Foliage in Unreal Engine 5 | Beginner Tutorial

Learn to use the Unreal Engine 5 foliage tool to populate your scenes with forests, jungles, trees, rocks, grass and more.
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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Implementing meshses
3:12 - Using brushes
5:13 - Refining brushes
7:56 - Adding grass
11:02 - Outro
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[@VirtusEdu]

Let us know if you'd like to learn about the new Nanite foliage in 5.1!

[@NigraXXL]

it feels to me like this should have been the default way to teach it, given 5.1 is already out and it seemingly doesn't have any downsides over using LODs?

[@geraltdirivia7328]

Nanite foliage is a must!

[@douchecraft3113]

@@NigraXXL I could be wrong, but isn't the process of using Nanite foliage the same? Just need to tick a couple of check boxes on the asset. Also - doesn't seem to be much of a performance boost (actually quite a deficit) if you're using a relatively small amount of foliage. Nanite seems to scale better if you're create some kind of massive outside landscape.

[@kalex07]

Yes please

[@chalogonzalez4468]

The new nanite foilage does not work with path tracing and must have nanite disabled in order to render.

[@p5rry]

Very clear and concise, great video :)

[@mauromarquet701]

Great video! I have a question: What's the process for incorporating sounds into the instanced foliage I've created, triggered when the character moves over it? Thanks a lot!

[@NonLethalGhost]

We love you Virtus:D

[@adzwasere5660]

Great Videos. Thank you very much.

[@RemideesRoomadmin]

great video, thanks so much !!

[@arise3494]

Hi I'm new to Unreal Engine so forgive me if this may sound as stupid, but can I combine this foliage brush tool with the Procedural Content Generation tool to create a forest? I'm think of using the PCG to generate the ground with some roots, twigs, branches, rocks, and then use the foliage brush to control where I want to put the rest of the foliage.

[@VirtusEdu]

Your question doesn't sound stupid at all, it's a great idea to combine the foliage brush tool with the procedural content generation tool to create a forest. I might make a video about this topic in the future

[@webtron44]

outstanding video.

[@newearth33]

Hi, cool tutorial. Is it possible to have multiple instance foliage actors? So that I can control visibility per actor. That way I could switch off grass groups but leave on trees for example. Or I could control visibility per area for large projects. I don't want all my foliage to exist wihtin one actor in the outliner. Thanks!

[@qhhuetran]

had the same question!

[@newearth33]

@@qhhuetran I ended up using different maps/levels to achieve this.

[@Murathanaksoz]

why you didnt show the project seutp ?

[@Jacobbrothers]

How to add wind to group of trees ? Like if a helicopter is takeoff the wind must strike near the helicopter na.How to simulate those?

[@jt-el8540]

Great video 👍

[@VirtusEdu]

Glad you enjoyed it!

you rock mate

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[@ANTIWOKE]

Can you cover how to use the new SSS on foliage in UE5.1?

[@magicalmelon]

Based

[@ZimCrusher]

so grass can only be placed on a 'landscape object'? Not sure what that is. I was hoping to have some floating platforms, with grass on the tops, as part of my platformer. Any tutorials like that? Adding grass to cube, or deciding you want your house covered in grass, in your scene?

[@foxwithaplan858]

Sure, you can draw the foliage on static meshes. But they won't move with the platform.

[@sudanemamimikiki1527]

you COULD make a bp and just manually add the grass mesh into it? that way you can code in the movement and the grass will move with the platform...

[@SuleBandi]

I have some meshes, where I want to control the foliage individually, how can I do this? There is only one "InstanceFoliageActor" in my outliner, can there be more than one?

[@MaysonCrowe]

Hey @SuleBandi I would look into using the PCG or procedural content generation in UE5. Using this method you can set each mesh to it's own generator allowing you greater control over individual meshes.

[@alebud1403]

I have a question how can make a player walk in the grass do sound of walking grass?

[@erkling5865]

the brush isn't free now. :(

[@coapa_760]

i guess i need to try but. can you paint foilage on lets say a rock from quixel?

[@srutarshiadhikari8210]

Yes. You just have to drag the rock static mesh into the foliage paint tool and you'll be good to go!

[@Ninebreaker56]

How can I remove specific foliage from my scene??

[@asankadenipitiya6737]

nice

[@MrADELx18]

how can i do Foliage With No Lag and Drop Frame?? is it matrial?

[@VirtusEdu]

Hey it is possible, the way we can do this is using nanite foliage! The future is now!

[@dodosdodis4833]

Perfecto!!!!😀😀

[@VirtusEdu]

[@bunnygodx]

ty

[@ssharma9491]

How to remove grass flikering??

[@terramidia3d]

r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.ScreenTraces.HZBTraversal 0

[@Murathanaksoz]

set lod 0

[@mp3ha]

hi can make vr shooter series tutorial?

[@Inquirro]

You literally didn't explain nothing. What if i want to use grass foliage separately from the trees. How can i do this?

[@Movman82]

You can toggle each model on or off in the brush settings

[@instaaj4028]

Bro acts like NPC fr!

[@demon__adrian393]

not free

[@Bleepurchin]

So it sounds like you heard a bunch of tutorials and copied how they spoke and some of what they did and then had some fun with video editing. This really doesn’t help us watching with much but I hope it made you feel like you know what you’re doing…. I guess?? LOL

[@charfeddineaziz4573]

man stop doing click bate