Introducing EasyMapper for Unreal Engine 5

EasyMapper is a Master Material setup that supports World-Aligned (Triplanar) texture projection, combined with Nanite tessellation/displacement, and Advanced Vertex Blending, allowing you to blend up to 3 materials in one simple, elegant package, for easy texture blending across assets.
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Console Variables to Copy to your DefaultEngine.ini file:
r.Nanite.AllowTessellation=1
r.Nanite.Tessellation=1
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:49 - DefaultEngine.ini Settings (IMPORTANT)
03:24 - EasyMapper BASICS
05:36 - Using Custom Textures
10:50 - Vertex Painting
15:36 - Advanced Vertex Blending
20:52 - Custom Meshes without World-Aligned Mapping
21:46 - Tileable Texture Creation Workflow
23:49 - Troubleshooting: Crack-Free Displacement
24:58 - Troubleshooting: Inconsistent Displacement
26:01 - Troubleshooting: Vertex Painting Issues
27:03 - Troubleshooting: Shadow Issues
28:00 - MIGRATE EasyMapper to your own project
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[@WilliamFaucher]

This pinned comment is where I will be listing known issues, as well as providing updates in the future. If you have any suggestions for EasyMapper, comment them here! 1. If you can't add custom textures, because you're getting a red box around the slot, you need to use the correct Master Material, depending on whether you are using Virtual Textures (VT) or not. 2. To migrate EasyMapper to your project, see the timestamp at the 28:00 mark. 3. If EasyMapper's displacement doesn't work, you need to make sure that nanite is enabled on your models. Nanite Tessellation requires... Nanite. 4.EasyMapper works with Pathtracing, but Nanite Displacement specifically will not work with Pathtracing.

[@kingwrightdev]

Can you rotate a world aligned texture in EasyMapper?

[@WilliamFaucher]

@@kingwrightdev Not in easymapper no. You can rotate the texture with some functions but the normals and displacement will get messed up

[@wailbam]

What an awesome product! I don’t know if there’s a way of doing it already, but it would be cool if it was possible to generate a texture for a surface you’ve applied an easymapper material to; so that you could use that texture to displace the actual geometry (and thus be able to use the path tracer).

[@andrewstephenson8164]

@WilliamFaucher. Great product just what I have been looking for. Puddles would be awesome, but more than that a landscape version would be a must buy for me. Please please keep developing this product

[@mindped]

I've created my own materials that use vertex color to blend. But the problem with nannite is that it tries to crunch the polygons if there isn't enough variation in position of the verticies. As in if it's a flat surface like a floor the verticies would become less and less, and therefore the areas of blending would pop in and out.. Is this somehow fixed because I never tried to paint verticies in the editor I just would import vertex color that I baked in my 3D package. Will easy mapper have to deal with this?

[@PasDePub]

The incredible thing about you is that you are able to produce very great quality packs without setting the price ridiculously high so that anyone can afford it, thank you for that !

[@KevinIndreland]

Exactly my thoughts...I almost fell out of my chair when I saw how affordable this was!

[@chelo111]

so true

[@hytalegermany1095]

Important for usage in UE5.4!!!! To enable tesselation using easy mapper in UE5.4 you need to open up the master material and tick "tessellation" in the details-panel of the material. I wish everyone a very displaced day!

[@alonedragon80]

thank you sir you saved me time

[@bruce21st]

Before I even clicked on your video, I instantly purchased EasyMapper because I knew it would be great value to the community, even though I have experience with materials myself. Keep up the great work and thank you for supporting so many aspiring artists & developers.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you so much, really appreciated!

[@jamesfield8023]

Totally agreed.

[@user-pf2iv2ie9n]

Hello bruce! How or where could I learn more deeply about materials in unreal? from the basics to the most advanced possible

[@user-hn2wr9cm2d]

⁠@@WilliamFaucher Epic should hire you ASAP. You know exactly what environment artist want and have ability to make tools!🎉🎉

[@sophiebramley7594]

same !, You're my go to online tutor William

[@UnchartedWorlds]

You never let us down William! You always come out with something great and needed by community! Thank you and much appreciation!

[@videostarts]

This is exactly what I was looking for for hours tonight and out of nowhere you appear with a perfect tool. I will always be grateful to your channel

[@Twilightx7]

Bought the plugin/project before I even finished the video, but having used it for a bit this afternoon, it almost blows my mind that nobody has wrapped all these functions up before into a single master material that's commercially available. As far as updates go, I'd LOVE to see a Landscape version of this, especially with nanite/displacement support for terrain having been added recently. Thanks so much for this!

[@bcur5376]

Brushify for Landscape?

[@CGChris-]

You are a treasure to the UE world! Thank you so much for doing this. Can't wait to see how easier and better looking this is going to make projects and life. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE create a landscape version!

[@hytalegermany1095]

Goosebumps! This makes so many workflows SO MUCH MORE EASY. I am really thinking of using this master material for every material if I need to do a quick project!

[@r0dybuen0]

Absolutely amazing. Landscapes sound quite amazing to add!

[@bishoyadelzakaria]

Instantly buy anything you make, thanks for the amazing tutorials and tools you make

[@WilliamFaucher]

You're too kind, thank you so much!

[@Jansenan]

I just purchased Easymapper and immediately started using it. What a great tool and timesaver. Even the introduction video is clear as usual. Thank you so much!

[@Frygon]

Bought it to support the channel, but was pleasantly surprised how well it was done! This will replace my own triplanar master material. Thanks William!

[@yaroslavvishnevsky]

This is absolutely amazing! I have long wanted to have such a versatile material and now I have it! Thank you very much William Faucher! I hope you will add in the future a landscape material and layers for drawing puddles =)

[@felixst3739]

YEEEES, please! We want Landscape version too... Thanks a lot.

[@WilliamFaucher]

It's on the roadmap :)

[@JimJams-qf9vv]

Spent a morning re-watching the video and having a play, and finally got pretty comfortable with it. This is a fantastic asset and so much easier to get running than the megascan blend material. Wish I had purchased it sooner 👏👏👏

[@violentpixelation5486]

Bought Easy Mapper 4 months ago and used it today for the first time. Damn.....I should have tried it earlier. It's a dream. Great job putting that thing together, William!

[@6FingerGames]

As always, mind Blowing 💣 tutorial from William 🥇🥇🥇

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you!

[@iursingh]

Wow. This is amazing. Gonna buy it ASAP! Also, one small suggestion. Can you add a switch option to enable ARD/ORD/ORM textures? So that we can use individual textures as well? for A B and C Materials. That would be awesome for textures outside of Megascans as well.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Hi! Thanks for the suggestion, I absolutely plan on adding that option. For the moment I wanted to have base support for Megascans, since ARD/ORD/ORM is what *most* people seem to be using these days. But like you say, useful to have the choice. This will come in an update, so stay tuned. I should make a roadmap for users to check out. Thanks again!

[@2you2cool]

Appreciate your work William, have bought now both your marketplace assets and keep supporting the channel and you! Excited to use this one

[@Zsinjeh]

Cheers William, you're a huge benefit to the community! Love the ability to toggle worldspace for working with custom UVs. Going to look into the settings today but already know I would love the ability to toggle for individual layers. For example world aligned moss/snow/damaged plaster on top of custom UV

[@luaykashef]

Unity is an embarrassment

[@kkeestar]

Yet it has by far the most good games

[@IamNeighborlee]

@@kkeestaronly for experts ue makes things easy with power now multi rendering main thread

[@jelyme6051]

No need for comments like that. Unity doesn't really compete with Unreal, HDRP isn't the best but you can't run an Unreal game on a phone. Unreal Engine is putting great tools into people's hands but you still have to have skill to make it work, just because the lighting is good doesn't make a game good. All engines are able to produce great games, it comes down to who makes them.

[@luaykashef]

@@jelyme6051 🤨🫣

[@daveinpublic]

I know what you mean… as someone who has tried to use it for like 10 years… it’s so much more convoluted than unreal. I really seriously hate how they introduce new solutions - suggest that the old solutions are going away - then never finish the new solutions - leaving anyone trying to future proof their games with unusable products. The list goes on, but unity has developed a culture of confusing their users and wasting their time. They wear it as a badge of honor.

[@satwiksrivastava495]

With how fantastic Easyfog is, this is undoubtedly going to be even better. Thanks, William.

[@Kertitprod]

I confirm that a Landscape version would be amazing. Thanks for your work Mr. Faucher !

[@d369studios]

This is really well organized, thanks for the detailed video, bought this + your fog asset. Great stuff!

[@kingwrightdev]

William. You have no idea how perfect this timing is. I'm looking to do exactly what you're doing in this video. Add moss to a rock wall...Bless you, my man.

[@xenamo1782]

The best level design tool I've seen since Ultra Dynamic Sky. Great work! You exactly know what people need.

[@gerarrevilla6170]

Beatifull work! Easy to use and straightforward. The blending that takes displacement into consideration is just too good. Thanks!

[@graemeh6345]

Hi William. Some Canadian support and appreciation for all that you do. Purchased! Now have to learn how to use it. Appreciate the work and time you put into sharing your knowledge. Thank you.

[@nickkaverin]

I don't even need to watch the video to buy your product. I already know it's top notch. Thank you! Keep it up

[@uuuuuuuuuray]

Material production was one of the parts where my work stopped, so this made it easier to use UE5! Thank you!

[@PhillipHavin]

very happy with purchase, love the absolute simplicity. Also couldn't get tessellation to work on any project after watching a dozen tutorials. Already works in the included project so thats a bonus! thank you and i look forward to seeing your next project as always

[@PhillipHavin]

had mesh that could only paint large pieces of, hitting modelling mode > mesh > remesh added vertices and allowed detailed painting

[@AuntJemimaGames]

This seems like a fabulously capable asset at a very affordable price! Awesome work.

[@tcraiford]

THIS IS AWESOME! Someone in my studio sent this to me and our env lead. This could be so useful for our early workflow

[@mujialiao6088]

Thanks for the awesome work as always William, grabbed it myself and played around it's very easy to use. A landscape version of Easymapper sounds very useful when you get around to it in 2024. I appreciate all the time you put into creating amazing videos to walk everyone through how to use it and making it so user friendly so artists can focus on creatives than the technical. Thanks again.

[@DigitalAlchemy3D]

This is awesome! We built something similar at work last year, but we had to bake the displaced results down to a mesh (thank you Geometry scripting!). I've had it on my mind to try the workflow with nanite displacement but just haven't had the time to do it on my own and we're still on 5.2 at work. Definitely buying this to support your continued fine work.

[@zeroy]

Been using a similar master material for a long time, you can find a few online. This one has the advantage of being very user friendly so kudos for this 😊 and of course the nanite displacement makes this a must have!

[@williamtolliver749]

I dont even think i originally like these topics. Film, lighting, perspective, etc. But i swear, it makes me so motivated and optimistic about art; Just listening to your lectures and getting your insights. Everything is practical, but there is so much depth and context to your breakdowns. I feel like anyone from an 8 year old beginner to an industry vet could come to your channel for a few +1's to methodology/awareness/innovative solutioning. From one passionate William to another, please never stop brother.

[@dustypixels501]

Absolutely fantastic as always. Another great tool added to the community.

[@ButtercupVisuals]

Just bought it few minutes ago. Super good stuff and really time saving, thanks William!

[@danielbruning562]

Another amazing tutorial and product! Instant buy! Thank you so much William!

[@Billary]

Very cool tool & reasonably priced as well! Congrats on the release!

[@mattw546]

This is one of the best addons I’ve seen definitely on the wishlist it’s so useful and very user friendly nice job

[@CNa100]

After EasyFog, another great asset, just bought it. Well done, well designed and implemented. All that served with AAA quality tutorials we're now used to ;-) On top of that, a very affordable price. Continue ton bon travail ! Merci !

[@traustisteinngunnarsson7112]

THIS TOOL IS INCREDIBLE! thanks William for helping me get on the UE5 Environment Journey

[@tubicidio]

bought it instantly, can't wait to use it in my project!

[@jamesfield8023]

I've built materials like this for years, and have been meaning to compile a master material to reuse but never seem to find the time (even though it would save me tons of time - ironic huh?). However, I am very grateful for this tool because it solves this problem for me. A perfect tool at a very reasonable price. William, you are a massive asset to the VP and Games Industry, and clearly in it for the love of the craft. Massive respect. Keep it up.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you! It was more time consuming than I expected to be quite honest, but I find it important to keep things as tidy and organized as possible. Let me know if you have any suggestions!

[@jamesfield8023]

@@WilliamFaucher will do!

[@colin_actually]

I don't use UE5 but this looks really cool. World-aligned projection and painting is perfect for making normal environmental stuff. Takes so much work out of it. Nice job!

[@yacineygamer6457]

This guy just makes you feel like you don"t know anything about Unreal Engine 5 !! Thank you for this amazing tool. and Yes Please add the Landscape Material, that would be amazing ..

[@danelokikischdesign]

Simply amazing and so accesible! Thank you so much for the tools and tutorials you do :D

[@reket777pvl]

Great job as always. You are one of the best youtuber who is promoting and develop for unreal engine. Thanks for your hard work

[@bcgames92]

You are such a great instructor. Thanks for your work!

[@mouteg2176]

I am watching this at 2am and i can't wait till i come from work tomorrow and try this amazing tool

[@foxy2348]

Juhuuu finally a real Unreal tutorial again! Thanks this tool is amazing! I love it!

[@Searly]

I am so used to use Blender's displacement that when i started using unreal engine I couldn't really be as happy as i was in blender in terms of displacement. But with this new tool, i finally can use displacement as i can in Blender. This is amazing!

[@Bobbybobby1]

exactly what i need, this makes it much less complicated coming from Cinema4D/Redshift material workflow, thank youuuuuu!

[@frazaobr]

As Ben Solo, I'm also like: more, more, MORE! Great stuff, William, thanks for sharing with us.

[@qaxt8231]

Great work William boy. Your work is unique and clean

[@case384]

Perfect timing, this is more than what I was looking for and such a cheap price. Amazing! Thanks!

[@storyteller_tom]

I was just wondering today, it's been such a long time since we heard from you. Glad you are back.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you, it's been a hectic year not gonna lie, but hoping to get back on my feet in 2024. You may or may not have something coming next week too ;)

[@peggywalters2040]

Instant buy - this makes blending textures so easy. Puddles please for future releases!

[@paapaai033]

Just what I needed for my Harlem project. Keep up the amazing work.

[@MozEclex]

Thank you so much for taking the time to create this and share your knowledge. I will definitely be purchasing it. Hopefully you can add a Landscape version also.

[@MaxBrunnerArchitect]

Instant buy - great work as always William. Turns out it works nice in desktop VR as well (with some Lumen glitches that are not specific to your material)

[@johanndsouza183]

The landscape and water puddles is exactly something i could use ! Love this tool!!!

[@pgjohnson5504]

Awesome product! Again! Thanks for this. It’s like getting Quixel Mixer right in engine. Great tutorial as well. Buying this today!

[@rbtamms]

Thanks William for the tutorial, I purchase the EasyMapper and it's phenomenal.

[@dominikgomoka8541]

William this is gold! Thanks for sharing this tool with us!

[@Flex5771]

I’m a simple man, William makes a tool, I buy it. Great stuff as always🎉

[@regularmenthol]

You're batting 1000 on these plugins my guy

[@design_ref4215]

bought it. thank you for incredible work!

[@ThreeTreeDog]

instantly bought.. not necessarily just for the material but all the other things I learned from you William.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you so much!

[@madedigital]

I just got it .....this is a must, your great teacher i learnt so much from your post keep it up and keep them long as it takes.

[@MrFoulface]

Just bought this plugin, amazing stuff! A landscape version of Easymapper that you talk about in the video would be really great as well, I would throw my money at it

[@maciejklosowski6006]

I was just thinking about a similar tool yesterday, now i dont need to think anymore :). Thank you William.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Cheers! Hope it helps you out!

[@KyleAllenMusic]

Fantastic plugin William I cannot wait to test it out!

[@Torey3D]

Sir you are legend! This is going to shave hours off production time, Thanks you!!! (cant wait to see the landscape version)

[@bcklmk_irl]

Nice to see you again William! Brilliant as always! I am actually start using it right away and it is brilliant. I wonder would you be up for implementing a switch for using ARD/ORD maps and separate textures for those. I know you can just make ARD yourself, but the flexibility would be nice to have on top of the awesomeness. Thanks for your hard work.

[@BookmansBlues]

Fun Stuff! I remember back in 4 I was able to build a similar kind of material, but also I had found a tutorial in how to make the world coords respect local, so you could move your asset, and have the textures stick apropos. You could add a bool switch to switch between the two.

[@acsventures8010]

spectacular indeed! You answered my one question at the very end of video. THIS for landscape would be amazing. Thanks again for everything you do.

[@deygus]

Broooooooooooooo, thank you thank you! This is a godsend! Absolutely incredible work! I'm buying it right now!!! 🔥

[@philtherock9579]

Incredible work once again! Looking forward to trying this out, going to get it right now :)

[@carlossuarez9272]

Great Work William. I'll buy it immediately. Very clear tutorial. Great job Keep you hard work. I'll wait for landscape solution too.

[@OptimisticMonkey]

Great stuff! In 5.4, the new improved Nanite Tesselation makes Easy Mapper even better - the triangle density is intense.

[@user-pf2iv2ie9n]

As always, a great explanation in a clear and objective way!! Thank you for generating content for this program, which is so difficult to find on the internet. You could also make videos teaching how to create the materials, just like this base material full of nodes for us to learn. Thank you!

[@ThomasDiasBatista]

Was going to check the date of the video to see if I needed to change the Config settings and it was today WTF. Man already purchased and testing it. If Unreal don't make textures easy, you just did, THANK YOU!!!!

[@sparkle_spark]

Thank you for creating such great products! Already have Easy fog, love it. The similar to easy mapper but for Landscape is really wanted! Waiting for it since you mentioned the possibility of creating this kind of product)

[@predragpesic5953]

Fantastic tutorial, as always. You literally covered every aspect of the process, including smoothing groups and the reset transform. Both are very important, and so many people skip those steps. Btw, UE4 had an option called 'Crack Free Displacement' which would automatically close those ugly gaps that happen between polygons that are sitting on different smoothing groups. So I am expecting future versions of UE5 could see something like that added as well.

[@damiankijowski5374]

is there a way to do it in 5.3 ? same smoothing groups and that modeling tool tricks didnt helped me in my project.

[@cedricborn972]

Awesome product and very affordable for the time and quality it makes you gain. Sure all your suggestions (4th material, puddles and Landscape, ... ) for the next version would be awesome

[@les73-mq8zh]

Absolutely great william thanks and congrats!

[@aniawoloszczuk2304]

you are INCREDIBLE !!! Thank you !

[@cdfloresnunez]

Just excellent Mr Faucher! Thank you for this..

[@BuyTee]

!!! That's soo sooo good. You never dissapoint !

[@dmav2365]

Great work! Thanks, William ❤

[@pixelrise]

This is what I needed man!! amazing.. thank you!

[@samuelenslin1850]

Dude, while I am already past the master material level and may just get it to see how you set some stuff up, so I can integrate it into my own, I LOVE how you always go above and beyond with explaining settings and possible issues... I´ve completely missed the transition of vertex painting being moved to the modelling tools section and been frustratedly given up on vertex painting nanite meshes, because the mesh painting didn´t work on them....:) Also great tip with the bake transforms, another regular issue I have when working with scaled meshes in my scenes, not just related to displacement...

[@SoldatDuChristChannel]

This is awesome! I've come across your tuts before, but i'm def subbing now

[@bartosz_weber]

Well, if Mr. Faucher publishes something that's a clear sign that it is a must to be had/known from now on :) Thank you for all this great content!

[@WilliamFaucher]

You're too kind, thank you!

[@tonlock123]

This is an incredible tool! Thank you!

[@aweidenhammer]

Hi William, I really enjoy your UE vids. They're great reference for when I've forgotten how to do something (that happens a lot). I wanted to mention, there is a way to get a triplanar to be "local" to an object as well, so it still wraps your object, but the object can be moved and rotated without the texture floating through it. I just bought EasyMapper, so I'll look into adding that feature. If you like I'll let you know how it goes. But this has a lot of nice wrapped up features that I have around in different libraries and functions that it's worth 15 bucks to have it all in one. Nice stuff!

[@chiefbearington]

Did you get this working? Mind sharing?