Lachie Steere 🎨

YouTube video by Unreal Engine Pushing Visual Boundaries Without Breaking the Bank | Unreal Fest Bali 2025

My talk from Unreal Fest Bali, Pushing Visual Boundaries Without Breaking The Bank is now up on the Unreal Engine Youtube channel for viewing! Be sure to check it out.

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#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Cinematics #RealTime #Rendering #TechArt #CVARS

Digging through an old hard drive, I found this shader I made with the unity shader graph back in 2023, It was my first experience creating a custom lighting shader and I learnt a lot of techniques from figuring it out! just something fun to share and look back on

#TechnicalArt #unity

Paintings in Unreal Engine

Paintings broken down in substance painter and maya

Here is that breakdown on the paintings I promised! Made the frames as trimsheet elements and included the canvas textures on the same atlas, Currently keeping everything at 512 pixels / meter, loads of spare room but much more wall deco to make aswell!

#AutodeskMaya #SubstancePainter #UnrealEngine

Insane how much of a difference just rotating some of the tables by 90 degrees made, It really makes the space feel more lived in! sometimes it's not the custom tools or the highly engineered asset pipelines- It's rotating some stuff by 90 degrees

Shot of cafe interior showing new lighting and roof panel on the right

An exterior shot looking into the cafe to show the lighting difference

Made a few changes to the geo, added some paintings and changed up the roof, mainly though I worked on adjusting the lighting, soon ill add some lanterns or such for in world lighting!

#UnrealEngine #GameDev #Lighting #EnvironmentArt

Plastic & moss stuff :)

New shot of the Cafe showing the light blocking of the right hand part of the cafe from the moss

close up showing the moss through the plastic shader

Moss on half the roof was a good play I think, may replace with lichen at some stage, but for now it is blocking the light which is all I really wanted! can move on to other things now- perhaps finally the tables and chairs? We shall see! Video in comments
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Moss on the right hand part of the roof I think! I reckon the wooden fence looks better in shadow. Will post an update picture with that in when I get some time to work on it later

Quick single day project "Clover", plants built with pivot painter in Houdini, Unreal Engine 5.7, Hardware Lumen, Cinematic Lens Flares, runs real-time
#UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #EnvironmentArt #Houdini #RealTime #TechArt

Cafe scene with the old leaf roof replaced with a plastic roof with leaves growing over it

Close up view of the new plastic shader showing the translucency upgrades

Added plastic sheeting and lattice for the leaves, will be adding more as I feel it looked better when the sky was more occluded. Updated to Unreal 5.6 to take advantage of the raytraced translucency changes for the plastic sheeting!

#UnrealEngine #SubstanceDesigner #Unreal5.6 #GameDev

Before and after shots for the Cafe scene

Second set of before and after shots for the cafe scene

Visited one of the Cafés I have been *loosely* basing this scene off today and took note of some of structural details that may benefit my scene (and ate a delicious sandwich).

Would love to get some community feedback on preference between the before and after shots!

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Cafe interior with initial lighting pass

Added a leaf mesh to the foliage system and took a first pass at the lighting, feels a bit more cozy now :)

#UnrealEngine5 #UnrealEngine #Lighting #GameDev

Using Niagara to spawn foliage cards! Is this a good idea? I'm not sure yet! But it seems to perform well.

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Some other angles

Blockout before texturing

Blockout after some texturing

Got a little bit of material work done on this blockout today. All materials made in #substance3ddesigner some per instance material variation tricks done in #unrealengine material graph

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Heard @bsky.app's video quality got an upgrade! good chance to show a #Blender3d and #UnrealEngine side project I have been working on to keep brushed up on blender while I use maya for my day job. all meshes made in blender, trees with geo nodes. textures in #SubstancePainter & #SubstanceDesigner

Another blog post! this one showing a fun project from a few years back, back in 2022 I was VERY into #payday2 and wanted to have a go at making my own texture mod, this post shows my experience and the workflow I developed doing that www.artstation.com/blogs/lachie... #modding #substancepainter

Lachie Steere Environment and Technical Artist | Open to work

Been wanting to try out the art station blogging feature for a while, figured it would be a good platform to share some work that I am proud of but is not main portfolio worthy, so here's a test post showing some photoscanning stuff I tried back in 2021 and 2022 www.artstation.com/lachiesteere...

Is there any plan to archive the talk online for those who could not attend in person? Would love to see it.

I figure thats likely up to unrealfest but figured I'd ask

This reminds me of something one of my old trainers used to say, "hey, these different standards are getting confusing, I know! I'll create a new standard and everyone will just use that one! Right...?"

this image was for my bug log cos the grass I made is way to bug, but damn- default cube is thinking about some deep stuff #unrealengine

Love it! Lovely gradient work

Digital painting, a flying ship with onboard entertainment. There is a cat also

More Mileships malarkey

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Coffee stain is always a good shout, just make sure it's subtle if it's a ui asset. think about where the asset has been (story wise) who's desk has been across? What conditions has it been stored in? The answers to these questions help drive unique details. Asset looks great keep up the good work!

Looks good! If you are open to feedback then perhaps consider toning down the normal map between the metal and paint where it's wearing off, it looks great but perhaps a little too intense

What was the trick for you? Static batching? Something cooler and stranger?

The game looks awesome! However I do wonder about the player experience if there were enimies behind that wall, perhaps you could use dithering to give us a view behind walls occluding the player? Outlines are another good shout. Keep up the good work!

Fun little bonus feature with the way I set the landscape material up - you can go mining!! :D

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Was assisting in a workshop that was still using unreal engine 4 earlier this week, last day I found myself with a bit of down time, chucked this little thing together! The grass and the landscape material I made fresh, other assets like textures are my own work from older projects that I had saved