I just found you and it's freaking awesome. Simple, from start to finish and done! No complications, no extra stupid things that distract, but right on spot. Thanks so much.
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A tesselated mesh is needed because you paint on the vertices of a mesh, if your mesh wouldn't be tesselated and you would just use a simple plane for example you could just paint one vertice for each corner which will give a very bad result. You can't apply this on a landscape cause you need to use the landscape layer tool from the engine, otherwise it comes to various issues regarding the landscape.
The process on using this same material on a landscape is a completely different one cause you need to setup various layers which result in one final landscape material. I've put that on my list of tutorials to make 😉
Hi thanks for the but I got error when do vertex painting in my static mesh. it said "Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW". Do you know why its happen? thank you
I didn't have this issue yet so its hard to tell what is causing it. Maybe check the UE4 logs to see if there are some more details on this crash. Also make sure to use the latest graphics card drivers, just to double check if old drivers is not cuasing this. You can also verify the engine files in your launcher to make sure that there are no corrupted files or something like that. Also check your hardware stats maybe your computer comes to its limits and can't handle it anymore. Just some thoughts on how to find/fix the problem.
Great video, however im a little stumped, when i go to select my channels fo rmesh painting, no matter if im on R,G, or B, and pain on my mesh. I dont get any changes. any ideas?
Thanks 🙂 Did you make sure that your mesh you want to paint on is tessellated properly? If you don't have any vertices to paint on it won't work. You can test it by using my mesh from the download link in the description.
Thanks. But why didnt you tell us the settings for Quix > Export settings > Surfaces >> I had to check (turn on) Disfuse, Normal, and other things IDK which ones I need. But the Material in UE4 would not show and gave errors like: Not found null param2d. 2) Why are we using the default JPG for giant land textures, instead of a better quality, and which should we use?
Thank you so much I have a problem, the blend amount is not working for me. I mean it's changing but don't affect anything at all. Can you help me with that?
yes you need a mesh which has a lot of polys/vertices already in order to paint properly on it. Because what you actually do is to paint the layer data on the vertices.
You're welcome 🙂 If I understand it correct you want to copy the painted vertex information in a texture right? I think you can't do it right away, the only thing which is supported by the engine already is to copy and paste the color data to another mesh but saving it as a texture is not included in UE4.
Hi man, the option of blend Amount just dont have any effect. You try it in the new version of plugin? Can you help? In Quixel forum they do not respond for this issue....Thanks a lot
Sorry for the late response but this can happen when your "Unified Displacement" setting is deactivated or has a value that is too low. Try to enable it and give it a high value of about 50 or more to check if it works or not.
The process on using this same material on a landscape is a completely different one cause you need to set up various layers which result in one final landscape material. I've put that on my list of tutorials to make 😉
Hopefully you see this. I’m struggling to get my displacements to really do anything. They came with displacements from Quixel, and I imported them with them enabled and followed all of your steps to a T, but there’s just no displacement. Still stuck with my material being flat when painted on. Any idea how i can change that?
The texture of your mesh changes when painting on right? Only the displacement isn't working on the mesh? Did you already play around with high numbers for the displacement material instance? When you open the instance, do you see any displacement happening in the material preview at all?
@@ue5mentor hi there. Yup exactly as you said, inside the material there’s a visible displacement, and even when bumping displacement to 40-70 there is zero effect when actually painted. The texture shows up on the mesh, but no height differences can be seen
@@adamtherealone I gave it a try right now, I also tested this on a megascans asset by just applying the material from this tutorial in the material slot of the mesh and it is working fine on all paintable channels. Can you maybe try painting on the tutorial mesh I've added in the description, just to make sure that painting with displacement works on any mesh.
"Before you use you need to have a mesh that is properly...." Your video should have started with this. I totally get how you would have forgotten to mention it though lol.
Not exactly this Material, but the one from my other tutorial here would fit better for that purpose: czcams.com/video/j6lMvQnG1P8/video.html But it would still need some effort to tweak the material for a slope based auto mat.
You're welcome 😉 You can do this by creating your own tessellated mesh via any 3D modeling software. I personally use Maya Lite but you can also use Blender for this which is completely free.
@@ue5mentor Appreciate your quick reply. do you have any tutorial suggestion for that ? i use houdini , you can suggest blender tutorial also i will give a try.
When you are working in the games/movies industry i always suggest to try maya because this is commonly used. If you just want to create some basic meshes you can also get it done quite quickly with blender, plus it doesn't cost anything. But I'm not that into blender that's why I also can't recommend good tutorials here but there should be plenty of those on youtube just search for some beginner tutorials and you should be good to go.
@@ue5mentor thanks for the advice. is it just droping a grid with high polygon ? is that how we create tessellation mesh in blender ? can you guide me how to create a tessellation mesh ? ( or is it a normal grid that you are calling tessellation mesh ?, i am confused, ). i typed in " how to create tessellation mesh in blender" on youtube and i found nothing
it is a standard plane which is divided in lots of squares. how you usually do it is to create a plane and then create horozontal and vertical edges on the whole mesh. There should be already an option for this when you create the plane. if not let me know and i'll quickly have a look in blender to explain it to you.
Anyone else having trouble with getting Bridge to work with UE4? I cant get the megascans logo to show up in my project & I've checked my library path + the plugins path & had the project open while exporting but still no luck :s
In Bridge did you choose the right UE4 version you are using? And also make sure that the Plugin Location is set to this location: ...\Epic Games\UE_4.26\Engine\Plugins When you open the plugin location do you have a folder named "MegascansPlugin" in it? If not you installed the plugin in the wrong location. Hope this helps you
@@ue5mentor I spoke with Quixel & was able to solve it; I had put some parts of bridge in x86 program files instead of the standard program files folder, once i migrated it everything worked!
I don't quite get your question but you can use the same material you create on any mesh you want. Just make sure that there are enough vertices to paint on to get a good result.
@@ue5mentor material applies fine to the landscape but I wont let me paint, but after following another tut i manage to make it work, but im having tiling issues
I just found you and it's freaking awesome. Simple, from start to finish and done! No complications, no extra stupid things that distract, but right on spot. Thanks so much.
Really nice to hear, thanks a lot! Then I'll continue like this 😍👍
And all of this for free with Epic and Quixel, what a great time to be alive
Yes it's awesome 😎
It was the most useful straightforward tutorial about UE5 and Megascans without misleading extras.
Fantastic tutorial, really helped me out getting started in UnReal. Thank you!!
Thanks a lot 👍 nice to hear.
It's always good to get an excellent tutorial like this. But this time you literally created the exact surface I need. Thank you very much! Subscribed.
simple explanations, complete and .... effective!!.. thank you
Thanks buddy 👍 then i have my goal achieved 😎
Great tutorial. To the point. And good teaching style. very thorough. Thanks for all the tutorials
Thanks very much, nice to hear!
thank you. u deserve more views, so easy and on point.
Thanks a lot man. Nice to hear 😉👍
You did not mention that you have to tick "enable displacement" in the megascan plugin before importing the materials. You had it pre activated
Thanks for the hint but i mention this at 02:40 😉
@@ue5mentor sorry for that. Somehow must have missed that.
Really neat been wanting a video like this
Thanks a lot dude. Glad that I could help 😉
Nice tutorial question in ue5 theres no option of enable displacement please help,.thanks in advance
Why you must use a tesselated mesh, can we apply this directly to a UE4 landscape ?
A tesselated mesh is needed because you paint on the vertices of a mesh, if your mesh wouldn't be tesselated and you would just use a simple plane for example you could just paint one vertice for each corner which will give a very bad result.
You can't apply this on a landscape cause you need to use the landscape layer tool from the engine, otherwise it comes to various issues regarding the landscape.
Hello - I want to apply this to a large map but it does not work for me and I do not know how to solve it - I hope you can guide me
The process on using this same material on a landscape is a completely different one cause you need to setup various layers which result in one final landscape material. I've put that on my list of tutorials to make 😉
And how do you do it on the landscape that can't be vertex-painted? Surely not just copy paste my 7 layers to make the wet version of each one
Thank you very much for this tut !
Thanks for the tutorial. Quick question. How did you make the downloadable ground plane?
Hi thanks for the but I got error when do vertex painting in my static mesh. it said "Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_STACK_OVERFLOW". Do you know why its happen? thank you
I didn't have this issue yet so its hard to tell what is causing it. Maybe check the UE4 logs to see if there are some more details on this crash. Also make sure to use the latest graphics card drivers, just to double check if old drivers is not cuasing this. You can also verify the engine files in your launcher to make sure that there are no corrupted files or something like that. Also check your hardware stats maybe your computer comes to its limits and can't handle it anymore. Just some thoughts on how to find/fix the problem.
Great video, however im a little stumped, when i go to select my channels fo rmesh painting, no matter if im on R,G, or B, and pain on my mesh. I dont get any changes. any ideas?
Thanks 🙂 Did you make sure that your mesh you want to paint on is tessellated properly? If you don't have any vertices to paint on it won't work. You can test it by using my mesh from the download link in the description.
Thanks. But why didnt you tell us the settings for Quix > Export settings > Surfaces >> I had to check (turn on) Disfuse, Normal, and other things IDK which ones I need. But the Material in UE4 would not show and gave errors like: Not found null param2d.
2) Why are we using the default JPG for giant land textures, instead of a better quality, and which should we use?
Thank you so much
I have a problem, the blend amount is not working for me. I mean it's changing but don't affect anything at all.
Can you help me with that?
excellent, thank you
You're welcome 👍
@05:22 so "tesselation"here means it has actually just a few subdivision?
yes you need a mesh which has a lot of polys/vertices already in order to paint properly on it. Because what you actually do is to paint the layer data on the vertices.
@@ue5mentornice 👍
is that also relevant for parallel occlusion
nice tutorial brother keep it up
Thanks a lot dude I will 😎👍
thank you a lot
You're always welcome 😎
did you try to bled runtime virtual textures ?
No not yet but sounds like an interesting topic. Will definitively give it a try when i have time.
thank's for the video! is there any way that you can save the blend as a texture/material? and use it to different mesh? thank you!
You're welcome 🙂 If I understand it correct you want to copy the painted vertex information in a texture right? I think you can't do it right away, the only thing which is supported by the engine already is to copy and paste the color data to another mesh but saving it as a texture is not included in UE4.
Hi man, the option of blend Amount just dont have any effect. You try it in the new version of plugin? Can you help? In Quixel forum they do not respond for this issue....Thanks a lot
Sorry for the late response but this can happen when your "Unified Displacement" setting is deactivated or has a value that is too low. Try to enable it and give it a high value of about 50 or more to check if it works or not.
Is it about the export setting from bridge? I change them to PNG files
How can I use this material to paint in my landscape? When I try to do it there are no layers to paint. Thanks!
The process on using this same material on a landscape is a completely different one cause you need to set up various layers which result in one final landscape material. I've put that on my list of tutorials to make 😉
@@ue5mentor it would be great!
Why 17:32 quality is better than viewport?
Because I rendered a 4k movie in the sequencer for the intro and outro with graphic settings set to cinematic.
Hopefully you see this. I’m struggling to get my displacements to really do anything. They came with displacements from Quixel, and I imported them with them enabled and followed all of your steps to a T, but there’s just no displacement. Still stuck with my material being flat when painted on. Any idea how i can change that?
The texture of your mesh changes when painting on right? Only the displacement isn't working on the mesh?
Did you already play around with high numbers for the displacement material instance?
When you open the instance, do you see any displacement happening in the material preview at all?
@@ue5mentor hi there. Yup exactly as you said, inside the material there’s a visible displacement, and even when bumping displacement to 40-70 there is zero effect when actually painted. The texture shows up on the mesh, but no height differences can be seen
@@adamtherealone I gave it a try right now, I also tested this on a megascans asset by just applying the material from this tutorial in the material slot of the mesh and it is working fine on all paintable channels. Can you maybe try painting on the tutorial mesh I've added in the description, just to make sure that painting with displacement works on any mesh.
Did you check that inside the material instance that it is using the correct displacement map and not 127grey default?
nice tutorial bro.
Thanks a lot dude 🙂👍
i have a question. how can i apply the mesh you used in my custom map? or is it even possible?
:( i don't see the megascans plugin, why!!!!!????
nice video and thanks! btw whats the song at 10:56?
"Before you use you need to have a mesh that is properly...." Your video should have started with this. I totally get how you would have forgotten to mention it though lol.
If you're missing a mesh to work with you can use the one from the description 😉 I've put a download link there.
how to create a mesh with this lot of vertices?
hello, does anyone know how to make thid procedure in UE5?
Could it be turned into slope based auto material?
Not exactly this Material, but the one from my other tutorial here would fit better for that purpose: czcams.com/video/j6lMvQnG1P8/video.html
But it would still need some effort to tweak the material for a slope based auto mat.
Can you use the same technique with your own materials?
Yes sure you can, you need to create your own material for this but it is absolutely possible.
Does it work the same for landscape?
No it doesn't, that's why I made a new Tutorial which is covering exactly that just for landscapes. Just have a look at my latest video 😉
how do we create tessellation mesh by ourselves ?
thanks for the tutorial
You're welcome 😉 You can do this by creating your own tessellated mesh via any 3D modeling software. I personally use Maya Lite but you can also use Blender for this which is completely free.
@@ue5mentor Appreciate your quick reply. do you have any tutorial suggestion for that ? i use houdini , you can suggest blender tutorial also i will give a try.
When you are working in the games/movies industry i always suggest to try maya because this is commonly used. If you just want to create some basic meshes you can also get it done quite quickly with blender, plus it doesn't cost anything. But I'm not that into blender that's why I also can't recommend good tutorials here but there should be plenty of those on youtube just search for some beginner tutorials and you should be good to go.
@@ue5mentor thanks for the advice. is it just droping a grid with high polygon ? is that how we create tessellation mesh in blender ? can you guide me how to create a tessellation mesh ? ( or is it a normal grid that you are calling tessellation mesh ?, i am confused, ). i typed in " how to create tessellation mesh in blender" on youtube and i found nothing
it is a standard plane which is divided in lots of squares. how you usually do it is to create a plane and then create horozontal and vertical edges on the whole mesh. There should be already an option for this when you create the plane. if not let me know and i'll quickly have a look in blender to explain it to you.
Anyone else having trouble with getting Bridge to work with UE4? I cant get the megascans logo to show up in my project & I've checked my library path + the plugins path & had the project open while exporting but still no luck :s
In Bridge did you choose the right UE4 version you are using? And also make sure that the Plugin Location is set to this location: ...\Epic Games\UE_4.26\Engine\Plugins
When you open the plugin location do you have a folder named "MegascansPlugin" in it? If not you installed the plugin in the wrong location.
Hope this helps you
@@ue5mentor I spoke with Quixel & was able to solve it; I had put some parts of bridge in x86 program files instead of the standard program files folder, once i migrated it everything worked!
@@sl8roni134 Sounds great. Glad that you solved it.
Hi! Can I use this technique with several meshes together to make a larger plot? Thanks!
I don't quite get your question but you can use the same material you create on any mesh you want. Just make sure that there are enough vertices to paint on to get a good result.
@@ue5mentor thanks!
i cant paint my terrain....
Doesnt work with landscapes
for the landscape, did you add the layers with the white plus button, otherwise it would just be black
@@ue5mentor material applies fine to the landscape but I wont let me paint, but after following another tut i manage to make it work, but im having tiling issues
Will comment in your new vid that I followed sir
Are you german?
Hey man. Yes I am 😉
jesus, you talk so much, go straight to the point please