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Hello!let's solve this. To add the hornbeams trees, you need to go in the marketplace in the epic games launcher. If you type "megascan trees," you'll find a few free collections, and one of those is the Hornbeams pack. Hope it helps!
@@UnrealverseLabs never mind, I figured it out. Even though it says it’s not compatible, just choosing engine 5.3 will add it anyway. Didn’t know this was possible.
Great to see, I am just about to watch this and see how it matches to my methods. I have only had 6 hours inside UE but a few months in Gaea. Edit: Great start for anyone who wants to start Gaea to Unreal. Great way of explaining it down to the basics. There is another way to make it to 5km with a quick bit of math in the scale. I even worked out how to get it for maps at 4033 resolution for those with a Gaea license. I will be learning more of your videos.
A bit of a different question, how would you assign a custom water spline to be used in the water system, for example if I generate a curve with houdini engine, how do I assign it to the water system for the river. Great video though! Unreal PCG are getting better
That's a very good question and it would awesome if it was possible. I never did that before, I took a look on the plugin, even in the c++ classes but not luck. If I find a way to do that, I reply you again with the solution. That would something that I'd like to do as well.
@@UnrealverseLabs I know there’s a module in the python library called unreal.WaterSplineComponent, it could be possible to read certain splines with a tag and create a spline with that?
There is no problem with the content of this water plug-in when the game is running, but it does not work properly during lens rendering and cannot be rendered! Is there a solution? Thanks
Hello! That's odd. A few people are complaining about similar problems, but I couldn't find the same error testing here. It might not solve the problem, but have you tried another version of the engine or a new project, to see if it's the version or something in your project?Maybe there is something in your project that need to activate some additional plugins.
@@UnrealverseLabs Hello, glad to get your reply. I am currently on versions 5.3.2 and 5.4.1. The 5.3.2 version is normal. In 5.4.1, the water body cannot be rendered in the lens sequence. The same is true for new projects. I have not found a solution yet. No official reply has been received! No matter what, there are other solutions, so thank you! I hope Epic can solve this problem as soon as possible!
Very good, my man I'm Brazilian, and it´s very hard to find good tutorials like this in portuguese! Please, if u can do a tutorial of glass and metalic material, i'm on a trouble with these :D Thanks!
Glad you like it! I could do some tutorials in Portuguese but I was wondering if anyone would watch. :D About Glass materials I'm planning to do a video about it. I give you a heads up when I posted. Thanks for the comment man!
How do the textures from GAEA interact with a master material we want to use for our heightmap landscape? For example, if I have master material with 4 layers, grass, rocks, etc, and I import the textures from GAEA, will this textures now apply to my master material layers? Or will they only apply to the landscape? I ask because if my master material layers don’t line up exactly with textures from GAEA then the textures could look “off” (Grass textures for rocks and rock textures for grass, etc)
Hello @Josh_Alfaro. The masks that you created on Gaea (Slope, Snowfall, Flow and so on) need the height map generated in Gaea as a Landscape to be accurate. So you need to import the height map (from the erosion node usually) to Unreal Engine and generate a landscape with it. After that you can use the masks that you create on gaea or the textures to use in your material layers directly on Unreal Engine. They will apply the material that in the material layer all over your landscape using the Gaea mask as reference. If you change the Heightmap inside of Unreal Engine the mask won't be 100% accurate and you will need some manual work painting the landscape.
Can you please make a tutorial on how to make a master material based on height blend? Maybe layers with cliff, grass, and water? This would be amazing!
@@UnrealverseLabs do you know how to turn a PCG instance, say if a mossy cliff with foliage, into an assembly that he spawned in a static mesh spawner?
Before I attempt this, I have an imported heightmap that is larger than the basic startup map. Will I have an issue applying these features on a larger map? I ask because this does not seem to work on my map...
Hello @Preirin . If you generate a landscape using a height map e got the data from that landscape I don't see why wouldn't work. You still having issues with that?
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but you can still use the input node for landscape. If you change the label to Landscape, and change the Allowed type to Landscape or Surface, it will work. You don't really need the Get Landscape Data node
Another great PCG tut, thank you! Looking forward to more, 5.4 official will probably hit soon. One comment: at 15:00 when you switch to Landscape>Paint mode, my Layers didn't show up on my Landscape until I hit the + button "Create Layer Info" to the right of the Grass and Path layers in the Paint menu.
Nice. Btw the water interop plugin adds a Get Water Spline Data node that makes it easier to get properly sized points along the river spline, and also exposes metadata like flow velocity etc. It's wip but should give a leg up.
Thanks for the tip! I'm gonna take a look!also we can use a material on the river bottom using the water system and filter by the material. It works well too!
Hello!For me the Water System is working without any problems on the 5.4 Preview. Sometimes the Water Plugin has some bugs (for still be an experimental plugin) regardless of the version. Have you checked, if there is more than one water brush in the outliner? or test the Water System in other level or even in other project?
@@aidz2009 hello!Might be a bug for the 5.4 preview, even though my UE 5.4 the water system is working fine. - Did you try a more stable version like the 5.3 or 5.3.2 to see if the problem persists? - Also, did you change the Water Shader properties directly on the Water Shader material from the Watersystem, if you do that all the changes that you did on the water shader will reflect acroos all your projects. If the problem is across projects the chance to be something with your Unreal version vs Computer or a change directly on the Water System is more likely.
Great video! Thank you so much. I have a question. I love the idea of creating this master material and then utilizing it to create all other materials in my project. fantastic. I am very new to Unreal so please excuse my in experience if this question seems silly. How do I have this 'MAster Material' inside all my new projects? Do i need to create this 'Master Material' each time in a new project? Thanks so much 😁
Hello and thank for your comment! Your question is really good. To do that, you need to go in your master material inside of the Unreal, RMB on the material and choose the option "Asset Actions" and then "Migrate". After that you need to choose the project that you want to migrate to.
Hello!Hello! If you want to create a landscape and use the masks from Gaea, you need to employ the Landscape Layer Blend Node and apply the masks in each layer.
Can you make small tutorial on it. I try these in blender but texture resolution was very low and it is not look realistic. But i used other texture from blender market it works well.
@@UnrealverseLabs I just finished completing this one. You do things a bit different than me, was fun to watch =D it's good! I use Unreal Engine for cinematics not for video games, so is always nice to find channels that go over stuff like this.
@@UnrealverseLabs yes, when I create landscape I make a landscape material where I paint the materials of my choosing on. So I create several layers. Although I recently hit a slight problem. I wanted to create multiple layers AND take advantage of the displacement. But it greyed out sections of my landscape. So when I return to my home I will research it to find out why. I suspect it's due to different heights of each texture. But I can't be certain. Also I'm curious, was the reference photo you used for this from the GOG holiday sale? I saw it on GOG yesterday and was like "I know this photo!!" 😁
Would love to see how you applied the textures in this, one thing I've noticed using the landscape with Gaea and lumen is that the landscape is not casting shadows properly.
The tutorial about the material will be online very soon 😉! About the casting shadows, I don't remember having problems as such . The real-time capture shadow usually works well. I often do see problems with mesh artifacts on gaea imported height maps, though!
Sorry but I don't understand, @7:00 why not just use a Multiply and Scalar Parameter? Does also including the Components masks actually make a difference?
Hey @michaelkukula. If you're referring to ambient occlusion (AO), you just need to use a Multiply and a Vector 1 Param to control the AO Strength. This is different from Roughness and Normal, as they function differently. Also, for AO, you don't need to isolate any channel using masks if you have the AO map alone. You would only need to isolate a channel for AO if you're using an ORD map.
Oh sure, about the normals, it's a bit complicated how it works under the hood, but long story short: We need to mask each channel in the normal because each channel stores different information. Red Channel (X-axis): The red channel represents the X-axis or the horizontal direction. It determines how the surface faces left or right. Green Channel (Y-axis): The green channel represents the Y-axis or the vertical direction. It determines how the surface faces up or down. Blue Channel (Z-axis): The blue channel represents the Z-axis or the depth direction. It determines how the surface faces toward or away from the viewer. So, when we increase the intensity of the R and G values, we're increasing the intensity of how the normal vector is applied to each pixel. Then, together with the blue channel, we translate this information to the texture. I hope it helps!"
Curious your thoughts on something. I use Unreal Engine for cinematics (or rather I've been learning to), not video games. I had an idea for a scene where I have a character on a boat. The trouble is I can't seem to figure out how to control water in Unreal Engine. I had thought about one of two options. Either A: Have it play out as a game, record it that way, then make adjustments, or B: create the water as a plane in Blender, then have it move in a predictable manner and then have the boat move along it. What would your preferred method be?
Hey, man. In this specific scene, I'm using the Water System Plugin from Unreal. If you haven't used it before, you need to enable it in the plugins panel. I believe the water system will be a good balance between quality and ease of setup because you can control caustics, foam, and waves with this system. Once you have some water using the water system, you can create a blueprint of your boat with a 'buoyancy' component on it. Set up the buoyancy the way you think is best, and your boat will interact with the water in real time. I hope it helps!
Im a blender user and Im currently trying to use unreal engine, compared to blender, material or graphic nodes in unreal engine are much more complex, and this pbr tutorial really helped me, thank you mate!
