Troubleshooting FOLIAGE issues in Unreal Engine
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
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In this video we cover how to fix a variety of common foliage issues in Unreal Engine. It's a rather frustrating process to diagnose when these problems rear their ugly head, fortunately, the problems are rather easily fixable.
Console Variables:
r.Raytracing.Geometry.InstancedStaticMeshes.Culling 0
r.ScreenPercentage 200
r.forceLOD 0
foliage.forceLOD 0
#unrealengine
#realtime
#foliage
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:15 - Issue #1
02:22 - Issue #2
07:14 - Issue #3
09:30 - Skillshare
10:32 - Issue #4
15:46 - Issue #5
17:08 - Outro & Thanks
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I always come back to your videos when I experience these types of issues and typically find the answer I need. I know I've used other tips from this video before, but today it was screen percentage that fixed some really annoying distant landscape flickering. Thanks for all you do, William! You're one of the few YTers that I follow religiously...
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@William Faucher; regarding the issue of disapeearing issue using MRQ:
Like you mentioned, by default it forces LOD 0 on everything, but there is secret triangle budget for each instance. If it exceeds that value (likely to happen if you have a big forest), it stops rendering that instance, but still casts shadows (or at least DF Shadows)
Two ways aorund it:
1.) In the MRQ setting disable Force LOD0 on Game Overrides. Then you can tweak LOD distance scale command to get the result you have in the editor.
2.) There is a console command foliage.MaxTrianglesToRender which you can increase (not sure about the default value). HOWEVER, increasing this value can drastically increasing rendering time, so I would recommend method 1.
Hope this helps, great vid as usual!
AHA, that explains a whole lot. First time I hear about this triangle budget. That's... irritating, wish it was more obvious, or explained, or mentioned somewhere.
I'll give this a try and update!
@@WilliamFaucher Agree. I've been rendering large landscapes for some time now but mostly with sequencer. ( no problem there since it doesnt do any overrides so you get what you see).
With the introduction of MRQ I've been having the disappearing issue and couldn't find the reason behind it and therefore a solution. Only after submitting a ticket to Unreal Development Network and I managed to get an aswer reagrding the triangle budget.
My biggest beaf is with the Game Override being ON and Hidden by default in the settings so I had no idea it was doing the ForceLOD0. I've said they should expose the Game Override in the default MRQ setting, because if I was aware of that I would have tried turning off the LOD0 setting.
@@WilliamFaucher I think I know the solution to your question at the end of the video,, I had the same problem scratching my head for ages. But if you go into the particular static mesh parameters there's a setting called screen size. Some times assets load in when the value is set to zero. You want to turn that value to 1 if that's the case then in the render que it will render out no problem.
Thanks! Been struggling with this - normal rendering works but MQR lost grass foliage in few cameras. The number 1 solution that is, just started cranking it up until I found the sweet spot.
so am already done adding my foliage ? should i delete that and crank that the static meshs screensize amount and then readd the foliage r would it update automatically ?
The fact that you included the "Issue #5" makes me want to watch literally every video on your channel, because that level of "I want to help you guys" is unseen. Have a good one, subscribed, gonna go watch all your videos now and learn:D
The best intro I've ever seen. Thank you for this video. It was very helpful
Thanks William.. honestly you always answer the most important issues .. cant explain the coincidence of me just thinking to start asking myself about this issue specifically and ur video showed up !
You are literally fixing all the problems I faces with foliage. You are the only one that explains stuff smoothly. Thank you.
Thanks so much!
Perfect timing, just moving into the rendering stage of my Artstation challenge and I've got these issues with my foliage at the moment!
Glad to hear it can help!
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This intro!... Those reactions are just at the heart of every UE environment artist. This whole video gave me some closure. Thank you very much.
Also a suggestion on the disappearing foliage - might be wind animations just killing VRAM?
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Cheers! Thanks for watching !
Another culprit for foliage disappearing (especially if it's just the leaves) can be the ""opacity Mask clip value" in your leaf material. By default this is 0.33, you can set it to something like 0.1 and your leaves will be visible from farther away.
thanks for the tip ! this is exactly what i was trying to solve :)
Hi William! Your videos have saved my projects many times, it's just a treasure trove of information in a condensed form, nothing superfluous, only the most important. Huge respect. But progress is breathing down our neck and already there are new problems. Now Nanite for Foliage raises questions. I think a lot of people will join my request, this kind of Troubleshooting is needed for UE 5.2/5.3.
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The way that I manage to fix was going to the material property overrides of your foliage and look for the "Opacity Mask Clip Value" and changing to 0.05 or 0.1.@@alzate_3d
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thank you so much this video fixed a huge issue for me and also boosted my FPS by like 30fps with the LOD part. Also somehow allowed me to up engine scalability from medium to high. Looking and running great now
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Super Important topics .
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Thanks you for tips man. For the issue number 5, it happen with me when i paint so much the same asset, it's came the most of the time with tree and bushes. if it's gone when you render with render queue, delete a part of you paint meshes and retry render and boom, reappear. The solution i use for now when the problem arrive is to use a order asset of tree, bushes and you can continue to paint without any problem in Render queue. It's really anoying but easy to resolve.
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Thank you WIlliam. Render videos in Unreal is always a pain. Lately I was trying to render a video of an enviroment I made. Lots of little but annoyng defects probably correlated to lumen in UE5. Hopefully your tips could help me to get something better!
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To save a bit of perf on the second tip (Foliage mesh shadow wind issue), in the BP you make, make sure to add an instanced static mesh then add the fern to that.
Can you elaborate on this? When adding an InstancedStaticMesh under the root, and then assigning the static mesh in the static mesh slot, it does not show in the viewport. Do you need to add a StaticMesh component under the InstancedStaticMesh component?
@@trick29420 still looking for solution?
@@radosawwolnik Nope. Thanks anyway.
Wow! Thanks for this great tutorial! A had last issue with disappearing foliage when I've used standard Render Movie, to fix it I've used 200 warm up frames before starting render. With Movie Render Queue I didn't have such issue yet.
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Thanks man, i was frustrated due to foliage popping issues
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I randomly fell on this after hitting the problem last week.
several pieces of useful info.
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Had this during development and searched for aaaaages deep in the web... and just turned of the wind.
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