That’s some really good info. Thanks for sharing! I didn’t know about that feature!

@@Littlerolz So you have missed the hype over microdisplacement as it was introduced in Blender some versions ago? 🤔

Yawnster- Anybody that understands what you're saying doesn't need this video.

@@Littlerolz ever heard of world machine or used it?..Mostly people use that for ue5 and im starting to learn ue5 but world machine licence is pricey so comparing the 2 which would you reccomend?

@@justanopinion7029 no I’ve not heard of it sorry so can’t offer an opinion on it. I do think in many cases it’s worth learning terrain sculpting and procedural terrain as it can be used for a verity of projects then. But a dedicated programme for world building I’d imagine would be pretty good if that’s the sort of thing you want to make

explain. where is the Materials tab?

Hey thanks! Those are super handy, I'll keep that in mind!

Bro I learned a lot watching this.. he literally just showed you how to do it

@@midnightthoughts3859 I am not a bro, and I forgot this 5 months ago whatever it is.

@@DataJuggler u should delete that comment you looked really stupid for 5 months

@@midnightthoughts3859 I've been stupid for half a century. Go away.

@@DataJuggler haha stupid guy wanna learn blender

Yeah I learned this much later! A very handy tip to know on a lot of occasions

Yeah it's really great to see that not just here but almost anywhere you look in the blender community people are more than willing to help people out and give advice!

Thanks man! Appreciate it!

Glad you liked it! :)

Glad I can help! I hope you do well!

You can find them fairly easily online just looking up height maps or topology maps for the location or game you're looking for! I got mine from a simple google image search. there may not be maps for everything but there's a lot out there!

@@Littlerolz thank you

Thank you!

Yeah you can totally do that! Just add in a new plane and position it slightly above the lowest part of the original frame so the textures don’t clip together!

Thank you!

Thank you for the comment!

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Thanks man!

did you figure this out ?

If you follow the steps but use a height map for breath of the wild, which can be found with a google image search (that’s where I got mine) and apply the botw map as an image texture over the top you’ll get the same result as in the thumbnail

It can be a little fiddly to get just right for sure. It took me a little while to iron out some of the kinks and make it look good. Hope the video helps!

If you’re using a height map for the landscape then you can add some customisation by mixing it with other textures in your node setup such as a noise texture or voronoi texture. I also made a follow on video showing how you can make the displacement affect the mesh itself instead of just in the shader. (It’s linked on screen at the end) other than that there’s lots of other ways to make a landscape from modeling to sculpting and even geometry nodes but geometry nodes are little more technical but there are plenty of great tutorials out there, I recommend checking out CG matter/Default cube and Erindale for geometry nodes content! Sorry if I’ve hit you with a lot there! Thought it better to give a number of options

@@Littlerolz Haha that is a lot but I'm not gonna get results without learning it 😅 I'll get on those now, thanks for the speedy response!

@@stevegoody993 thats very true haha. No problem man, happy to help

Same problem here

I have this issue also. How do I make it not flat?

If you use a displacement modifier instead of the shader node you can apply it and make it a mesh that way. Its something I didn’t think of when I made this but I made a follow up video showing how to do it with the modifier. Hope that helps!

@@Littlerolz Thanks! That technique works beautifully.😀

I don’t have any experience with unreal sorry. Plus I don’t think this method would be best for shifting between programmes anyway. It may be better to physically sculpt or build some terrain in that case

I made a follow up to this where you can use the displace modifier to displace the mesh itself. Just use the displace modifier and in the texture setting use the displacement texture you want and then play with the strength until you’re happy!

@@Littlerolz THANK YOU, so helpful

No problem. Glad I can help!

Yeah you can do that! It’s a pretty long process to explain I a comment but this video by cgcookie covers it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g8lxf6aA15mdoo0.html

@@Littlerolz thank you!

If you're only using a single height map image to displace the image, then you could just as well use the displacement modifier and use the image texture there, and then you can apply the modifier and you would have actual geometry

Yeah I completely forgot about this until after the video was made and out. I got another video coming soon showing that way off too

One method I use is the employment of geometry nodes, they function equivalently to the method that @Littlerolz suggested but it is node based and procedural as well! Hope this helps

I'm not too sure sorry, I don't use unity so don't know the ins and outs. I imagine it would be easier using an actual mesh displacement rather than a height map for that which you can do using a displace modifier, I linked to a video showing how to do that on the end screen if you want toes that

​@@Littlerolz thank you so much

Yeah I made a follow up talking about that. Completely slipped my mind at the time but both work and can be used in different cases

If you tab into edit mode when selecting tho object. Hit A to select all or just select a face if that’s all you want by hitting 3 and then selecting the face. Then right click and subdivide should be an option in the menu

if you want to create a random height map you could use noise and scale it until you're happy or you could plug the noise output into a rgb curves node for even more customisation before turning it into displacement

Honestly I don’t know sorry. I’ve haven’t used unity

You can't, it's Blender only using this method.

Yeah you can distribute textures based on height information or by mixing them using the factor from a noise texture node for example. So if you wanted to have a stone texture on cliff edges and grass at the base for example you can take the height data from the shader node editor and mix them as you’d want if that makes sense

@@Littlerolz That does indeed, but I'm having troubles mixing more than two textures this way.

say I have a water texture, a grass texture, and a mountain texture. The color ramp would need 3 points to achieve this, but when I try to figure out something similar with mix shader things start to get very foggy.

You should check out blenderguru’s abandoned house tutorial. He mixes multiple textures together in that tutorial using painting which should still work well for this!

@@Littlerolz Thanks for the recommendation, I also texted my blender-savvy friend who replied with a node setup that works just fine for me, but maybe I could discover something better in blenderguru's video. Thanks again and keep up the good work, I think it's wonderful!

Are you using the cycles engine? if so the setting should be under the material settings tab on the right hand menu. Hope this helps!

It’s ctrl + A to apply scale. Sorry if it sounded a little unclear!

@@Littlerolz Oh, thats why! I’m just really bad at hearing lmao, thx!

@@evaldk1574 no worries! Glad I can help lol

Just a jpeg. But you can use a png or other image formats if you want!

@@Littlerolz thanks. Very cool 🔥🔥🔥

Hi! I don’t have a specific website I get them from but I just had a quick look online and if you don’t find it right away try something like, height data, topology or displacement map. Or just put black and white on the end I found a few for Germany this way. Hope this helps!

True but that is a whole lot more complicated and lengthy process. But it is a good one to learn