Assassin's Creed: Shadows - Biomes - Camphor forest - Procedural scatter

For AC Shadows, one of my main works was the procedural scattering for Biomes (CPU & GPU scattering, as well as procedural wildlife spawning), using a wide variety of vegetation, rock, and biomeprop assets. Here you can see a few shots of the camphor forest biome, which makes the majority of the world.
To create the recipes, I spent a good amount of time to research the light and water requirements of the plants, patterns and what planttypes could grow together. In the end, there are of course also some artistic decisions involved.

The final result is not a one-person job, but requires good communication between several departments and team members to get a believable distribution and look, since the structure of the terrain plays a big role how the procedural set up reacts, as well as the tech teams, art direction to provide feedback and of course the many level artists who use the scatter recipes to beautify their locations and also have specific requirements. Not to forget the work of the lighting and weather teams which have a huge impact on the overall and seasonal looks.
Artists I worked together with in the Biome team and contributed a lot to the content you see in the shots:
Terrain sculpting:
https://www.artstation.com/jan_almqvist
https://www.artstation.com/alainlabedie
Terrain textures:
https://www.artstation.com/claudegosselin
https://www.artstation.com/atomfreak
Vegetation assets:
https://www.artstation.com/theophilelebeau
https://www.artstation.com/alexgodbille
Rocks/Cliffs assets:
https://www.artstation.com/maximevincent
LevelArt:
https://www.artstation.com/ariane-lemelin