UE4: Complete Guide to Spawning Foliage on Landscapes Using Grass Node Output

[@matteopasta]

What took me 25 videos to learn you taught in 30 mins. Nicely done.

[@peakperformnce]

Man, I can't tell you how much I appreciated this. Thank you

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

Happy it helped you Nick.

[@casperwong1285]

This Tutorial is awesome, every details,setting had explaining clear. learned a lot from it. Thank you so much~!

[@marcoseliasmep]

Wow the best tutorial about this subject! I'm new to Unreal, this is just insane, it will save me many years! Thanks a lot for making it, I'll buy your courses soon! Already learned a lot more here than in hundreds of other videos.

[@Chris-xe7xr]

Been searching different videos and I have to say, just gonnas stick with WorldofLevelDesign from now on. Real MVP

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

Thank you Chris! I really appreciate that. I want/need to start publishing more videos on regular basis.

[@Chris-xe7xr]

@@WorldofLevelDesign Glad to hear that, just started with Unreal - absolute beginner. I was wondering, I can't seem to get the grass to disapear when I paint on for example dirt, any suggestions? Also I have some mountains in the level created with landscape blueprintbrush. Any idea how I get the grass not to spawn on top of a mountain?

[@mixstuff3d]

Nicely detailed, beautiful tutorial with soothing narration. Thanks for your time to teach us bro.

[@Goyr]

Jesus Christ these tutorials are great! I've followed a few for learning how to make a landscape, and I'm blown away of how easy it is to follow along and how great the results are. 10/10 would recommend to anyone who needs a helping hand with landscaping.

[@marcelenderle4904]

cant thank you enough....grass is the core gameplay concept for my game, thank you very much!

[@abnervictor7195]

Man, I can't tell how thankful I am for this tutorial. Thank you so much!

[@SirKingHoff]

I always heard parameters in tutorials and this made it super easy to understand and create! Thank you!

[@vivegamespk]

best tuts about level design for beginners

[@moonally3976]

This tutorial is explaining clearly!! I can finally generate the grass!! Thank you so much ！

[@Julia-bp4lh]

Dirt doesn't remove foliage, did I miss something? 😅 I watched it several times over again, thanks in advance! The tutorial is amazing! Edit: solved it by clicking on the right landscape layer! I have multiple layers in my project and forgot about those... woops.

[@djinghiskhan9199]

This is essential for open world maps - Thanks a bunch

[@豊櫛引]

最高のチュートリアルをありがとう。

[@supjay3945]

Woe, im digging the helpful onscreen marks

[@talesofanime9990]

amazing video but can you tell me how to add collision in static mesh i have added rock but rocks are not working like other objects

[@GaryParkin]

I loved this tutorial as I do with all of your stuff. Thank you so much. I'm off to watch the Procedural Material again and see if I can merge the 2 together and make something that resembles a real world.

[@mr.sweaty7862]

Did you succeed?

[@GaryParkin]

@@mr.sweaty7862 Not yet. I got involved in real world. :(

[@mr.sweaty7862]

@@GaryParkin Ew. The graphics are great. But the gameplay is so bad

[@GaryParkin]

@@mr.sweaty7862 Yes! I got it to work following a few different tutorials.

[@lunahuang5466]

I really like your video. It is sooo clean and user-friendly. Thanks so much

[@devanarayanan454]

You sir is what I was looking for!

[@michanowaczewski9561]

I'm so glad I found this tut! It's so amazing!

[@wmka]

I learned alot from this one tutorial. Thank you and have a great day.

[@farhanur_rahmann]

You are genius bro. You help me a lot by this tutorial. Thank you bro.

[@03urukhai76]

This is the best tutorial for foliage in UE4. Yet i still don't understan why collisions don't work for trees? Any idea?

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

When using Grass Node, collisions are removed. Maybe too expensive, not sure. If you need collisions you'll have to use Foliage Painting Tool or Foliage Volume.

[@Preirin]

Thanks for this. It's saved me HOURS of fucking around. Now my maps are looking more realistic

[@Preirin]

Just to let you know, I STILL refer to this when building my landscapes.

[@nikgiak2994]

TYVM for the great tutorial! I wish you could do more! Like a lesson about auto applying a texture on a mountain slope by angle, for example, which is confusing :)) B well!

[@cloudcontrolgames]

Great Tutorial! Thank you kindly!

[@yingbowang3068]

Thank you for this tutorial which i can finally follow it ,as a 2 weeks beginner! just a question: foliage output seems doesn't have collision?

[@shemeemhussain]

Thank You................................

[@hiscraft]

Great tutorial! Can you show how to remove the grass from slopes? (world aligned blend)

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

I haven't tried it but maybe it's possible to do it with World Aligned Blend. I'll have to experiment. From top of my head I thought adding extra Texture Layer with the same Texture as where the grass is spawning but don't spawn grass foliage on it and then just paint over it on slopes. Just an idea but may not be a good one. Since you are adding another texture layer to paint and it is not procedural.

[@edofactory]

I multiplyed the Landscape Layer Sample with the WorldAlignedBlend on the GrassOutput and worked for me, I used Blend Sharpness = 30 and Blend Bias = -12 for the WorldAlignedBlend.

[@mikelockett]

@@edofactory Did you add it in a Material Function node or in the same GrassNode like in the tutorial? I'm struggling to get it to work...

[@dhananjaykupekar6892]

Excellent 👌😊 landscape procedural tutorial 🔥🔥🔥

[@minhajulislamnuman3899]

your tutorials are ver hlpful thankyou

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

Thank you man!

[@kdunovaes]

amazing tutorial! Thanks for sharing

[@emmanuelmatewere7575]

hi im using autolandscape material but it doesnt work only works one i manually paint the material, so how how can i spawn the grass with the auto material?

[@sigmamale4147]

thanks for this quality tutorial

[@taylorjordyn7305]

awesome video! thank you!

[@sotasounduk]

You did an awesome job of this tut. Thanks! Liked and subbed :)

[@pk4241]

Yeah its just simply awesome

[@vincent2826]

Thank you Great detailed video

[@venkateswararaopulagam7755]

Awesome.. thank you so much for this tutorial ❤

[@dozar911]

brother when you will start series of environment art, level design I know you already have made these video but they are old now ...everyone loves to start from beginner level so if you bring these series again that would be great

[@echunouchi9131]

Awesome! Can you then "unpaint" certain areas within the box? lust like with the foliage painting system I mean

[@philrowe1041]

Brilliant! Thank you!!!

[@FunwithBlender]

great tut, i noticed when i press play the grass disappears but when i am not playing I see the grass

[@Exemptrook527]

figured out how to pack a vpk for the steam workshop awhile back :D were you ever going to make those l4d2 concepts you mentioned awhile back? if you remember

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

L4D2 holds a special place in my heart. At some point I will probably go back and do something with it. A retro level design throwback. Been eyeing to do something with Source 2 and HL:A

[@SBUCompEngr]

I added the Plants but they cover over my path. How can I add a function what ignores the Path location when populating the plants?

[@anfxf6513]

how can i use this with my auto landscape material

[@techno2776]

Hello, I cannot see the material in the upper left viewport. It´s black. How to solve it?

[@merlemuliem377]

Wow u Guys are rly amazing, Thx alot for ur effort !

[@cheerfuldevil]

Thank you!

[@edofactory]

Thanks for the amazing tutorial! The LandscapeGrassOutput can be used insite a Material Function? I trying to implement this on my auto landscape material that has multiple material functions for multiple biomes.

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

Thank you Gabriel! I haven't tried it in the Material Function yet. If you try it out let us know if it worked.

[@jeffreyspinner9720]

This one is interesting... tyvm.

[@tylerjodeblock1224]

This helped me alot cheers!

[@fuerdiefamilie]

Hello thanks for your nice Tutorials that show how to build landscape materials from scratch and also how to create roads with the landscape splines. A question came up to me when following a long. Is there a way to avoid the landscape grass foliage type from spawning on the spline roads? I only found instructions on how to paint the area of the road to get rid of der grass in that area but to me it seems Ther should bei abbetter rather procedural approach using the created splines for the roads to solve this. Any Help in this ist appreciated.

[@HDico2013]

Lovely tutorial, thank you very much for this! Do you have any idea why is all the grass disappearing after building the level? I'm following your example, everything looks great, but after building - all the grass is gone?

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

Thanks ICO. That happens to me too. I often have to reload the level to have the grass appear back. I haven't found out why that happens. Probably a bug.

[@HDico2013]

@@WorldofLevelDesign Oh that's too bad... is it me, or using this method is way more optimized than placing the grass with the foliage tool? I see a bump of at least 15-20fps, but could be also due to something else.

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

@@HDico2013 Yeah, it does seem faster than Foliage Tool. I think the Grass Output already is doing a lot of work behind the scenes and with Foliage Tool, you have to control the radius and number of meshes spawn with more vigilance because it's easy to get carried away.

[@vitaboy9699]

How do i get a boy and his kite assets to appear in my content file

[@laurentiupolesciuc2817]

hello, a very cool way, but such a question, can I manually remove the grass where I don’t need it?

[@elfincredible9002]

Thanks a lot... You kinda share the same voice with UnrealSensei Haha... Thanks

[@stormolflak]

Thank you so much

[@r.a.h.company9469]

hi i did everything you did in the video but it doesn't spawn grass...........can you please help me?

[@kdk37]

Are there mesh collisions in this process?

[@Preirin]

I'm back. I am working with 5 layers with micro variation and distance blending. I was hoping I could create a layer with the same material as my base layer and add a grass node type to it so that when I painted down this particular layer, grass would appear. Sounds simple but no. I can't get it to work no matter how hard I try. Can you help me out here? :)

[@metafuel]

I've followed along perfectly until I open the Landscape Grass Type asset. I for some reason don't have anything like what you show. My window is completely empty apart from "Save" and "Browse" at the top. Unreal Engine 4.26.2 - any one have any idea why this would be? I've re-created the Landscape Grass type from the Right Click Menu and that also is just a blank window. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for the Tutorials. EDIT: Okay for some reason the details panel wasn't ticked in "Window" > "Details" all sorted :) Thanks again for the excellent tutorial.

[@heatwavegames3588]

Hi, Thanks! What do you do when the grass does not show in d in the build?

[@ArtistaScarlatto]

Thanks!

[@Restart-Gaming]

Sorry for my language but DAMM your good very very well done you explain every little thing just what I have been looking for. Will you be doing a update video i am looking for a way to do this but for my levels I need snow and sand?

[@legato3067]

great tutorial !!!!!

[@caron__1178]

Que buen tutoriall bien explicado y todo una chulada

[@captainjoeyny8403]

I am blending 2 Material functions to make the grass layer for an automaterial. Is there a way to get the grass to only spawn on the grass and not the dirt layer i blended it with? There is also two rock textures for the steep slopes, bt grass shouldnt spawn on them anyway

[@Osiris261]

compared to using the foliage tool. what is the performance cost of this?` trying to understand thiss procedural generated mesh system. and when to use and not use it.

[@Vivi_Strike]

Looks amazing, but Is this performance taxing?

[@poldi7]

If you have good LODs then I don’t think you

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

There are a lot of things to consider here so it's hard to say. Keep an eye out on: -Foliage LODs are important. -Foliage density has to be managed. -The amount of foliage static meshes you are spawning (number of elements like different types of grass, flowers, rocks etc). -Cull Distance: at what distance do meshes stop rendering This is something to look at: docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/index.html

[@markezzg]

Very nice video 👍 I am starting to learn Unreal to build my game i will document everything here on my KZbin channel Cheers

[@obnoxiousbong]

they are the best

[@sofreshprod]

spawning trees is good but trees have no collision with this technic

[@realmodel1132]

Its a really good beginners tutorial. Complete guide, not so much =)

[@naimaware]

I used the textures coming from two quixel bridge material surfaces, when I mix them with landscapelayerblend they come out like a gray surface rather than a blend, why that?

[@FPChris]

10:20 My auto material has grass and rock on one layer "AutoMaterial". How can I get just the grass?

[@zeddgamedesigner]

How to make the LOD not change, For example i want to make a cinematic scean i wanted the far grass to look like the same as near grass looks like...Any idea?

[@mr.sweaty7862]

Can i take the Auto material, and merge with this in any way? When i look at the 2 blueprints seperate, i have a problem wrapping my head around how i would connect the grass and dirt texture through the lerp, into the base color and normal, without having to remove the automated foliage spawn.

[@pk4241]

How much gigabytes of ram does ur Pc have

[@ryanpatton1795]

what if we didnt use a layer blend in our landscape material? I made an auto landscape material instead, how would I implement the grass node?

[@vfxwarriors]

how to use landscape grass output along with world aligned blend for auto paint ?

[@bartoszsaniewski720]

Hey. I downloaded a grass type from megascans and exported it into the project. The mesh itself is working but the color/lightning on the grass is off. When i use the standard foilage painting feature it clearly renders much better for some reason. Any idea what miught be the case? It seems as if either texture or lighting is off.

[@vevemurre5431]

On 4.27, on scaling the grass, the Scale Y and Scale Z properties are grayed out. Is it supposed to be like this or am I missing something?

[@vevemurre5431]

nevermind. i figured it out

[@N1zh___]

How did you fix this?

[@bigsky7617]

@@vevemurre5431 how did you fix it?

[@zahra89reza]

Thank you. :D

[@HalleckArts]

Hi, I'm getting a lot of black on my grass, always showing up on one side, do you know how to fix this? I've disabled dynamic shadows, removed AO, turned on Cubemap Ambient light, recreated the lightmap and reimported a new grass model... still the same black everywhere.

[@Minnvin]

when I click on the landscape grass type theres nothing in it just save and browse

[@metafuel]

I have the same issue.

[@MurattiOmer]

open details section

[@MrRuumi1]

How were you able to have so much foliage and still have your engine running sooo smoothly My rig is ryzen 9 5950x RTX 3090 64GB of RAM 4TB SSD and my computer is struggling to run a scene like that. I also have some other objects there but it started slowing down after applying foliage

[@ChristopherFranko]

So I didnt come here for the auto exposure thing.. but it solved a problem ive been having ffs.

[@lumiinaty8276]

Hi, how can i add collisions to trees that spawns with the node ? tysm

[@G4meFr3ak1]

So say I have my grass layer with grass generated on it. I now want to have certain parts that don’t have grass. Can I use the same grass layer texture but make it a new layer then paint it so no grass spawns where I paint?

[@GothManLover]

How do I do render distance? Can you please help me? I need to know because my level is on like 20 fps.

[@anu-uchraldavaatseren203]

is there a version with the actual patterns?

[@cRsregeLt]

thats simply awesome! is there any way to add collision to meshes that are spawned this way?

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

No collision this way. If you need collision use foliage volumes docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BuildingWorlds/OpenWorldTools/ProceduralFoliage/QuickStart/index.html

[@cRsregeLt]

@@WorldofLevelDesign thank you very much sir!

[@dominicdesforges4601]

Thank you for your tutorial!. I'm using UE5 and everything seems to be working except when I change my static mesh to Nanite, then all the foliage disappears. Any idea why? Thanks

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

Thanks Dominic. Foliage doesn't work as Nanite at the moment.

[@dominicdesforges4601]

@@WorldofLevelDesign Thank you.

[@petrofsko]

Sorry for being off topic but can you remember the keyboard button to save a customised river material river, road etc in cryengine 2 anyone I've started another singlplayer map it's been 5 years I forget ?

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

It's been a long time for me as well and I don't remember. Sorry bud.

[@a_witcher94]

would this somehow work on static meshes too or only on landscapes?

[@Mater-code]

Hey! my foliage tool is damaged. it doesnot spawn the foliage in right place inside the foliage denoting circle. it's spreading all around. please help

[@hansotatis3226]

Hi there, thanks very much for that good tutorial. There is one thing i can't solve. One thing that is not working the way, your tutorial shows. I did all things 1:1 exactly how you. But if i insert the grass SM as you're doing in 12:51, nothing happens. I mean, it is placed correctly, but nothing appears in the main window (I'm using 4.27... I'm sure, there is the problem). Is there a fix ? The system says "grass maps need to be rebuilt (1024 objects)" . Do you know whats the problem ??? And thanks for your time :)

[@maxreebo6540]

i have the same issue did u find a fix

[@Waquan00]

I think you must write correct layer name in sample grass landscape

[@GameDevMikey]

Distance culling doesn't seem to work with Landscape Grass Type being used through materials. I have to use LODs to get any sort of culling when I build the project for "Shipping" whereas culling seems to work with "Development" builds. Does anyone have any experience or solutions to this? I'd be super grateful if anyone can help with this.