UEFN: Ultimate Custom Terrain Paint Tutorial (3D Grass, Layering, and Coloring!)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is the terrain paint tutorial to end all terrain paint tutorials. Learn how to create landscape materials with layers, colors, and 3D grass meshes!
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Note: if you aren’t seeing the grass appear, it is likely your preview settings. It does not render in performance mode, but it will render in sessions if you need a definitive test.
(Also, thanks to user Dr. Dré for pointing out how to use that third texture)
*I know a fix to the grass not popping up!* In your outliner on the right, Select every *"LandscapeStreamingProxy" piece* that's in your map *(Hold down Ctrl or Shift when selecting)* , then go to *Details* and put the Material you made into the *"Landscape Material" Slot.* This should fix everyone's issue.
do you think you could ever record you doing this? i don't understand any of this and i would appreciate a tutorial
Thanks bro. This is the best tutorial I could ever find. You explained everything to perfection. Good job
I feel like you so underrated bro, you're helping me a lot with these tutorials, your content is so unique because I search for a lot of these things and can't find them anywhere but you're the only one I found who is doing these tutorials, so congrats for that :)
And i wanted to make you a question, do you have any idea on how to change the texture of rivers or lakes? Im trying to make a swamp but the default lakes are super blue and im looking for something more greenish
I don’t believe you can change the color of those yet, hopefully one day we can. Thanks for enjoying these!
@@MaestroShark Oh that's sad :(
Well, I hope that if you somehow find a way to change the textures, you will upload a tutorial on that, I would be very grateful.
@@benjah6435 eventually u will be able to
@@benjah6435 changing the skylight intensity option in the day sequence device can make the water look darker or lighter maybe you could try that
I would try the visual effects @blakjack mentioned. You can place them in a 3D volume.
and also Try chatgpt 3.5 (OpenAI.com for free) and *meta prompting* to make yourself a learning assistant or professor level tutor that can fetch data from the UEFN documentation on epics website, explain each question to you in any Level of Detail and Ultimately help you learn more optimally if you can communicate effectively and/or use *meta promting*
i tried finding many tutorials for this and not a single one worked except yours. thanks for making this video cuz it helped a lot👌
That's exactly the tutorial I needed. Couldn't find anything about custom slope material for different layers, and this was just what I needed. Cheers
I can copy his technique but I still don't understand 😂
With weight blending it averages out any conjoining layers so if you have 2 layers in the same spot it will be a 50/50 split. 3 layers would be 33/33/33 etc
I apologize for the several questions this video made my life 10x easier thank you!
Thx so much dude. It’s mad helpful Idfk how to do any of it still tho. Going to watch it all again and walk through each step alongside you. Most descriptive tutorial I’ve found
Thank you , it was an amazing tutorial.
Thank you! You help me a lot
You have no idea how helpful this was!
ty so much this was super clear and it never felt too fast or slow. the only thing that i was frustrated about is that you didn't include how to add color to the grass at the very end of the video or even mention if it was possible, which I'm sure it is.
Super great explanation thank you!
how did you get the cones to not go on the sand paint? 15:25
edit: Nevermind, I just have to use the same layer for both sand and grass
Its very! helpfull, thank you. Could you please put timestamps for each step in your tutorials, it will make following up even more easy, when I sometimes start to experiment or accidently step forward or backwards in this vid? I hope, there will be a lot more tutorials!
Awesome tutorial! Does anyone know how and where you can import custom grass textures in case you don't want to have the cubes/cones?
Quixel has some high quality grass assets, or you can search sketchfab
How do i make it so grass doesn’t appear on mud for example?
Nvm
If anyone wants a solution... create another layer without the grass node...then just use that layer when painting to clear out any grass
Thanks!
This was a pretty good and digestible tutorial, but I had a question. Whenever I add an additional paint layer and try using it, the game does not know how to blend all 3 layers together, and causes the selected landscape quadrant to become untextured. I was wondering if you knew a way to have more than 2 paints in use together at once (much like how when using default landscape material you can have several paint layers at once, like sand, concrete, dirt, ect.) It would be sweet if you could make an updated tutorial that includes how to make more than 2 paint layers. Thank you.
This tutorial definitely needs an update, I’ll work on one for April
@@MaestroShark thank you!
Great video, is there any way you could do a tutorial on starting a BR map or just creating a large scale island? I'm trying to make a custom br map but I don't know how to create a landscape big enough while also having an ocean. If I create a landscape then add an ocean, it limits me to making the island bigger because of the ocean somehow. Sorry if that's too specific and confusing, but a step by step tutorial on making a large scale island for a br map would be greatly appreciated.
It’s a bit confusing, but creating a br would be a great tutorial, I’ll release it this week
@@MaestroShark thank you so much, doesn’t need to be super in depth, just a general starter tutorial would be perfect. Whatever you think is best at the end of the day tho.
Thanks for the tutorial! This may seem odd, but I have a very important question..
So when trying to get one of my textures into UEFN, I somehow accidently deleted all the other layers.. I'm just wondering if there is a way to fix this because I want to learn more and create in UEFN lol
Ctrl+z is an undo button, otherwise you’ll need to manually redo whatever you lost
Thanks for the video! Is there actually a easier method to just change the sand color for example? Thanks!!
lmfao before this vid i tried painting like 2 million clover meshes on, ty for the help bro
incredible tutorial but the grass types are spawing on other layers still? theyre weight blended and dont have the grass layer beneath them?
Great Tutorial I have found this really helpful 🙂
Do you know maybe if there is a way to add a displacement/height texture to a custom material?
As in world position offset? That’s a material attribute you can add that displaces your texture
@@MaestroShark Okay Thanks will try it
I have multiple biomes on my landscape, each with their own grass colour. How can I make the grass adapt to the biome it's in? I've used a Landscape Layer Blend node to allow grass on multiple landscape layers, not sure how to make the grass colour vary with each biome though. Any suggestions?
I can’t put grass in multiple layers is shows a error saying I can only have one in a material how do I fix this
Hi! I Got a problém with my materiál, so everything works as intended but when I paint with other layers the texture does not appear. So let’s say I have normal grass and I paint it with snow the grass texture is still there but the snow one isn’t :/ any idea what’s doing the issue ?
It says material attribute node is non compatabile with non attribute node any fix
both layers are painting out black, is there something im missing?
"This layer has no layer info assigned yet. You must create or assign a layer info before you can paint this layer." is the error
@@name_isme3245 save and apply it
Hey man, do you know how to avoid foliage not painting on the grid lines? I did it in one project but now I can't remember how..
quick question. how do you change the grass color? my landscape is brown but the grass mesh i used is like a bright light blue
After following the tutorial I was unable to paint on an already existing piece of terrain, do I have to make a new piece of terrain in order to paint on it?
You can paint on existing terrain, open outliner and select your terrain, then change the material in its details. You may have to do this for all of its proxies.
My terrain is super blurry when I do this, anyone know a fix?
so this only works with 2 materials? i tried 3 and nothing but grey squares
It should work with 3, and it does. You likely set it up incorrectly. Make sure you assign another landscape layer in the blend nodes and set to weight based painting
After I save it wont let me apply, it just grays out the button. How do I fix this?
It says I have no target layers
Empty layers in paint mode? My landscape is a simple Gray color "MI_Simple_Gray02_Flat". I want to paint paths on this landscape without actually changing the whole landscape texture, I've seen that the fix for the empty layers is by changing the Landscape materials of all the landscape proxies in Outliner, but doing this changes the whole landscape to a different texture and no longer Gray. How do I fix this issue
Iam not able to put more than 3 layers in my Landscape... When i add 4 different materials.. it starts bugging and not show the material in game and sometimes in editor.
Is it possible to create animated grass materials in UEFN.. Like in the full UEV? I cant find the nodes and tools for this in UEFN. And virtual texturing isnt there... But in original Fortnite both is in the game.
i cant use them its saying they are locked
Do you think UEFN could run on a surface pro?
UEFN is a very intense software. I run on a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro gaming laptop, which handles UEFN well (with loud fans). I’m not familiar with the surface pro but my guess is it will underperform. Most devs use PCs.
is it possible to import fortnite's own grass texture into the game that they use on their own map? it would be nice to use that instead of importing my own
i did everything but for some reason the paint does not show up i cant paint,
can we only go back if we add another editble layer?
when i saved it i wont let me apply the terrain paint for some reson
Yo, I did everything correct and when I go to paint the layers are not there??
Make sure you’ve assigned the material to all of your landscape proxies and the master landscape. Otherwise it won’t show up
how do you make the grass not on the cliffs after the cones, then how do you get rid of the cones? I DO not want a cone island any longer,
Just don’t use the cone mesh, use a grass one.
To keep the grass off the cliffs, copy the slope mask and feed it into the grass node.
Answer is at 15:55!
Are you expecting beginners to know how to delete the grid? or is this not actually for beginners?
Beginner guides need to explain every little thing as if the viewer has never used it before!
It’s very intuitive, if you were struggling, click on what you want to delete, and hit the delete or backspace key.
…and this guide isn’t about deleting objects. It explains all that it needs to
@@MaestroShark So its a selective guide?
My initial comment was during my first day using uefn, your guide did involve deleting objects such as the grid square (0:15) as demonstrated by yourself. Sorry for wanting to learn something from your video that you didn't explain too well. If I was struggling it would only be down to something not being explained during my first day on PC coming from PlayStation. Do you always try to insult the people who watch your vids?
@@kylestevenson5911 I apologize if you perceived that as an insult. I was just explaining the intentions of this tutorial. In addition, I was providing the needed solution so you could continue. This video was designed for designing terrain paints. If you’re in need of anything, please feel free to let me know. Again, apologize, and I hope you know I did not intend to be rude.
@@MaestroShark Thank you, I bought new laptop to use 2.0, but I've never played by PC before, between the movement controls, and the amount setting available frustration is setting in, if only I could plug in my control and navigate like I was in 1.0 I would then find 2.0 a lot easier to use. I see many videos claiming it's creativity that only holds us back, but I can assure you that is not the case with me, quite the opposite. My frustration is not with you. I did figure out how to delete the grid, but still trying to figure how to select and replace it all in one motion.
Are you on about importing it from your video again or something I can do inside of the editor
You can do all of this inside the editor
Just to clarify there are no grasss mesh already available in uefn
it's really unbelievable. I would like to try it on a non-UEFN Project but I wonder if it could work?
In Creative 1.0 The Answer Is No
Question, when I’m adding a static mesh to the grass layer, how to I make sure the materials come with it? All the meshes I add end up gray.
You need to attach the material to the mesh. to do that, double click on the mesh inside the content browser and apply the material. to test this, you should be able to drag the mesh from the browser onto your project and it will have its materials assigned.
Anyone know why I can’t see my layers under the paint section
IK this came out before the customizable landscapes so I have a question is it possible to add custom grass to layers in the new landscapes since the UIs are different?
You can’t. Those are baked/uneditable assets (besides parameters they’ve allowed you to customize). To add grass, you’ll need to make your own material.
@@MaestroShark damn, sucks cause the custom landscapes are good for saving time, Hope they add the ability to further customize stuff from the content drawer
@@rimflim8922 well, the ultimate customization is making it yourself. It takes more time to set up, but ultimately helps your projects achieve a more unique feel.
does this work with defualt maps
I have one more question to ask because I feel like you'll have an answer. Can you import things from bridge into UEFN? I want to get some grass and flowers to use as ground cover, for example to use them in the way you used cubes and cones. If it's possible, how can you import things from bridge to UEFN?
Yes! Just store them in your computer as an .fbx file and you can easily import them in
@@MaestroShark Thank you so much! I'm so glad that this is possible!
@@WornSnow88 keep in mind some things from bridge will not work for fortnite and you will get errors
@@JetPlays1 Okay, thanks for the notice!
@@MaestroSharkI don't know what I'm doing... Can you please make a tutorial on how to do this?
When I go into paint and layers my grass isn’t there and I followed every single step right ?
Try saving again
@@MaestroShark ya I tried that it still didn’t work idk why it wouldn’t I followed through step by step only thing I didn’t do was the sand because I didn’t need it for my world
@@600vibe make sure you’ve applied the material to the landscape and all of its proxies, you can select them in the outliner and edit the material in details. If it’s not showing up then, you should try making a random change to the material and saving.
@@MaestroShark okay thank you but hey I have a question if you can answer rq? on my pc I have foliage set to low so there would be no foliage appearing other then the flat grass and it’s still showing on my console when i load up to start the session can you help?
@@600vibe that’s because the graphics settings in the editor are solely for previewing and workflow efficiencies. To get rid of the grass in session you’ll need to delete the physical grass nodes in your material
I followed the tutorial but to prevent lag I deleted the 3d grass, and everything looks fine in the UEFN editor but when I launch the session the textures on all of terrain is now glitching with black lines that stay the same size no matter the distance. I’m not sure if I missed a step or not and no I don’t have performance mode on.
This is a recurring bug, usually it fixes for me when I use “GetMaterialAttributes”, in the following pattern:
Textures > SetMaterialAttributes > Lerp/Material Blend (either works) > Landscape Layer Blend > GetMaterialAttributes > Material Output
Otherwise, try connecting each attribute to its copy of the landscape layer blend node and that node to its respective attribute
(For example, for base color: connect grass texture to “grass stone” layer, and sand texture to “sand stone” layer, then connect that layer blend node to the base color of the material output.
Repeat this step for each attribute you are using)
Completely off topic of this video but is there a way to rotate terrain? I'm making a mini br and accidentally made my map sideways of what I want it to be and it looks so much better the way I want it and not sideways.
Yes, select the landscape, and you can rotate it in details
@Maestro Shark I selected all the landscape and rotates its values but nothing happened to my terrain. Any thoughts?
@@prod.jballmusic it works for me, you likely did something wrong or rotated it 360 degrees
When I add the grass it losses it’s texture do you know why
You likely didnt have a material assigned to it in the first place. Find its mesh in content browser, and double click to edit it and add its material
@@MaestroShark ok thanks I will try that
@@MaestroShark do you know why the grass and trees are not showing up in fortnite?
@@JetPlays1 do they show up in the editor?
@@MaestroShark yes they do
For some reason the other paints when i use them work but the other paint is still behind that one and so theres grass there
Yep happening to me too :/ have u found a solution?
How do u height blend
i dont see them
Hey! What can I do to be able to see my custom material? As its only showing the default layers and it flat out doesnt let me drag and drop my material into the defaults
You need to manually add them to every landscape in details
@@MaestroShark Oh I see, were do i have to click to see the details?
@@shenji2864 sounds like the details panel was lost for you, select window at the top, and bring it back in the details tab
@@MaestroShark hey! how can i do that? i have the details tab but how can i manually add them? :(
Well the paint stay even if you make a new project???
You’ll need to export/import your paint
Does anyone know a fix for the paint tool not working?
Just Change The Terrain To Another Material And Switch Back To Yuor Custom Material Then It Will Appear 😃😃😃
12:30 | So I was following this tutorial with a starter island from 1.0 and when I looked my paint wasn’t there (in layers for the landscape of the original state island). Then I made a new landscape out of the material I made and it appeared black but I could paint on it with the color intended (red). Is there a way to get that layer to go on the old starter island landscape?
Unfortunately not, materials aren’t designed to overlap and all data needs to be compiled into one asset.
So, you’ll either have to use the default landscape paint or your custom paint
Ah ok. And I tried to make a custom terrain (similar to this video excluding desert) and the smooth tool/sculpt tool were really wonky and basically the terrain looked weird and scuffed compared to the default terrain smoothing/sculpting all nice. Do you know why that may be?
@@darkvortex2851 you can adjust brush size, falloff, and strength to affect the wonkiness or smoothness.
Yeah the settings carried over from default landscape to the created. I assume the default just sculpts/smoothens better?
@@darkvortex2851 I think the blending on the default is controlled by a texture instead of gradient blending, so maybe I’ll explore that in a future tutorial
How do i select multiple items jn the content drawer
Click the first item and shift click the last item to select adjacent items in a list. You can also use control click to individually select/deselect multiple items in the drawer.
Hey, I did everything in the tutorial, but the custom pain is not appearing. Is it because I'm using a converted 1.0 map?
You need to change the material in all of your landscapes to the new material
@@MaestroShark What do you think I did wrong to have it where the material disappears in the SetMaterialAttributes panel?
@@WornSnow88 just look at the example in the tutorial and look for anything different
@@MaestroShark I redid it and figured it out, thanks for the tutorial. Is there a way to make the shiny textures not be shiny anymore? Everything but the grass is shiny.
@@WornSnow88 for that, you should disconnect metallic and specular wherever you don’t want it, and use a value (1+click) to set roughness to 1. That’ll turn off all shininess for that material
I should of watched this 3 months ago
anybody got the og grass?
this did not work, i spent so much time bruh, when i go to paint, they are not there???
Make sure you assign the material to your landscape
@@MaestroShark Thank you! It worked
I CANT SEE THE PAINTSSSS
its not appearing in the paint menu
Make sure you’ve saved the material and applied it to your landscapes
@@MaestroShark how do i do that?
@@zboltunknown select your landscape and edit the material in details
@@MaestroShark it doesnt show up there either. the only place i can find it is in the project folder in the content drawer
im just trying to make a darker grass paint like in the mountain biomes
The grass doesn't appear ingame
U might have to turn off performance mode in your game settings in Fortnite
The grass doesn't appear even in the session
check out my recent comment on this video, It should help you
Me who deosnt understand:I dont know what im doing just only understanding what i did but let him cook!
i don’t see it in layers for paint? how do i fix this
I tried to paint with the layers but they don’t appear.
1. Make sure every piece of landscape in your map has the material assigned to it (select every proxy/chunk of landscape and change this in details)
This should turn your entire landscape black
2. Select the layer you want to paint and create a weight blended layer using the plus icon on its right
@@MaestroShark I just realized I didn’t click apply and instead I clicked save
@@PhantomFnc that’ll do it 😆
@@MaestroShark can you please elaborate. I've made an autolandscape material and I place it as the material and it just turns black. If I view this in game will it appear? Also does this only work if you do not use a template as I've used a template but can't seem to get my material to show up
@@610sailor8 if it’s black, that means it’s working. In landscape mode, go to paint and you should be able to assign weight blended layers to the paints.
mine doesn’t appear as a paint layer