in Unreal Engine


This was my research project during my final year at Digital Arts and Entertainment at Howest. This project aimed to develop a workflow to generate planetary bodies in Unreal Engine 4 aimed to be used in video games requiring large-scale planets, allowing the player to get as close as a low orbit while maintaining the visual fidelity necessary to keep the player immersed.I'm very satisfied with the end result of this project. There are still some aspects to be tackled, such as recalculating normals after vertex displacement, however all in all I achieved what I set out to achieve and created a workflow that allows for a very high level of visual fidelity.


If you are interested the full workflow on this you can find the full paper here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OhKFyhQwve_tPZZKm8YzEQrN72A8sZCi/view?usp=share_link


An overview of the workflow:

Software used:
Substance Designer
Unreal Engine 4
Tags:
3D
game art, environment, game environment, realtime, PBR, planets, procedural planet
January 2021