Foliage Growth Effect in Unreal Engine 5.4! (Procedural) 

For everyone who had the texture issue with foliage in version 5.4 only appears when the cloner is at World Center X0 Y0 Z0, resulting in black textures. A temporary solution: offset the Z axis to 0.01, which resolves the problem for now.

BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....................... I've been searching for a tutorial like this for like soooooo long. I can't believe it's finally something that can be done inside of Unreal Engine 5.4!!! Really really really appreciate the time you've put.....

Ali, you're destined for greatness, thank you for sharing such powerful knowledge with the community! Super easy to follow, charismatic, and extremely clean presentation. Kudos!

New favorite page. Your tutorials are the perfect mix of information and pace. Please keep creating more!

Thanks everyone for the amazing feedback and support 🥹 Seriously means a lot, and also I’ll get back to your questions ASAP! In the middle of travelling at the moment so once I get back I’ll be making some more fun tutorials 🤞🏽🫶🏽

Amazing simple tutorial man. Very easy to follow. I feel like II absorbed possibly 100% of that in one watch. I also really liked how you show the bugs and crashess that are still prevalent.

This is absolute gold! You have a unique approach on the new cloner and the detail of your teaching (and bloopers) are very much appreciated! Please keep us informed as you learn more about 5.4 Motion Design!

Very relaxing, love the music background, and of course your amazing tuto. CHeers

Oh man, I've been struggling with the growth effect for 6 months. Thanks for the tutorial, it's super amazing! Now I can't wait for 5.4 to bring this project again. Motion design from 5.4 is super powerful

You are the actual goat for this.

Nature is healing! Amazing effect!

Instant like man. Good job😊 subscribed

Great work Ali!, Nicely presented All the best inshaAllah

This is the tutorial I have looking for !!! Thank you very much !!!

Thank you for great and detailed tutorial. Learnt a lot in a really practical way

Soo many possiblities ...thanks for the tutorial man...i was too lazy to do this in blender... now i can do this effect in unreal...great....make more these type of tuts...great tutorial

Thank you for the workflow. Wanted to see sth like this so it click better for me.

I really loved this video! As it's new, there isn't a lot of content out there right now for UE 'Motion Graphics' tools in 3D pipeline - similar approaches that you would use to C4D or Blender, like you did here. I've seen some for a 2.5D pipeline, almost similar to After Effects 3D layers (but easier use), however, proper 3D for motion graphics within Unreal is certainly of interest. Your content on this workflow is a great wealth of knowledge, would love to see more.

Hey man your tutorial was really helpful thank you. Don’t worry about correcting yourself so much, you’re doing great 👍

This is super cool!

OHYA! Thanks, will definitely use this

5.4 I didn't have the manual, so I didn't know much about the features, but thanks to this tutorial, I've learned a lot. Thank you

Thank you Al ifor the tutorial!!

love your videos! ✌

This motion tools will help not only in motion graphics but in games too, I hope performant will be good. Thx for tut.

This is nice great job 🤙🏾

WOW. thank bro. I live your videos series.

thk you so much for this video, it's very cool !!

Great video - thank you:)

Yes, more please😍

At the end, where you are moving he sphere effector, would be a great way to attach to the feet of a character, so as the chracter walks, where it steps, depending on the length of time they stand there, foliage could grow or die. Spawn seperate Cloners for each foot. I could just imagine a dragon with fur like grass, and scales on its underside walking through a prairie, and where it steps, prairie flowers grow, and then wither and die as it walks away

its lovely

loved it thankyou very much

Nice simply tutor, thank U...very usefull

amazingggg tutorial thanks

Very cool!

Amazing

super cool❤

❤ thanks for this

Thank you for this tutorial, this was extremely helpful in my understanding of the current work flow for a project, though the meshes really did not work for me. However, I would also like to request if you could also create a niagra tutorial for the same foliage growth in unreal that would be extremely helpful.

Hey, first off: thanks for the tutorial! This is so cool! For everyone having issues with the black material - there's a temporary solution: Offset the Z axis of the cloner to 0.01 - this resolves the problem and shows the material again

amazing_ thank you so much bro

THANK YOU

I love the first frame, it looks like two hands in shadow in the shape of a dragon.

it seems that boundaries are being pushed by UE5.4, enabling the simulation of Houdini effects like liquids and particles, procedural growth, and wind! 🔥

I had just watched your Cloners and Effectors video yesterday and was going to reach out to you to see if you knew a way to do this sort of effect. I've had a portfolio project in my head for years where it started as a zbrush piece but wanted to bring it to live in a game engine and now, it seems I can. Thank you Now I just gotta wait til 5.4 releases for everyone!

Amazing bro, subbed ! but where do you get 5.4

master

Doooope!!

omaga i think i'll migrate to 100% unreal in a few months

Thanks for the tutorial, this looks awesome! But is it possible to clone alembic instead of static meshes? I tried adding a geomеtry cache to the cloner, but only one working alembic animation appears, you can only increase the number by manual copying

So can you do this in game as well?

Hi! Great tut! Anyone else get the issue of the "lillys" (or other vegetation) appears everywhere in the space but not on the actual model?

Very cool, this is helpfull, thanks🥰 are you planning to put some template online for learning purpose?

Thanks for the tutorial. Question: My cloner grows in certain spots only by default ;) I added over 30k samples and I am using the wooden barrel from Quixel. this happens without having the Scale "0" effectors in those areas. it seems the mesh does not have vertexes there to spawn. but I am not sure. 2nd question is: The cloner on the tree bark spawned randomly in the space and not on the tree bark. So, I had to use another asset.

good music

Ok, so I have a problem! Maybe someone knows the answer. I am using a cloner for a growth effect with two effectors. One of them is a plane type for growth animation, and the other is a sphere type to exclude that region from the effect for some time. Everything works fine until I start to animate the sphere effector to cover that region with foliage when I need it. In that case, it works weirdly - the foliage scale in the sphere region has no limits and starts growing infinitely. Some minor changes inside the cloner help, but after a new loop of animation, everything starts again

Great video! This was a lot of help! Question: The material for the plants...I made a material just like yours, but it still isn't showing any color in the viewport. I tried forcing an update and turning it On/Off a bunch of times. Is there anything else that you, or anyone else, know any other ways to remedy this issue?

I wonder how to setup the basic studio and light. do you have any plan to make the basic setup?

Dang, didn't know UE5 can do that. Pretty interesting.

cool! it's possible to attach cloner into an animated character?

can you please share your render settings?

Niceeeee, It's time to ge back to unreal I bet. Is this path traced or ray traced? If ray traced it's pretty close to path traced from other renderers

I don't know if it's in large-scale architectural and plant scenes.... Push and scatter combination changes. What will happen

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Do you know how I could have the tree grow with the foliage? I've tried putting an effector on the individual tree mesh but it doesn't work the way I'd like it to. Kind of like a tree growing from nothing. Thanks!

hi Ali thanks for your video, what is your pc spec? because idk why im lagging asf with only 5000 instance in cloner with a pretty good spec :o

one app to rule them all

are you able to add this effect to text? When I tried changing the cloner to effect my text, it only displayed on one of the letters in my word

5.4.1 here bro, i follow everything you do but when i tweak the cloning number, wont do anything. what am i doing wrong? thanks!

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Move the cloner to 0.1 offset to fix the textures

well when i put the cloner to mesh and select the mesh the plants are gone and not appearing back tried it on a different mesh and sadly same result, good tutorial doe !

thx for the tutorial, reall nice technique.. just one question: when I up the count of the lillys to 7500 they son't cover the whole bark like in the tutorial. they seem to cover spots more densly but not the whole thing

Hello, I downloaded 5.4 just for this effect. I never had any problems in 5.3, but 5.4 takes a very long time to loading screen and I crash at the slightest operation. What can I do? 5.4 does not work properly. By the way, my computer and system are quite sufficient

Many thanks for this tutoriel ! when i drag the Lilys meshes into the cloner, Unreal crash :( do you know why ?

killer. can this use wind to rustle the leaves?

because the sheets have only one color and do not keep the original material... I am learning slowly.

hello ali I want your advice for one who want start learning 3d for motion graphic b3d or c4d?

Gangster!

Question 2: I keep trying to do the spawn on a pillar mesh. Everything is spawning, but it is spawning the meshes just off to the side of the mesh. Is there an offset somewhere that can adjust this?

For some reason, the when the Layout Name is set to Mesh, it's not working, even with other meshes not just foliage. If anyone knows anything about this please tell...

Thank you! But I have a question, when I render ,all the plants will disappear. That’s why😢

When I change the Cloner's layout name to mesh, my foliage disappears. However they are visible in the grid and different layout options. I tried to tun it on and off and even force cloner update but to no avail. Did anyone have this issue? Any fixes?

can we do this in unreal engine 5.3 ?

TUTORIAAAAL

Unreal 4D

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Thank you for the lesson! How to animate the camera?