H1Z1: King of the Kill - The Arena
This project had me create a new zone and lighting that was more open and wooded, with room for vehicle combat and more areas for looting. The old map was entirely scrapped and a new design was handed to me, and I set to work creating it in World Machine for the Heightmap and Splat masks, and Speedtree for flora distribution masks. Later I would join the design team in designing outposts and settlements, little vignettes of abandonment or hillside neighborhoods left to rot.
A town along the main road in middle America.
New border mountains and copes of trees.
A riparian biome along water features and open sprawling hillsides wreathed with scattered copes of trees.
New clear sky lighting.
A hillside community
An abandoned restaurant scene
An abandoned church in the middle of nowhere.
The design image I was given overlaid upon the height field.
A clay render of the entire Arena map.