I have uploaded some of the pictures from a level design concept. It is particularly interesting because it uses a procedurally generated forest. I think it is a fantastic way to craft large forest levels and still have areas of interests, such as towns, castles and ruins. I have attached some screenshots below.

looking nice. The only thing im having a issue with is the lack of shading on the landscape. once that is in it will look beautiful.

I agree. I am a bit envious of it.

shadows are missing

very nice, but some vegatation (gras) is missing

It looks okay, but what is procedually generated? The trees themself? their textures? Or do you just place them at some random positions? If it is the last, it isn´t really new and something which is done a lot. The shading and lighting on your screenshots could be much better But sure, it could be much worse

I really like that sort of mideval setting and it looks great

But hey, could you edit you post and hit the spacebar after each picture? I felt like i was playing a side scroller trying to view the pictures

Slim, you are right. The trees are not procedurally generated, and neither is the terrain. The trees are not simply placed randomly. They are placed, but take into account the position relative to other important features and the slope of the terrain. Without doing this, you often get trees placed on ridiculous slopes, where the underside of the tree can be seen. Obviously they also have randomised pan and size.

Bluebeast – Sorry about the post. I have tried to fix it, but I don’t seem to have the same problem as you on my display.

You will be please to know that I have also change the terrain, tree and object materials so that they work together in how they are shaded.

I have looked into shadows for the forest, but I can not find any soft shadows shaders which can be implemented into a c-script script. As this is the case, I really can’t use stencil shadows due to the issue they cause when the camera moves into them.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I think that this problem is solved since 6.50 where conitec changed the algorithm of the stencil shadows. But stencil shadows are to slow for things like this, maybe you should look into the upcoming plugin from Chris3D (look into forum "third party tools").

It looks like a good start, but you should really overwork some things. You could use baked shadows for the fixed environment (like the houses) and normalmapping shaders for the walls of the buildings.

Dark_Samurai