This week I worked on building the fourth scene. According to the story version, the fourth scene is a snowy scene, because in the original Dream of the Red Chamber the first time baoyu and daiyu meet is in the snow.
Firstly, as with the previous scenes, I found some reference drawings.
As with the previous lake scene, I made this scene directly in UE5 because it is a natural landscape in the snow, which is very easy and fast to make in UE5. The snow looked too clean, so I added some footprints, which were done with UE5’s decal material.
In addition, the starry sky background is a copy of the texture from scene 1, which was rendered to a cooler tone using the colour grading tool. Again, to give the scene some movement, I added snowflakes using the particle system and added some height fog to give the scene a sense of atmosphere.