Wheats Model, Aaru – ACO: The Curse of the Pharaohs

If you haven't played the DLC yet, this contains spoilers.
I worked on the models used to populate the Aaru afterlife. This turned out to be very difficult task in technical terms. Such dense vegetation is very heavy on the GPU and the concept of the world is “endless” and dense wheat fields. This called for a very nice looking and aggressive LOD’s, also to keep consistency we ended up with 8 different models of wheat with different LOD set up’s in order to cover all cases. I also worked a bit on the terrain textures to make the blending seamless.
Aaru is the Egyptian paradise, the endless reed fields. This is a serene place of final rest. Now it is ruled over by the restless spirit of Nefertiti.
Art Director : Eddie Benun
Art Lead : Andrey Stefanov
Technical Art Director: Yavor Yakovliev
Environment Art: Svend Rønslund
Level Design: Victor Mourey
Procedural Artist: Pavel Kalinov
FX : Kosta Milev
Lighting: Georgi Gavanozov
And everyone else in the Sofia studio, thank you !