I'm not sure beginners watching this will realize how insanely valuable this video is. This is a fucking gold mine of information that I know from experience is definitely not being taught in art schools. Great stuff dude!
My school has taught me all these basics, this is a fabulous reference point! I count myself lucky to have such a great schooling experience, along with resources like this.
Does he actually explain how to achieve these methods? As far as i can see its just a gallery showcase. Nothing in his project file even explains the function calls or whats under the hood to get these working. even at 9 bucks its a waste of money and patience so far.
Holy moly - this should serve as the prime example of how tutorials should be made. Context, various methods, files provided, links to learn more on other things.
Had to reupload this since the first version was set at 360p for over 5 hours. That first version got a lot of love so thanks for that, hope this video can be of some use to newer artists ^__^
Telling the story of increasing complexity by solving one problem leading into the next makes this some of the best env art tuition on youtube, thank you for your generosity putting these together ❤
A little trick I remember hearing the guys at Arkane talk about, was a way to get seamless tiling of a modular wallpaper set in Dishonored 2. To make sure the outer edge always tiled without a noticeable seam, they would assign the same surface two UVs. Each would align to it's respective side and then the material would uniformly blend them where they intersect in the center. With very structured textures (like bricks or stone) I could see that needing another mask to filter the blend but I've always wanted to try that. Anyways, great video! I hadn't realized how easy it was to setup BSP-like, world texture coordinates to standard materials. I'll have to apply that to my next portfolio scene!
I am not even halfway through the video and I've already had so many epiphanies. What a great, great tutorial. I'm grinning. Thank you so much. i luv u
I'm just starting my personal project using Unreal Engine, and I can't tell you how helpful your videos are. Thank you for your hard work. really thanks.
ive been looking for this kind of video when I was starting out with my game. I've basically learned most of this the hard way thru trial and error but I still learned a couple of new things. this is very valuable for beginners and should be push out more by the algorithm. no one in this app seem to wanna talk about the texturing process in this scale. most are usually for single objects and others have stylized workflows. thank you for this
I never thought of cutting out the decals and modelling them to the shape you need them to fit, I have only ever used them on flat quads - so obvious in hindsight but bloody brilliant! Also, using the height map for the vertex painting and adding noise to the overlaying texture makes a huge difference, looked amazing!
Dylan this is absolute gold - thank you so much. All these methods explained succinctly and expertly. Thanks a million mate - the work that goes into this and all your other vids/tutorials is very much appreciated! 🙂
As a professional working in the industry, I wish I had access to this video when I was still learning "Game art" and "Technical art". Thank you and great job! I'm going to save and share this whenever these topics come up with newcomers to the industry :)
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I am just starting to get familiar with modeling and texturing and i've already ran into issues within my game that I had no clue how to solve and this video just opened my eyes to all the stuff i've done wrong. I now actually understand why my walls look consistent (texel density) and why one object looks super crisp and another is blurry. Im not even halfway through and I am feeling empowered to make better art!
Thank you so much for this! I don't have anything more to add that hasn't already been said in other comments but just adding mine to help boost the vid and your channel. I'll be checking out your trim sheet tutorial next. Keep them coming!!
Holy shit, this is the kind of info I've wanted longer than I can even remember. Thank you so much!! Seriously. I can't express enough how useful this is. I've always felt like this stuff is locked behind a top secret game dev vault, and I usually just kind of fumble through doing things without ever getting quite what I want out of materials until I get frustrated enough to quit trying only to try again and fail again later on. So again, thank you.
when it comes to materials and texturing, UV mapping and unwrapping, I know next to nothing and it is so intimidating lol. This info is sooo valuable to anyone trying to get a grasp on this stuff. Thank you! Liked n subbed!
What you, sir, are doing here is just PURE GOLD. I mean, this is SO useful and so well explained, this will save sooo much time for junior modelers and broaden their eyes on the game pipelines. Thank you so much for such good content.
Exactly what I was looking for ! Now to take the time to adjust textures for each instance I will use it on and my memory will be greatfull for not having to process million 8k textures in one scene to get high detail XD
Great overview! I'd love a video about the performance considerations for these different techniques and some advice about when certain approaches are worth it and when they are not.
Most of these are designed to be pretty light. The more materials you layer on with vert paint or layer blends the more expensive. Projected decals are costly, while mesh decals are cheap. All in all only use what you need, the less materials you can get away with the best
I was wondering about adding the verts for painting. I would imagine this being ok for something like last of us but maybe not for an open world. Would that be true? I know we have next gen standards now but I guess my brain still thinks oh no that’s too many verts, error error!
A goldmine of knowledge, thank you for sharing this remarkable resource. Thanks to it I already have concepts for developing a good workflow for texturing. You are the best!
Thank you ! I had knowledge of only parts of these and I was lacking that last step to make it actually look good, this helps a lot, I already have lots in mind as to how to put it to practice :D
I finally found the solution after months! Thanks. I was confused as to why my textures with high resolutions look blurry up close on large assets 😅. Thanks a lot.👍
Thank you so much for this. I've been wanting to start putting together assets for my game but nothing ever explained the actual nitty gritty details of how to apply all the different options available in a game engine. I'm anal about avoiding repetitive looking assets and the stuff about materials you cover towards the end blew my mind
Thank you for this Introduction and thank you for providing the UE5.2 Scene! This is an awesome overview and a great point to start from. I will try to use use this to paint my landscape.
Thank you sir! I've been wrapping my head around how to make a cool canyon and I made so many custom shaders and etc but I needed summarization so bad in some form
Thanks for the great video mate! There's really very little information about Material Layers and UV Masks, only Nexttut has pretty much detailed video about Materials Layers, but not about creating masks. I'm looking forward to seeing a more detailed video on this topic from you in the nearest future, as tbh I'm stuck and can't fully understand that subject :(
This is incredible! i wish more people would create this quality videos, so no one have to go through hundreds of videos just to get pices of information. this is insane that this video alone can save tons of hours for just researching. Not only that, he actualy explaining everything, like if i have a question in my mind next seconds he answer it already XD, also providing other links to check out how to do stuff. This is big. i dont know how much time did you spend preping this video, but thanks dude, i dont know what to say... i guess now i have to watch all of your videos LOL
thanks so much for the kind words! Just making the videos I wish I had when learning. Not sure all my videos will cover this much, but the last handful might be helpful. Hope you enjoy!
Hey Dylan ! would you make another video on setting up a master material for the vertex painting using 2 or more materials or point towards a direction ? I really like the way of teaching and would love to get some more insight on it.
Thanks for the kind words! There are many many tutorials on setting up vertex painting out there, they shouldn't be too hard to find. I would just recommend looking in the description and following the video that goes over the custom edge masking for vert paint to make it more natural. I dont think i'll make a specific video on this soon unless I make a similar shader for my own project. Hope you understand
Great video Dylan!! Would love to see a video of a quick workflow with the Mesh Decals technique from Megascan to blender to painter and Unreal! Cheers
Very good video. I learned a lot already, and I'm only half way through. I'm concerned that all of these tricks increase draw call sizes. I guess these kit texture methods should be used with Instanced meshes.
Would you ever consider making a video going more in depth into the Z Up shaders? I'd love to learn more about it and the videos I have seen have some clashing information. Currently working on improving my overall material knowledge in unreal and this video is the foundation im starting with.
Thanks for the video! I have a question When we want to create a game that includes 2K and 4K screen resolution support, does that means that we need 2K and 4K textures respectively or those things are not related? I mean, what makes a game available in 4k. It makes sense having 4K textures for a game that a user will display in a 1080p resolution?
thats a good question. Im not 100% sure since i dont work on the tech art side, but I have a decent idea. You basically want to build with the highest output in mind. If your console supports 4k, it will run the game as is regardless on what monitor is plugged in, so you have to design for that possibility. There are also cases where you know for sure what you are dealing with, like the nintendo switch. you're always going to have 720p in handheld so you can just work with that in mind Long story short, base it on the most expensive option, and then scale back if you need to
I just bought your master material, but I was just curious if you think there is anything that has been added to UE5 since you made this tutorial I should think about when using your material as a base? Thanks!
Great tutorial! Question about the vertex paint (not nanine): How would you deal with LOD's of asset that use vertex paint? since the lods will remove points, the blending can have strange result for the lod. for example the wall will either have too much moss or none at all. I was wondering if you had a solution for that. Thank in advance for the reply and keep up the great tutorials :)
IMPORTANT - if you are getting an error where the textures for the rocks appear fully black, that is caused by the material layer. Open the graph for "ML_Base_01a" and "ML_Layer_01a", disconnect the line going from "splitcomponents" to "PixelDepthOffset". This should fix the issue, not sure why this is caused yet, I'll look into it, if i find the answer will update the post.
If I only found this earlier. Took me days to figure out most of this by myself. Too bad the triplanar projection is quite expensive for large assets, especialy in open-world levels. I'd rather use separate uv sets for mesh-specific and tiling textures, then calculate mesh scale factor inside the shader to keep the tiling permanent. And so is Z-mask based on pixel normal. Using vertex normal instead gives a decent result at much lower cost.
Congratulations on the knowledge you share!; I have a question: Unreal engine 5.3 will be able to bake the materials in a texture; something very similar to what Quixel Mixer or Substance Painter does; that after having placed, painted and distributed the materials; Can you generate a texture (Diffuse; Normal; Roughness; etc) for the 3D model? I have been carrying out various tests with the Bake part of the Modeling Editor Tools in UE 5.3; but I have not been able to achieve something similar to what I describe, I also tried the "bake materials" from the Details part; but it is not the expected result. Thanks in advance and greetings from Lima - Peru
Should I use material layers workflow for two large wooden cranes and some wooden props, because they are too large and don’t fit in 0 to 1 uv space due texel density,
Thank you so much Dylan, this video is a very powerfull explanation about the entire porcess. At the beginning of the video you show God of War Images and they give me even more questions. For example if you played the GOW 2018 game there is a moment when a giant appears, or another example is the giant serpent. In this expecific cases, how do you texture these assets? Thanks again for all your contribution with these incredibles tutorials =)
Thanks again for this awesome video it taught me a lot. I have a question regarding using trimsheets. When you use trimsheets like the one you did for gears of war, is it really possible to take texel density in account ? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that you have to keep texel density consistent when modeling using the texture because that means you only can use the size of the different sections of the trim sheet but if you scale them then you reduce / increase texel density right ? Thanks
if you can duplicate parts around it will be far cheaper than one huge one (cheaper for LODs, and also when you duplicate a mesh in engine its polygons render cheaper)
perfect explanation, but but if i have buildings added some high details and sculpt it inside zbrush and using tiling UV but when try backing it inside substance painter normal map for high details not work of course any way to solve this or any trick to get normal map from zbrush inside substance painter with UV tiling?
Thank you very much for this! some things you share apply for any other software too. I always wondered what was a correct texel density to work with 4k.
I really appreciate your videos Dylan, thank you for taking the time to help all of us newer artists :-) Question: Will Substrate affect any of these setups moving forward?
im not sure what you mean? you can make all the textures for this in substance yes, but the actual shaders where they are manipulated as seen here would have to be done in some other program
@@tiedie Sorry for the confusion, I was referring to the new shading model "Substrate" that was featured during the UE5.2 announcement. Check out the GDC tech demo if you haven't seen it yet.
@@amannin1 For anybody else who were as confused as me, the shading model we've been using for months is Strata, but it looks like they recently (Feb 21) renamed all user-facing texts to Substrate... (they obviously kept the Strata name in most of the code so if you are on the master branch and still work with Strata, then that's how you can still reference it).
Hi, awesome video! Is there any more in-depth tutorial or video you recommend about the different techniques here? Especially for the shaders like the z-up material blending etc.
thanks a lot for this crazy tutorial but my question what if i have building from bricks and its tiling UV but added it to Zbrush to add some high details and when imported it after backing inside Substance painter i found backing for normal map not right what the reason of that?
I'm not sure beginners watching this will realize how insanely valuable this video is. This is a fucking gold mine of information that I know from experience is definitely not being taught in art schools. Great stuff dude!
Appreciate it! Certainly wasn't taught at my school either lol
@@tiedie Yah, this is great. I've hard to learn a lot of these things on my own time and at work, so noobs should really appreciate this more lol
Amen
My school has taught me all these basics, this is a fabulous reference point! I count myself lucky to have such a great schooling experience, along with resources like this.
Does he actually explain how to achieve these methods? As far as i can see its just a gallery showcase. Nothing in his project file even explains the function calls or whats under the hood to get these working. even at 9 bucks its a waste of money and patience so far.
Holy moly - this should serve as the prime example of how tutorials should be made.
Context, various methods, files provided, links to learn more on other things.
Had to reupload this since the first version was set at 360p for over 5 hours. That first version got a lot of love so thanks for that, hope this video can be of some use to newer artists ^__^
Was this an April Fools joke?
@@2bit8bytes nope, youtube really did me dirty ;-;
Telling the story of increasing complexity by solving one problem leading into the next makes this some of the best env art tuition on youtube, thank you for your generosity putting these together ❤
A little trick I remember hearing the guys at Arkane talk about, was a way to get seamless tiling of a modular wallpaper set in Dishonored 2. To make sure the outer edge always tiled without a noticeable seam, they would assign the same surface two UVs. Each would align to it's respective side and then the material would uniformly blend them where they intersect in the center. With very structured textures (like bricks or stone) I could see that needing another mask to filter the blend but I've always wanted to try that.
Anyways, great video! I hadn't realized how easy it was to setup BSP-like, world texture coordinates to standard materials. I'll have to apply that to my next portfolio scene!
I am not even halfway through the video and I've already had so many epiphanies. What a great, great tutorial. I'm grinning. Thank you so much.
i luv u
I've learned so much on youtube and this is like the holy grail of overview content. About to binge your whole channel, thank you.
I'm just starting my personal project using Unreal Engine,
and I can't tell you how helpful your videos are.
Thank you for your hard work.
really thanks.
ive been looking for this kind of video when I was starting out with my game. I've basically learned most of this the hard way thru trial and error but I still learned a couple of new things. this is very valuable for beginners and should be push out more by the algorithm. no one in this app seem to wanna talk about the texturing process in this scale. most are usually for single objects and others have stylized workflows. thank you for this
Please more of this! Wow... I've been doing enviorment work for a few months now and no other video has given me near this much important info!
I never thought of cutting out the decals and modelling them to the shape you need them to fit, I have only ever used them on flat quads - so obvious in hindsight but bloody brilliant! Also, using the height map for the vertex painting and adding noise to the overlaying texture makes a huge difference, looked amazing!
This is one of the greatest videos I've seen in TH-cam about this topic, thank you for such a valuable information!
Dylan this is absolute gold - thank you so much. All these methods explained succinctly and expertly. Thanks a million mate - the work that goes into this and all your other vids/tutorials is very much appreciated! 🙂
This video has all the information that I was trying to find, and a lot more. Thank you very much for this fantastic ressource.
As a professional working in the industry, I wish I had access to this video when I was still learning "Game art" and "Technical art". Thank you and great job! I'm going to save and share this whenever these topics come up with newcomers to the industry :)
really happy to hear that! Thats exactly why I made this, thanks for the kind words :D
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I am just starting to get familiar with modeling and texturing and i've already ran into issues within my game that I had no clue how to solve and this video just opened my eyes to all the stuff i've done wrong. I now actually understand why my walls look consistent (texel density) and why one object looks super crisp and another is blurry. Im not even halfway through and I am feeling empowered to make better art!
Thank you so much for this! I don't have anything more to add that hasn't already been said in other comments but just adding mine to help boost the vid and your channel. I'll be checking out your trim sheet tutorial next. Keep them coming!!
Hey tiedie, I remember watching you years ago when you'd tell stories... now i've graduated college haha. I'm glad to see you're doing what you love.
Holy shit, this is the kind of info I've wanted longer than I can even remember. Thank you so much!! Seriously.
I can't express enough how useful this is. I've always felt like this stuff is locked behind a top secret game dev vault, and I usually just kind of fumble through doing things without ever getting quite what I want out of materials until I get frustrated enough to quit trying only to try again and fail again later on. So again, thank you.
This is by far the best video on youtube for a solid overview of these topics. Thanks so much.
when it comes to materials and texturing, UV mapping and unwrapping, I know next to nothing and it is so intimidating lol. This info is sooo valuable to anyone trying to get a grasp on this stuff. Thank you! Liked n subbed!
What you, sir, are doing here is just PURE GOLD. I mean, this is SO useful and so well explained, this will save sooo much time for junior modelers and broaden their eyes on the game pipelines. Thank you so much for such good content.
Exactly what I was looking for ! Now to take the time to adjust textures for each instance I will use it on and my memory will be greatfull for not having to process million 8k textures in one scene to get high detail XD
This is one of the most important videos for anyone who wants to get into optimizing ue5 materials/shades...
This video just changed my life. Thank you Tiedie.
Great overview! I'd love a video about the performance considerations for these different techniques and some advice about when certain approaches are worth it and when they are not.
Most of these are designed to be pretty light. The more materials you layer on with vert paint or layer blends the more expensive. Projected decals are costly, while mesh decals are cheap. All in all only use what you need, the less materials you can get away with the best
I was wondering about adding the verts for painting. I would imagine this being ok for something like last of us but maybe not for an open world. Would that be true? I know we have next gen standards now but I guess my brain still thinks oh no that’s too many verts, error error!
all beginner Enviromental artist need this.
Thanks with my all my heart!! It means a lot to me like studying alone.
Man. Thank you. This video was recommended to me and I'm so happy. I hope you'll keep posting. Your content is so valuable.
oh this is God sent ! i just started learning ue5 and have no clue how to make any of these things. thanks a lot!
Holy shit, who ARE you?! This is the best channel I've ever seen for game ready assets. THANK YOU for existing!
just another fellow game dev. thank you!
A goldmine of knowledge, thank you for sharing this remarkable resource. Thanks to it I already have concepts for developing a good workflow for texturing. You are the best!
Crazy. The video made me realise some things I wasn't sure about. Explained in a very understandable way. It ist really pure gold! Thanks a lot!
This is the best tutorial on this stuff i've seen so far. It was very helpful for making many decisions on how to texture my environment, thanks!
Thank you ! I had knowledge of only parts of these and I was lacking that last step to make it actually look good, this helps a lot, I already have lots in mind as to how to put it to practice :D
Was searching for this exact thing for a long time. Got stuck trying to texture large asteroids! Thanks for creating this!
This is pure gold! I can't thank you enough for sharing this wealth of knowledge and expertise 🤩
This video is pure gold, covers so much valuable informations I didn't find.
I finally found the solution after months! Thanks. I was confused as to why my textures with high resolutions look blurry up close on large assets 😅. Thanks a lot.👍
Thank you so much for this. I've been wanting to start putting together assets for my game but nothing ever explained the actual nitty gritty details of how to apply all the different options available in a game engine. I'm anal about avoiding repetitive looking assets and the stuff about materials you cover towards the end blew my mind
Thank you for this Introduction and thank you for providing the UE5.2 Scene! This is an awesome overview and a great point to start from. I will try to use use this to paint my landscape.
One of the best videos ever recorded. Super professional and useful
Amazing tutorial, super valuable, I haven't found anything of the like regarding this topic. Thanks a lot!
good video
huge informations a lot of newer artists are missing
wish I had a video like this when I started years ago
Thank you sir! I've been wrapping my head around how to make a cool canyon and I made so many custom shaders and etc but I needed summarization so bad in some form
Thanks for the great video mate! There's really very little information about Material Layers and UV Masks, only Nexttut has pretty much detailed video about Materials Layers, but not about creating masks. I'm looking forward to seeing a more detailed video on this topic from you in the nearest future, as tbh I'm stuck and can't fully understand that subject :(
my timestamps
5:20
Organic = World align textures
Buildings/Items = UV mapping and Modeling and Kits
29:00
This is incredible! i wish more people would create this quality videos, so no one have to go through hundreds of videos just to get pices of information. this is insane that this video alone can save tons of hours for just researching. Not only that, he actualy explaining everything, like if i have a question in my mind next seconds he answer it already XD, also providing other links to check out how to do stuff. This is big. i dont know how much time did you spend preping this video, but thanks dude, i dont know what to say... i guess now i have to watch all of your videos LOL
thanks so much for the kind words! Just making the videos I wish I had when learning. Not sure all my videos will cover this much, but the last handful might be helpful. Hope you enjoy!
Just the best tutorial of this topic. God I wish I watched it in 2020. Thank you for this!
Hey Dylan ! would you make another video on setting up a master material for the vertex painting using 2 or more materials or point towards a direction ? I really like the way of teaching and would love to get some more insight on it.
Thanks for the kind words! There are many many tutorials on setting up vertex painting out there, they shouldn't be too hard to find. I would just recommend looking in the description and following the video that goes over the custom edge masking for vert paint to make it more natural.
I dont think i'll make a specific video on this soon unless I make a similar shader for my own project. Hope you understand
@@tiedie cool Ill try searching some more about them. Thanks !
Oh, I wish to have seen that kind of video a few months after I started with 3d. Very good tutorial! Thanks for sharing!
Once more, a big thank you Dylan! This is so valuable. I'm definitely going to pick it up on your store so I can study the shaders.
Very nice! texel density is certainly something I struggled with when learning about it - great video!
Oh my god! It's literally GOLD!! Thanks for making this video!!
This was an excellent video..I just started using unreal 5 the past few days and last night I was trying to figure this out 😂 thank you so much
This a beast of a video, thank you! I've subbed can't wait to watch more of your content
I love it man!!! Awesome video!
Great video Dylan!! Would love to see a video of a quick workflow with the Mesh Decals technique from Megascan to blender to painter and Unreal! Cheers
Appreciate the deep dive Dylan, thanks so much!
Very good video. I learned a lot already, and I'm only half way through. I'm concerned that all of these tricks increase draw call sizes. I guess these kit texture methods should be used with Instanced meshes.
Would you ever consider making a video going more in depth into the Z Up shaders? I'd love to learn more about it and the videos I have seen have some clashing information. Currently working on improving my overall material knowledge in unreal and this video is the foundation im starting with.
Thank you so much for this tutorial.
This is fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing these.
Thank you thank you thank you! This was such a great and helpful video! Really appreciated your work.
Thanks for all this videos dylan! Hope you keep them coming!
Awesome tutorial! I'm sure I will be coming back to this video in the future :) Thanks!
Love watching your videos, here and on Artstation learning
Thanks for the video! I have a question
When we want to create a game that includes 2K and 4K screen resolution support, does that means that we need 2K and 4K textures respectively or those things are not related? I mean, what makes a game available in 4k. It makes sense having 4K textures for a game that a user will display in a 1080p resolution?
thats a good question. Im not 100% sure since i dont work on the tech art side, but I have a decent idea. You basically want to build with the highest output in mind. If your console supports 4k, it will run the game as is regardless on what monitor is plugged in, so you have to design for that possibility.
There are also cases where you know for sure what you are dealing with, like the nintendo switch. you're always going to have 720p in handheld so you can just work with that in mind
Long story short, base it on the most expensive option, and then scale back if you need to
@@tiedie Thanks!
I just discoverd this, thank you for this amazing video
What a great course it is so valuable! Thank you so much, subsribed!
I just bought your master material, but I was just curious if you think there is anything that has been added to UE5 since you made this tutorial I should think about when using your material as a base? Thanks!
Man this is brilliant! Thanks for that.
Great tutorial!
Question about the vertex paint (not nanine):
How would you deal with LOD's of asset that use vertex paint? since the lods will remove points, the blending can have strange result for the lod.
for example the wall will either have too much moss or none at all.
I was wondering if you had a solution for that.
Thank in advance for the reply and keep up the great tutorials :)
Thank you for this great overview, learned a lot from this.
This is really helpful, Thank you!
You are the best !
Thank you for making this Tutorials !
Amazing tutorial!
IMPORTANT - if you are getting an error where the textures for the rocks appear fully black, that is caused by the material layer. Open the graph for "ML_Base_01a" and "ML_Layer_01a", disconnect the line going from "splitcomponents" to "PixelDepthOffset". This should fix the issue, not sure why this is caused yet, I'll look into it, if i find the answer will update the post.
This is a fantastic, fantastic video thank you so much!
this is gold. Thanks so much
Insanely helpful🎉
is there any performance hit for tiling too much?
Amazing vid
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Really appreciate it @tiedie 🙏
If I only found this earlier. Took me days to figure out most of this by myself. Too bad the triplanar projection is quite expensive for large assets, especialy in open-world levels. I'd rather use separate uv sets for mesh-specific and tiling textures, then calculate mesh scale factor inside the shader to keep the tiling permanent. And so is Z-mask based on pixel normal. Using vertex normal instead gives a decent result at much lower cost.
Nice tutorial, really appreciate your work! thanks man!
Incredible info. Thank you!
Thank you so much it's really useful!
Congratulations on the knowledge you share!; I have a question: Unreal engine 5.3 will be able to bake the materials in a texture; something very similar to what Quixel Mixer or Substance Painter does; that after having placed, painted and distributed the materials; Can you generate a texture (Diffuse; Normal; Roughness; etc) for the 3D model? I have been carrying out various tests with the Bake part of the Modeling Editor Tools in UE 5.3; but I have not been able to achieve something similar to what I describe, I also tried the "bake materials" from the Details part; but it is not the expected result. Thanks in advance and greetings from Lima - Peru
This is incredibly useful
Insane content, thanks!
Should I use material layers workflow for two large wooden cranes and some wooden props, because they are too large and don’t fit in 0 to 1 uv space due texel density,
Thank you so much Dylan, this video is a very powerfull explanation about the entire porcess. At the beginning of the video you show God of War Images and they give me even more questions. For example if you played the GOW 2018 game there is a moment when a giant appears, or another example is the giant serpent. In this expecific cases, how do you texture these assets?
Thanks again for all your contribution with these incredibles tutorials =)
Thanks again for this awesome video it taught me a lot.
I have a question regarding using trimsheets. When you use trimsheets like the one you did for gears of war, is it really possible to take texel density in account ? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that you have to keep texel density consistent when modeling using the texture because that means you only can use the size of the different sections of the trim sheet but if you scale them then you reduce / increase texel density right ?
Thanks
I get the ideer of using kits, but won't it req way more process and fps, since there are many more units?
if you can duplicate parts around it will be far cheaper than one huge one (cheaper for LODs, and also when you duplicate a mesh in engine its polygons render cheaper)
@@tiedie thanks a lot😁
Awesome one !!!
perfect explanation, but but if i have buildings added some high details and sculpt it inside zbrush and using tiling UV but when try backing it inside substance painter normal map for high details not work of course any way to solve this or any trick to get normal map from zbrush inside substance painter with UV tiling?
Thank you very much for this! some things you share apply for any other software too. I always wondered what was a correct texel density to work with 4k.
I really appreciate your videos Dylan, thank you for taking the time to help all of us newer artists :-)
Question: Will Substrate affect any of these setups moving forward?
im not sure what you mean? you can make all the textures for this in substance yes, but the actual shaders where they are manipulated as seen here would have to be done in some other program
@@tiedie I think he is talking about ue5.2 new feature 'substrate'
@@tiedie Sorry for the confusion, I was referring to the new shading model "Substrate" that was featured during the UE5.2 announcement. Check out the GDC tech demo if you haven't seen it yet.
@@amannin1 For anybody else who were as confused as me, the shading model we've been using for months is Strata, but it looks like they recently (Feb 21) renamed all user-facing texts to Substrate... (they obviously kept the Strata name in most of the code so if you are on the master branch and still work with Strata, then that's how you can still reference it).
Hi, awesome video! Is there any more in-depth tutorial or video you recommend about the different techniques here? Especially for the shaders like the z-up material blending etc.
thanks a lot for this crazy tutorial but my question what if i have building from bricks and its tiling UV but added it to Zbrush to add some high details and when imported it after backing inside Substance painter i found backing for normal map not right what the reason of that?