Bricks and Stucco Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 17

[@1MOLNH3]

Thank you for everything master. I learned a lot from you. Not just the knowledge but your way of doing things like solving the problem first if one exist, staying relax and debugging everything step by step and many other that I can't remember is whole another lesson too in my opinion.

[@MarioAndYoshi1409]

the technique for the transitionary area legitimately blew my mind! great tutorial as always! love that you're doing these for both unreal and unity

[@SamuelMoyoNdovie]

This tutorial came at the right time , I'm working on a personal project and been having a hard time to blend between two textures in this particular way , thank you

[@BenCloward]

Glad I could help!

[@SamuelMoyoNdovie]

@@BenCloward and I was wondering on how I would tweak the shader to allow mesh painting

[@adamplechaty]

Combining this with the new nanite material displacement and vertex painting works like a charm!

[@elianzuniga4975]

This is awesome, a good tutorial of material blending with a good contrast between the two materials, thanks!

[@adamplechaty]

This couldn't come at a better time, thanks Ben!

[@Sky-iv8zm]

Another great video, your channel is a treasure mine. I think a cool addition to this shader would be vertex painting, that way you can dictate where the two textures go and blend. And even add a third texture. More so a master vertex painting shader that you can use everywhere with many different textures/materials for your environments. Implementing this shader now in unity HDRP, thanks!

[@BenCloward]

Yes - exactly. You can make this a vertex paint shader by simply plugging in the vertex color node in place of the input mask at the beginning.

[@smittywerbenjj1]

Thank you Ben. You making really good,pleasant and informative content.

[@danlee7923]

Hi there! I'm curious about how you created the texture at 23:00. It appears to have a cloudy look, similar to what you can achieve in Painter. Is it a color texture? I'm also wondering if it would work on an alpha texture instead. Thanks!

[@BenCloward]

I used a filter in Photoshop. Filter->Render->Clouds with the foreground set to white and the background set to black. I did that with three different sizes of image, then scaled them all to the same size, and then combined them with a different image in each channel - red, green, and blue. This could also be done in Substance Designer. Or if you want to use mine, here's the link to download it: www.bencloward.com/youtube/distortion.tga

[@victoruvege6520]

Great content as always! I'd love to see a slime/gum material or similar. Ive been trying to create it in Unreal but it always looks like cheap plastic

[@HappyCamper1206]

Very handy as always. Do you know of a way in Unreal engine to add the representation of height of the stucco material to the normal map? Basically make it look like it sits ontop of the bricks as a thick layer rather than paint?

[@DmitrySinditskiy]

thank you! very nice result

[@line726]

Thanks for this tutorial, but is there a way to do a edge lift effect on the blending layer?

[@adamplechaty]

Question: if I wanted to somehow use the mesh displacement function based on a height map together with this technique, would that be possible? To give the bricks some real height offset I mean.

[@BenCloward]

If I were doing that, I would sample the height of the bricks and lower the height value a little. Then I'd sample the height map of the stucco and increase the value a little bit. Then I'd blend between those two height maps using the same mask that's blending everything else. Then I'd pass that value in to be used for displacement. That way you get stucco that always looks like it's a later on top of the bricks.

[@adamplechaty]

@@BenCloward oh I had no idea displacement through shaders still worked in UE5, thanks for the tip!

[@pto2k]

Great tutorial! I'm thinking of making a material with such blend of 2 layers. But the twist is that I need to reveal the underlayer dynamically. I'd like to use it for a scanner that player can hold and see through wallpaper. And I think it could also be used for destruction effects. I wonder if I could spawn decal or some other actors onto the wall, then let the material to react. Is that a viable way? Thank you!

[@handler_music]

cool can be use to lay frost/ice on objects

[@qwetry-j2u]

Hello Ben! Thank you so much for the awesome tutorial! I have a question on a related topic, but I can't publish it here in the comments section for some reason. Probably my posts get deleted because of the links I try to include to illustrate the effect I want to ask a question about. Is there any other way to contact with you?

[@yarindidi8450]

hey. im trying to scale the tiles to better look. but it dosent work for me. i tryed to add a param or multiply on the TexCoord but it does not work.... please help..

[@handler_music]

could u make a fullscreen pp datamosh tutorial?

[@afrikaansedude2525]

Please do a grass shader 🥺🔥

[@elganzandere]

is GIMP an alternative for those of us who do not have Photoshop ?

[@BenCloward]

Yes. I bought Photoshop CS4 way back before they introduced their subscription model and I’ve been using that ever since. But yes, Gimp should work fine.

[@elganzandere]

​@@BenCloward I was hoping for a legacy (non Cloud/subscription) version, as well; admittedly, only a cursory search - though I soon found myself confronted with GIMP, so I paused to inquire. deepest gratitude for the rapid response - you just saved me hours of obsessive compulsion.

[@plasid2]

Maybe next tutorial same but wood and old paint as first layer?

[@GhtPTR]

Ben, serious? This is thought transfer, I'm just starting the design of a plastered tavern! Cheers 🤩 Oh, btw, I was wondering why you present the Unity and UE shaders, is Unity still relevant now that UE has Nanite and Lumen?

[@BenCloward]

The purpose of my channel is not to teach engines. It's to teach universal shader principles that can be done in any engine. So these techniques could be applied in EA's Frostbite engine, Godot, Blender, etc. The reason I show things in Unreal and Unity is to prove the point that they're universal techniques, not because I want to show any specific engine.

[@GhtPTR]

@@BenCloward Fair point.

[@鹏华-u4c]

Ben~,你是我的神,就是这个片头该换了