Irish Landscapes

Irish Landscapes adds terrain materials for Atlantic Ireland and the Scottish Isles. Evoke the landscapes of the wild Atlantic coasts of Ireland and Western Scotland with this set of custom materials. We begin the set with materials for recreating the look of upland blanket bogs, found all over these stark, beautiful areas. 1. Blanket Bog The 'base coat' for large areas of upland. Use large brushes (250+) and high strength to paint the base layer for the landscape. 2. Blanket Bog B Use with smaller brushes (125+) and medium-low strength to dab this darker, denser texture into the base coat and break up any patterning. 3. Cut Turf (spread sods): Wet, near-black peat covered with dark brick-shaped sods drying in random orientations, with puddles in between. The sods are raised and shadowed at their edges, so they should read as lumps. A little wet grass grows back, with the odd bog cotton head, at 1.5 tufts per m² so the sods stay visible. 4. Turf Bank (bare peat): Dark bare peat with fine vertical spade marks and faint layering, slightly glossy, with no vegetation. Making a Cutaway: 1. Lower the terrain 1-2m in a long, narrow strip, keeping one side as steep as the tools allow. That steep side is the bank face. 2. Paint the face with Turf Bank. 3. Paint the cut floor and the top lip with Cut Turf, at full strength on the floor and softer on the lip. 4. Blend Blanket Bog back in around the edges at 30-50% strength. 5. Wet Rushy Grass Bright green wet grassland with soft rush clumps, for bog margins, streams and wet fields. 6. Bog Cotton Patch Drifts of cottongrass in white seed heads. Paint loose patches on wet bog. 7. Bog Pools and Puddles Dark, glossy peat water in irregular pools with sphagnum rims. Dab sparingly in hollows and on cut-over floors. 8. Heather Clumps Rounded clumps of ling heather, part flowering purple, part brown, on dark peat. For drier banks and slopes. 9. Granite Outcrops Grey-pink Donegal granite with joints, grey and orange lichen and moss between slabs. Pair with boulder assets.