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I am not sure if it works like you said. But you could definitely add a spline mesh yourself (for the path) and add the camera mesh from your engines folder, so it shows up on the render

Hey! I am not sure because you need the references to Static Meshes to sample, as an attribute on the points. If you can bring this in somehow in a different way it might be possible. I think you can potentially read it from an external data source and import it into PCG but I've never tried that

Thanks, there are some good suggestions in there, I'll keep them in mind! :)

I gotchu, for this you can watch my "Dynamic Mesh Bounds" tutorial in part 1 of my intermediate series on the channel here. :) Dynamic mesh bounds are super useful, you will see! The graph for this is also on my gumroad in case you don't wanna build it from scratch but it's still good to check the video in order to understand how to use it. Thanks for your feedback also <3

They changed this and it's not needed anymore. Just keep your "Create Points Grid" on coordinate space "Global". Then have a "Get Landscape Data" -> "Surface sampler" -> into the source pin of "Copy Points" and the output of the "Create Points Grid" into the target of "Copy Points". After, adjust the cell size of the grid and also transform the scale of the points down to for example 0.1 to make each point visible.

@@exit-simulation hey, thanks for the reply but after doing these steps where i to put mesh sampler cuz you told me to put get landscape . surface sampler then into source of copy points in video it was mesh sampler output into source of copy points to show cubes on mesh. but that isnt working

Which unreal engine version are you on? These explanations were for 5.4, I can send you a screenshot but I don't have other versions installed anymore

@@exit-simulation i have UE 5.4.4

Check this screenshot for the correct setup imgur.com/a/0k1nTvU Also you can download my updated tools and subgraphs from gumroad and check the improved mesh sampling graph (07_PCG_ImprovedMeshSampling_Tutorial)

Hey thanks for the heads-up. Hm the issue could be that UE deprecated the Input Node Settings, please check my Intermediate PCG tutorial part 2, specifically the second (water spline) or last example to learn how to work with splines. The spline needs to be either on the PCG actor as a component (then you need to use Get Spline Data -> Actor Filter "Self") or if you wanna grab all splines you can get them with Actor Filter -> All World Actors -> Actor Selection by class (select your spline class) or put tags on your spline actors. There are many ways :) You can also download my node collection for free from gumroa to get an example how to work with splines in UE 5.4

Hey glad you like the course! Regarding your question, I think it boils down to practice and gradually composing a library of reusable components. PCG is a very modular framework and you can gradually create your own "building blocks" (subgraphs) that you can reuse in every project. Just stick with it, it becomes pretty logical after a while and you will get a feel for it with practice.

Glad to hear! Thanks for your feedback

All of these steps work exactly the same in a new level given you have a landscape in your scene. Thanks for the suggestion regarding crowd simulations with PCG, I will keep this in mind for future tutorials.

Thanks, I'll keep this in mind for my upcoming biomes tutorial. Generating a map that's different on every playthrough would be pretty easy with PCG, just need to change the random seed of the generators.

Great to hear!

Yes, it is. But keep in mind that "Input Node Settings" are now deprecated. And you need to add a "Get landscape data" node directly in the PCG graph, right before the surface sampler. (As I am showing here in Intermediate PCG episode 1)

@@exit-simulation Hi bro, i am midway of your newbie series on PCG, really loving this course. since i am new to PCG its confusing as well as i feel like how am gonna remember all these nodes or combination of nodes for example to make self prune nd exclusion. can you give tips on that? how can one new person adapt it ( ps - sorry for spamming but idk why youtube removing my comment from your channel )

Glad you like it, thanks for the sub!

Good question, let me look into it

Hey! Using level instances / assemblies in PCG will go live with the next tutorial. Let me know then if it covers your open questions. Not sure what you mean by graph parameters input tho

Thank you <3

I'll keep this in mind for future videos thanks!

@@exit-simulation that'd be great, thanks for the content. Really been enjoying it

Thanks :) Good to be back

Yes I figured this out the other day, it’s not the “correct” way, but it works. You can use the BP logic from the landscape path tools that come with UE5, I spawn this BP along my spline path on every spline point. That way, the landscape moves with every spline point I move. You need to enable the Landscape Patch plugin the get access to the BP, the BP is called, LandscapeCircleHeightPatch. The way I organise it now is this: Get spline data-> Spline sampler-> Transform Points-> Spawn Actor (This has a new BP in it with my LandscapeCircleHeightPatch set as a Component of the BP. You can edit it in the BP so it fits your needs e.g. the square flat surface you’re talking about, I need it to do it more in a circle around my path for example. Hope that helps!

@@mclothmann Thanks a lot for the pointers, I will give a try!

That's a good suggestion for another topic. I'll look into it, thanks!

Yes, planning to extend this series, thank you!

so ive also watched your other video about pcg slope graph, how do we use it in this particular graph since we already have a surface sampler in main graph?

Thanks! About your other question, there's some more stuff on slope filtering in part 2 when we get to the water example. Coming soon!

@@exit-simulation so i followed your video and i got stuck with one problem, auto material. it doesn't detect if the layer is automaticaly painted, like slopes. only works when painting the layer manually.

You can use landscape material layers in a material of any complexity, just need to hook it in correctly. Maybe watch some tutorials about landscape layers in particular, that should cover it.

You can absolutely use it during runtime also for all kinds of stuff. Directing cameras, playing cutscenes etc

@@exit-simulation thanks, but how ? if i press play nothing happen :(.

@@J4FThunder666 It's a bit more complex than that. You need to automate it from a blueprint script that runs on scene start or any trigger that you define. It goes beyond the scope of this tutorial. Some useful search queries would be "camera rig rail in blueprints" or something along these lines.

There is a technique to work with grid sizes in PCG which I will show in future videos. This drastically improves PCG performance on lage landscapes

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@@caporacetuning6581 oh, thanks. I always heard "old" ))