UE4: Desert Driving 1/12 - Create a desert landscape procedurally using Landmass

[@wrahrare]

Could you redo this tutorial for UE5? The noise Blueprint doesen't seem to work the same way and I can't get it to work by myself :-(

[@unrealitybites763]

I'm waiting until the official release date of UE5 before I do any tutorials on it. I will definitely look into it once it comes out :-)

[@wrahrare]

@@unrealitybites763 Thank you, i got it working by copying the whole blueprint from the Material from UE4 to UE5

[@unrealitybites763]

@@wrahrare Great to hear this. I will pin this comment so that other viewers can benefit from your research.

[@osgawtf]

@@unrealitybites763 Hey, thanks this helped BUT I wasn't able to save the landscape. What I did was I exported the Landscape Heightmap, created a new one from that file.

[@RainDropBlopper]

yeah have the same problem been tweeking things everywhere but nothing changes and the noise generated is just not looking as nice as in this vide haha may be a bug of the Early Access version of the engine

[@NedimUsta]

I feel so lucky to have found you. I watch the video by pausing because my English is not good. And it works. Greetings from Turkey.

[@JVStorck]

if someone is having trouble in unreal 5.2 arround 9:43 make sure the Brush material above tiling is GenNoise_01, the default for me was M_SimpleBrush so i just changed this and its working now.

[@BennyBait]

What an absolutely brilliant video. Best tutorial I've ever watched! To the point, clear and with some great knowledge... Thank you very much!

[@aopfilm]

Looks Phenominal. Thank you for this.

[@unrealitybites763]

Thanks for the compliment. I've been having fun adding a driveable vehicle to this landscape, with tracks and sand thrown up behind. Will publish video tutorial on this soon so keep an eye out for that.

[@aopfilm]

@@unrealitybites763 Awesome dude....looking forward to it.

[@jhallrounder2798]

Amazing Video!!! Thank you very much!

[@DanMcIntyre]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial! Excellent work!

[@chayachatkeyneteerasupapat1896]

This is a really great tutorial!! Very clear this saved my life thank you!

[@didi-mg2yk]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@arturrosa3166]

Great tutorial, precise and to the point. Thanks for sharing. One point regarding units: I'm a newbie in UE, so so I could be wrong, but anyway at some points in the video you seem to calculate 1 UE unit as 1dm, where in fact it's 1cm, as far as I know. For example, when you set the DoF, you say 5000 units is equal to 500m but if 1UE=1cm, than 5000 units is 50m. Right?

[@unrealitybites763]

Thanks for the correction, Artur. Luckily, I wasn't doing any precise engineering measurements, otherwise I'd have been in trouble. You'll probably notice the same mistake in some of my other videos since this one but, hopefully, I will remember to do the right conversion in future tutorials.

[@Gunami.]

@@unrealitybites763 is it infinite?

[@metushelach8]

Thanks ! Your tutorial was the basis for my beach desert scene. You're wonderful.

[@BasilFrank]

Fantastic tutorial! Really helps for a Dune inspired game :)

[@sufifrank]

Thank you so much! Your videos are a bless

[@VoilKing]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you very much for this :)

[@omerrudnick8195]

Thank you so much! This is perfect!

[@nu-beings]

Great tutorial! Liked and Subscribed!!!

[@germangonzalezg6250]

Thank you so much

[@monikadittmann]

Thank you for the great tutorial, very helpful :)

[@cryptocraft2]

this was amazing thank you so much

[@MrTriptologue]

thank you for the video, very well done

[@hansalucas]

amazing!! thanks a lot

[@PandaBot2001]

Is it possible to make the desert/landscape generate more as you move forward or randomly generate a land mass every time you load in

[@matthewthomaslabelle590]

Where did you get GenNoise_01? In UE5 when I add the Landscape_CustomBrush_MaterialOnly the Brush Material defaults to M_SimpleBrush

[@unrealitybites763]

I don't have UE5 installed so I can't check for you. However, in UE4.26 the GenNoise_01 material is in LandmassContent/Landscape/BlueprintBrushes/Materials. You can only see this by changing your content browser view options to show plugin content. If you still have v4.26, you may be able to transfer this to your UE5 project somehow.

[@ongakuwo]

@@unrealitybites763 Thank you for the tutorial! I tried to migrate the brushes and stuff to ue5 but its for me hard to tell why its not finding the brushes when i want to add them in the landscape blueprint plus icon. Might be a hirarchy problem or maybe not possible right now. I wonder if i can migrate my landscape from ue4 to ue5.

[@narrgamedesigner2747]

I am in UE5 the sand landmass only material; covers a small section. How do I fix this? Yours seem to cover the entire terrain.

[@VelocitysMovies]

hey i followed you and installed the material but its only imported textures and not the material?

[@purooshresth7809]

Thanks for the tut

[@phalhappy8612]

is the material used for landscape object can be applied to landscan mesh that I import from 3D software like Blender? I tried auto landscape material from other channel, but it didn't work with meshes that I imported from Blender.

[@unrealitybites763]

Landscapes are different from other meshes in UE. Without getting into specifics, you probably want to create a displacement map from Blender, then import that as a height map for your Landscape in UE

[@greenfitmachine1944]

great tutorial :)

[@Kastor992]

For some reason, I'm not getting the same results inside the Parameters window (@4:00). When I double click on my material it comes up with the node editor and any params in there are minimal at best. The whole tutorial minus that one point (which is almost certainly my fault haha) is fantastic though. Subbed!

[@unrealitybites763]

Sounds like you are using the material rather than the material instance. Make sure the material you apply to the landscape and edit has the suffix _inst

[@Kastor992]

@@unrealitybites763 right you are! Thanks for the reply. I’ve never used instances until today.

[@novasolarismonarchofataris8475]

I can't manage to get the sand texture into the program.

[@onwanou4913]

can you tell me what is your screen recorder please? i want to use it to record my game in unreal. + how did you put your full screen while ingame(i though we had to stop the play mode to do that)

[@unrealitybites763]

I have an NVidia graphics card so I've been using NVidia Shadowplay (comes as part of GeForce Experience). I like it's simplicity, simply hit Alt F9 to record and the same to stop recording. In answer to your second question, just press F11 while playing the game to toggle between full screen and the editor viewport (this only works if you are playing the game in the editor viewport)

[@JuanPablodelaTorre]

Very clever!

[@ElChapoDel8]

I always have a doubt procedural maps. Do you see that same exact things if you go back to the same position of the map?

[@unrealitybites763]

Yes, but with dunes like this, the repetition wouldn't be so noticeable. You could randomly place items on the landscape to give the variety you're after.

[@kaclan9856]

7:42 you have 3 brushes but I only have none, how do I get those 3 brushes?

[@unrealitybites763]

Make sure you have enabled the Landmass plugin and restarted the project

[@studiotodi1137]

how can i turn this into a planet

[@Thebaker3]

Why is my landscape glowing?

[@unrealitybites763]

Hmm. Does it go away if you disable the Exponential Height Fog? If so, try changing the inscattering color from white to black and that should take the glow away. Let me know if that works for you.

[@Thebaker3]

@@unrealitybites763 Thank you , now it works 👍

[@unrealitybites763]

Great.. I noticed a similar issue when I increased the fog in my scene

[@d_Howard]

Well, I'm about to get started here. One quick question if you're in the mood to answer. I would have guessed we would be using the Vehicle Template for a project like this. Any particular reason why Third Person Template is preferred? Thanks!

[@unrealitybites763]

The reason I started with the third person template is that I wanted to concentrate on the landscape first before introducing the vehicle part of the course (and it was useful to have a mannequin to run around in the desert). In a later video on "Bugs and Tweaks", I clean up the project by getting rid of all the third person assets.

[@aravindsiva77]

Hey bro, How can i contact you? I am doing a project and I need a small help