World Machine to Unreal 4 - Free Project 

ScottishZoop thanks! A lot of this stuff I’m kinda learning while I work at it, and at first I was pretty hesitant to actually start making tutorials but it feels great to know that you guys are enjoying them

Janči Jak it comes with the gumroad project files, along with instructions on how to install it :)

open macro files (library contect) - active quick texture

@@mehmetbaspinar25 thats the answer

@@mehmetbaspinar25 thanks bro. Helped me

Thanks! Yeah meant to make this for awhile, feels good to get back in the game :)

You double click the heightmap, export it. Now run Unreal, go on the landscape creation menu, in the heightmap section you can import a file. Select the file you created with world machine, you should be able to do the same with the diffuse. Click on create and enjoy.

@@Kavriel i can only add one material to landscape, where i have to put diffuse ? i need to make a new material ? why is tthis so complex. i button = finish ? only height map woriking with one button, color you have to work itself ? makes no sence. thanks for reply. i the devs can make this color material with one click, this program will be the next gamechanger in this 3d world !

@@blackswan6386 Import it with one button, i don't know if that exist, but there's got to be a simple way to do it, i'm sure some other tutorials or a follow up of this one must show you how it's done.

Unfortunately, no... The resolution will play an overall massive role in making sure that your landscape asset looks high-res. Maybe if you made a smaller landscape it would work? i.e. one that was exactly 1.025 km, so that the resolution would make sense with the size of the landscape.

@@ArtofLincolnHughes Thanks! Maybe it will make a difference. I now have a smaller Landscape but I don´t know if it works better because it´s more flat. Do you know if it´s possible to change the "Overall Resolution" in UE5 after creating the Landscape? I cannot find out what the resolution is. I can only see it while creating new landscape in UE5.

Yeah, you definitely need the full version to get higher res (the video is the purchased version) - not 100 percent sure, but I think the max resolution with the trial is 1024x1024.

@@ArtofLincolnHughesI gotcha... is this the $119 version or the $300 version?

@@PraxisVisuals think it depends on what you need it for. For most basic stuff, the cheaper one should be good

@@PraxisVisuals man. do you know about torrents?)

Unfortunately World Machine is a paid product, so it limits render resolution unless you buy it.

xu guangwen it’s included in the latest experimental standard version for world machine, but in case you’re missing it upon download, I’ve included it in the Gumroad project files

@@ArtofLincolnHughes Thank you very much for your reply, I have found it on your homepage.I gained a lot of knowledge in this tutorial.

I think it has to do with the resolution. With the free version you're limited to 512pix if I remember correctly.

@@jasonchan5504 you're right now I have the full version and it looks better but thanks

Minecraft Dude I included it in the download package. There should be installation instructions in a notepad file :)

there's a notepad file that comes with the gumroad files detailing what you need to do to fix it :)

it comes with 7 material layers, 3 textures for each (albedo, normal, and channel mask textures), so for whichever ones you want to replace with new ones, you'll need a texture set per layer.

@@ArtofLincolnHughes are you thinking about to create a nice tutorial? It will be very usefull to extract the maximun power of your UE tool.

Alvin Medina not that I know of... try writing the company and telling them your situation, maybe they’ll help you out :)

short answer - sadly not. The generation of the terrain takes place in WM so the res can't increase after that. A solution I use to fix this is export at the highest res you can go and decrease the size of the terrain by a lot. Then you can export each piece individually (by shifting them over) and the stitch all the parts in something like photoshop or gimp. Its a pain in the ass process, but I've gotten resolutions up to 32k with the free version with it.

akaBez hmmm weird, maybe the experimental version. I’ll take a look tonight and get back to you. I might be able to export the macro out and include it in the demo files for those that aren’t using the same version as me

So I just included the Macro in the Gumroad project files - and put a little blurb in the readme file detailing how to install it. Let me know if you have any more issues :)

Art of Lincoln Hughes thank you! Appreciate it :)

Art of Lincoln Hughes I think you replied to the wrong comment :)

akaBez woops lol thanks

I made an auto landscape master material a few months back that comes with the tutorials and all that, basically removing the need for shader creation and all the technical side of integration into UE4 if you're interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bqe9uB3krS0.html , but it basically relies on your purchase of it to function... Maybe one day i'll create another full tutorial on how to create a shader that's perfect for world machine stuff though, as it's a really good idea :)

@@ArtofLincolnHughes Thanks Lincoln, I will have a look at your Landscape Master Material. I've also watched your free Concept Art Tutorial, excellent stuff, learnt so much!!

GvR Designs thanks man, happy the tutorials are helping :)

it comes with the project files on Gumroad. There is a notepad file with the instructions detailing how to install it :)

​@@ArtofLincolnHughes thanks man :D

Thanks bud, but you're biased lol.... Your encouraging comments are kinda like my mom telling me I'm beautiful :)

@@ArtofLincolnHughes "but my mom says im coooool" - Milhouse

yeah that should be fine. I put that more so that if a company downloads it and uses it in their game that they're selling, they'd have to buy the commercial version :)

boriscassata it’s only for importing into unreal 4 as a landscape height map. Most image software won’t import that file format - raw16.

@@ArtofLincolnHughes ah sorry, thanks for the quick answer!

the gumroad project should come with the quick texture macro, as well as a notepad file that explains how to install it :)

hmmmm weird.... Try using the basic coverage macro instead, should come with default World Machine and basically works the same. Try one of the presets there and hook it up the same in the graph, should work fine. If you want to send me a screenshot of the missing node in the macro as well, i could take a look at it. Send it to lincolnhughes@hotmail.com

@@ArtofLincolnHughes Quick Texture not working in World Machine Professional 3024 (Latest Version) Basic Coverage and Extended Overlay worked.

@@jeremygullotto3192 Did you try implementing the quick texture node that i included in the gumroad project files?

Art of Lincoln Hughes yes, but it doesn’t work. When I click and go inside of the quick texture there is an unrecognized node. I emailed you a screenshot.

Jeremy Gullotto ah ok thought that was just the default project version and not the one that comes as a separate macro with the gumroad files

Yeah, World-Machine is crazy fast for texturing terrains. Really hope it helps!

​@@ArtofLincolnHughes I don't know if someone tryed this thing... open the "macro" and find the actual texture maps updated! like Wear, Deposition, all input maps in "macro" after the texturing creation. So in this way we gonna have the Albedo, and Masks precisally updated! And not catch the texture one node before the new changes. Because if not do that, is less precise... is like export the terrain before the erosion node! Of course i think this method only will work if the creator of macro, think about that, and project the macro to allow this in a easy way! Anyway... congratulations for your promotion, i saw your interview was very nice! The World Machine allow us to export a Mesh too, maybe if you have plan to update the landscape material, maybe a Mesh Material gonna be great for your pack, like the Online maps of Battlefield, just 2x2 km of real terrain and the rest is Static mesh of terrain and Billboards. Here in Brazil we love big maps, we don't have money to buy better hardwares, but a massive world is phenomenal

Luciano Jacomeli yeah you could pretty easily create outputs inside of the macro that will give you access to those maps, I just didn’t think it was that relevant for the purpose of the tutorial.. I’m pretty sure they’re actually just taking the same info from the erosion node and maybe clamping it a bit then colorizing it anyways, so it’s probably not changing it that much. I’ll investigate further :) As for the prop material, what’s your email? I’ll send you a free copy :) on my gumroad, there’s also some vista mountains in there for free as well if you’re interested. I’ve been meaning to make a tutorial that shows exactly how to export vista meshes from World-Machine too, so maybe I’ll do that next. Thanks for the info man!

Unfortunately you need to purchase the software to get a higher resolution than 512x512

@@ArtofLincolnHughes fair enough

There should be a notepad file in the project files that shows how to fix that :)

yeah, you need to do it with a landscape though - this should explain it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bqe9uB3krS0.html

@@ArtofLincolnHughes hey was wondering if it would be possible to message you on discord or anywhere

Lecanius you can email me at lincolnhughes@hotmail.com

you're talking about the auto landscape material grasslands channel mask texture? The red channel for that is literally just the macro-variation texture that they used in the kite demo, I just copied it into the red channel of the texture in photoshop.

by the way, did you fix your build error?

@@ArtofLincolnHughes ah okay, and yeha was my bad ^^ i startet WM as x32 not x64 :D

Eddy S ah ok awesome, happy you figured it out :)

Every heightmap I output from WM is REALLLLYY grey... Help pls :P

send a screen of your node graph in world machine to lincolnhughes@hotmail.com . It's probably something to do with your height output settings, so open that node's settings and take a screen and send that too k

Nsovo Mabasa check out the gumroad project files. They come with the macro, and have instructions detailing how to add it in.

Bortuda the macro comes with the project files, along with instructions on how to install it. Yes, the software isn’t free, but the project files made for this tutorial are.

Just depends on your workflow. Being able to hammer out a high-quality, gigantic terrain in under 20 minutes definitely makes it relevant to not just me personally, but any artistic industry as a whole.

@@ArtofLincolnHughes Agreed. I will say that I do find WC2 easier to work with, but it could be because I'm more visual. I do seem to be having some difficulty getting the splatmap channels to work in WC2, where it appears to be a much simpler process on how you select custom outputs in WM.

@@ArtofLincolnHughes World Machine is nice for big mountains or small scale landscape. It's a nightmare if you plan to use it to make a large open world map with beach, river, moutains, valley, etc.