Hello everyone, I was looking on ways to build a realistic nature scene for iClone when I stumbled on this tutorial, I was wondering if some of you guys had some insights on how to accomplish this in iClone?

The easy way is to import close up parts form daz into iclone, you can also use frontier or use Blender to do your own design.

Thanks for the suggestions, but might as well build it in UE4 and export it to iClone, Blender has no tools that rivals UE4 for this type of projects, Frontier is pretty limited, not sure it could do this, another problem is that iClone only supports FBX import, no alembic support, so I am not sure how this would work in the end, which is why I am looking into ways of doing this in iClone, also thought of using UE4 as a rendering engine, the sequencer makes it a good choice, but I would like to use as little software as possible for this project!

Do you have the tree pack?

This might help with the base layers, as the heightmap terrain may be larger than you want, and cannot use Substances. It's a tutorial for a special ground prop I made. Download link is in the comments.

Wow, Rampa this looks great!  I couldn't find the download link though...?

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I thought I had posted it in the comments, but here you go.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3nsNVGroEz6cTN2SXFiMDNsUlk

Really nice tutorial Rampa!  Thanks also for sharing the link.     

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Rampa, thanks for the tutorial - a great way to create terrain.

Been watching CryEngine video tutorials all day, these are the best videos I have seen for a game engine so far, CE makes the whole process a lot easier compared to the one I have shared in my original post, render quality look better than UE4 IMHO, more videos to watch, but I just might go CE for my project since I cant see how iClone 7, as good as it is, could compare quality wise, here is a video showing how to make a forest/mountain scene, in great depth, with great results.



Rampa, thanks for the video, that is an awesome way of making a landscape in iClone!

Hi Rampa, I noticed in your tut that you were using an earlier version of iClone.  Have you tried this with 7.2?  I've tried a couple of times and after I move 5 or 6 bones it crashes iClone (never had any stability issues before).  This is the only thing loaded in the scene at the time.

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