Stylized Trees with Blender and Unreal Engine 5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video, I have shared a process to create stylized trees in Unreal Engine 5.1 using Blender.
Hope you like it.
Detailed video about MTREE
• Create trees in Blende...
I have taken reference for some parts of the UE material from STYLIZED STATION & other's videos.
Time Stamps:
00:00 - INTRO
00:22 - TREE BASE
03:25 - LEAVES SHAPE & UV
07:49 - UE5 MATERIALS
13:50 - PARAMETERS
16:16 - MIX MATERIAL
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what black magic is this?! 😅! Truly thank you so much. Here's me putting 400 planes randomly in a bush shape getting horrible sharp looking leaves like i thought you were supposed to make them. To just making a sphere in 30 seconds, flicking a few switches and bam. beautiful leaves. cant tell you how much time i have wasted before this video. About to browse the rest of your vids now!
Great tutorial the last time I made stylized trees I jumped through hoops of fire to get it right. Thanks and I hope I can put this to use in the future
amazing :) i swear as soon as i want to learn something about Blender, you upload an excellent tutorial for it!
Amazing tutorial man! Really makes it clear how it's done! Thank you for being helpful!
Great tutorial! Love the pacing and it is easy to follow along!
Awesome result!!!
this is one of the clearest i have ever seenThank you sir!
Great work💙 thanks for this amazing tutorial!
Amazing! Definitely gonna use it in my school project!
very clever art style ! Thanks for sharing
amazing work, thanks for the tutorial!
You’re a genius 😅 I’m making my trees this way for now on. So fluffy and beautiful, how did I not know this existed before
Pontus Karlsson's the genius who came up with this method. And its around 2 year old.
@@ferozhossain3401 True.. I just took reference from multiple fellow youtubers.
ty for explaining UV
After a pair of changes, i make it work, thanks man !
What a great video!! it helped a lot
Amazing work sir,
Love it! You deserve my sub. Continue doings this kind of video :)
Awesome tutorial, thank you! I do have a question though: when I rotate the tree all the canopy textures turn flat somehow, would you happen to know a way to fix this?
This is so good ! Well explained and simple to follow. Too bad we don't have a better understanding of the stylized station code part. but it's great netherless
Hi. When I export the tree in 2:50 using that software does the export come with armeture rig for animations and also a wind animations?
You are the best mate
Love it, so simple too! would you please do your lovely grass as well?
Great tutorial! I did have an issue on the tree bark and the UVs. How did you get your tree bark texture to look so clean and seamless. I have tried several seamless textures myself and unreal still makes them look awful with seams from the UVs.
waaaaaaaaw, Paradise
Thank you!
Very nice 👌
It’s was an awesome tutorial.. would like to post more unreal environments building workflow ….. also how did you make this amazing water..?
Guys, if your opacity mask doesn't work, reimport your mesh and do NOT click the nanite button. I keep reading 50/50 that the nanite thing won't allow masking?? Idk, but everything worked perfectly for me when I reimported the mesh and just did not do the nanite step.
Is there a trick to the limited dissolve? I ended up with a few broken loops and N-Gons. Great tutorial!
Bro, your grass looks so great, how you achieve that? You blend ladscape color with the low body grass? Or just use one texture for land and gradient/texture for grass?
I want to try use alpha grass but i dont know yet if o gonna destroy performance
I used runtime virtual texturing for grass
Great tutorial! I wonder, do you know why under certain angles the tree color desaturates? Is it just because of the direct light and is there a way to manipulate this?
Yes, it is because of the light angle. Only way is to change the density of the leaves at certain places.
Noicee!!
Hey ! It’s a really nice tutorial. I’ve heard using some alpha to create leafs wasn’t really good for game because unreal use a lot of ressource to make the black part of the alpha transparent. Is it something that you agree with ? I used to create my own leaf then put them trough a particule system on blender. But the issue with that is that I don’t have much modularity like you for the wind and the color !
Alpha transparency technique has been used since ages in games..it actually uses more calculation power in comparison to a fully colored texture.. however even basic graphics cards of today are powerful enough to handle it. I have created big enough scenes with alpha textures and they work fine. It depends on the scale of your project. You can also check the SHADER. COMPLEXITY in UE to validate your material's usability. Check this video of mine th-cam.com/video/7pfcBaRcVOI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=To69BBi1Ka1c1oYF
I absolutely love this. thank you so much! Could you possibly do a detailed tutorial about UVs? What they are, how to unwrap them and everything? You were talking about mapping UVs at 02:01 and I got very confused. I have no clue how to do that
Yeah im stuck aswell on this part. :D
Looks like the UVs are in a 0-1 range for each face on the mesh. In Blender, you can select all faces and press 'U' then 'Reset' to map each to the UV bounds.
There is a way to do this inflate UV in Blender ?
How do you get transformvector i cant only find position
Very nice! In my case the leaves start changing directions/pitch when I adjust the scaling parameters, giving them an ugly look compared to yours. Any ideas what may be the cause?
The same problem. Have you found a solution?
@@user-fj7sl3gn8h Unfortunately not, I have been experimenting with some different shapes in Blender to use for the leaves, but it is hard for me to get a dense and fluffy look. One shape that I have found gives an alright look is the following: align about 10 simple plane objects in a dome shape (half of a sphere) and make sure the planes overlap a bit at different angles (for fuller and fluffier look). To make branch less visible you can duplicate this and rotate it 180 degrees so you also have a bottom half, and/or duplicate it again and form a second layer floating a bit on top of the original. Then cover each branch with this. This does not give the best of looks and also still costs a lot of leaf images to produce. Let me know if you find something better^^
Same problem, if I find something I will tell you.
I FOUND THE SOLUTION BOYS, in the Leaves material graph, look at the "TransformVector" node. They have things that you can change. Be carefull at looking if you have the same settings as him.
@@ASTR0KARMA Thanks! The problem I get now is half of the leaves become smaller instead of bigger when increasing the scale
Amazing, you can make the texture in procreate as well.
Im kinda stuck on 2:00. How you create UVs and mark those loops on branches and main trunk line?
Ok nevermind found it . Mark Seam at UV tab in Edit Mode. :)
I have a problem were instead of increasing the texture size it'll scale up and deform the entire mesh, so the leaves won't ever touch each other and create that density effect, any ideas on how to fix it?
How did you fix the issue with the normals? they are gross and black, i know how to fix them for grass but for a solid object it does not seem to work the same?
No need to change normals in blender.. It works fine in UE
this is good for static light but awkward for games with complex shadows usage
wenn I add the leave instance to the Tree the shape where the leaves should be just stays there with the default ue texture, but when I add the leave instance to any other Mesh it works perfectly. What is the problem and how can I fix it?
Thanks in advance
Didn't understand the issue
Great tutorial! I followed your tutorial and my tree is working fine unitl I draw it with the foliage mode over a landscape and disable nanite. My leaves are getting completely broken and look to the wrong direction. And with nanite enabled I have very low fps. Do you have a solution for this?
I have found out that this issue is caused of the second TransformVector Node in the LeavesMaterial
can this method of creating leaves works on iclone 8
Is there a way of using geometry nodes for generation of a bulding?
You can download buildify by Paveloliva for blender.
What is this block, the -1, 1 with the x and y value at 13:10 ?
that is a 2 vector value.. just press 2 on keyboard and click in material editor, or right click & search Constant2Vector
Does this work in 5.0.3? For a project, I have to be in 5.0.3 but the leaves seem to all inflate only in one direction, so one side of the tree has no leaves
me too.
look for the transformVectore node in the leaf_mat, it looks that u have to change the " spaces ", i cant figure it out, and the combination in the video doesnt work for me
@@Inwardcrowd2210 you were right, the first transform vector is camera space to local space, and the second one was local space to world space, hope this works for you because your comment saved me :D
@@mddie10 If you have nanite enabled on the leaves, its that combination that you mentioned, if you dont have nanite enabled its (camera to instance and particle space) (instance and particle space to world space) hope it helps.
Hey dude, when I try to scale my texture in the instance the textura seems to collapse and start creating like a donut form instead of getting puffy, can you help me?
I have the same issue, have you found a solution by any chance?
@@Tmarmoratus sadly no 😭 I got frustrated and downloaded one from the epic store
@@rampardos707 Thanks for your response, unfortunate. Haha nice, I'll have a look aswell. Im still trying to make different variants of leaf spheres in blender but I can't get a good result yet
@@Tmarmoratus you are very welcome! I really hope you can get do it, let me know if I can help you with anything else
@@rampardos707@Tmarmoratus don’t know if you finally found the solution, I think I did with the help of All the Works.
Check your transform vector nodes in the leaves material, It’s probably wrong like mine. The first one has to be « Camera Space to local space » and the second « local space to world space ». Hope it works, keep it up!
Amazing Tutorial! There is a way to do this in Unity ?
th-cam.com/video/iASMFba7GeI/w-d-xo.html
I'm noticing that the cards are all rotating when I increase the inflation value (as in the "top" of the texture is always facing up if I increase the inflation value enough). Is there a way to prevent this from happening? It's making the leaves look a bit repetitive.
I am also having the same issue. the faces rotate when I increase the scale value. it flips sideways and does not look good
were you able to fix yours?
@@monkeytheory4718 Unfortunately not, like you though I eventually realized it was the scaling. I've taken a pause on the trees in my environment at the moment, but if I find a solution to this I'll let you know. Let me know if you find anything!
I have the same issue...
please provide any refference to that how to create such landscape and this water
For grass and foliage, checkout my latest video. Water shown in this video is from the marketplace.
1:42 after applying *what* modifier? I have the "skin" and "subdivision" modifiers, is there another one we have to add? o:
Subdivision and skin, that's it. After applying the modifier, you can optimize the mesh.
@@ALLTHEWORKS11 thank you for replying! :) I'm not sure how you're changing the mesh. At 1:44 you're in edit mode and I can see that your tree mesh is now covered in vertices, which you have all selected... but how did you get those vertices to appear because using the skin and subdivision modifier does not create all those vertices.
@@sharise4668I think you are getting confused in Applying the modifiers. So, when you see the modifiers in the tab, they are active & you can go to drop down of the modifier and click on apply. Then the modifier will be gone and the setting will be permanently applied to the mesh. In this case, when the modifier is active, the object doesn't have any faces. But when you apply the modifier, that converts it to a mesh. Those vertices are after applying the modifier.Check out this video for more details:
th-cam.com/video/wmn2mdUYt60/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4VtdI44QSGi-2kVy
@@ALLTHEWORKS11 ohh! i completely forgot that actually APPLYING the modifiers was it's own thing! haha my bad :) thanks again for responding!
This method cause issues to casting shadows by leaves, depending on where are the camera and sun.
Hi, am I doing somwething wrong? The leaves only generate on one half of my deformed sphere - why would that be the case?
Maybe because of normals.. Try resetting normals
-Sorry- ignore me I hadn't reset all my UV's 🤦♂
What is the node with the X and Y values at 12:57?
Press and hold 2 and click anywhere in the editor window
@@ALLTHEWORKS11 Thank you! I thought so, It looks different in my version of Unreal Engine, but is exactly the same :)
I tried this method and it all breaks apart on some angle in UE5. Leaves flying all over the places. So I tried a different approach. Went into blender and separated all faces and scaled it up. It achieves the same effect with less issue once imported in ue5.
How to implement it in blender?🤔🤔🤔
I really like this but isn't it costly for the GPU is we use this instead of planes on the tree? Maybe it depends on the number of planes. Maybe in some cases yours is better than some poorly optimized foliage I don't know. But one thing is for sure, your trees look better.
For that you can check Shader complexity in optimization view mode.. I checked it was all green.
@@ALLTHEWORKS11 Sorry. I'm kind of new in Unreal. So I don't know if there's a relation between vertices and shader complexity, but actually I am concerned about the number of vertices and triangles. Anyway if there are going to be any performance issues I will try to reduce their numbers and make some LOD-s because your trees are looking great. This solution for the leaves and flowers is looking lot better than just adding some planes.
@@csakegybolond264 As it is a Nanite mesh, UE handles polygons comfortably
@@ALLTHEWORKS11 I've read about it in the documentation that we should apply nanite to every mesh. However, at moving foliage with a lot of polygons (for example 20k grass mesh) I experience a big performance drop while nanite is applied compared to the performance without nanite. Plus I've read other guys running into to the same problem with nanite. But I've heard it's very good in the case of static meshes without any movement. But I am not sure if only the textures doing the movement why nanite causes that drop since that is pretty cheap for the GPU. Maybe my 4gb GPU memory is not enough for nanite to work efficiently.
This is super cool, though doesn't work on the Latest version of Unreal sadly...
I made it with 5.1
@@ALLTHEWORKS11 yeah 5.3 is really bugged atm. So that was version being used. I did a field test and it is hit or miss for it to work with me and my team.
in mine it doesn't work the leaves don't look like yours
I have used UE 5.1 here.. Anyway, just check all the UE material nodes carefully.. It should work.
@@ALLTHEWORKS11 I used 5.1 too but the sheets are separated in the mash
@@Mastrechief Did you find a solution? I have the same issue
Show us how you made the bark out of ai
th-cam.com/video/Ez9fQhAg33k/w-d-xo.htmlsi=31a1JJcpQR3UAkUy
There is a add on in blender that actually adds a option in the menu to add a single vertices.