The project is a fully functional blueprint that you can drag and drop in your map level. To be able to use it in your own Unreal Engine project, you will have to migrate the whole project.
The main purpose of the project is to let the user render cinematic shots of Earth and Moon from orbital space.
It was created to render offline cinematics as the Earth shader itself is heavy in terms of both samplers and base pass shader instructions.
The clouds shader using translucent material with some subsurface scattering is also quite heavy but I found it to be the best setup to get
some realistic clouds texture.
The Earth and Moon meshes are using nanite in order to use displacement.
Obviously, due to texture resolution limitation, it works best at medium/high orbit but if you use the highest texture resolution, you can also
achieve low orbit cinematic shots.
The texture resolution can be selected in the global controls when selecting the blueprint.
The look of the Earth, Clouds and Moon can be tweaked in the details window by selecting the blueprint. Parameters are organized and some
of them have description to explain what they do.
I have also made the parameters exposed to cinematics which allow you to controls the look in the sequencer. Most of the properties of the
blueprint can be animated.
For the stars dome, I have included the star map from NASA but you can also use the procedural star system to get different result.
Additional information
Number of Unique Meshes: 8
LODs: No
Number of Blueprints: 2
Number of Material Instances: 8
Number of Material Functions : 15
Number of Textures: 8 Regular Textures + 79VT
Texture Resolutions: 16384×16384 // 16384×8192 // 8192×4096 // 4096×2048 // 2048×1024 // 1024×1024 // 512×512 // 256×256
Project is using Virtual Textures and it is required to be enable in your project settings
Plugins used :
PythonScriptPlugin
SequencerScripting
Takes
LiveLink
VariantManager
MovieRenderPipeline
MoviePipelineMaskRenderPass
Original_Link: https://www.fab.com/listings/2c14701b-e2cc-48b0-ac95-928a410021ca
