QUICK TRICK to Realistically BLEND ASSETS with LANDSCAPE | UE5 Runtime Virtual Texturing Tutorial

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Well hello there! I'm Shane and in this tutorial video, I will be showing you how to get your Megascans assets to blend realistically with your landscape in Unreal Engine. It's a nifty little technique involving the use of runtime virtual textures. Check it out & let me know what you think 😊
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VIDEO CHAPTERS
Introduction 00:00
Runtime Virtual Texturing explained 00:22
Enable virtual texture support 02:13
Set up the exercise 02:48
Create Runtime Virtual Textures 03:42
Create Runtime Virtual Texture volumes 05:00
Setup landscape material 06:24
Add RVTs to the landscape 08:56
Setup asset material 09:32
Final test 15:45
Conclusion 16:06

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@colinbrooks2236 Жыл бұрын

anyone experiencing the blendspace being white and the material of the scan item has a fuzz node - put the fuzz node to the right of the blendmaterial attributes

@ryanhaase7543 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@pondpond-tx4sk Жыл бұрын

Do you have an example?

@ktrooping797 Жыл бұрын

how do we do this if the fuzz node has two inputs?

@keterbinah3091 Жыл бұрын

thankyou , it works

@ktrooping797 Жыл бұрын

@@keterbinah3091 hi, how did you connect the fuzz node to blendmaterials attributes node?

@witosek9326 4 ай бұрын

For those who didn't see the preview here 9:25: try pressing "Create Volumes" right underneath. It helped me. (I'm working on version 5.3)

@kewlin Жыл бұрын

The divide by 10 is there to change the height across which it blends: if you didn't divide it by 10, it would transition over 1cm (which is too small), but divided it does it over 10cm. It's an arbitrary number though, for example, you could divide by 50 to make it blend over 50cm. Saturate just caps the number to values from 0 to 1 so the alpha blending doesn't break.

@fmbifrost2198 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the addition, it's not serious to do tutorials that just say "plug this here because I was told so" and not explain the principles of what you're doing before jumping into spaghettis mode.

@modz7014 Жыл бұрын

Thanks cause i was wondering why the divide as well

@riggsmurtah2788 Жыл бұрын

Then I could divide by 5 for a more subtle transition?

@peperoni_pepino Жыл бұрын

@@riggsmurtah2788 I think to make it more subtle you would instead divide by a larger number, like 20. But you could try that quite quickly, the difference should be easy to see.

@derekheisler2058 Жыл бұрын

TIP: If you want control of that gradient (the blending) it's in the divide node for the height. So connect a constant node to the B input of the Divide node, then right click and make parameter. Put a default value of 10 as stated in the tutorial. But now if you go back to your rock material instance you'll see the new parameter (I named mine Virtual Texture Blend Gradient). Check it on and then dial the value to your taste. Hope that helps everyone!

@isaacgutierrez929 Жыл бұрын

thanks man, it was really helpful. I like that extra control over the blending

@davidCcode 6 ай бұрын

I was coming in to comment here about the divide node but you did it great.

@lukewarmape603 3 ай бұрын

Also if you want further control of where the gradient begins and ends, you can add a multiply (lower in worldspace) or subtract (higher in worldspace) between the "absolute world position" and "mask" nodes :)

@xMrDog Жыл бұрын

I started with your tutorial in Unreal Engine 4 with the lakehouse and now I'm back on your channel, now I'm a professional in the ArchViz nieche, you're still an amazing teacher, congrats!

@vocalsync135 Жыл бұрын

Very nice! Enjoyed it tremendously!

@xavixxx95 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial! Easy and clean!

@Tristaza45 Жыл бұрын

Awesome tut!!!! Thank you very much for sharing!

@JustPatrik Ай бұрын

Thats freaking insane! Awesome!

@alexgop1980 11 ай бұрын

Dude, many thanks for sharing your knowledge, awesome and absolutely useful tutorial! God bless you!

@dequanci9721 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much for the teaching, it's really easy to understand .

@daveweinstock Жыл бұрын

Easy to follow and you explained everything well. Thanks.

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Dave

@marsovsound Жыл бұрын

Extra helpful, thank you!

@thronosstudios Жыл бұрын

I've watched several tutorials on this, some longer, some about the same length, but this one is by FAR the clearest, simplest and most straight to the point out of them all. You earned a sub, good sir.

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

Thanks dude. Explaining things is my super power.

@thronosstudios Жыл бұрын

@@GameDevAcademy Did you get it from a vat of toxic waste, spider bite, or just born with it? :P

@ryzhkov3dmodels Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Very helpful tutorial!

@lanaeab.1676 Ай бұрын

bless this man

@darthvulture Жыл бұрын

fantastic easy to follow tutorial, thanks!

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

You're welcome dude

@niquedegraaff Жыл бұрын

This is really cool. Even for detailed asphalt on terrain (Sides have a blend in the terrain)

@HamsterBlitz Жыл бұрын

I belive that the reason for dividing at 11:40 is because you are stretching out the gradient (the interval where the blend has a value between 0 and 1, i.e. the greyzone). Generally you can think of linear functions f(x) as: 1. additions to x = shifting the output, 2. multiplication of x = stretching the output, 3. -X = flipping/mirroring the output around 0. Hope that explains it, it was some time since I studied that.

@SimplyCrazySid Жыл бұрын

Thanks for teaching! Super helpful video

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

@arekjurcan7801 Ай бұрын

Yeah. Okay, it works. Thanks :)

@jc9378 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. That’s what I need❤️❤️

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Glad I could help you out.

@manic_animator85 Жыл бұрын

Wow I had this problem some days ago Thank you soooo muuuuch!

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

You're welcome dude. Good timing!

@lukeatanasoff6113 Жыл бұрын

Absolute legend, subbed

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

Thanks Luke. You've made me *feel* like a legend 😊

@sincosFly 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! It working fine exclude straight face.... The mask to stretching.

@yuier2883 Жыл бұрын

have to say, best tutorial about RVT

@cosmosunited Жыл бұрын

really great tutorial

@Dulge Жыл бұрын

this is amazing, gj

@sylvainhuard2133 2 күн бұрын

there is people that can talk and explaining is an art of the brain, you must be really smart.

@ZAKarchitects Жыл бұрын

Really great technique.. Thank you for your effort ❤

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

You're welcome dude. I'm glad I could help you out :)

@peterchild2010 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video, very informative (Y)

@muhammetemirbulut6511 3 ай бұрын

very clear and good thks !!!!!

@jayhop960 6 ай бұрын

brother, sir i appreciate that so much thank you my friend liked and subscribed you helped me out so much brother i appreciate it thanks for taking the time out of your day to share with others Blessings on you brother

@jiwik731 Жыл бұрын

Really good and simple tutorial. thank you.

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

@ashy49592 Жыл бұрын

@GameDevAcademy can you help me dig a trench using landscape tools I tried but it just looked low-poly . and I don't want to ues the voxel plugin because it's showing down my game . is there a setting I can change maybe?

@ashy49592 Жыл бұрын

@GameDevAcademy how to sculpt using default tools . brush size mannequin small .

@Dragonbras 2 ай бұрын

great video thanks

@seansanderson Жыл бұрын

Love it. How to not make things look like arse. Champion.

@juliandevito9953 Жыл бұрын

For the ones with Objects starts blending way too high, use another divide node in the Objects Material right after RuntimeVirtualTextureSample with a value ~5 and connect it to be B pin to the Subtract node behind the Mask.

@stevezyzlol6771 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

@sergeibargamotov8931 8 ай бұрын

Assome...!!! Thank you, Thank you!

@elturkocharro4106 Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure someone else asked this, but this is working super well for some assets, but what about a massive landscape on where you may have different heights variations and far more assets in the screen. The performance is affected?

@MatheusGamedev 5 ай бұрын

Just leaving a comment to thank you!!!

@GameDevAcademy 5 ай бұрын

You're welcome. Thanks for the comment :)

@GregDerochie Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this! it's something I've been struggling with as an Unreal beginner.. Can you suggest how to apply this technique to a basic material (not a megascan).

@mfgassets5195 Жыл бұрын

Yeah megascans automatically applied nodes and bridge are pure trash for the beginner because they are just shit to begin with. I prefer to use the most basic node systems because the bridge node system is a mess of unknown dependencies. I imported 7 textures and they are parents of the same so yeah from there your instructions just break down and things get too different to fast. So maybe stop calling this a code academy a start calling this the place where you show off some smart ass shit that no one else can do.

@BernhardRieder1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, that's great. How to use it on Landscape Proxies when using World Partition? I don't want to select every single proxy to apply the virtual texture map? Keep rocking, cheers

@benblaumentalism6245 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the excellent tutorial! If you have the time, I have a couple of questions. The first is that when I set the bounds, the bounding boxes did not encompass my entire landscape, which is very small (for testing). My second question is more of a request. I like making world-aligned materials. Any chance you could show us how you could set this up for those? Thanks again, and bravo!

@davidfros41 Жыл бұрын

Very nice and very clear explaination :) So far I get everything to work, eccept that my texture on the rock is super dark and partially stretchy somehow. also, how do I increase the amount of blending on top of the rock? for me it workst for about 10cm.

@oloriun Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to use rvt for blending assets if you weren't using landscape? Say if your level's needs dictated that you would have to use a number of meshes to form the "terrain"?

@christiandebney1989 9 ай бұрын

can you have multiple different rocks with different materials interacting with the landscape? or do you have to set up each rock?

@arjungowda6452 Жыл бұрын

Thank y❤️u ....

@millstoneandrope7808 11 ай бұрын

is it possible to use the same material setup from your "The Secret to Hide TEXTURE REPETITION" video. Im stuck at the setup landscape material portion and would like to have tileless landscapes along with the virtual texturing.

@truthtruth316 11 күн бұрын

.im wondering if its possible for one to set it up once and use it for other projects as well,because i im always afraid and discouraged when i consider the amount of time it takes to make a runtime virtual texture

@Shwindythegr8 Жыл бұрын

Im new to UE5 so apologies in advance if this is a silly question, but if i have several megascans assets that i want to blend into the landscape, which i have put an automaterial on, do i have to do anything different? I am going through Unreal Sensei's UE5 beginner tutorial and i want to see if i can blend the cliffs in better with the landscape if that helps.

@rattenschwanz-filmundfotog693 Жыл бұрын

Very Nice Video. I want to implement this in my UEFN Map. is there also a support for RVTs in The Unreal Editor for Fortnite? i cant find things like that.

@phalhappy8612 Жыл бұрын

cam we use RVT with static mesh instead of landscape?

@XINXIE-xx3vz Жыл бұрын

good

@anunusualindividual1172 Жыл бұрын

Is it any different on how you set RVT in UE 4? if not, would it work if follow through from UE 4?

@pawpotsRS 5 ай бұрын

do you really need a landscape to make the RVT work? or you could blend between two static mesh with these setup?

@DerBeinmann 8 ай бұрын

They dont look like ass 😅 Thx 4 the tutorials, very cool and funny. 👍

@daviddelayat-dnapictures 11 ай бұрын

How to do so for every meshes in a scene ? Do I have to go through this process for each ? Thanks !

@Frankyjaeger Жыл бұрын

On my side the blending works but the texture resolution of the blended texture is really low and somehow seems brighter is shadowy areas where the assets blend. Not sure why and I have no idea how ot fix this.

@GBTC2011 Жыл бұрын

I'm using the landscape material I created following your tutorial Amazing PhotoRealistic Landscape and the master material is different from the one used by Megascan. How do I apply this to my master landscape material?

@Jbn0s0rus Жыл бұрын

Would this work on a tri-planar material? I'm looking to blend two tri-planars together.

@user-ru1dx5qw7u 2 ай бұрын

Have you tried doing this for Landscape Layer Blend and standard material. I tried and had a fail. close but no cigar

@judofernando8298 7 ай бұрын

my rvt height still looks like cube, event thou i already enable it. and im not using megascan asset. what should i do to the material ?

@nima3359 Жыл бұрын

I have the problem that the height where the object is blending texture is always at z=0. And also when my width and length y and z coordinate are at a point where the landscape is not any longer. It still blends there

@keterbinah3091 Жыл бұрын

good tut, i followed every step , but i have started off with just a plain grass texture and its whited out , it does blend nicely with every asset, its just white what do you suggest from just grass albedo into output at the momment ?

@snookofficial7211 Жыл бұрын

same :(

@TheDanGoldstein Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial! Is there a way to get the blend to not blur as much? I applied this to a rock and the ground but the blended area on the rock just looks like the ground is blurring into it instead of it looking like the sanding is adding onto the rock. Thanks!

@snookofficial7211 Жыл бұрын

In the virtual texture asset for the landscape, under the size settings, increase the settings and it will improve the texture quality

@Dapoutre Жыл бұрын

How do you deal with multiple landscapes and multiple levels and the same rock for exemple ?

@resetXform Жыл бұрын

I'm writing this first before I watch the video, but having started watching a different video that was two years old and this requires landscape height etc. How would this work for interiors with lots of organic assets of various sorts or would be a similar process?

@thefuzzyfurnace Ай бұрын

In 5.3 there's 3 nodes for absolute world position instead of one in this video XYZ --> XY --> Z --> make sure to connect it from Z--> even though I set it to B out of the RGB options it wasn't working till I applied this fix

@endtasid 8 ай бұрын

the triad tool in my UE 5.3.1 has disappeared. I can only move, rotate and size now by imagining the locations of the cursors on the triad. Anybody know how to fix that. I've already verified the install once. Nothing has changed.

@uweSM Жыл бұрын

Hi Shane, thanks so much for this really interesting tutorial. Unfortunately I’m still a beginner in Unreal and surely the question seems a bit stupid for a pro ... The node graph of the material I’m using right now looks a bit different than yours: It’s an imperfection metal material and my final node is a Main Material Node. How to handle this special case regarding to the node graph? Thanks in advance for your help!

@sagesoup9104 5 ай бұрын

I would also like to know how to use it on not quixel mats :)

@arjungowda6452 Жыл бұрын

Lv u sir

@IRONFRIDGE Жыл бұрын

👌🏼

@BFXFactory Жыл бұрын

so much interesting topic....but in my case there is another node "MF_Fuzz" , and if i am connecting this with "Blend material attributes" and following your process ,my result is white in blend area.😂 please give some solution.

@kevinricard7649 4 ай бұрын

Nice tutorial ! But unfortunatelt it doesn't work for me.. I got a white blend instaed of the material..

@GBTC2011 Жыл бұрын

What if virtual textures are enabled in the project setting, but you don't see them when you put them in the terrain (segment 9:25)?

@suke0408 9 күн бұрын

Is this only works for flat landscape??

@nima3359 Жыл бұрын

for me it only blends at one certain height. But what if I have a mountainous landscape and the blendheight differs every few meters. How to to make the blend height always be the height of the current landscape?

@user-rn3hp8qw8o 2 ай бұрын

whenever i open asset material then it opens the same 1 material of both land and object. I dont know what to do can you help me

@shantifawkes7060 10 ай бұрын

i have virtual texture support enabled but dont see the preview its all black in my case, any idea ?

@charleslamb4568 11 ай бұрын

I am having an issue where even with the plugin enabled it still shows as black on the preview. My older projects where I have had this working also stopped working.

@jimmyjones3200 6 ай бұрын

Hello! Has anyone managed to do this with a world partition map? I cannot select bounds as there is no 1 landscape. There are a ton of landscape proxies. Way too many for me to have to create one for each surely (60).

@frozengemstudio9204 Жыл бұрын

Interesting tutorial. However, I have a problem because at 09:18 At this point it counts crash every time in EU 5.1 :( Assertion failed: (CurrentDirtySlotMask & SlotsNeededMask) == 0 [File:D:\build\++UE5\Sync\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12DescriptorCache.cpp] [Line: 491]

@DerpyPossum Жыл бұрын

I've done everything exactly, yet nothing seems to happen in the level itself. The temporary blend colours and the final blend are showing on the material viewport, but not on the actual mesh itself when in the level. I think it might have something to do with the previews for the RVT environment and height materials not showing. You stated that this would probably be because I don't have it on, yet Virtual Textures is indeed enabled in the project settings. I'm not sure what else can be done, and I'd really appreciate some direction to a solution. Thanks in advance :)

@ljfproduction 5 ай бұрын

did u fix it? have the same issue

@makytrakys Жыл бұрын

Hi!, Does anyone know why after everything works fine, suddenly the blend disappears? I go back and check the nodes and are just fine🤔 Thanks so much!

@st.michaelthearchangel7774 Жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial. However, all the materials I have downloaded and checked from megascans has a node at the far right called "Result node of the material" (has the Base Color, Metallic, Specular, Roughness, etcetera, with Shading Model at the very bottom), so I don't know what to do to feed everything into the nodes you created in the video from that node.

@makytrakys Жыл бұрын

Hi!, I think I might have the solution, as it happens same to me. Ok, just click that node, go to details pannel and set "ON" Use Material Attributes, ;) hope works for you, now is working perfect!

@TheDidiFerr Жыл бұрын

@@makytrakys thank you so much!!

@DaniilBubnov Жыл бұрын

That's very interesting but without understanding the idea it looks like complete magic to me

@SAYRESS Жыл бұрын

when im subtracting RVTHeight from AWP im getting kinda 45 degree mask. not top-down. dont know why..

@linovalcarcel9366 2 ай бұрын

only work with landscapes?

@coapa_760 Жыл бұрын

ok so how do you save a template or something. so I don't have to do this with each asset ?

@H0lyFr0ggy Жыл бұрын

So i have to do this for any new mesh that has it's own material? Is there some fast efficient way to do this for a couple of meshes?

@GameDevAcademy Жыл бұрын

Master materials + material instancing

@Aegon47 Жыл бұрын

Issue: My meshes still are showing the white blend color at the bottom and I re-checked everything twice and can't find the problem. Can you please resolve the issue

@whovisionsCGI Жыл бұрын

Just learning UE5.1. One thing I've noticed as a newbie coming from another 3d package is, you seem to have to create so many nodes or controls to do just simple things. What if you have a lot of objects you need to fade in? It would take forever to do this for lots of objects. Isn't there some master Virtual texture to set up that would effect any object you dragged into the scene to save doing it all manually everytime?

@Yggdrasil777 Жыл бұрын

Yes. You make a master and have everything inherit from that. No need to reinvent the same thing again and again, that's bad practice.

@coapa_760 Жыл бұрын

when i placed the pink color nodes. it works but when i delete that and do the last process it shows a white color on my landscape. sorry for the crap explination

@nidel6936 Жыл бұрын

Hi, when I try to click on Virtual Texture, where I need to put in the Height, the engine crashes. Idk if the problem is my graphics card or something else. Can somebody help me pls?

@UnrealArtist Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. I hate when Unreal does unityiesh things like, you do this and that and then turn that on from that section, come back and create that and then apply these and that o.O ??? this is all for a small feature that you should have only in the material editor with small check boxes, Or may be some other more streamlines simple execution.

@cr0uchingtiger 11 ай бұрын

I have the same problem as other users. I made my ground plane in Mixer so I don't have a master material.

@devasishpatnaik7694 11 ай бұрын

hi , I am new to the the unreal engine .i did step by step as shown in the video but there is a MF_FUZZ node inside my scan item and i am seeing snow like above my rock.I have been stuck over there for week. Plz some one help me. I wll be greatful😭😭.