Advanced Vertex Painting Techniques 

This is the best tutorial on vertex blending I came across.

Dude, this was exactly what i was looking for! Nice tutorial, step by step with visualization of every level of detail you added in. I will test it now in my project, but im sure, it will make it definetly more realistic now. Thanks man!

Hey there, love your videos, as someone interested in learning more about materials your channel is gold. I would love to see a video regarding layered materials and your thoughts on the system. Feels like a bit of an untapped part of the engine as far as training goes. I've got the basic idea down but seeing something more advanced would be awesome. Keep up the great work!

Amazing tutorial on vertex blending! Thank you!

@tharlevfx You're videos are so good, love the way you start off super simple then add complexity, makes it so much easier to digest. Keep up the good work Sir!

Your tutorial are great ! You cover most of things really simply and your tutorial are easy to follow! You literally are a life-saver for people starting Unreal Engine! Thanks a lot for doing that. Keep continuing your content we appreciate it ;)

Thank you so much mate. Absolutely awesome stuff and way in which you explain it is great.

Thank you, I was looking for something like this and it does help a lot.

Awesome!

Fantastic stuff!

I think we need to invert the height map before the heightlerp node so that the plaster stays in the brick joints rather than avoiding them.

you are really good sir, thank you for sharing this content!

Thank you tharlevfx, Good explanation. this is very impressive for my individual project. I was a bit worried to know how the vertex paint works in unreal.

Duuuudee!!!! Great tutorial.

Excellent work learned a lot from you really appreciate these tutorials

Really nice content... you deserve more views.

one of the best tutorials on this subject I have seen (!). Some Questions: 1. Why don't you use the "MayLayerBlend_StandardWIthDisplacement?". I understood this node allows us to blend between 2 MaterialAttribute's. 2. There is also a node called "HeightLerpWithTwoHeightMaps". In it the transitionphase (VertexColor Red in our case) gets inverted, than Height Texture 1 gets added, than +1 to get A. Now A-B gives you the Alpha where B is the Heighttexture 2 added to the VertexColor after its multiplied by 2. I honestly do not understand the logic behind this math and im hoping you could provide some insights in this troubled Artist mind :P. In specific, why the 1-X on the VertexColor?

Thank you!

Thank you for the great tutorial! It was super helpful.

Highly Appreciated. thank you, Sir, Subscribed

Love your videos !! Thanks a lot

This looks great, thanks so much!

Thank you very much for this thorough tutorial! Followed everything exactly, material function working as expected, however when I try to integrate it into my master material it says I have compilation errors in my material and I can't quite figure out what's causing it... has it maybe sth to do with me using the alpha channel of my vertex colors..? Maybe it's also because I'm plugging the results of my MF directly into the Alpha of my BlendMaterialAttributes? 🤔 (Also very sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm super new to UE!)

Do you know how models in Banjo Kazooie handled vertex painting interpolation? I see all over the models on websites like noclip where textures are and aren't used, however, there are crisp borders around specific areas of the model that technically should have blending. For example: Banjo's stomach has a clearly defined perimeter that has no blending between the peach of his stomach and the brown of his fur. Was Rare using edge masks, do you know? Or is there some other technique that somehow prevents a vertices from interpolating across two separate faces its attached to? Hopefully this question makes sense to you.

thanks

Hi , thank for the tutorial . how do you create the paramter node transition and contrast . it seems that you clicked on a shortcut to create them but didn't notify witch one it is ? Thank you

Very Helpful, keep up :)!

Thanks for the tutorial, is very useful! How about if you would like to define height values to the different materials? for example 0 to the bricks and 0.5 to the plaster/paint to have a normal map gradient on the edge of the plaster/paint? I don't know if I make any sense ...

Great Content as always Tom. The edge noise trick is really useful, will definitely be using that one.

How to mix between landscape materials, material instances and such ? Or for example master materials, let's say like the ones in Rural Australia nonlandscape materials and materials instances. I'd love to see tutorial on this. Thanks.

Awesome tutorial, how would you add a normal to that inbetween blend so you get something like a flakey paint normal in between a brick/plaster?

Is it possible to have a peeling wallpaper effect on vertex paint blending?

Thanks for the tutorial, How do I blend 3 textuers with 3 height blends on it. For example: Brick, plaster and Dirt.

I am using Unreal Engine 4.27.2 and How come in your Material fuction view (16:08), The CheapContrast (S) is missing. Why is that? Also, at (16:49) You took the MF_AddNoiseToGradient's result and plugged it into Transistion Phrase (S) outlet, When I did that, it caused an Error. (My Vertex Color was plugged into Gradient (S) aswell). What is causing my error? Thanks if you respond!

Great Video, Thank You... I wonder if you could help me? I have a problem, before I watch this video I accidentally painted one mesh and now every single Material in the Entire engine🤦‍♂️ has a stain on it. How can I change it back?

Can I use POM with vertex painting?

Does the orientation of the gradient change depending on the direction you paint? Because in the example it goes from 0-1 horizontally.

Thank you so much ;-)

yeah nice, I tried the edge noise setup, and it constantly crashes when opening the Material Function

thank's for the video! is there any way that you can save the blend as a texture/material? and use it to different mesh? thank you!

Hi, your explanation was fantastic, but i have a problem when i try to apply vertex painting to a BP prefab nothing happens it only works with static meshes, is there anyway i could implement vertex painting with BP also?

I didn't understand the world displacement part. Anyways, how can you paint with a third material using this technique? I was thinking maybe another vertex colour channel (lets say green), but i dont know how to combine that in. I tried using two BlendMAterialAttributes Nodes, but that did not work

Hi quick question is height lerp usable with POM?

does anybody else get an error when plugging the material function into base color?

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I've just discovered your channel and it's awesome ! Currently learning level design with UE4 and your tutos help me so much ! May I ask your something sir ? I found another video tutorial which seems similar to this tuto, especially the end with the edge noise trick. The vid is here : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rumECnGptgw.html Though, his settings are differents. Just look around 10min. Then the result around 17min is just like your (the nices variations on the edge). Problem is that his video freeze like hell. I don't understand english 100% perfectly so without the video, I can't get what he does, sadly... Does his method tell you something ? Have you another tuto more similar to what he does on your channel ? I'm very curious about this thing ! It's like he does the same thing that you (a bit more customisable maybe ?) but with multiple RGB channels and some colorful noise texture (you use them in your vid called "Unreal Shader Math 101", notably) but really, I can't get what he does exactly... :-( Thank you again for all your work. Really appreciate this ! +1 subscriber !

Is there a way to use more than R G B A in the painting. I am using RGB for tint colour and Alpha for the 2nd layer blending, I've run out of channels, any way to get more for things like dirt etc?

Nice tutorials. In all your videos I feel you are really zoomed out which makes things a bit hard to read. In unreal looks fine but would definitly be easier to read if you zoomed in 0.33x more

one vid for 4.25 be great seems there's a little difference

Fantastic work, as usual Tom. This solution works for my stuff too, so result!

Wow! Thank you, this is exactly what i needed now))

how do i vertex paint and save it in ue5

Thank you. Its very cool trick!

Hi tharlevfx, I have a question for you. Actually I asked it yesterday here in the comments, but for some reason it has disappeared. I hope it's just a youtube bug, so I'll ask it again if you don't mind. I'd like to add one feature to material blending which I believe make its even more realistic and believable. Basically it's kind of a slope on the edge between two materials, showing a difference in height for the brick and the plaster layers. Hope you can imagine what I'm talking about. Could you please explain or make a tutorial on how to achieve that? Thank you!

amazing video, thanks

for example I will add a worldalignedblend "SNOW" at the end of blendmatattrib how can I do that? Lerp and HeightLerp doesn't work.

how about the paint texture?

reallycool

awesome tutorial, ammm for some reason I can not get the same result as the function(MF_addnoise), I made the same structure but im getting a linear gradient, any clue?

hello i need help, hello, i have been trying to find out a solution on how to use vertex paint from blender to help guide material placement onto a model, let me say it is a window, it has a wooden frame, a metal frame and glass... i have seperated all these material elements by vertex color in blender, all i want is to bring it to unreal engine, be able to setup material instances of glass, wood and metal so as i can plug them into a master material that identifies the vertex paint in a mesh, separates each vertex color on its own and i can apply individual material instances per vertex paint group... i have looked everywhere and everyone is howing how to blend two textures with vertex paint... i want to be able to apply specific material instances on various vertex paint sections of the model and can utilize it on other models... please