Backyard Slice-Foliage

 This week I focus on creating the plants in my scene. Below were some plants references I found and are easy to be seen in Morocco.

Reference

I generated a  cactus material and a foliage texture map in Substances.

Cactus 

Foliage Map

I also made the spines ( middle bottom of the foliage map) in order to make the cactus looked real but after I added on the cactus models I found that they had so many tris so I didn't use it eventually.

Below was the material I made for the pots, I used it as a tiling material so that I could adjust the uv maps of different size pots and let them look harmonious but not all the same.

Pot

After I imported the materials in unreal I also used material instances to change the colors, so that the scene wouldn't look monotoned. 

Here was the scene so far.