30 Days of Modeling

@smurfmier1985 As far as I know wind zones still utilize a grass sway shader, they just act as the “controls” for that shader in a different way. Grass swaying can be expensive, but I can’t say to what extent as I’ve never really looked into it. Grass swaying is essentially just moving vertices of a mesh in different directions, but this is being updated multiple times per second (along with the textures/lighting)so I would probably limit the swaying to a small area near the player and update that area whenever the player moves.That said I think Unity does have a swaying option in one of the HDRP default materials. 

Vertex animation shaders are definitely one area I’d like to dedicate an entire course to. I’ve experimented with a Fortnite bouncing effect, cloth movement and some masked out vertex animations (like Melvin’s stomach growing/shrinking). Other things I’d like to create are a flat tire shader that can react to physical objects and a punching bag, although those may be very similar in technique. Vehicle destruction and being able to bend specific parts of a mesh (like a tree branch) would all be fun things to go over.

I’m not sure if I’ll have time to revisit this and add a procedural rock texture so for now I’m adding in a basic screenshot:

Really love the “cavity” look in the viewport, really makes things look way better. So this was a combination of basic pushing and pulling verts either using the proportional editing option or sculpting with dynotopo turned off. After that I added a displacement modifier with voronoi enabled and just played around with the size and also the color ramp to vary up the look. I’d like to try a procedural texture for this then bake it out as a texture.