Landscapes | 5-Minute Materials [UE4]

Introducing... The Landscape Material! Setting up a landscape can be a scary endeavour, and rightfully so - Landscapes will end up being the most complex material in your project since you need it to contain so many different layers to allow for artistic freedom when creating your game world.
Today we cover the basics of setting up a Landscape, the benefits of using Landscape Layer Blends, the different blend modes and their uses, and much more!

This is the introductory video to landscapes and will serve as a basis for the upcoming videos in the Landscape Miniseries. Hope you enjoy!

Note: You can ignore the node hiding behind the Texture Samples - it's a Prismatica-specific thing, but just imagine we're pulling a pin out of the RGB channel

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Computer Specs:
Ryzen 3900x 12-core CPU
MSI Geforce RTX 2080 Super
64GB Corsair RAM
One of those fancy nvme m.2 SSD's

Programs of choice:
Unreal Engine 4 - (Game Dev)
Blender 2.8 - (Animation and Modelling)
OBS - (Video/screen capture)
Davinci Resolve - (Video editing)
Adobe Photoshop - (Graphics and Texturing)
Quixel Mixer - (Texturing)
ProTools 11 - (Compositions and mixing)
OldSchool Runescape - (Chillax time)

Filmed using:
Sony A7s2 body
Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 GM lens
Yonguo YN360 LED's for colour
Yongnuo YN760 chip LED w/ Godox softbox for key

My lovely cats names are Boycat, Girlcat and Ladycat :)

[kalleskit]

That is the most savage pronounciation of "yellow" I've ever heard. Hats off.

[KaitheArtGuy]

I'm 2 years later, but the quick tip about heightmaps made my game look so much better! Thanks for the wisdom

[Lurreable]

Really love your tutorials. No nonsense, to the point and very competent. It's a rare thing!

[MisforMicah]

Dude thank you so much for these! I find it really hard to find landscape tutorials that are easily understood and actually produce a good looking landscape in the end. Appreciate you!

[toomanytabs]

by far the most straightforward, no frills landscape tutorial I've found

[crimson]

No joke, I was just thinking about how to do my landscape for my assignment. Then Charlie comes again to my rescue xD keep up the good work man, slow learners like me appreciate it :)

[thpwninatr]

Finally somebody explained the blend modes properly! Thank you!

[horacehoff]

Thanks for making these tutorials! Please keep doing them 🙂

[Deathend]

My landscape went black. I even deleted my semi-sculpted level to start over. I forgot to connect the blend node to the base color in the landscape material. :)

I'm giving you the highest honor I can. I hit the bell icon.

[AhriCRose]

I like the Runescape text on your thumbnail

[Aretmosa]

i saw you while making feets at twitch like 2 months ago. Didnt think you will end up at my recommended sectoion. Love the content keep the good feets moving

[ZlimAxD]

Hello, what is that undifined function u connected to normal maps and hide tehem behind them

[KillerBearsaw]

You have something behind "texture sample" in the material that i can't figure out what it is

[tacofest]

what node did you hide behind the normal map, the video just skips to it being setup?

[openroomxyz]

Well yea this video kinda did bring up the desire to just play a little bit with landscapes I was kinda avoiding them but yea thanks :)

[dmax]

How did I not came across this before. So good

[anisiaalexandrescu]

Hi! I know the video is over 2 years old but I have a problem when I plug the Landscape Layer blend into the normal... the landscape turns black except the layer on which the normal was assigned to...what can i do to solve this issue?

[Fokkusu]

Really nice tutorial, will be sharing it for everyone that needs to start with landscapes materials :), also really nice explanations on the types of blends, I find that there is not enough clear info about the types of blends out there in a clear and concise form.

[motazturk]

That Runescape seashanty music tho!! <3

[MosseNGaming]

I appreciate your tutorials man keep it up!