Virtual Macquarie Island

UPDATE: VMI has been awarded Commonwealth development funding through the Visions of Australia program. The Minister’s media release is here.

Project details can be found here: https://www.petermorse.com.au/2021/06/visions-of-australia-vmi/

Hooray! Successfully got Visions of Australia development funding for my Virtual Macquarie Island Project with Inkhorn Projects and TMAG – with a great team of collaborators 🙂 Happy Days!

— Peter Morse :: Studio (@peter_morse) June 2, 2021

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This is brief preview (v0.1) of a project I’ve been working on in my spare time, on and off – a high-resolution simulation of Macquarie Island. After a while living in Unity, it’s finally coming to life in Unreal Engine.

v0.5 is currently on exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

This is a very rough first (well, 12th+) – technical draft, demonstrating 8k texture streaming, Unreal’s blueprint and terrain modelling functions and rendering. It’s a complete game-changer, and blows open the doors to things I’ve wanted to do for years.

Below is a technical demonstration using Cesium for Unreal.

A more detailed work-in-progress post will be available soon.