Let's Build the RPG! - 7 - Landscape Material Tutorial in Unreal Engine 5

In this episode I go through all my techniques for painting and truly randomizing the look and feel of a landscape. We paint our landscape using a combination of 6 materials, 5 of which are painted the typical way, while one is automatically painted into our landscape material based on the height of the landscape. We will also cover how to use Material Functions to collapse and reuse material functionality for different materials in our landscape. Link to the spreadsheet that contains references to the materials needed this episode: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Just copy and paste each code into Quixel Bridge to download them directly into your game. 00:00 Intro 00:15 Today's Goals and Key Concepts 01:55 Solving the Tiling Problem 03:55 Creating a brand new Landscape Material 05:00 Setting up Material details in new Landscape Material 07:15 Switching out one set of textures with another 09:17 Fixing 'Shiny' Landscapes 10:25 Reducing 'Dark Spots' on Landscape Material 12:55 Creating a Material Function 17:33 Using a Material Function in a Material 20:11 Importing Landscape Materials via Quixel Bridge 24:18 Setting up Landscape layers in Landscape Material 27:54 Setting up Landscape to be able to paint 30:19 Painting Weight-blended layers demonstration 31:11 Automatic Height-based landscape material 36:03 Fixing sculpting issues made evident by automatic height-based material 37:42 Setting up different layers for sculpting vs. painting 38:23 (Finally) Painting our Landscape 40:55 Fixing the sharp transition from Height-Based Material to Painted Material 42:09 Bonus Trick: randomized blending of multiple materials into a single material 49:25 Adjusting the parameters of the Blended Material 50:30 Fixing the issue of landscape 'greying out' when multiple layers are painted 51:12 Conclusion New episode every Saturday morning! Direct References Height-based Landscape Material:    • Unreal Height based material layer blendin...   This guy has a ton of content. Frequently when I need to figure out how to do something in UE, this guy has a video that shows me exactly how to do it. Great reference. Material variation using noise nodes:    • World-Aligned Textures - UE4 Materials 101...   This guy also has a lot of content. Usually pretty advanced stuff. Additional Landscape tutorial:    • How to HIDE Texture REPETITION in Unreal E...   This is probably the best landscape tutorial I've found on Youtube at the time of publishing this video. This guy makes very high-quality tutorials generally, especially good for beginners. Check out his other stuff. General References Official documentation on landscapes: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en... Quixel Bridge: https://quixel.com/bridge (comes automatically with UE5) Megascans: https://quixel.com/megascans What's the relationship between Quixel Bridge and Megascans? Bridge is basically the tool for bringing it into UE5, Megascans is the library. Official documentation on materials: https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en... Music used this episode: Limitless – MusicbyAden & tubebackr Wanderlust - extenz Someday - Roa Tropical Dream - Spiring NEW HORIZONS – Lesion X Work it out - LiQWYD Travel With Us - Vendredi Aural Nights - MusicbyAden First Light - Atch Savana - Vendredi Resiliencia – Hiracutch The Island – tubebackr Brighter Days – Markvard & Kvarmez Over You – Atch