Congrats on another fine release! I own almost your entire product line and certainly am looking forward to working with this. Great idea and very well conceived. Thanks again, Garth!
Could you use vertex painting to offset vertex in Z, and avoid landscape entirely? Link the other vertex channels to a few chosen brushify material layers.
I'm working on how we can incorporate the PCG into Brushify currently. It's already possible to use brushify assets with PCG. Eventually I want to create some tutorials with it.
I have been having a ton of trouble with the landmass brushes, is there any video series you know of that shows how to use the content in UE5.3 with a custom sized landscape?
are you talking about smart brush? the video tutorial is from UE5. It's tested in 5.3 , all working and UI hasn''t changed. So just follow along. th-cam.com/video/xKPqqmPJGTI/w-d-xo.html
@@HavokSage Yeah, I watched the video and followed the steps, but when I put the blueprint down, the terrain is still flat. I am not understanding what is wrong. It is a custom landscape size.
Do you have any thoughts about how to work this into world partition? Adding a third dimension to the playable space is awesome, and if it goes really vertical it may be nice to have some streaming in that dimension, too.
Hi, yes you can copy the blueprint, then from there you can open it and adjust all the set dressing. Everything from the spikes, the cliff walls, the hanging foliage, it can all be moved and reconfigured.
I'm trying to render a scene using the level provided in the asset pack, i have modified some things and I have added the skm manny mannequin. I am unable to render anything using movie render queue, it just gets stuck at cut state uninitiated. I tried migrating the meshes that I need to another unreal folder, but that didn't work either Please help
Hi, You need to set the Mesh Variation parameter to 1 in the properties. I think I'll patch that because i'm not sure why it was setup that way, probably just an oversight! Thanks for the feedback. Cheers Joe
hi thoughts on creating multiple lanscape on performance for open world? This looks good on paper, but isnt' creating like 6-8 diff landscape would destroy performance?
Hey was following along I'm new to Unreal and working on a project for my University work. I can't find the removeprocedural layer info. Not sure if my plugin bugged when adding to my project. If you can get back to me with how to create this or a solution to get the layer info please let me know thanks. Love the tutorial!
Click the + icon to create a new layer info. For the remove procedural you need to choose non weight blended instead, otherwise it will paint black. Check the Grass tutorial on my channel for more details.
Off topic and ty for the great pack! Just a few more and ill have them all. How long usually til these are updated to 5.3? Just curious cuz im really interested in the new nanite landscapes. No rush obviously your clearly a busy person.
Hi Joe, what's your thoughts on 5.3 and nanite landscapes? Is that going to change anything in your assets and things? And what possibilities does it open up do you think? cheers
Hi, automaterials like brushify won't be functional with nanite unfortunately. There is no system for baking the actual material into a texture map which nanite can use. Atleast not yet. I'm always on the lookout for ways around this, but I think it has to be addressed by epic themselves.
There already is! th-cam.com/video/gVqZfkCppxE/w-d-xo.html You'd probably end up with a blobby mess though. The way I craft the sculpting islands here gives the best of both worlds. It's a 3d mesh for the base, then a playable sculptable landscape on top.
@@HavokSage Interesting! It wouldn’t allow you to create caves if I understand this correctly though. Also, for the parts of the height map that are made invisible/alpha, would there still be a hitbox in that part of the plane?
@@BlueSpawn Hi, you should look into Voxel plugin for caves th-cam.com/video/3MjHEHkjtw4/w-d-xo.html Also, no reason you can't use that with the floating island meshes etc.
i did this i have 100 custom lands with my main land but now my games lags alot my origional project run at 120 fps and now run at 20fps the stats i saw show that game has 45mils rest are all low and good and now my gpu usage is only 25 percent can anyone help me
Do you mean 100 custom landscape actors? I’m not surprised you’d have performance problems. I doubt the gpu can handle so many draw calls. Might need to narrow the scope of your project to something more realistic, attainable.
Can't you just delete the access landscape material before assigning a texture to it so you don't have to double delete the landscape then the procedure grass? Also are you going to improve the performance and make use of the new ue features? "I really struggle when using 4k and more"
Hi, No that would still apply the grass to the entire landscape. Grass ignores the visibility tool completely. Changing the order wouldn't help. Do you mean 4k landscape or 4k in screen resolution? There's not much more that can be done iwth performance optimization with brushify / shader side of things. Mostly it's determined by the engine. UE5 is simply a heavier engine than UE4, with a heavier renderer. Most scenes will run a lot worse in UE5 than they did in UE4. It's still possible to optimize away UE5 features though to get back to UE4 framerates. With Brushify we included tickboxes so you can enable and disable unwanted features, but those features themselves are already optimized. You'll need to decide what features you need for your game.
Another great product to be added in the brushify collection! Well done Joe!
Congrats on another fine release! I own almost your entire product line and certainly am looking forward to working with this. Great idea and very well conceived. Thanks again, Garth!
Hey Joe! Welcome back. Nice pack! Well done! 😁
Nice, probably buying it once i remember how much i loved gamedev
Fantastic Joe, I'm getting this.
I had been holding off making these in case something popped up, Perfect Timing! - Need a rope bridge spline ;)
Innnnnnnnnnnnnncredible work Joe!
Rocks as always!! My favourite ones...
ANOTHER BANGER???
This is pretty smart because you can now use pcg and lever stream this Island into the main level
wow.. nice
Could you use vertex painting to offset vertex in Z, and avoid landscape entirely?
Link the other vertex channels to a few chosen brushify material layers.
Can you make the floating island stylized?
could you make a video on how to use the new unreal engine 5.2 PCG volume with the brushify assets?
Is there a way where you can increase the viewing distance of the foliage so you can see it from far away?
foliage.LODdistanceScale
You can also go into the foliage types and set the cull distance.
@@HavokSage thanks Joe!
Can I change the materials to Stylized?
Brushify + PCG must be amazing
I'm working on how we can incorporate the PCG into Brushify currently. It's already possible to use brushify assets with PCG. Eventually I want to create some tutorials with it.
@@HavokSage Can't wait!
I was playing with some PCG setups and Brushify today. For some reason I couldn’t get the nodes to recognize layer paint attributes. Any ideas?
I have been having a ton of trouble with the landmass brushes, is there any video series you know of that shows how to use the content in UE5.3 with a custom sized landscape?
are you talking about smart brush? the video tutorial is from UE5. It's tested in 5.3 , all working and UI hasn''t changed. So just follow along. th-cam.com/video/xKPqqmPJGTI/w-d-xo.html
@@HavokSage Yeah, I watched the video and followed the steps, but when I put the blueprint down, the terrain is still flat. I am not understanding what is wrong. It is a custom landscape size.
This is super cool! I could definitely see it being used in an avatar style game. Neat!
Do you have any thoughts about how to work this into world partition? Adding a third dimension to the playable space is awesome, and if it goes really vertical it may be nice to have some streaming in that dimension, too.
Is there a way to customize the island do they don't all look the same?
Hi, yes you can copy the blueprint, then from there you can open it and adjust all the set dressing. Everything from the spikes, the cliff walls, the hanging foliage, it can all be moved and reconfigured.
how large can you scale the floating islands?
They’re meshes , already quite large, the more you scale them though you’d have to adjust the detail texturing to compensate.
I'm trying to render a scene using the level provided in the asset pack, i have modified some things and I have added the skm manny mannequin.
I am unable to render anything using movie render queue, it just gets stuck at cut state uninitiated.
I tried migrating the meshes that I need to another unreal folder, but that didn't work either
Please help
The vine bp doesn't seem to be working for me, a vine isn't actually there.
Hi, You need to set the Mesh Variation parameter to 1 in the properties.
I think I'll patch that because i'm not sure why it was setup that way, probably just an oversight!
Thanks for the feedback.
Cheers
Joe
Is brushify game ready. Is it optimised ?
Yes, please read brushify.io for more info.
hi thoughts on creating multiple lanscape on performance for open world? This looks good on paper, but isnt' creating like 6-8 diff landscape would destroy performance?
Hey was following along I'm new to Unreal and working on a project for my University work. I can't find the removeprocedural layer info. Not sure if my plugin bugged when adding to my project. If you can get back to me with how to create this or a solution to get the layer info please let me know thanks. Love the tutorial!
Click the + icon to create a new layer info. For the remove procedural you need to choose non weight blended instead, otherwise it will paint black.
Check the Grass tutorial on my channel for more details.
oh mate, that's fab seemed so confusing but as I read it a few times it was common sense lmao. Cheers mate appreciate the help!@@HavokSage
Off topic and ty for the great pack! Just a few more and ill have them all.
How long usually til these are updated to 5.3? Just curious cuz im really interested in the new nanite landscapes. No rush obviously your clearly a busy person.
Are the floating island meshes nanite compatible?
Yes they are compatible with nanite
Are these assets royalty free?
Please read the EULA on unreal marketplace, they follow the standard license on there
Hi Joe, what's your thoughts on 5.3 and nanite landscapes? Is that going to change anything in your assets and things? And what possibilities does it open up do you think? cheers
Hi, automaterials like brushify won't be functional with nanite unfortunately. There is no system for baking the actual material into a texture map which nanite can use. Atleast not yet.
I'm always on the lookout for ways around this, but I think it has to be addressed by epic themselves.
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There isn’t a tool in Unreal that lets you sculpt geometry directly? It’ll be nice when it comes around.
There already is! th-cam.com/video/gVqZfkCppxE/w-d-xo.html
You'd probably end up with a blobby mess though. The way I craft the sculpting islands here gives the best of both worlds. It's a 3d mesh for the base, then a playable sculptable landscape on top.
@@HavokSage Interesting! It wouldn’t allow you to create caves if I understand this correctly though. Also, for the parts of the height map that are made invisible/alpha, would there still be a hitbox in that part of the plane?
@@BlueSpawn Hi, you should look into Voxel plugin for caves th-cam.com/video/3MjHEHkjtw4/w-d-xo.html
Also, no reason you can't use that with the floating island meshes etc.
i did this i have 100 custom lands with my main land but now my games lags alot my origional project run at 120 fps and now run at 20fps the stats i saw show that game has 45mils rest are all low and good and now my gpu usage is only 25 percent can anyone help me
Do you mean 100 custom landscape actors? I’m not surprised you’d have performance problems. I doubt the gpu can handle so many draw calls.
Might need to narrow the scope of your project to something more realistic, attainable.
@@HavokSageI agree I reduce the amount of landscape and I got my fps up again
Can't you just delete the access landscape material before assigning a texture to it so you don't have to double delete the landscape then the procedure grass?
Also are you going to improve the performance and make use of the new ue features? "I really struggle when using 4k and more"
Hi, No that would still apply the grass to the entire landscape. Grass ignores the visibility tool completely. Changing the order wouldn't help.
Do you mean 4k landscape or 4k in screen resolution?
There's not much more that can be done iwth performance optimization with brushify / shader side of things. Mostly it's determined by the engine. UE5 is simply a heavier engine than UE4, with a heavier renderer. Most scenes will run a lot worse in UE5 than they did in UE4. It's still possible to optimize away UE5 features though to get back to UE4 framerates. With Brushify we included tickboxes so you can enable and disable unwanted features, but those features themselves are already optimized.
You'll need to decide what features you need for your game.
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Hi, please let me know if I can help. You can contact our support email: support@brushify.io