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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- In this UE5 Tutorial, We'll learn all about Procedural Foliage & Manual Foliage in Unreal Engine 5.
We can create foliage procedurally with foliage spawner, manual paint it or tweak the procedural placed foliage manually. With this tutorial, we'll do a in-depth discussion on several foliage settings, properties and learn a few techniques to get the result that we desire.
Foliage used in the tutorial is from the newly integrated Quixel Bridge and the trees are from the Megascans Trees that you can get free from Unreal Engine Marketplace.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Turn on Procedural Foliage
0:52 Static Mesh Foliage
1:20 Importing Quixel Bridge Asset
2:20 Simulating Procedural Foliage Spawner
3:08 Clustering Settings
7:34 Collision Settings
8:23 Growth Settings
11:55 Instance Settings
13:06 Placement Settings
15:43 Advanced Layer Settings
16:53 Procedural Foliage Spawner Settings
18:13 Manual Foliage
21:47 Tweaking Procedural Foliage Manually
23:03 Weightmap/Heatmap based Foliage
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OMG you would have to be one of the best devs that has actually explained everything in detail and then some, kudos to you mate.
I must have watched a thousand tutorials over the past few months and this is the best, without any competition. Absolutely incredible work! This will completely transform my experience.
Thank you for the kind words!
Amazing video! I love how detailed you get into how each of the settings function and show it.
This is the best tutorial i have found till now, Knowledge packed video. Thank you so much.
The picture and explanation are detailed. It's easy to understand. Thank you!
11/10 tutorial, thank you for showing everything, explaining everything, and even having extra illustrations!
Also, you caught me offguard with the "you can also set the z offset to positive, and wingardium leviosa they are floating" in the middle of an otherwise serious presentation lol
Wow. Wowowowowow. Absolutely perfect tutorial. You cover so much, but it's timestamped and easy to follow. You explain why you do everything, so it's not just instructive but actually educational! This is very much my jam and was more than I hoped for when I started my search. I hope this channel blows up. Also, that random Harry Potter joke caught me so off guard 😂
S-tier content. You've certainly earned a sub!
Cool! I was looking for a detailed tutorial about Procedural Spawning and it has been hard to find. Great tutorial master.
Thank you Marcelo!
this is the best tutorial out there for procedural foliage in ue. Thank you so much!
Extremely awesome tutorial! Well explained and easy to understand! Thank you for sharing knowledges, sir!
Amaxing and superhelpful. I wish i had found this a year ago. Good job!
Best tutorial on the subject, you are digging every possibilities and that is what I like. Thank you so much
this actually tougth me procedural foliage genration... Great work - your are Grand Master
Hey man thanks a lot. I was really overwheld and confused but now it all makes sense. Thank you.
You are the master. Great tutorial, you know how to explain things. Subscribed.
That harry potter magic is great .wanted to stop in middle , couldn’t do it because of your each and every parameter explanation. Great work . 👍
You have a very clear way of teaching. Where have you been?
Wingardium Leviosa got me out of the blue. Great tutorial, succint and packed with info!
Great Video, was struggling with this feature, you solved my issue. Thank you
OMG the tutorial was soo great! such dense information thrown into youtube at absolute 0 price. MUCH MUCH Appreciated!! also "wingardium leviosa, they are floating" made me crack up like a crazy person!
Thank you!
I can assure you, I have upgraded the spell quite a bit from then..
@@CrowBiomes hahaha great job man! thanks a lot for sharing soo much with the community
This was exactly what I needed! Thanks!
Lovely one with an complete details to get it easily !!
The perfect tutorial !!! Great work! Thanks, MAN
Great work! I didn't expect UE5 is that automated! So in the near future, even simple games might look realistic and amazing, like current AAA games.
haha I wish it was that easy. While it's come a long way, Procedural foliage is around ever since 2015.
The last bit is quite true, with all the new stuff in UE5, mix 5.1 in it and We'll have wonders for World building.
You are an absolute master! Thank you!
Thanks a lot! Exactly what is needed!
Woah, great video mate!
dude, great video, very helpful. Thank you.
the best Tutorial about Procedural Foliage Spawning
Brilliant video, thanks a lot for usefull information
great video, thank you so much for this!
Thank you, very helpful tutorial.
seriously helped thank you!!
Outstanding tutorial! You filled in 2 big holes in my understanding of Procedural landscapes. How to assign foliage to specific Layers (Inclusion/exclusion Landscape layer setting in the Static Mesh Foliage, and Bringing in Weight Maps from 3rd party landscape program (Gaia or World Machine), basically height maps, where an independent layer is defined and can be used to spread foliage all over the map separate from the traditional landscape layers, and be assigned to receive certain SMF foliage.
Another aspect of this tutorial I like is that you cover a lot of info quickly. I could handle it, but a warning for any novists, the info comes at you quickly.
Thank you!! I appreciate the feedback. Slowing down and trying not to overedit stuff has been pretty challenging😅
You are amazing bro. Thank you!
your videos, change my life, my dreams are posible!
Gained a sub and I haven't even watched the first minute, but I know it's going to be educational and helpful!
You should XD. Is this a Jedi mind trick?
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great video bro thanks :)
Great video man.
very helpful, thanks
awesome tutorial man! very detailed explanation, btw what are the tree assets you are using??
Those are Megascan Trees
HI, great video. I am trying use procedural foliage to implement high amounts of grass but even if I increase the values you showed in the video several holes are visible
👏 good job keep it up.
Thank you Fahad!
Thank you master.
nice video, dont stop you will be successful very soon.
Thank you!
Hi! Thanks for a great tutorial! But what about of spawning trees and grass in spline mesh roads? how to remove them?
Great video :)
the best tutorial
thank you!
Hello ! great tutorial, thank you ! Is it possible to have paint layers (vertex color or maps) on a static mesh (not landscape) and then spawn foliage based on that maps ? Thank you !
Several ways to do this. You could blueprint it or use vertex paint as a mask and the final one that makes it as easier as landscape is use landscape to spawn the foliage, put static mesh in place and turn off rendering for landscape. That way you'll get all the benefits of landscape.
13:34 "You can also go positive on the z and 'Wingardium Leviosa', they're floating." 😆😂🤣
Thank u bro. simple and essential tweaks really helped me out. 😊
In The setup hey bro i wanted to know how do u load your Sample guide into the packs in the browser?
Hello! Do these trees have collision or can your character go right through them?
Nice tutorial
@13:34 The bro went Harry Potter on us lol @Wingardium Leviosa
This one saved my ass! thank you!
Just as you did at 16:00, I created 2 array elements for my layers "B_Rock" and "C_Sand" but my trees are still generating where those layers are painted on my landscape. I haven't been able to figure out why. 🤔
is it possible to use foliage block volume inside of a blueprint? If so how I couldn't figure it out. ıt doesn't work when I make blueprint from the scene even.
Hi! When using megascan grass Kikuyu Grass, I have gap between lod 0 and billboard, how do I fix that?
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If you are developing a scene for render (animation not gamin), how might one turn off the LODs so they don't pop? Great lecture! Subbed.
I wouldn't recommend completely disabling them(instead decrease LODs/limit them). Complex meshes(like the trees here) can put quite a load to the performance even for animation.
Inside the static mesh asset, Under "LOD Settings" there is "Number of LODs", change the amount to how many LODs you want and 'Apply Changes' . Reduce it down to 1 if you want to turn LODs off.
You can also permanently remove all the LODs for Static Mesh. (Not Recommended)
Under 'LOD picker' (ensuring Custom is turned off) You should see a drop down where you can choose different LODs and when selecting any of the LOD level you will get additional settings, there under 'Reduction settings' you should see a "Remove LOD" button.
Thanks for your input. Appreciate your help.
@@outtoplay no problem. Have fun creating!
!!! Thanks a lot ...☺️☺️
NICE VIDEO
osum tut i was finding this for many days
Hello, I have a problem. Even after resimulating I cannot manually edit procedural foliage.
It appears the foliage actors are part of an InstancedFoliageActor. How can I edit foliage that belongs to this instanced foliage actor?
Please tell me your pc configuration?
Hello, Thanks for the great tut, I have a question in minde now in UE5 I am using open world, and when using the foliage tool in large scale or far away the trees dont show up untill you come to a distance, Is there a way to increase this distance or a way to bake the whole thing?
Either you have LOD turned on or you set a cull amount for that distance. If using Procedural foliage search for cull distance in static mesh foliage, If using landscape grass then search for cull distance in landscape grass type.
@@CrowBiomes Thank you I will check
@@CrowBiomes it worked Thank you so much :)
Brilliant! Now at last I can use procedural foliage. Thumbs up and subscribed. If i may add a request, please take a little more time clicking left and right in all the menu's. I have to use the pause button a lot. You, sir, have helped me big time!!
Thank you! Great suggestion. I'll slow down in the future vids so you can follow along nicely.
Amazing tutorial! I still don't understand the advantage of adding a Static Mesh Foliage instead of a simple Static Mesh. I already added several foliage as Static Mesh and I was wondering if I can swap them for Static Mesh Foliage.
Static Mesh Foliage basically put several instances of the same static mesh which is performant than putting static mesh everywhere.
@@CrowBiomes Isn't what the foliage tools does anyway once you import a static mesh? Also, is there a way to swap the meshes I already added?
@@AlessandroSchiassi yes and yes. We can swap the mesh in static mesh foliage.
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from where r u leaning unreal engine i want to know
does inclusion and exclusion work with auto materials? used to be an issue, but I haven't tested it in ue5
inclusion exclusion only limits the vegetation to layers, when auto material swaps the texture on slopes, it's still the same layer.
@@CrowBiomes I was asking because it was a backlogged feature (along with physical mats for auto materials) since 4.21. Wasn't sure if they snuck it in to ue5.
Please help. from 23:45. I get this error.
The import size (4,097×4,097) does not match the current Landscape extent (0×0), if you continue it will be padded/clipped to fit when i try to import the mask from gaea.
th-cam.com/video/ej2b-zWoYiM/w-d-xo.html
Here's the solution,
Skip to 37:10
HAHAHA "and wingardium leviosa, they are floating" SUBBED
Thank y❤️ u
Glad you found it useful!
How did you get full trees? All I can find are tree stumps, etc.
These are Megascans trees
They are not in bridge yet. Look for them in Marketplace in the Megascans section.
Hi, I got the error "Unable to spawn instances. Ensure a large enough surface exists within the volume". Any idea what to do? I think is has somethhing to do with the terrain I made with gaea imported before.
There should be a good part of landscape within the volume. Try scaling it up in x, y and z.
@@CrowBiomes I did, I scaled it up to 10000 so the complete Landsape is in the volume, tried different sizes after pressing Resimulate its rendering but no Foliage is spawning
@@SvenRopertz check the slope, height or landscape inclusion/exclusion layer. If it doesn' t work, try with a fresh PFS volume
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How did you populate the map with the mannequins? I cant get one to load in the spawner.
you need a static mesh for that
@@CrowBiomes Took me 30 seconds to make one once I knew. Thank you.
not enough surface exist in the volumn???????? Know how to fix that?
@@jlawson1172 That can mean conditions for the simulation are not met. You either set it to a layer that doesn't exist in the selected volume or it's a small volume. Maybe scale it in Z and remove any inclusion layer.
@@CrowBiomes It was 16500 in each direction. I deleted the spawner and the other thing and made new ones and it worked fine. I think there is a bug in the spawner. I have Mannys and Quinn's everywhere now.
Crossed!
is this feature available in ue4?
yes
how to make a material similar to this its just so realistic my material does have multiple layers but they aren't as realistic looking as this
Good vidio
Awesome vid! Thank you for sharing,,, if possible could you please tell me to animate the foliage? I see your Static Mesh that you used is swaying in the wind, the grass etc too. Please help haha
All the wind and interaction is using world offset. I might do a video later explaining it all
@@CrowBiomes Thanks for the reply bro, I managed to figure it out, only for Megascan assets though. Would be cool to know how to add wind to imported assets.
@@nicholasnovello485 it's more or less the same
Hi my grass becomes white in disctance why is that and how can i fix it?
I'm guessing it has something to do with the LODs, Check the grass LOD for that distance.
Also, go to Unlit mode and see if it's still white. If it is, that's a lighting issue.
@@CrowBiomes Thanks dude! You got a new sub!
everything is loading well
has anyone experience a freeze when hitting resimulate and than what seems to be a large memory leak??
Depending on the settings of PFS, it can have a dramatic impact. Ex- If you use 10 steps(Num of Step in foliage settings) then the simulation will take longer than for say 2 steps.
@@CrowBiomes well i tried dropping the steps back down to 3 and it still freezes no matter what foliage meshes i use if i add more than 3 meshes to the pfs it leaks bad...
Each foliage object I add spawn in groups of only that tree variation. I have 3 pine tree variations i want to grow all together as one cluster, but each cluster is all only one of 3 types. How can we get multiple foliage objects to grow together in the same cluster? Pine1 for instance should be able to drop seeds which can grow into Pine2 or Pine3.
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why does it crash so much....
Bottleneck when simulating a large area with PFS?
@@CrowBiomes oh oops
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7:50 was that a peacock ?
Indeed it is xD. We have a pride here and most of the time they are lovely.
Finn Seeger just right click and it’ll appear again