Hilltop Stone Tower

The stone tower featured in this project is a stylised recreation of a real life stone tower near my home town here in Scotland. When I decided I wanted to create this asset I realised it should have an environment to be showcased in. I didn't want to spend an enormous amount of time on the environment as I wanted to keep the focus of this project on the stone tower, so I thought of the idea of the tower sitting atop a hill, overlooking a vast forest of trees.

So, additionally to the tower, I created a tree, some grass and some stones that I could use to set up a relatively quick environment for the stone tower to be placed in. Using the various tools within UE4 I was able to sculpt the landscape, paint the landscape and spread the foliage and rocks around appropriately.

With the scene set up I began playing with the lighting of the scene, and decided to create a cold, Scottish sun rise type of morning. With a nice orange sky with mist amongst the trees, creating some lovely god ray effects amongst the forest.

In the future I'd like to come back and add some extra assets and polish to this scene.