Get tangled with PCG : 3 methods for Vine farming

[@lubospejchal498]

This is a single useful tutorial for PCG on meshes on all of youtube.

[@Flipside3D]

aww man that is really nice of you to say, check out Adrien's videos too if you haven't already!

[@TheeScienceExplained]

Wow! This was the best PCG tutorial I've seen so far. All the others are making the most basic tutorials, while this is next level! Keep it coming! ;)

[@Flipside3D]

Thank you, you are too kind! I will try to post a follow up video when I have something substantial enough to share :)

[@haneetkhanna1883]

@@Flipside3D In unreal 5.2 version somehow i dont see the meshtopoints node. have they removed it? or do i need to enable any plugin? its there in 5.1 version but not in 5.2. i see a lot of commnets in videos on youtube mentioning this.

[@Flipside3D]

@@haneetkhanna1883 In 5.2 a lot of nodes have been updated and have different names. I'm having trouble making some of them work atm as well. But for sampling points on a mesh you can use the mesh sampler node and the copy points node to do the same thing I did here. Cheers

[@haigmatian6194]

@@Flipside3D Maybe you can help, I don't seem to find the "get actor data" nodes at all. Currently using 5.1. Any ideas?

[@asimsalman3948]

This is by far the best tutorial on PCG. Other people just slam you with nodes without any explanation whatsoever.. You explained everything perfectly. Thankyou my good sir! :)

[@Flipside3D]

Thank you so much for the kind words, really means a ton! Glad it was useful for you :)

[@asimsalman3948]

@@Flipside3D It was more than just useful man. It helped me kickstart PCG from scratch, although I had gone through multiple tutorials before. I'm trying to create small procedural assemblies like we saw in the GDC demo.. Having the ability to scatter grass in specific areas (on sides of rocks rather than all over it), scattering large/medium/small boulders in a natural formation etc. Would love a tutorial on that from you :)

[@Flipside3D]

Cheers, I'm currently trying to get my head around the whole thing as well lol. I think it's not that hard to get something working in PCG but takes a lot of time and some effort to make something look good. I think it really comes down to the way you're sampling points in each layer of detail. Which seems to take a lot of trial and error

[@Konstanten123]

Best tutorial PCG on KZbin!

[@Flipside3D]

Oh man you are too kind! Thank you :)

[@Konstanten123]

@@Flipside3D No! It's true! More tutorial pls!

[@PEPESSI01]

PCG 공부하고 있는데 고민하던 부분들을!!!! 영상보며 해결했어요 감사합니다

[@gsingh22ify]

simply great

[@Flipside3D]

Thank you :)

[@williemmcwhorter05]

Thanks!

[@Flipside3D]

thank YOU!

[@Master_Poizan]

And you said it wouldn't be that deep lol, you have made probably a all in one tutorial it follows most of the basics and intermediate concepts for spawning objects on meshes can already imagine multiple use cases and vines being one of the most painful things to design now can easily be manipulated. Loved the tut again thanks for such tasty content!

[@Flipside3D]

Heyy man you are too kind, glad you felt it was useful! :) Yeah I really like it even for what it is atm. I initially thought that they couldn't come out with the official version soon enough but now I'm thinking they should take their time and do a proper job

[@dding_one1389]

너무 좋은 퀄리티의 강좌입니다. PCG에 쉽게 접근하기가 어려웠는데 이 강좌보면서 감을 잡을 수 있을 것 같습니다. 감사합니다!

[@Flipside3D]

친절한 말씀 너무 감사합니다! 블루프린트나 이런쪽으로 센스 있으신 분들은 금방 적응해서 뭐 많이 만들어 내실것 같아요

[@IsaacOster]

Great video! Learned a lot, thank you!

[@Flipside3D]

Thank you for the kind comment :) Glad it was useful

[@IrakliKochiashvili]

Very useful tutorial.Thanks

[@Flipside3D]

Thank you for the kind words :)

[@iherok]

Thanks for making this Tutorial. Your humour is priceless. 😄 Keep it up.

[@Flipside3D]

Hahaha thanks man that is really kind of you to say, I'm glad some of the jokes worked!

[@InstinctionGame]

Impressive work!

[@Flipside3D]

Thank you 😊😊 Cheers!

[@choiyong6294]

항상 좋은정보 감사합니다~! 이번에도 도움이 많이 됩니다!

[@Flipside3D]

말씀 너무 감사합니다! 저야 말로 올리시는 것들 잘 보고 있어요 :)

[@BarryLester]

method 1 is really interesting. instead of using pcg volume to sample meshes in the scene, it sort of converts a mesh in the content browser to a static pcg mesh and you can add it to the scene easily. I hope in the future there would be a dedicated pcg mode so you can drag a bunch of static mesh into a panel and UE5 automatically converts them to pcg graphs with the get actor data, static mesh spawner, mesh to points, and copy points already created.

[@Flipside3D]

I had a very similar thought as I was making this video. I'm not sure how viable this idea is from a programming stand point but it sure would be nice.

[@yqc-v3v]

Nice work

[@Greenman4890]

super useful!

[@Flipside3D]

Cheers!

[@imjusttellingstories1688]

great tutorial tnx🙃👍

[@Flipside3D]

Cheers thank you so much :)

[@khsang1013]

잘 배우고갑니다 선생님

[@Flipside3D]

아이구 아닙니다~ 친절한 댓글 감사합니다

[@dimitrilucy]

Very very good tutorial ! Thanks a lot ! Do you think there is a way to expose the "input static mesh" parameter ? To avoid having to enter the graph each time It's ok for rotation, scale parameters but I can't find the input static mesh..

[@Flipside3D]

Cheers for the comment bro. If there isn't a way to do this already, they should add it as a feature. I think I was wondering about the same thing before when I was working on this video. I'll do some digging and come back and let you know if I find anything, but as I remember it, I don't think there was a way to expose it as a editable variable like in blueprints.

[@Flipside3D]

Bro did you ever find a solution to this? I can't seem to get even normal parameters working in 5.2

[@ParmidaRazavi-m6e]

Thank you for the useful tutorial! Have you found any fix for the BP rotation of the mesh yet?

[@Flipside3D]

I haven't tried it but I heard a top down projection sampling will work in this case

[@zeon3d755]

@29:15 Did you figure out how to fix the issue foliages not appearing on angled surfaces?

[@Flipside3D]

@NewOnTheSeen has suggested using World Ray Hit Query as the sampling method

[@zeon3d755]

@@Flipside3D but that doesnt work on the sides for actors

[@aseem1708]

thanks

[@Lv7-L30N]

gracias

[@Flipside3D]

You are welcome!

[@maarten176]

Nice!!

[@Flipside3D]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@hieule-hc6px]

hi, about method 3, you've only shown how to filter/ make less point. how do i make pcg to generate more point? when i do it it only generate 1 or 2 point... Thank you for the tutorial

[@Flipside3D]

I can't say for sure from what you're describing but I suggest playing around with the density bounds and various sampling parameters

[@hieule-hc6px]

@@Flipside3D thanks for replying let me ellaborate further: I did exactly follow your tutorial, but with a different mesh ( it's basically a thin cube ) using the pcg volumn ( method 3 ) i can only create 2 or 3 pcg point, and I want to increase that number, can you recommend some node that i should use? how to increase the density bounds you mentioned? Thank

[@stevencarroll9613]

Looks like a lot of these nodes are no longer available in 5.3 and Im unable to follow along or find equivalent nodes to achieve similar results

[@stevencarroll9613]

found nodes in Engine-Plugins-Procedural Concent Generation Framework-Deprecated folder for those having the same problem

[@MyResearchProject]

hi there great tutorial however I cannot find the Mesh to Points Node can you help please :)

[@Flipside3D]

search 'mesh', I can't remember what the node is called now but I know there aren't too many nodes that has to do with sampling points on a mesh. They changed the name since 5.2

[@MyResearchProject]

@@Flipside3D thanks for your help didn’t mean to ignore you reply but been very busy fitting a new kitchen so been full on. I did find the solution will post here tomorrow hopefully 👍

[@Lazy_Watcher]

For method 3 you get the entire intersection area filled with points. Is it possible to filter them to only be the ones that are on the surface? And is it possible to have them automatically align to the normal of where it is on the mesh?

[@Flipside3D]

You'd have to do a bit of experimentation with nodes that deal with intersection and maybe difference but maybe a combination of the first and third method might work?

[@NewOnTheSeen]

With your sampling, instead use "World Ray Hit Query"

[@Flipside3D]

Yesss i think that's a better way to go for the ground one. thank you!

[@korakot2003]

Hi I did the vinespline and it work well but I got one problem, when I try to copy the spline blueprint it create the vine on the old spline as well as the new spline what did I do wrong?

[@Flipside3D]

Hi try using individual tags

[@雨里-i7j]

Based on the tutorial, the “intersect with tagged actors geimerty” node in the third method doesn't seem to work. Is it possible that there has been an update that changed the way this node is used?

[@雨里-i7j]

I see. Actually, it did work, but I had a misconception that the point should be generated on the surface.

[@Flipside3D]

Yes that's one of the pain points of that function I found. Unless I'm missing something. I wished there was something that would just spawn stuff with the intersecting surface as well.

[@lubospejchal498]

Where did you get this Jungle asset ?

[@Flipside3D]

Hi all the foilage in this project was from megascans

[@imvisuals215]

how did u put the 3d text in the scene?

[@Flipside3D]

There is a plugin called Text3D which comes with the engine. You just enable it and it'll show up as an actor you can add. Good luck!

[@JohnRiversOfficial]

ngl this video is about 47 minutes too long to be called effortless

[@Flipside3D]

Lol 😆 sorry true that, but I think when you have your settings sort of decided initially, you can speed things up way more afterwards