Thank you!

Thank you! I would still make Art cause that's what I love the most, f*** AI. But job wise it will probably change or "evolve" 🤔

Haha, I am working on something new 😉

For now huhuhu

Thank you so much for your kind words and respect! Just to clarify, I didn’t create this piece to impress anyone, I genuinely love working on personal projects. For me, it’s about pushing the tech as far as I can and exploring what’s possible. With Freelancing taking up so much time, these projects are a refreshing way to reconnect with creating art. While this turned into a 20-second video, the assets could absolutely be used in a game. This project taught me a lot about Unreal, and I’m excited to say my upcoming piece will be much longer. Plus I am actually surprised this one got so much attention.. Cheers!

@@DamSchool Oh then you like me. Because i would only do this for such cases to learn Unreal or simular. But a lot of people do this to put it on they portfolio as a example piece to impress people. Which i also did and quite feels like waste of time. It turned out great. Expecially considering you haven't photoscanned anything and just used Painter.

Thank you for your kind words! I understand that the price might be challenging for some, but please know that this course is crafted to deliver immense value, equivalent to what you’d find in a high-level art school program and even more, but at a fraction of the cost. My goal is to equip artists with truly in depth skills that will elevate their work. For those not yet ready to invest, I do share free content to make learning more accessible; however, creating that content is very time intensive, so with my current work I’ve had to slow down for now. I appreciate your understanding and I'll do my best too release more free stuff soon.

@@DamSchool Appreciate your response and I understand what you mean. Thank you.

Hey! With the recent upgrade to 5.5 lots of stuff have changed so I will come up with a new one soon, I will share it around. Cheers!

Finally, I found that the Edgetex can do what I'm looking for.

@@Taumisch hey! yes I was about to say, but you can tweak the distance tex to create also fake welding beetwen objects

@@DamSchool, yeah I check on Chaos' website all the applications of the distance tex, and it's pretty impressive and useful. The thing is that the distance tex can apply only on one of the intersecting object (if I'm not mistaken) so I think that the effect wouldn't be on point for welding effect or filletting.

@@Taumisch I mean welding two different object not just the elements together. I used this few times when I wanted to fake glossiness between edges. But you would need both object to inter penetrate to make sure you'll have this intersections.

@@DamSchool, what I had in mind is welding like on the frame of a bike, is it what you meant ? Si je dis pas de conneries le distance tex ne s'applique qu'a un seul des deux objets qui s'interpénètrent, du coup l'effet se fait après l'intersection, pas pile poil par dessus.

Thanks so much!

Not sure I understand your question? You can do whatever you want but keep it mind that this grass was meant to be used in Vray so it s a little bit more heavy. You can use it in Unreal but make sure it s converted to Nanite first!

@@DamSchool Ok yeah, i did some smaller grass because this one was too big Id love to make grass with rocks like in your thumbnail, id love to see how does your unreal engine scene looks with this grass, about the shader you created, and the technical settings, because if you paint alot of grass on a big landscape it starts to lag very fast So to fix that i set my grass without any opacity, only mesh, and enabled nanite, i have good fps with this, and what is costing alot is wind animation, so i disabled it at a certain distance I would have lvoed to know this before

I would say to use with caution as it can be memory intensive, but there are ways to optimize

@hoomanhidaji4420 hey! For question about the tutorial please use the live chat from the website, thanks!

I used Gaea

It's still a new tech, not many games out there are using Ue5. Give it some times and it will be like this. Otherwise there are amazing game made with already like BodyCam

If you correctly import it into UE5.5 with Atlases enabled the import should spit out 4 or so material instances (for larger assets.. instead of 13 different material lol) All of which are hooked up to a master that supports the speedtree node. (Only the wind though you have to set up your texture adjustments diy. I believe you can simplify the polys after rendering the animation, it's just that high at this stage to get good animation results. Nanite doesn't support advanced wind shaders, or at least not yet.. but you can set up LOD materials that drop the animation at distance.. Yea 48k tris for a grass asset will eat you system if you're trying to play realtime.

Yes it is narrated ;)

Because I never seen something that fast and it's also real-time when working on the lighting. Which is helpful if you wan to quickly see the desired results contrary to the ones you mentioned.

It is one material per fronds, but for that I would just reduce the amount, duplicate the node, and apply a different shader on the new one.

So it will work for the website but not for the video itself I think. They are translated in English and French but I am not sure your function will work. You can give it a try if you want? I can unlock a video temporary for you

Learn English, you gonna need it :)

Why are you here if you don't care to learn from this artist? Such a rude comment towards someone who contributes top tier stuff to the 3d community.

Thank you so much! Let ke know how it goes

Thanks for the support!

www.damienpeinoit.com/ue5-unleashing-photorealism

@@DamSchool But I can't open the webpage.

@@JieDu-yj2vd what browser are you using ? What error are you getting ?

@@DamSchool Now it can be opened in Google, but not in Safari.

It's also quite technical et very limited in some points so I guess find your own balance!

haha at this pace yeah.. But at least my piece has a soul...for now :)

working on big complete guide!

Haha yes, Je me focus sur une masterclass pour le moment, j espere la sortir bientot!

@@DamSchool au top , je serai preneur de voir le workflow !

I didn't really counted but I worked on this after work hours so hard to keep track. Around two weeks I would say to produce, but I did lots of things instead of using scans. Reasons I still want to maintain my modeling skills hehe

You can replace those frond with bigger ones, and a more dense and fluffly opacity map.

Haha there is, it comes with lots of surprise perks inside

Thank you! Most of it by myself yes, I mean that's how I started and then I got feedbacks from awesome peps in the industry. But I have the advantage of coming from the 3d industry so I just applied what I knew when working on a movie or else, and translate it into Ue. I would say just practice, do it, do it again, and again until you reach your happy spot. Ue is not easy, watch tutorials, learn from people in the industry, youtube is great but always quite bad when it comes to tutorials. Feel free to shoot question if you have, good luck!