A large-scale, cinematic medieval city and landscape scene designed for wide establishing shots and environment renders.
The scene features a fortified city surrounded by rivers, bridges and distant mountain ranges, lit by a low sun with visible volumetric sun rays and layered atmospheric depth.

This is a static (non-animated) scene, fully set up and ready for lighting tweaks, camera placement and final rendering.

All building assets were assembled by me, and custom material setups were applied to automatically randomize roof and wall materials per building, adding visual variation across the entire city.

The foreground and background mountain terrain were created in Gaea and textured inside Blender.
Trees were scattered using Blender’s Scatter on Surface modifier and a custom Geometry Nodes setup that distributes vegetation along curves.
For performance, the distant forest areas use alpha tree planes that were scattered in the background.

The scene uses true volumetric fog and clouds (not image planes), including large-scale atmospheric fog for depth and local volumetrics for light interaction.
Rocks throughout the environment were mostly placed manually for better composition control.
Multiple foliage types were scattered on the main foreground terrain using Scatter on Surface together with manually painted vertex groups.

A basic compositing setup is included to provide color grading, glare and sun rays directly in Blender.

CC0 assets used in this project were sourced from AmbientCG.com, PolyHaven.com, and Pexels.com.