Volcano, Unreal Engine 5.7.4 project

Hello Everyone, in this Unreal Engine 5.7.4 project I have pushed myself and my computer to the limit. I added few new skills into my arsenal, namely Houdini for the volcanic plume effect and few new Unreal engine skills for large scale environments, using raytraced shadows, nanites/voxels, VDB, PCG and HDRI. The volcanic island and distant mountains were created in Gaea, together with splatmaps and height map which I used in Unreal Engine 5.7.4 to generate a landscape actor. I created my own landscape material and setup, using layers and displacement. Volcanic plume effect was created in Houdini. This is my first Houdini work and I closely followed tutorial from Rebelway channel: https://youtu.be/k84K_pj43VU?si=19cUtR1gg9PVtSE7. This tutorial helped me a lot, thank you! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volcanic island and distant mountains were created in Gaea Textures are from Quixel Megascans Trees are from Mawi tree pack - MW Dead Spruce Forest Trees Biome Ocean was generated with FluidFlux Sky is HDRI image from HDRMAPS.COM Snow is a combination of textures and EasySnow Volcanic plume was created in Houdini Lighting is a combination of HDRIBackdrop actor and a simple lighting set up Music and sound effects - Epidemic Sound ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope you enjoy this beautiful relaxing scenic view of mountains and an erupting volcano which I based on a real location - Mount Saint Augustine Volcano in Alaska, USA. The ash cloud was a challenge but I wanted to create an active volcano. Hopefully I was able to create the desired effect of a destructive volcano but with soothing calm music to emphasise the beauty of nature. Thank you so much for watching and supporting my channel. If you want more content like this, please like this video and subscribe and I see you soon.