Outdoor Temple Environment Design

Outdoor Temple Environment Design

The inspiration came from my love of the fantasy genre in film and television. My goal was to create something dark and ominous with a something attractive. With the assistance of both Pinterest and PureRef, I built a mood board/reference sheet to help craft the environment.

Since the sky and terrain were mainly in cool color palette, I decided to use warm colors for the visual effects, moon and crystal to draw the viewer to the ultimate goal, which is the crystal.

The rotating meshes were done with a simple Rotation Movement component attached to a Blueprint with a static mesh.

I created the temple for Game Asset Factory's Isometric Sky Temple kit on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. To lay out and place the bricks, I used Blueprints to create grids with the stone meshes.

For the sky and pink crescent moon, credit goes to Good Sky from the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

I used a mesh from the Infinity Blade Effects kit as the shape for the gemstone, while creating my own material gemstone material.

I used Unreal Engine 5's sculpting tools to form the terrain with a blended material of grass and gravel.