Create a Photorealistic World in UE4

[@HiTechShawn]

Amazing tutorial! You didn't just jump in and start changing values and maps, you explained every part of what you were doing and why you were doing it. This is something that 80% or more of tutorials don't do. Very helpful! Thank you 👍

[@AlexiosLair]

Please, consider making a tutorial about blending the Quixel textures and using masks from World Machine properly for landscape shader. I have noticed that the tutorials that are doing this kind of stuff are quite outdated and also they hardly allow you also to draw on the surface if you want to manually adjust them. Will be glad if this will happen! It will be VERY useful!

[@nick-gc1lb]

For everyone wondering about the song used, it is a song Eoin made. Eoin is also a musician / producer who goes by the alias Noisestorm. I highly reccomend you check his music out. (Unfortunately, the song only exists for this video, and he doesn't have the file anymore).

[@millie2079]

In the not-too-distant future, people will make films using this and upload them to KZbin to assist with their vlogging etc. Game changing stuff. In decades to come our children won't comprehend a world without these incredible toys…

[@Mitroiul]

I want a tutorial on that landscape material. That's the only thing crazy thing in this video and, ironically, the only thing not covered. You brought that landscape into the scene and it already looked godlike, whatever you did next with those assets was just bonus. But really, the landscape made the whole scene.

[@lacilaci]

Create a Photorealistic world in UE4: "so there's this super neat landscape material you will never learn to make, let's proceed to placing assets in the world :D"

[@Mirakuruuu]

or just download a free map asset and use that instead

[@andreatoth8029]

@@Mirakuruuu no you won't learn anything that way.

[@Mirakuruuu]

@@andreatoth8029 You have a fair point

[@mickeydangerez]

Bait and switch...

[@Silpheedx]

@@Mirakuruuu Were do you download that from?

[@jotacoxabagaray]

Could you make a tutorial teaching how to create the landscape material, please?

[@jotacoxabagaray]

Please...

[@jotacoxabagaray]

Please...

[@jotacoxabagaray]

Please...

[@etherealharmony1978]

p l e a s e

[@jan939]

Please..

[@urdadacrypto3044]

Here's my review of quixel Sorry for my english 😂 I just started my journey with UE4 and I really like making 3d models mixing and matching different textures and making realistic scenes and etc, but starting with limited sources is frustrating but when I started with quixel (today) it was a whole new world I can create ultra realistic scenes and everything is on my fingertips thanks quixel for this amazing experience, the best thing about quixel is that almost everything there is absolutely free and high quality I am just on a laptop as I am not that rich with just a 4gb graphics card and low memory still I am able to do many things it's absolutely brilliant

[@EnigmaStudioPro]

Which graphics card do you use?

[@xMulatHero]

I'm no graphic designer or anything of the sorts but I truly enjoy watching your content, as I just find them so relaxing.

[@MrThePoetikAngel]

I really love the visual of the landscape material! Can you make a complete tutorial to explain how to recreate this one please?

[@emantini517]

Quixel has truly made an incredible tool, showing us the future of all development in VFX and in Games.

[@wesleysure6]

It's so crazy how two years ago this looked amazing and nowadays it's not anything too insane.

[@PRoxy0oQ]

You need to start recording these in 4K as 1080p at 60 doesn't do it justice . Amazing work learned a lot about UE4 as well.

[@hippiebrother3]

I was literally just about to subscribe to megascans and just found this video. Thanks so much, I'll be watching this a few times as I work on my first environment with megascans!

[@UltimateImmersion]

I love your work so much. A true inspiration.

[@aleixesparcia6244]

Ultimate Immersion hey dude whatr u doing here?! Hehehe, do u use unreal4? create a skyrim based game pls😀😂

[@UltimateImmersion]

I wish! I'm quietly learning UE4 but I have a looong way to go.

[@soul-5]

Ultimate Immersion oh hey there Ultimate Immersion

[@UltimateImmersion]

Hey!

[@Natsumi666]

You posting here? XD

[@starscream2092]

Because of this tutorial i am really considering getting into quixel and mega scans, i am not 100% decided but videos like this that show you the tools that are brand new to you , help you decide.

[@walker3386]

You inspired me to do unreal engine 4. It's so realistic...

[@rajasrungavarapu]

i want to live in that world right now!

[@caiobasilio]

It's like Iceland.

[@Frappudazzu]

I thinked the same thing!

[@Frappudazzu]

Or new zeland

[@goku21youtub]

looks like my backyard

[@firewolf2763]

Caio Basilio that's what I thought. It has the same type of rocks and gloomy skies. He was using Nordic rocks I guess.

[@Red-di7zb]

This is like reality.

[@dotgen]

Red yes

[@chairchair1231]

Green yesn't

[@MelodifyStation]

Yellow maybe

[@dem6632]

Orange always

[@chrls.1093]

Pink sometimes... ...I get the feeling yeah

[@Absolute_Unit135]

You guys at Quixel blow my mind, I'm waiting for all my games to look this photorealistic...

[@MonstroUK]

Quixel Suite owner here for gosh, must be nearly two years? Great tutorial, thank you. I'd love a follow up covering your terrain process in full using World Machine or World Creator.

[@user-gy6cv3ug5i]

Glad you liked it! I'll certainly cover the terrain process if there is interest.

[@F11290]

Eoin O'Broin please!

[@SGShinja]

There is interest. =D

[@dogsofknowledge]

Yes please!:)

[@TimeTravelin1113]

There be a mighty interest, I've seen a lot of different videos on terrain, but haven't seen any with the results looking quite this nice

[@Outsideville]

Everytime I watch a Quixel video, it makes me want to give this a try. Truly inspiring and beautiful.

[@InfinityFnatic]

"Really there's nothing crazy going on here, a very simple two material terrain setup" >Pulls up a 100 node landscape material composed of two more 200 node materials lmao...

[@ak-gi3eu]

then you make a tutorial if its easy

[@avihs92]

@@ak-gi3eu you 100% misunderstood this guy's comment

[@ak-gi3eu]

@@avihs92 i also joked ,,i know he joked

[@avihs92]

@@ak-gi3eu ok sorry

[@ak-gi3eu]

@@avihs92 haha i m jk are yarrrr

[@Deedric_Kee]

They really really need to use more of these realistic landscapes in games. These are the graphics people really want. Great job and content 👍

[@chintanahir]

can you please share you landscape with materials... I don't need any assets, just land with material... your landscape is really good, I tried a lot to achieve this type of landscape but no luck.... thank you

[@The_Eno]

Seeing as there is so many requests for this I will make a tutorial myself. I will comment here when I make a new channel for tutorials.

[@guthi]

@@The_Eno thanks

[@LordNorthern]

@@The_Eno Yes! Please, do! The only tutorials out there that I can find, only show how to create a material, how to blend between them, and that's it. I can't find a good tutorial that will go in depth on how to create a material that will look good at a distance without the annoying tiling.

[@The_Eno]

@@LordNorthern I'm preparing my youtube intro vid and first Tutorial video which will be how to recreate this style of landscape material. ! Stay tuned I'll be responding to this comment and all others about a tutorial in the next few weeks to come from the new ue4 Tutorial account.

[@reke9942]

@@The_Eno God's speed Ace!

[@dogbog99]

My god that was a ton of effort to setup 1 rock. hats off to game developers for creating such good games nowadays. very time consuming and creative.

[@aravawasthi3038]

Can you do a landscape material tutorial?

[@jotacoxabagaray]

It will be wonderful.

[@Ra1nDr0p5]

Yes please! I really need one!

[@The_Eno]

Literally a two tile blend with two different scanned materials from Quixel. Pretty easy 2x 4k. Go on ue4 forums and find some of the tips for materials, Marketplace also has many you can learn from.

[@andyITA]

yes...please do that !

[@amirankakachia133]

makae more tutorialsss

[@hiscraft5491]

What a great tutorial, really disappointing that there isn't one on creating highly detailed terrains like what you have in the video

[@Ski4974]

Hi, can you please share your landscape materials? I don't mean the assets but the actual graph setup. The landscape master material and grass layer material function. In a previous tutorial you shared it as a pastebin, this one would be very appreciated! Thanks so much :)

[@joegrizzly999]

Google quixel

[@TheSoprah]

This quenches my thirst for creating astonishing levels and worlds.. thanks a lot mate

[@owenjohnson4754]

Sick beat at the start

[@PiyushKumar-ih3mk]

Amazing transformation from blank to beautifully managed realistic scene !!!

[@beyondthepeel_]

Where can I find a tutorial for the landscape material he makes in this video? Doesn't have to be a tut for the exact material, just the processes behind making it. Thanks!

[@hercules5843]

you can watch this tut kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4Gblnuti6p0ZtE

[@Potatinized]

This goes to all youtubers, get a silent keyboard. And it doesn't help if you're unnecessarily smashing those tiny buttons too. Negative asides, thank you for the video. I learned a few tricks that I haven't see before. Really, thank you.

[@paulgabriel4360]

Great tutorial but please make a video on how to create that landscape material. I am literally on my knees. From what i have been seeing it looks like you guys dont want to give your landscape material. You should just say that instead of making people beg.

[@noneofyourdamnbuisness3484]

they literally give a master landscape material when you import an asset from bridge - look in master materials folder

[@marconapolitano343]

@@noneofyourdamnbuisness3484 really what asset i have to import

[@jayg.2066]

Marco Napolitano don’t listen to him

[@MetalGuitarEdi]

Damn, this channel is surely inside my top 5 favorite KZbin missclicks ever. Glad i've found it.

[@herblewis6250]

Is there a single Quixel tutorial where when they get to the landscape material they dont cop out and skip it?

[@brutal6129]

No.

[@apinchofrhythm2803]

Yes.

[@thinkthank5229]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHKtmaOmqdl9nas

[@tresillianofficial]

You're so fucking right its so annoying. every time! ...I dont know why there isnt just a "create terrain material" next to "create material blend"

[@mathieumorse5917]

@@tresillianofficial kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKTJdH16bqt0g9U it's not perfect but it's a good base, i started from this to build my own and it's look good for what i needed

[@danielsalazar2121]

Best expiation of world in UE4 I Have ever seen on you tube every one else does not explain things like this guy he is good loved you video

[@user-gy6cv3ug5i]

Thanks Daniel, I'm glad you liked it :) @Timelapse The sky material is unlit so it isn't affected by scene lights. Have a look at the kite demo for a good similar sky material example.

[@Mr.Reality]

Whenever you install UE4 you get an artist license which lets you create anything you want to. And the good thing about it is that there are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

[@GeistOdin1987]

Es bleibt mir nichts anderes übrig als nur ein... Wow! Sehr schöne Arbeit. Vielen Dank! Weiter so!

[@chrls.1093]

Hi, do you have compiled version of these world, just for walking in it or something ? I know it's a tiny world with nothing to do, but just enjoying photorealism in a virtual world 😁

[@bigbosscaos3923]

My jaw dropped.. WHEN will we see games with this realism?

[@yasaipicles6295]

Maybe 2 decades when the average consumer card is equal yo current 3090. Unless of course that new nanite brings a whole new dynamic for making games.

[@marcelgatabaki5433]

Is it possible for you to share the landscape master material.

[@97dragoneyes]

One of the guys doing Quixel tutorials (think it is someone different, uses a brush from a content pack that he sells or used to sell before working at Quixel) This is a Live Tutorial from Unreal on landscapes. In the comments, they give a setup for materials that's really easy to plugin. You can then use other images plugged in. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX6um3yQgrV9ZrM

[@amolchougule2751]

Thank you. It's great that you tell short information about other references.

[@martiddy]

I like the sound when you smash your keyboard to type

[@PrinceMandal]

Can someone tell me how to have foliage culling like this video? No matter how much foliage I paint it disappears after certain distance.

[@sedghammer]

Bravo, truly incredible!

[@johnbrophy597]

Very useful info and clearly stated! That's a rare combination when it comes to tutorial presentation and it's very much appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to do this!

[@marcusrost9611]

I enjoy having my mind blown every now and then...

[@marcusrost9611]

@Tidder T ever so slightly...

[@ThatRyanManning]

25:03 would love to see this discussed/shown more!

[@Hlrguitar]

A tutorial on that landscape material would be amazing! Nice tut btw

[@jukai7220]

So I am a beginner when it comes to the Engine but holy, your Tutorials really really help me understand things very easily. Thanks for all the effort you put in those Videos~!

[@arknet4973]

Need tutorial for photorealistic "Landscape". Also for Landscape tesselation!!!

[@dilfill]

wow, this is so amazing! I have no real experience in 3D but I would love to learn to create worlds like this! :)

[@HavokSage]

this is legendary! super inspiring work

[@Affihnel]

Should make more videos like this, even if it's subscriber only. It's highly educational, and it encourages people to buy more scans. The tools are no good to people if they don't know how to use them, and getting good results from easy to follow steps like this, makes one want to push further and experiment with new combinations instead of just giving up.

[@МихаилВысоцкий-я5о]

can tell your system specifications?

[@dogbog99]

Михаил Высоцкий GTX 1080 Ti Intel 9900k

[@user-rk8gq8pd1c]

@@dogbog99 You sure?

[@xxxtefennixxx]

These kind of videos make me think that the life itself is a simulation and the god is a programmer

[@SeriesDmusic]

Darlene the Cat find the glitches and crack the code.

[@WhatBeDaPointMon]

I'm pretty sure Elon Musk has an interesting theory on life being a simulation, and we simply don't know it yet. I think there's a video out there about it, it's likely a good watch if you're into theories and speculation like that.

[@xxxtefennixxx]

I already know about Elon Musk's theory about simulated worlds, but thanks for your advice anyway

[@spectreartz675]

I wonder what specs his PC has.

[@sonofhendrix]

It is a simulation, Elon Musk says so. The question is where is all the cloud computing done....

[@CharacterDev77]

That beat at the end of the video. WOW

[@n8playsgames278]

Dude these are so cool.

[@randallcromer66]

Genius level 10, thank you for the good ideas that you provided. You definitely know your stuff. I was very impressed with how well you had everything layered and how well organized it all was. I wish I had half the talent that you have. I guess some people are blessed with talent while others just have struggle alone. Anyway thank you I really enjoyed watching your content.

[@Gothicpolar]

Love Quixel ♥

[@quixeltools]

We love you too

[@Gothicpolar]

♥

[@adryano402]

Impressionante il livello di qualità. Fantastico! Grazie.

[@vivekanandb6697]

could u share the material like u did in the previous tutorial? :)

[@GuildDeeplyDisturbed]

Either a share or a full tutorial on that great material would only make people want to subscribe to megascans more so I really hope he does it. The result you get from what seems a fairly simple and low cost material with only two textures is amazing. But there are so many different tutorials on landscape materials here on youtube and they're all so different and don't give this result. It's also because of world machine being able to make great splatmaps though, have to keep that in mind. Still would love to figure out this material fully.

[@quixeltools]

Hi Vivek, so sorry about the late response! The assets used are in the description of the video together, with links. :)

[@GuildDeeplyDisturbed]

Those are the megascans meshes and textures, he's asking for the custom made terrain material

[@The88thMinecrafter]

Quixel Yea we would really love to know what materials were used into making the grass/rock of the landscape along with blending them together.

[@222ableVelo]

Ya would love to know more in-depth how you made that landscape material, and exactly which textures from megascans you used. That terrain mat is epic.

[@bahaatamer1245]

I didn't press the subscribe button, it clicked itself and it won't unsubscribe (in other words: I will spend a lot of time with this)

[@MehmetYlmaz-tb5ci]

What is the starting music?

[@VertexHero]

I too would like to know. It's only fair they credit the artist...Maybe I want to support them and buy their music?

[@wthoutanymmries]

So.. did you find it?

[@onelastride9399]

@@wthoutanymmries Maybe its Eoin O'Broin only. You may be knowing he is a musician too goes by the name noisestorm

[@danylbekhoucha6180]

You must use the overlay blend type to combine the albedo and cavity or the texture will appear darker with multiply because cavities use middle grey values. If the value of the albedo change you have to fix the gamma of the curvature map.

[@Mrabet_Houssem]

Could you please share your Landscape master material ?

[@christos1603]

Are you planning on making a tutorial on landscape materials. Love your work so much !

[@TheChazas]

What is the music at 0:05 ?

[@michaelmac3]

Just getting into making maps and such, and this tutorial is a great help. Thank you.

[@TheSiimur]

24:33 how do you make that material that does that ? anyone know ? :O

[@andreatoth8029]

still need help with this? lol if so I can tell you

[@christinamaltese4460]

it is an awesome tutorial and the perfect landscape an inspiration to those who's becoming an artist

[@_Stan_Smith]

Looks great!

[@ChrrZ]

fantastic tutorial, love the material section at the beginning!! so helpful!

[@razorbei]

YOU GOD DAMN WIZARDS

[@repker]

googled Eoin O'Broin and it turns out this guy is Noisestorm, wowee.

[@rylc3d]

how did you make the sky?

[@jackquan3519]

How to make the static plants imported from Quixel Bridge swing naturally in the wind?

[@user-uu1fp7bj9h]

the loudness of his keyboard aggggggggg

[@IWillYeah]

Nice to see a fellow Irishman working in such a large game-dev related company.

[@summons1063]

Hey whats the song at the beginning? It's so good

[@mintmag8748]

Wow you make this look easy. You also make me want to get back into game development.

[@karthikeyansundarraj4085]

There is not even a single tutorial on how to create a Auto Landscape material, and you are saying that there are plenty of online resources for this topic.

[@motionxt9521]

same here

[@mrflyman123456789]

Its probably the feature of World Machine where he generated the landscape

[@motionxt9521]

Still annoying that it won’t take much time to explain but he still won’t

[@karthikeyansundarraj4085]

@@mrflyman123456789 To be very specific, for this tutorial he must have used height lerp for blending materials along with height map data based on angle. He must have exported multiple height maps with angle variation for each material variation on terrain from world machine. Even if that is the case in this tutorial, he could have explained it. It look nearly a month for me to understand this after I was stuck with tiling.

[@pierce4141]

KARTHIKEYAN SUNDARRAJ can you make a video showing how please, thank you.

[@maiconloure]

Your work is very incredible and beautiful, congratulations.

[@NavioVisuals]

what is that music?

[@dorijandomjanovic414]

pls

[@Cinnamon_Shaey]

okay, that is simply amazing, since i have some time on my hand, and trying to figure out what to do i think i wanna try this, and i know it takes time to actually be good at if you can say that but it looks so good that i must try it

[@rl2388]

The video: So this is the landscape after we put the material, and here is 1 rock -- Look realistic as hell Me: With a bunch of tutorials, added material, added assets, foliage, etc, and follow the setting given in this video, etc-- still look like trash I have no idea what went wrong.

[@wilismatrix9847]

Daaaang that terrain and material !! 😍🤩😨😱

[@corentart8302]

thanks a lot !

[@corentart8302]

it's possible to make a tutorial for megascan and ue4 landscape?

[@xmarksthespot_1984]

Hey really great tutorial!!! I'll be checking more of them out! Thank you for giving both examples when explaining control within the textures spectrum.

[@rajasrungavarapu]

My current workflow: 1. Download megascans textures. 2. Use Megascans studio to create bunch of awesome textures. (me - wow these textures are awesome in megascans studio, my game will be looking AAA) 3. Import created textures in to Unity.(me - we r almost there, one more step) 4. Plug them in to unity standard terrain (me - wait WTF this doesnt look what im looking for!). Verdict: Unity standard terrain shading SUCKS!

[@ThatsPety]

man it really does suck in terms of looking good. I recommend you use the MicroSplat plugin. It integrates into the existing terrain system, but makes it look WAY prettier, generates all the maps you dont have for you, and it's free. If you want to go the extra mile there are even killer add-ons like tesselation, mesh/terrain blending, and anti-tiling

[@singhutsav]

Use unreal for AAA quality games

[@armandoferreira1346]

@voidk im yet to see a good looking unity vegetation scene, could you point me to some?

[@DrTheRich]

Paint doesn't suck when you know how to use it..... But why use it if there are better tools around???

[@ThatsPety]

Matthijs de Rijk paint, as a whole, is completely and totally inferior to programs like Gimp and Photoshop. Terrian is about the only thing that Unreal destroys Unity in. Every other aspects of the engine is either slightly behind, on par with, slightly better than, or destroys Unreal's implementation (in the case of 2d). Terrible analogy

[@LiquidSnake690]

I can't wait til this is used in games!

[@Teo-gr1ls]

Great! Now all I have to do is steal a pc from nasa, escape the feds and im ready to run this

[@ExacoMvm]

U probs can run this easy with Ryzen 3 1200 + 1050Ti. I know it's bit /s but many ppl still don't realize that good graphics =/= low fps, it's just the developers who are lazy to do realistic stuff especially in the texturing/modeling department. Quixel alone gonna change the whole standards of gaming graphics :D

[@NBASFAN]

@@ExacoMvm running it with a 980gtx ti and its fine. What makes it more difficult is the increase of high polys and texture detail. Other than that the lighting tools are easy and smooth to use.

[@rajyalakshmiyellapanthula2226]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@OmikronClient]

i have i5 and gtx 1050, runs very good

[@humanbeing9140]

Steal PC from a nearby store. make a gaming heist

[@witchreturns2263]

The good thing with materials, is that once you have them, you can reuse and modify over and over again. Same with the humam characters. Thank you!

[@zZ-Wipeout-Zz]

" Create a Photorealistic World in UE4 "... but cant cover how to create / setup landscape materials in this tutorial. same old quixel start a " tutorial " video starts a small piece then gets lazy and doesnt explain the rest. about about creating a proper tutorial video ( or series ) to set up the LANDSCAPE mateial -_-

[@katharinawalter6513]

Hey @Andrew Vanderbilt-Astor, saw your comment and searched for Virtus but I could only find a very very basic Landscape Material Video. The Landscape Material in this Video looks more realistic and seems to be an auto- (normal-based) Material.

[@flashpowr]

@Andrew Vanderbilt-Astor but yet people need clear instuctions in this matter!

[@PrinceMandal]

@@katharinawalter6513 It look realistic because the terrain texture is not a simple tileable texture. The artist has blended different textures based on mask data from World Machine.

[@alexanderhandjiev2845]

not every tutorial is a beginner tutorial -.-

[@jayg.2066]

Alex Handjiev This “tutorial” doesn’t help beginners, doesn’t help intermediates and doesn’t help advanced users. It’s a useless PR stunt. Big thanks for Quixel to giving us photo real assets but they suck at tutorials

[@jotacoxabagaray]

Great tutorial, beautiful landscape.

[@PeteD]

got halfway through this tutorial to discover the main thing I was here to learn about 'landscape' was deferred to a 3rd party tool :(

[@derp3044]

you can use blender instead of maya or photoshop or whatever

[@ffuad6278]

World machine is free i guess

[@curtisnewton895]

- hidden faces under the landscape ARE going to be rendered, the z-buffer will sort the fragments, but its not becos you dont see it that it's not there - by painting like that you will spawn meshes inside the first bigger rocks you added too

[@danielrodriguez6836]

Who's thinking Red Dead Redemption 3 next gen graphics here!