PlayStation Magazine UK - 12.2019

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I brought in a tree from our

first tutorial (OPM #166),

and made a small forest by

cloning it and varying its

size and rotation.

Remember your sun and sky

gadget from last issue?

Tweak the grades and

effects gadget, and maybe

some fog gadgets too.

I built a small castle ruin

using the bricks we made,

and made sure to add

variation using looseness

and colour properties.

The cliffsides here

are made using our

simple rock asset.

The clouds are made from

the rock asset that has had

its flecks and outer

properties changed.

07

SEE HOW FAR

YOU CAN GET

Okay, so you have this small

diorama setup. Let’s add some

grass. You can reuse your rock

asset for this. Make a copy and

open the Properties of the sculpt.

Raise the tint to around 90% and

choose a green colour. Set the

original colour saturation to

around 50%. Go to Fleck

Properties and increase the

looseness of the model until you

see the individual flecks at around

the size you’d imagine a patch of

grass to be. Raise the impasto to

300, and increase the ruffle too.

06

OPTIMISE, OPTIMISE, OPTIMISE!

Now you’ve got your main building blocks, make sure

they’re as optimised as possible. The main way to do this is to

use the Details tool. Make sure it’s set to decrease detail and

start blasting your shapes. Notice that the Sculpture Detail

tool works on all clones of the same object at once and that

changing looseness through the surface properties of the

model or with the Looseness tool doesn’t benefit

performance. Look at the difference the detail level does in

terms of graphics thermo (the yellow circle in the left corner.

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COLOUR
Select your object and
choose Save As A New Creation. This
will allow you to go back and change
the asset, and see that change
reflected on the entire scene. Let’s
add some colour using the Spray
Paint tool. For even more variation
you can use the Paint mode with
surface snapping turned on to
paint over your models later in the
process. After doing the colour-pass,
you can go into the sculpture’s outer
and inner properties and tweak the
colour on individual copies to make
them look unique.
08
LET’S BUILD A SCENE
Now you have some quality assets, you can start building a landscape
using them. You can even bring in elements from other Dreamers. You can make
a scene like this using what you’ve made in our three Dreams tutorials to date.