Using Landscape Patches with Unreal Engine

Video on Getting started with the new landscape patch plugin that is an experimental plugin in Unreal which is pretty useful and can help blockout your landscapes around assets quick, Could be used to quickly Generate a heightmap then lower areas where you want cities etc then using layers build off that.
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[@VolkillerGames]

I noticed my mic cutting out in a few areas sorry about that i have a new mic that i still need to change settings on it seems haha also seemed to delete a few seconds from the start but nothing important

[@unrealdevop]

Did not know this existed thanks

[@arthurhark1954]

Thanks for the video

[@istealpixel7371]

This is really interesting, for example, in the design of a village.

[@VolkillerGames]

yeah its really great for any Point of interest combine it with the built in spline tools and you can have areas of the map that are pretty static and iterate different ideas or random heightmaps without worrying overall its nice to see non destructive stuff added cant wait to see whats next :D

[@elitetechworks]

Great Tutorials

[@aukehuys2297]

Thanks for the video, but I am wondering what is the real usage of it, since the resolution of an actual landscape is so low and the asset has to be pretty big :/
Wish they were working also on this topic - this would improve blending of 'nature assets' so much easier. Maybe with Witcher 4 this will improve a lot.
Beside this, as said, thanks for your video. They do help a lot to stay on track :)

[@Cloroqx]

They've done a lot of commits in ue5-main for Nanite Landscape. I imagine that's one of the reasons.

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

the cube in this example is not that big and it works

[@VolkillerGames]

i can see where your coming from overall from what i understand landscape tools should be getting remade at some point atm Virtual Heightfields and nanite landscape is the temp fix they have made. Most games also use meshes in more detailed areas.
Overall this can work on smaller meshes around a meter or so you then just increase the falloff. I personally see this as just a step in overall making the landscape and also making it slightly less destructive as it can be moved. So i personally have a Landscape Base layer that is my overall sculpt then a Patch/landmass layer that flattens areas and can even be used for hills and things then you would have a spline or water layer if using those and then detail layer you go and sculpt in. Overall it speeds up that initial blockout in the same way landmass can but then also allows it to be changed later and you just erase the higher layers.

[@KaelthasProductions]

That would be RTS games and city building games if it comes out in the final build

[@lolaswift111]

guess this won't work at runtime?

[@VolkillerGames]

no because landscape gets compiled down for runtime. but i have seen some community Nanite displacement stuff that i imagine you could use in the long run. twitter.com/phyronnaz/status/1764068615072989580 :D they said they might be open source so it might end up being something to use

[@javascripted_]

This sucks. I don't understand why there aren't more ways to modify the landscape at runtime. Lots of people have started to use voxel tech with marching cubes for this reason. However using voxel means you have to buy the expensive plugin, and its not multiplayer compatible.
Im not asking for tons of features, but a basic smoothing, flattening, or patch feature which would allow players to shape the world as they play would open up so much gaming content.

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

Wouldn't be too much to add an extra drawcall for each instance on a ladscape? At least I would be sceptical about the texture version where u have to load an extra noise texture for each environment asset.

[@VolkillerGames]

landscape layers are flattened and baked out when you ship a game so those textures are only there in the editor the game itself just has a landscape :D

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

​@@VolkillerGames wow thanks for clarifying that doubt, this changes my way of thinking, glad to hear that.

[@MrPangahas]

Is it possible to bake the landscape patch into the landscape?

[@VolkillerGames]

overall when you build your project the whole landscape and its layers is baked down with the current system.

[@MrPangahas]

@@VolkillerGames how about data layers?can you put them in data layers so you can load unload them at runtime?