Unreal Engine 5 Landscape Material - UE5 Tutorial

The ultimate landscape creator updated for UE5! Features include Nanite, height stamps, auto texturing, virtual textue blending, procedrual foliage, and triplanar projection.
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Timestamps
0:00​ - Intro
1:14 - Landscape Basics
22:17 - Megascans
27:01 - Nanite!
38:22 - Height Patches
45:01 - Virtual Texture Blending
53:42 - Procedural Foliage

[@UnrealSensei]

Get the Landsacpe here! This only works with UE5.3 and Nanite Landsapes are still experimental so you will encounter glitches www.unrealsensei.com/UE5Landscape Check out the Unreal Masterclass for more Unreal lessons: www.unrealmasterclass.com

[@AnAncient76]

Shouldn't virtual texture decrease shader complexity? With your material it doesn't do that.

[@UnrealSensei]

@@AnAncient76 Virtual textures will decrease shader complexity if using Virtual Texture caching. I didn't include VT Caching because on most computers the VT rendering will be noticeable with large parts of the landscape low resolution and we lose texture blending and nanite displacement.

[@user-bf8kg1wj1w]

how to unzip it?

[@Dryghor]

Thank you for your quick update ! Great work, thank you ! :)

[@Dryghor]

@@user-bf8kg1wj1w right-click on zip file ==> unzip here

[@gaelromanet]

Thank you for making this free. I wanted to express my appreciation for the valuable lessons I've gained from following your videos. Your insights have greatly assisted me in the process of developing my survival game.

[@im4999]

UE 5.4. If displacement does not work try to tick "ENABLE TESSELATION" in your master material parameters. It worked for me.

[@Masarofia]

OMG thank you! I could not understand why it was not working, you're the best for sharing this!

[@kmtsvetanov]

Do you alse get error on UE 5.4 when you cook the landscape ?

[@im4999]

@@kmtsvetanov Not sure what error you’re talking about. Sorry

[@dyna4studio942]

That solved it. Thanks friend !!!

[@tobosoksini]

You are a man of his word. I was waiting for this tutorial since I read about it in your newsletter.

[@Chimeragon]

If anyone has a problem with the "Mask? A" checkbox then to fix it go to M_Landscape > Material Graph > Material A and in Mask A Param Tex Object change Sample Type from Masks to Linear Color. I don't know if this problem is still occurring, as I downloaded the project yesterday, but maybe this will be useful for someone.

[@alejandrovillabon7859]

Thank you!!!

[@user-no9gd7ft2i]

Oh bless you! I was having this issue and it was driving me crazy thank you!

[@rannispath]

Thanks!

[@qaxt8231]

you are a hero man!

[@xRavenousAngelx]

God bless you brother I couldn’t paint without this

[@chasingdaydreams2788]

This is INSANE! And you even included displacement. AND cell bombing. Like this is actually insane

[@peterallely5417]

Thanks for your time and effort to make these assets and to make these videos, dude. There’s a load of us early on / mid way in our journey in learning to make art with Unreal Engine and your content really helps blunt that steep learning curve. Thanks thanks thanks.

[@knightofaudio]

I just started using Unreal after the whole Unity debacle, and this is an absolute godsend. I had already been experimenting with your previous version, so for this update to come out now is awesome!

[@dblackout1107]

You’re a force, man. You are so incredibly talented and as someone who wants to start a music making tutorial channel I aspire to be as informative and amazing as you in my own realm of expertise

[@davewoods2117]

Fantastic - I was literally sitting down with a coffee about to start the process of figuring out how to upgrade your old auto material (which was excellent btw). Thanks once again.

[@TTVGordy]

Hey man just wanted to say thank you. I was working on making my own. Ran into an issue since im using 5.3 and video was for 5.0, one of the nodes no longer existed. Found this video, and was able to use your material with some edits, such as textures and ability to paint visibility to make EXACTLY what i was looking for, and then an additional hundred features. Absolutely fantastic. Thanks again.

[@Highcastle_of_Geek]

Thanks, Zach! This has been my most anticipated UE5 video since you announced it on Discord.

[@robertprescott9577]

This was amazing. Thank you so much for explaining everything in such detail!!! Great work!!!

[@jefftaylor7130]

this is fantastic. Thank you very much! You don't know how many people you are helping with this!

[@johans7119]

I really enjoy your tutorials and positive attitude to ue5

[@destiny4265]

Just recently moved over to Unreal from Unity after the whole debacle about their pricing systems. And I gotta say this engine binded with this amazing community is a great thing. I thank you for making this amazing work free and publicly avaliable. You are a legend!

[@bernhardhelbling3412]

Your work and this Tutorial is more than "MASTER CLASS" ! Thank you for your amazing effort!

[@chaosklappstuhl4905]

Thank you for sharing! I really loved all the collapsed nodes and how organised it gets thanks to them. Instantly used this method in my project as well :3. And your projects are always a good reference and full of great ideas :D so keep up your awesome work!

[@DavidWinstead]

WOW man, that is awesome, great job. It might be a good time for me to jump right into Unreal Engine now. Thanks for sharing!

[@REDSIDEofficial]

This is another level of using UE, thank your for the tips 🖤

[@copilotco]

Thanks for making this! Great work Sir Sensei 🙏

[@_marcus_vinicius]

Congratulations, man! It's an incredible asset and a great lesson in understanding the potential of UE5. Thanks for sharing it for free! Now I look forward to being your student.

[@Bullet2300]

Just wanted to say THANK YOU! This is a great tutorial and an awesome asset!!

[@lumatrace]

After hesitating for a while, I finally purchased the Unreal Sensei Masterclass! I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to not have to google or search KZbin for every specific topic. I'll certainly leave a review when completed but if it's anywhere near as good as these youtube courses, I'm sure it'll be 5 stars. Thank you for putting all of this together and sharing your knowledge in a way we can all understand.

[@scislianlongshadow]

Yeah, I'm was considering it until this video right here where he pretends to be giving you an asset and you get the busted ass missing half the options version instead. Now I will not pay a dime.

[@AshkanZ]

great job man, yesterday was thinkin when our guy wanna update autolandscape to ue5

[@The0neGreatest]

First time I've ever accidentally stumbled upon a video posted less than 30 seconds ago, thanks for the video!

[@akakixurco8977]

Myyyy man, You are best , im using your asset everywhere, its simple to modify and use, so respect from me

[@kameenavery9616]

DUDE!! I cant WAIT til get into this later today!!!!

[@kepler4739]

Thank you a ton for making this free, the video is greatly appreciated!

[@imrez2678]

I have been working on understanding automaterials and all the nodes used in it fr a while and i ave to thank you for not making me do it on my own.

[@franklingamedev]

This is a work of art. Thank you so much. You've helped me a lot...

[@levitycreations]

Yeah! 🎉Thank you Unreal Sensei!

[@DonEsteban3D]

I've been waiting for this update :P man you are great!

[@oilyhandsfezzy]

Thank you so much for this. Its given me a real head start on making my game

[@Itemtotem]

wow my guy. you are so awesome forr putting out this tutorial and this TOOL period. and thank OH MAN THANK YOU SO MUCH for making it free. that is so amazing and your tutorials are the ONLY VIDEOS WHICH HAVE ACTUALLY INSTRUCTED ME FROM ZERO KNOWLEDGE to making my own blueprints THAT WORK!!!!! in a few days. thank you so much!!!!

[@orlandocastro898]

You are the Sensei. Very good and thank you very much !

[@the_one_and_carpool]

thank you was looking for this havent seen you in a while

[@Eroktic]

Amazing work. Thank you so much!

[@ToadieBog]

Dude, amazing video and excellently done. Thank you

[@Climberfx]

OMG, man, thank you so much. A lot of good karma for you dear! I learned a lot in this video and your shared project. Hope good things for you! Thank you!

[@tovermoran4360]

Fantastic! Thank you so much!

[@wkfaz]

This is BAD ASS! Thank you!

[@josiahmos5880]

Thank you! This is amazing! 😁

[@NapoleonLouverture]

Thanks for the great landscape material.

[@joshnevel1504]

I highly recommend his master class

[@TheThebeep]

Wow, thank you for sharing this! ❤

[@3D_Films]

That was lots of great information , thanks!

[@betraid]

Just what i needed, thank you a lot!

[@markbay9275]

Great stuff! Thanks Unreal Sensei!

[@peterallely5417]

Regarding specular, I watched a landscape material tutorial once that explained that in real life that specular response is something that dissipates over a certain distance, and he had a way of emulating that (so up close there’s the usual specular response and at a certain distance it reduces, eventually to zero) and it looked really good. I can’t for the life of me find that tutorial now though.

[@psmontte]

This is good. I am amazed why there are so much less views on this video.

[@pirogamermohit]

Thank you for making this amazing tutorial and giving the assets for free.

[@SkSafowan]

How different the steps in this video is compare to the first one in UE5.0 beta says a lot about how much Unreal Engine progressed since the first release of UE5.0 Unfortunately I can't use any of this cool tech because my Laptop couldn't even run UE5.0 😢 Anyway, As always another great video. Keep up the good Work man

[@budpeetie6879]

Welcome back, Sensei

[@glenn3646]

incredible, big thanks Sensei

[@likelydone1781]

God bless you, bro! YOU the BEST!!! ❤❤❤💯

[@Gabriel-or1gv]

Thank you, keep making more and more videos, please, thank you very much!!!!

[@smurrdog5364]

Thank you for your awesome work!

[@rogueau4263]

That's really generous. Thanks.

[@luuuyuuu5153]

Thanks. Rellay looking forward to master class update and how to update pervious landscape material to support nanite displacement.

[@bernard2735]

Wow! Thank you very much.

[@steffenaaland1580]

Thanks for the free material! Will you make a tutorial on pcg with sampling of the material layers? That would have been amazing :)

[@user-bf4ti1nh9z]

amazing amazing. this is kicking me off in the direction I want to go.

[@Obereg21]

Thank you!!! Amazing and very useful materials!!!!

[@kaihawaii8924]

Dope! Danke fürs teilen. 🤗

[@El_Zapatito]

We need a PCG tutorial from you!!!

[@ImperiaNebula]

This is mind-blowing with gaea mask a lot of work doing from nothing and you take me 10 days work in 5 min well its super good thank youuuu

[@kylemcneill5751]

If you don't mind me asking, how did you get masks from gaea to work with this set up, rather than having to hand paint where the materials are going?

[@jamesbrady1930]

i enabled the nanite displacement. mannn that stuff is costly on a 2.5km terrain. brought my little 3070ti to its knees lol. but hey, looked good. lol but dang clearly gonna have to wait til 5.4 to play around with that. Great series by the way. Only complaint I have is in the unreal masterclass I wish you would elaborate more over things as you cover them and implement them. just a minor gripe otherwise I have learned quite a bit, but going to take a while to wrap my head around what everything means in blueprinting and how they work together. that will come with time I guess.

[@modsteelstructure3765]

very good video man step by step

[@MarkKhoury77]

Beautiful work! Thank you so much for this, it is exactly what I have been looking for, for the longest time!

[@midsa7789]

Thanks sensei!

[@Highcastle_of_Geek]

As always, Zach's tutorials are the best on KZbin. Unfortunately, I think I'm going to need to wait for 5.4 because my current project landscape is 4K and I'm too far along to make changes that could break it. I'm looking forward to using this tutorial when 5.4 is released and I start my next project. Thanks again, Zach!!

[@itsbrantnotbrent]

I'm just a beginner, so forgive my question, but why would you be better off waiting for 5.4 because of a 4K landscape?

[@Highcastle_of_Geek]

@@itsbrantnotbrent As Zach describes in the tutorial, the nanite landscapes are still experimental and don’t work well with landscapes over 1K in size. Hopefully, this will be fixed by 5.4.

[@itsbrantnotbrent]

@@Highcastle_of_Geek ok, thank you!

[@PlayerOnHard]

Very much appreciated.

[@thearabicshaikh2674]

Life saver ❤

[@XojanazarTursinbayev]

Thank you!

[@gameswownow7213]

Sensei, u are unreal!

[@kalex07]

I can't wait for 5.4 so I can use nanite displacement on my landscape. Thankyou for taking the time to update this. I used the last version to make a master material with 8 biome's. I guess I should get working on updating it now 😅

[@touristhawk]

in even 5.5 it looks exactly the same, no updates at all and still unusable for large landscapes.

[@ManaRealms]

@@touristhawk Do you happen to know what landscape resolution is the highest possible for the nanite displacement currently? I want to use nanite displacement in my project and am in the process of creating a new landscape but I am finding it quite difficult to find an answer to this...

[@touristhawk]

@@ManaRealms 4k heightmap seems to be fine with 64gb of ram. you will need to rescale landscape accordingly tho, like if it's 8x8km rescale it by 2.

[@Agency-1001]

I love this freebie thing

[@CrazyDevSurvivor]

Hey man, this is really awesome. Thanks a lot for all you do for the community. One question: in previous versions of UE working with Landmass on landscapes larger than 2k was almost impossible without a super computer. Is it still the same or it was improved?

[@bmwx5m524]

Awesome!!! Thank u so much

[@rurutie4764]

This is.... amazing 😇

[@lumdidum790]

Time to give your view and like again :)

[@williamminnaar6311]

Thank You :)

[@gabrielorellana7962]

Amazing

[@gabrieldoublet8776]

Best tutorials !

[@Enryo-]

This is awsome !!!

[@Avalonanon]

thank you !

[@mv4458]

I definitely agree that Nanite Displacement on Landscapes is a big deal, but there are some issues for games. - Performance hit is too big, 30% fps loss. - Collision. Those displacements don’t have collision, the player basically walks through the rocks and higher displacements. But still it is super impressive, can’t wait to see what Epic will make out of this in future :)

[@Fafhrd42]

Yeah, Nanite displacement is not a production ready feature, and isn't even technically a 'preview' feature. There's no documentation for it, there are a bunch of comments in the Unreal source code saying not to turn it on, and there are a bunch of GPUs that it doesn't even work on.

[@mv4458]

@@Fafhrd42 Yeah you are right on that, It will be amazing to see what Epic does with Landscapes in 2024 and future versions of UE5. Displacement will probably be a breeze in the future 🤞

[@lalloreria25]

Legend

[@DennisIdzikowsky]

you are awesome!

[@aleca8910]

Very sad this is for Unreal Engine 5.3 only. It would be great to have in my project. Anyway, I think this a great gift for the UE community. Thank you, Sensei.

[@FPChris]

Will your Master class be updated for 5.4? I really enjoy your clear straight forward delivery and I want to get up to speed quickly with PCG and the new animation tools for retargeting and motion prediction.

[@ManaRealms]

I have to say that this is a treasure and you are a saint for giving it out for free. That being said, are their plans to update this for the new material system (substrate) that unreal engine is switching to?

[@carlrotebrink]

First, thanks so much for this incredible content. You’re the man. Secondly, what advantages would you say this approach has over the new PCG system, and vice versa?

[@Skynet151]

Awesome, thank you for making this! One question, do you set the first AutoMaterial Layer as Weight-Blended or Non Weight-Blended? Thank you, really appreciated! :)

[@samvortex4136]

i love you man

[@ryanjstever]

As someone who has always hated the landscape tool, thank you very much this helps! The mat works great, but personally, creating a material and labelling tiling behavior as anything other than "Tiling" is nothing but cruel. haha thanks!

[@Krisowski89]

Hey man, thanks for updating to UE5! I've learned a lot from your materials. I want to update my project with this, but how do I make it work if I do want to use VT textures on my landscape? I've menaged it with just changing the placeholder samples to VT before, but this time it does not work on your UE5 version Edit: I've found some more textures to change in material functions. It's working ;) Maybe you should add a VT master as well for the future

[@UnrealSensei]

That is a good idea. Virtual textures are becoming standard recently for Unreal Projects

[@alexrybin3798]

This is awesome tutorial, thank you for sharing. I downloaded latest version today, and some menus are different or missing. is it different version? In maps, Patch Example and Nanite examples are missing as well...

[@agnishmukherjee7935]

Amazing tutorial sensei , Im new to unreal engine and learned alot watching your videos, I am not able to increase or add extra material slot to the existing landscape material height. If anyone explain it would be super helpfull . Thanks.