Foliage Translucency - UE4 Materials 101 - Episode 30
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video, we begin a new series on improving the rendering quality of foliage and vegetation in Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4. The focus this week is on foliage translucency. We start with the leaf wiggle shader that we created in Episode 12. For translucency, we use a Shading Model on the root called Two Sided Foliage - and create a special mask of just the leaves to define where to apply the translucency.
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Your new videos are seriously the highlight of my week. Great stuff!
Glad you like them!
I really look forward to your videos every week :) The web resources and stuff u have is also helpful too :)
Glad to hear that at least one person is reading my descriptions. :)
@@BenCloward Yeah bcs it kinda shows your thought process and give insight in stuff you maybe couldn't explain in a small duration video :) Thank you for giving back to the community!Guys like you made my dream come true in a country that doesn't provide universities or pretty much any knowledge about art graphic pipelines and ue4 :)
Mister, your tutorials are absolutely excellent! Fresh, new and rich. SUBLIKE !
thanks your tutorial is really great!
Awesome 😎
Ah this is amazing. I would love to see what you think of the new Megascans Trees
Oh yes! Foliage, my favorite :) Thanks for it
thanks for such a great insight into the Unreal Engine..... tips are amazing.......what we can do now...savage 🍀
I just found your channel and I love your content!, its super helpful. thank you
Great job! Keep going!
Great stuff, thanks a lot!
Your tutorials are just phenomenal.
Any plans for landscape materials? :)
Specifically material blending. Taking the texture we created a parallax map with and creating a distance field where it fades out to a flat texture, and then blending between 2 or more textures. Also, in previous videos where you skipped over not showing how you made the material functions is actually an unintentionally clever way to get people to think about how the materials are working. I have only been at this for a couple weeks now (literally I wake up, eat breakfast and start to work just messing around in the engine seeing what I can do, all the way to late night) I actually had a 'dream' last night about creating materials lmao.
1. Creating a drop off between the parallax map and the flat version of the texture
2. Blending between two or more parallax occluded textures
4. Changing the textures with macro/micro variations
3. Auto Blending based on the direction the material is facing (if that's even how you'd call you)
4. Blending puddles (maybe the puddles we created earlier?) into the landscape based on the heightmap
thanks man, you are awesome.
very cool, i think you can use other values like Roughness, Specular and put your subsurface mask all together in a single Masked Texture!
Really great video as usual.
Just one really beginnet question. This requires baking, but we can’t bake a larger exterior scenes as it will quickly consume very very large amount of memory.
How is translucency effect managed in actual production where we may have 10km square levels?
hi Jaakko did you got your answer ? Do we have a real-time alternative (besides Lumen ^^) ?
@@remon563 I have not found answer to this. Maybe the larger levels are split up somehow to smaller pieces and managed like that.
Oh. This is what i looking for
would you teach some course about hlsl shader in ue4,thank you
Thank you. I didn't know that we have to build the light for accurate 2sided foliage shading. It is not mentioned anywhere. Not even in documentation or official tutorials or at least I never saw it )). I thought the dynamic light gives us all the directionality information for such effect and baked light gives us less accurate missing directionality information. :/ Does this mean we have to bake light for all SSS shading models in ue4? For example subsurface profile too? Or is spesific only for this shading model?
me too that why i couldnt do any sss properly
You are the best thank you so much
could we use the Foliage AO mask to "fake" the Subsurface somehow on real-time lighting ?
I can't bake my lighting yet we would love to add the subsurface effect.
what do we do if we dont havean opacity mask?
thanks!
Your tutorials are very easy to follow, anyway I am still waiting for something like LEGO plastic TRANSPARENT brick material (or some sort of such thing), where the parts that are edges (that is where you actually see the thickness of the material) looks way darker than the rest of the surface, it should have feeling of a depth, not just like some thin plastic transparent foil, if you know what I mean. Pity we cannot post pictures in our posts, I would show you some examples of what I mean...
Hi benm does epic has a road for coding shader models like unity ?
FInally, something about foliage!!!!!!
thanks for the video...is this with raytracing?
No, none of my videos have used ray tracing at all so far.
@@BenCloward thanks for the answer, so as at one point you bake the light, I guess the bush, directional light and skylight is set to static?
When your Leaf move you can see a weird looking on ur leaf like if the UV move
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LOL - I don't think my channel is big enough for "first" to be a thing. :)
@@BenCloward It will be a big channel soon~
@@BenCloward not yet :P
Wow, thank you for the tutorial!!