Technical Art

Procedural Scrolling Environment

I was challenged to create a believable, procedurally generated environment to be viewed from the window of a moving train.

One of the biggest challenges was managing and organizing the data for what ultimately became 4,540 assets. These assets move along a conveyor belt system and are recycled once they reach the end, preserving their information and avoiding the constant spawning and destruction of assets.

Another major challenge was implementing the parallax effect to create the illusion of speed while maintaining precise control over its behavior. I solved this by using a depth-based curve to fine-tune the speed falloff and parallax effect.

Overall, this project presented many technical challenges, but in the end, I developed a scalable system that procedurally places assets and moves them along a conveyor belt to simulate the sensation of traveling through an ever-changing, non-repetitive environment.

Building Generator - PCG Unreal Engine

I created this Building Generator using Unreal's Procedural Content Generation Framework

This enabled me to generate 57 unique-looking buildings within a day using the same mod kit by fully controlling individual floors, corners, and sides.

The biggest challenge was accessing and modifying the exact placement of each piece in PCG using attributes. I had to track whether a piece was on a corner, edge, or specific floor to adjust it dynamically. This project pushed how far I could go using PCG attributes alone to manage placement and variation.

Smart Merge Objects Tool

I needed to merge multiple objects while removing interior geometry to optimize my assets.

To achieve this, I created a custom merge tool using Geometry Script.

The tool detects and deletes overlapping or unused geometry, and then reconstructs a clean, optimized mesh from the original objects.

This approach ensures better performance and refined asset quality.

(The camera in the bottom right captures a comparison of the interior geometry before and after the merge.)

Vertex Snapping in Unreal

I created this tool for my environment artist to simulate vertex snapping in Maya, making it easier to set dress and snap modular kit pieces together in

Unreal Engine.

The biggest challenge was accessing vertex information in Unreal.

To solve this, I used Geometry Script to recreate the mesh and access its vertex data, allowing for precise snapping and improved workflow efficiency