Brushify - Create Natural Roads in Unreal Engine 4 

Its a clouds skydome with a custom shader. The textures are from hdrihaven.

@@HavokSage Thanks.

@@HavokSage which hdri map specifically ?

Hey thankyou!!! Im working bow on improving all packs. What did you mean by a custom pack? My goal is to create all earth biomes.

it's on my todo list!

heheh, sheffield is my hometown :D

@@HavokSage I live 10 miles away in chesterfield, small world

I have the country roads pack and it has asphalt.

You have to install both the first and third person templates. Then you can choose between them in world settings.

Hey, you can always texture paint even after you've imported your splatmaps.

@@HavokSage Thank you, another question, do you enable edit layers for the landscape and create a separate layer in the landscape-manage panel just for splines? Or is this just an optional practice?

hey, in the example map i just made some small trails. You can adjust the width of the road using the landscape splines.

Hey, yes that will work just fine. Just have to make sure the tracks run across the whole texture in the correct orientation.

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I mean it's a low end graphics card from 5 years ago. There are going to be limits to what it can possibly handle. In 2021 it's not really possible for me to cater for such low spec hardware, it would get too confusing to have multiple versions. The average GPU these days is around GTX 1070 equivalent, so that is the specification i build for. The way that brushify is built is for customization and modularity though, so it's possible for you to strip out all of the material functions and reduce it to only a single paint layer etc..

Hey, do you have the latest version the pack? As far as I'm aware that issue was previously resolved in a patch. If it's not resolved I can check it asap.

You can specify a landscape paint layer in the spline properties. So you can use that to have Remove procedural layer paint automatically where the spline goes. That will take care of the procedural grass. You can also go into procedural foliage spawners and put Removeprocedural in the excluded paint layers. The system is actually well thought out.

@@HavokSage appreciate the reply! I guess the procedural foliage spawner I’m using already had the remove foliage set up. I was able to just paint, resimulate the foliage and it worked! Thank you!

yes you can, it is Mesh that assign to spline that can be any mesh and it will conform to any UE4 landscape, another aspect is you have Mat Instance set up for surfaces so you can apply to it ..or you could apply your own mat if you choose ...the project files is setup neat and tidy ...

I want to create my own tutorial on this eventually, but this one is pretty close: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TwWDT5zCnLg.htmlsi=fGGT68Bp2vqudmIU Im actually in Sheffield!

is this a question?

the hdri system and texture is all included with the pack. it was converted to unreal from www.hdrihaven.com/

Joe Garth thanks for the response! Very interesting. Really like the brushify project btw! 👍🏻

never use non destructive :)) it's very unstable. I simply paint the usual mud layer.

@@HavokSage So hand painting is safer and more stable then. Good, I just hand painted, looks nicer and more natural anyway 😉

Hey, are you on the highest graphics settings? Try to turn foliage to epic.

@@HavokSage yes i am on cinematic settings, i am using your clover foliage model and painting it on a terrain it's just disappearing as i said earlier.

Yes, you can see that on the product pages.

Hey, please check the FAQ: www.brushify.io/faq all packs are designed to be merged together.

Its a cloud skydome with a custom shader. You can find them on hdrihaven. They require a bit of work to get then looking correct inengine though.

Hi, sounds like you're adding the mesh to the control points rather than the segments. make sure to Select All segments. Then you add it to Landscape Spline Mesh slot. The setup hasn't changed since UE4.

Hey, yes its possible. The footprints system has to be custom setup for your character. This developer successfully implemented it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X9ew9C_9ODs.html

Yes all packs include the example scenes as shown in the screenshots.

Hey, nope just a skydome. Everything is included in the pack.

Hi you cannot rotate textures in UE4 unless you do so in the shader (which costs extra perf). I'd recommend to simply rotate in photoshop. If you have many textures you can use Irfanviews batch converter to rotate many textures at once.

@@HavokSage didn't even think about to simply rotate them in PS.. thank you!

I will try to have a dedicated video to skies at some point!

its inside the road material. hasn't changed :)

@@HavokSage imgur.com/qZelAM1 Do I need to turn on some extra switch parameter to see the "Edge Blending" section or plug something in the parent material? I have the latest natural road pack, and I don't see that option. :(

There is a paint layer, Remove Procedural. Add a non-weightblended layer info to that and then paint. It will remove the grass. You can also add the paint layer in the spline properties so that it paints on the entire road.

@@HavokSage how do you add the paint layer in the spline properties? I'm trying to build player defined roadways, so i can't paint over them in the terrain editor

Thanks for your feedback

Hi, could i see a screenshot or video of this issue? the rendering is fine in UE5 on my end. Cheers Joe

@@HavokSage Many thanks for getting back so fast, that was great. I didn't want to post here publicly a link to my google drive, so I sent you a note through brushify.io with more details. Thanks again. After the resolution (or if it turns out I'm just being dumb :-)), I'll come here and mention the result because it could be useful to others.

fixed! thanks so for calling that out! must have cut it off when i copy and pasted the description

It all depends what your skillset is. For instance Brushify assets are all optimized, all have LODs, all make smart use of drawcalls, texture memory etc. the same goes for many marketplace assets. With that said, you still need level designers that understand optimization so that they know how to use the assets, and know the limitations of the engine and work with those limits. Generally though the main blocker for game devs is not the Art side. It's Programming and logic, things like pathfinding, AI, multiplayer etc. those are real showstoppers if you don't have decent programmer on board. The other thing is that high end graphics usually aren't the focus for indie devs, they would much rather have their game run on 5 year old PC's and appeal to a larger audience that way. The more people that can run the game at 60FPS+ the more potential customers.

@@HavokSage I see what you mean. Additionally how does stuff like this work financially/claim wise? All of this Brushify content? I can go buy one of your 'realistic something' packs for $20 and then go make a game with it no strings attached? Like if I made a game using the Brushify assets I bought from you and it got hypothetically as big as like Flappybird, Fortnite, among us, ect.-- there'd be no strings attached? That money would be mine and you'd have no claim on it even though I'm using your assets (granted, that I would have bought off you)? I'm not trying to sound like a dick who wants to grab something and run, I'm just trying to understand the actual financial reality around (really fantastic) assets like this

Correct, Brushify is a tool/asset infrastructure for unreal engine 4. www.brushify.io

hey, do you mean the roads don't merge? unfortunately that's a limitation of the unreal spline system.

Hey, the grass is included in the pack and example scene

can you make a video about how to make the grass ground?@@HavokSage

Hey, Were the roads rendering correctly before you click? Maybe shaders are compiling.

@@HavokSage Thanks for getting back to me on this. The material instances go completely blank when I click on them in the menu itself. No compiling, nothing. For example, when you double click an instance, it opens a viewer window. The moment I do that, that's when it goes blank. When I add it to the mesh, same effect; Switches to World Grid Material.

@@bigtime9597 does it render correctly when you apply the landscape? (i presume you mean the landscape material.) You also need to follow the other steps in the getting started tutorial. Like applying layer infos. There is a bug with the unreal material preview showing black sometimes.

@@HavokSage I've been working with your Natural Roads pack, just to be clear. The materials don't render correctly, neither when applied nor previewed. I apologize if this is starting to bug you.

@@bigtime9597 hey, no worries at all! Im here to help! So the shaders aren't compiling at all? Are there any errors?

hi, yes it is.

in the example scene i made some small paths, but you can of course make the roads wider with the spline tool.