Quixel Tutorial Beginner: Surface Megascans as Landscape in Unreal Engine

The surface materials can easily serve as a landscape material, they just new a few tweaks shown in this video in order to work well
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[@MR3DDev]

If you are interested in having multiple materials in your landscape with the Megascan I have a video for that on my channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pauvlqmais-lZpI

[@Andrei-rp3dz]

You're a God, I hope you know that

[@PredCaliber]

Working with Brushify and Megascans since a week or 2. Your tutorials are really fantastic to follow along with it. Really great subjects which helped me a lot! Subbed as well.

[@dumb_blocks]

Wow. More informative than any other video I've found, and done in a quick but detailed way. Great job, and thank you!

[@vjrook8974]

Love the video, short and to the point.

[@MR3DDev]

Thanks, happy to hear that.

[@Bloodonmyknife]

Very helpful tutorial. Thanks man, subscribed!

[@MR3DDev]

Glad you liked it, hope you stick around for more ;)

[@joeyn.8379]

Thanks for your very good Tutorials

[@Ranqito]

Great Video! Thank You

[@raheel_qureshi]

great tutorial bro its help me to understand displace funtions

[@marcospena5823]

Thank you man!

[@easywellness7280]

Thanks for this video . but I have a question why I don't have Tessellation option ?

[@NiteshKumar-cs4wo]

Thank you for amazing tutorial

[@MR3DDev]

Thanks

[@Haruyuki_Art]

awsome thank you

[@asjadahmed8224]

Thanks man really helped a lot..

[@MR3DDev]

Glad it helped, any suggestions for future videos?

[@planasia3804]

That was very helpful, thanks. I'v e struggled a bunch with tessellation for Quixel materials. If you can also make a tutorial about how to eliminate tiling completely - this will be awesome. I wathed many tutroials and purhcased some auto materials from the market, still it is not possible to get rid of tiling completely. I have found a function that some one wrote that does random rotation of the tiles. It kind of works for one material, but again I can't implement it for layered materials.

[@mattsubv]

Haha, the one bit of the video where it would be kinda useful to see what values etc your playing with and you do it off sceen.... brilliant.... ;)

[@MR3DDev]

Yeah that was my bad, I am more aware now in more recent videos

[@mattsubv]

@@MR3DDev All good man! I just waited til you pulled the window up ;) The tesselation amount is what i needed to see really but i do wish this was done natively, it's the one part of megascans that doesn't seem to export to any platform, i came from Octane and C4D and you have to build the displacement there too :( Thanks though! I did learn what i needed!

[@MR3DDev]

@@mattsubv Happy to help

[@AnujPatwariTV]

Hey man! Thanks for this video. It actually helped a lot. Just one small note, next time please have what you're doing on screen as well. For example when you were changing values, we couldn't see on screen what values you were changing..

[@MR3DDev]

I am glad it helped. Thank you for the suggestion, I'll make sure everything is on screen for the next video on this series

[@AnujPatwariTV]

@@MR3DDev Thanks a lot :) If you don't mind I have a suggestion for a video... I'm very new to Unreal Engine and Megascans so sorry if there is something already out there... I can't seem to figure out a way to use different surface materials from Bridge on the same landscape. For example, If I wanted to use two different surfaces (1. Grass and 2. Sand) on the same landscape, how do I do this? I made a custom material which basically has the albedo's of each material as a layer, but then I don't have the tessellation options and other stuff. Thank you and sorry for being a pain.

[@MR3DDev]

@@AnujPatwariTV This is definetly coming down the pipeline, there is a more advance way to setup surfaces as a landscape material to do exactly what you need hope you stick around for that :) Also you are not being a pain, I love questions and suggestions

[@AnujPatwariTV]

@@MR3DDev perfect. Waiting for it. :D

[@JT_Film]

Awesome walkthrough, I'd been looking for something exactly like this! I'd love to see a tutorial on painting with this kind of texture. I know the basics of setting up materials for painting but I'm not sure how to get all these displacement/tessellation settings working when I want to put multiple textures on the landscape.

[@JT_Film]

Actually, I might have commented too soon. I'm just going through your amazing library of tutorials now!

[@MR3DDev]

@@JT_Film Great you found the video to help you, stick around there are more to come

[@davidgreenberg8456]

Thank you for this tutorial :) I am wondering what settings you recommend for Download and Export from within Bridge. I noticed that the current version of Bridge has many more settings options, including various LODs, High Poly Source, Brushes, over twice as many Textures (21 instead of 9), etc.. I also don't have a "UV Controls" section in the details panel of my surface material from Megascans and the Tessellation controls are very different (maybe because I am using UE 4.26). For instance, Tessellation is located under Displacement, and the only options I see are "Distance Offset, Distance Fade, Tessellation Multiplier, Useless," and then a separate checkbox with just "Displacement Amount." Albedo Tint is also different.

[@armondtanz]

They love to change everything. I got a paid tutorial from summer last yr. Everything is different on bridge now. Nightmare. Prob best download them all. I tried to download a roman statue at "highest LOD" (4million triangles).. my comp crashed. LOD 0 was fine

[@mallugamedev4951]

thank you frind

[@Black_heartTTK]

Enable displacement should be defaulted on. Man that would have saved me days of looking around lol.

[@NeerajIngle]

Loved it, what version of UE are you using, liked that TOOLBAR above the viewpoint. Thanks

[@MR3DDev]

Hey thanks, this is 4.25

[@armondtanz]

Awesome. Nothing worse than flat rocks :D

[@ShaneDotz]

You had me at tessellation.

[@JaroAtry]

Cool, but there is no tessellation setting in the material settings tab.

[@burakaydn2314]

be sure about the displacement maps options are ticked when you are setting download options on quixel before download.

[@burakaydn2314]

Bump or other properties etc. and try download another material if it still doesn't working.

[@elmoelmerson172]

@@burakaydn2314 I heard that tessellation was deprecated in Unreal 4.26.

[@LikeaBossk627]

can you show how to set up the master material to be able to have all these controls??

[@IntahX]

The problem with teselation is that the height maps will not have any collisions so if you plan to make a game your character will just walk through the height map

[@waterdragonstudios7167]

Cool video, but I don't have them UV controls for the tilling. has this been change with the new updates ?

[@CorvusCamulos]

Here same issue... Did you manage to solve it?

[@waterdragonstudios7167]

@@CorvusCamulos No, he's using an old version so it must of been removed to somewhere else.

[@MR3DDev]

The rest of tutorials can be found on this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLcUTPYkj5fo5I5oDkdXqLBcXphoqtP8VC Please follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/MR_3D_and_Games

[@connoresterwood4754]

Great video. I'm having an issue though following along as I don't see UV controls in my texture editing window. Any ideas what is going on? For reference, I'm using the Icelandic Rock Surface.

[@MR3DDev]

When did you install Bridge, if it was the past week you may have gotten the update which handles the materials a bit differently. You can check out my video on the matter, hope it helps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnbbYYKQltWaj6M

[@connoresterwood4754]

@@MR3DDev Ah, I see what happened. The new video covers that wonderfully thanks!!!

[@lainekelly4736]

@@connoresterwood4754 @techYK I've watched both videos but still having a hard time understanding. Do I need to delete bridge and reinstall?

[@JerryShin]

Thanks. I just followed your direction. But I can not find UV Control the material instance impoted from quickcell bridge. I dont know why.

[@LikeaBossk627]

Same here no uv controls for me either I can’t figure out how to fix the timing

[@NA_DEU]

@@LikeaBossk627 same

[@edmosh]

you have to go global/tiling/offset

[@gamefreak4600]

Ok, so after enabling the displacement in the plugin, the surface doesn't show up in the viewport when I drag and drop it onto any surface, any idea why this happens?

[@9d176]

What is your background rocks name?

[@iw6714]

How to add already downloaded megascan material from our C-Drive(megascan library) to content browser?I tried it but i can only add textures of them but i want default material by itself.

[@noirangel3420]

I'm having a problem with adding Megascans materials Inst to the slots in the plugin window in UE4. From Bridge I downloaded the 3 different materials and then exported them with UE4 preset. Materials came as Instances. When I try to add any of them to the plugin slots it turns in red dashline but when I drag a master material I have no problem. Any ideas how to fix that? Thanks.

[@spenny1267]

i dont have any of the uv options u have, i only have a couple of tessellation options too, why???

[@scottownbey8041]

Not seeing UV controls in my material details- any suggestions? FYI- I enabled displacement on import

[@Black_heartTTK]

Bump

[@BobFisher3]

I can't find it either, I managed to get it to work by changing the tiling/Offset 'Tiling X' and 'Tiling Y' (Not the ones under Detail Normal Tiling)

[@lonelystar9446]

It's not letting me see "Landscape Details" even after selecting landscape

[@Gamer-sv2mz]

hi friend. it's a good job you made . can you tell me our lighting settings please ? i 'd like to do the same please.

[@MR3DDev]

The lighting here is very simple, dynamic, raytraced directional light with temperature of 5300

[@Gamer-sv2mz]

@@MR3DDev and what about the exposure ?

[@MR3DDev]

@@Gamer-sv2mz It should be Autoexposure and set to 1 min and 1 max. Sorry I no longer have this project but that is what I always do

[@LikeaBossk627]

my displacement isn't generating shadows

[@thejrespotlight.]

im working on a game and i was wondering if u could have it like in a certain spot and not the whole map/landscape

[@MR3DDev]

There are 2 ways to go about it (that come to mind) One would be to create a landscape mesh for that specific spot you want, another one would be to use a layer blend material so you can paint the material on that spot and have something different for the rest. I have a video about the second way on my channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pauvlqmais-lZpI

[@thejrespotlight.]

also my shit looks so fake even my life seems like its more real than it

[@FenomenS]

Hi there. Why do you download in PNG format and not otherwise what is the difference between them?

[@MR3DDev]

Jpeg is too compress and other files like TGA or EXR are really big so PNG is a happy medium.

[@FenomenS]

@@MR3DDev Of course. Thank you!

[@hosq4296]

friend tell me why i don't have UVControls if i just imported from the MegaScans like u.... :( HelpMe

[@bme4285]

Hmm, would have been helpful if we could see the values u were changing .

[@Xolpy]

Hi Tech, I have a problem. So yesterday I made a landscape and added a material, and then got to sleep (in real life). But today when I got on unreal engine it opened the examplelandscape but not my landscape that I made (my map that I made is in the folder 'maps'), and then I looked to the materials that I imported yesterday but they are like 'not 3d' (displacement is enabled). I save my game by file ---> save all -----> and then I made and saved it in a map folder. Do you know how to fix that?

[@MR3DDev]

Wow this is a weird kind of error, was that a megascan material or was it made by you?

[@Xolpy]

@@MR3DDev A megascan material

[@MR3DDev]

@@Xolpy wow I see no reason why that would happen to a megascan material. Maybe try to import it again will be my first thing to do.

[@GianfrancoDAlessandro]

Hello sorry where can I find those ring gates meshes? or similar

[@MR3DDev]

Quixel megascans :)

[@GianfrancoDAlessandro]

ohh can you specify me which area can I ? I've been looking for it, btw nice tutorials @@MR3DDev

[@SkullSenpai]

The tessellation shows on the material preview but the landscape itself in the main view remains flat. Increasing the value simply makes the entire landscape mesh 'rise' in the z-axis, still flat. Any ideas why it doesn't work on the Landscape mesh?

[@MR3DDev]

The displacement usually depends on the type of textures you are using, not every megascan plays well with displacement

[@SkullSenpai]

@@MR3DDev I'm using the same ones as you selected...

[@MR3DDev]

@@SkullSenpai If you tried this recently then the material Bridge creates is a bit different, Here I talk about the new changes, make sure you watch the second part of it too for the displacement stuff: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnbbYYKQltWaj6M

[@SkullSenpai]

@@MR3DDev ok will do, literally tried it my first time today so probably why its not working. Cheers

[@StBlueFire]

@@SkullSenpai @MR3D-Dev I have this same problem right now. I'm playing around with it and I'll let you know if I figure out the reason

[@burakkuvvetli9606]

even though i check the "enable displacement" option in megascans plug-in window, i cant manage to reach tesellation settings in the material instance. im this close to go insane.. it seems like exporting with displacement option is broken for me. i tried to create displacement manually in master material with the help of another tutorial, it works very weird and i cant create displacement..

[@motionart810]

There is a bug in bridge with this in version 24 and 25, 26 not available yet. I have been trying to troubleshoot this issue for 2 days and nothing is working

[@RajeshPatil-yc5lk]

my material setting is diffrent cant find uv tile what to do?

[@MR3DDev]

Could be you are using the new material setup after the update. You can watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnbbYYKQltWaj6M

[@SavantSvant]

My materials detail window dont have the same parameters as yours. And I cant relaly see much of a difference in the terrain. :(

[@MR3DDev]

This video was made before the most recent update where Quixel change the location of many things in the material, I'll make a video on the new location very soon :)

[@elgrekko9634]

Tesselation disappeared in recently version of unreal !

[@thatnewj1196]

where that i can find tessellation????i dont know where i can find it

[@chackonix]

i have the same problem drives me nuts!!!

[@thatnewj1196]

@@chackonix finally i got the UV ctrl,but i couldn't find tessellation. ugh

[@nicegy0197]

"Landscape isn't plug and play" Honestly surprised Epic hasn't changed that yet. Personally, having to set up landscape materials by hand is currently one of my biggest complaints, especially when there's great materials available that I want to use immediately.

[@MR3DDev]

I agree, the issue is landscape materials can be significantly different from proyect to proyect which is why I don't think Epic will ever make it standard. That being said, you can create 1 master landscape material and reuse it as many times as you need.

[@AmishTP]

Can you please share the link of circular ring asset? I couldnt find it in Quixel Bridge

[@MR3DDev]

not sure how to do that I use the bridge app. Just look for roman ruins

[@AmishTP]

@@MR3DDev okay thanks I will look for that, anyways your tutorials are the best🔥🔥🔥

[@Legoloup]

Hey man. For some reason when I click on the mega scan ui it brings up a different screen than you had and it’s very small with only two options. I wasn’t sure if maybe I have the wrong thing.

[@MR3DDev]

Oh can you describe what the options say?

[@Legoloup]

@@MR3DDev Yeah Sure! So when mouse over the green Megascans icon at the top of unreal, It says "Megascans LiveLink UI" Then when I click on it instead of opening a menu where I can change information about displacement or other options, it opens a small window with only two options. Here is a link to a screenshot I took. imgur.com/gallery/HtSQXCt I am updating to unreal 4.24 because I realized that I was on 4.18 so maybe If I reinstall the bridge pluggin it will be fixed but I'm not sure yet :) Anyway, any help would be awesome!

[@MR3DDev]

@@Legoloup My best bet is your UE4 version, let me know how that works. Unless you are currently working on something I do suggest you be on the latest version

[@Legoloup]

Ok so I figured it out! Updating to the new version of unreal engine fixed it!

[@MR3DDev]

@@Legoloup That's great news :)

[@squeek-]

Hello TechYK, First off, thank you so much for your videos. Second, I ran across a problem. When I downloaded an asset from Quixel Bridge into a folder within the Content Directory of my project, I was greeted to a data table popup which looked like this: help.quixel.com/hc/user_images/7-IAVYysscbKTkRnpirGqg.png And some of the important files are there, but there is no material ready for placement. Any ideas?

[@MR3DDev]

I have not seen this before, did you use the export function from Bridge to UE4?

[@squeek-]

@@MR3DDev Oh, nice! I think I got it now! Thanks! :D I seem to have one more issue though. When I apply the material to a landscape, it seems to be missing the textures and it's just one dull color. Any ideas? *Update: I created a new level project and the issue no longer occurred. Perhaps it was a lighting issue? I'm still not entirely sure. Thank you for all your help this far!

[@JuliaGodiPiripi]

Hi! i have one question. In your very first video about quixelbridge and UE kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGero4BshLmBg7M in the 14:47 I can see the material instance same way I see it in my computer, but in the rest of the videos there is some change so I actually cant follow in the right way the tutorial. I think you've change the parent material from quixel but don't know how to do it to have the same as you. For example I cant see the uv's control or the tesselation the same way so it's working different. thanks for the videos because there are the only ones I can understand and follow! if you can solve my doubt it would be amazing, thankss!!

[@mateuszkorsak9115]

Hey, I have UE 4.25 and no tesselation menu, it ends at 7 and starts with 00 (global) but no tessellation. Is it moved anywhere? No idea..

[@mateuszkorsak9115]

Okay, so it happens when you have not reimported texture after clicking on displacement in megascans menu :)

[@MR3DDev]

yes, glad is now working for you :)

[@calvinmafra3710]

Having the same problem here, tried checking and redownloading and exporting, and no UV Controls options =/

[@mateuszkorsak9115]

@@calvinmafra3710 Have u clicked "Megascans" button and checked displacement on? If not, do it and reimport :)

[@calvinmafra3710]

@@mateuszkorsak9115 Yes, I already did that, downloaded new textures and still showing as you said.

[@drakemaroc]

bro you arent fixing the tiling, all you did was scale up the material but the tile would still be there if you moved back

[@MR3DDev]

There are ways to do it with micro and macro variations through various nodes in the master material, this was just the basics for newcomers to the Megascans

[@adityapatil3425]

My unreal engine stuck at 39% while opening ray tracing project

[@MR3DDev]

What GPU do you have?

[@adityapatil3425]

@@MR3DDev rtx 2060

[@MR3DDev]

@@adityapatil3425 ok so is not your system. I'd verify the integrity of your install, you can do this via the launcher.

[@lorenzostefanelli4660]

Same problem

[@adityapatil3425]

@@lorenzostefanelli4660 Do not install latest version.

[@itsSmacky]

you kinda sound like the joker

[@MR3DDev]

Ima take that as a complement

[@ShowInwatch]

A lot of repetition and no one spake about how to add the buton megascans :/

[@MR3DDev]

The Megascan button is part of the Bridge plugin, you can watch this video to see how to install it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGero4BshLmBg7M

[@ShowInwatch]

@@MR3DDev thank you

[@MR3DDev]

@@ShowInwatch Always glad to help

[@Akard517hell]

way too long video