If you're missing the "Landscape" pin, then select your input node and configure the settings on the right to have a custom pin that takes a Landscape. Similarly, select your SufaceSamplerNode and set the "ExecutionMode" dropdown to "Debug" to see the cubes in your editor.
Exactly my issue, and this is a great starting point, thank you!! Edit: So apparently the Input node is almost deprecated. The current dedicated solution is to use the "Get Landscape Data" node and pipe it into surface instead of the Input node.
This is so amazing to hear! That is really my goal. I want to spread the knowledge so more people can make amazing creations!!! It shouldn't be limited by paying for an expensive education.
Me too. I am literally gaining an entire profession from just these videos. I will be able to do digital real estate 3d tours, video game maps, cinematic scenes for film or short films, I mean... this information, this industry... it's so ripe and fruitful! I am so thankful to be alive to be able to have access to this stuff. The images in my mind can finally come to life, apart from the need for a paintbrush or what have you!!!
if anyone wants to follow this tutorial but spawn everything on a static mesh instead of a landscape, in the PCG connect the "landscape" to the "bounding shape" in the Surface sampler and connect a "World ray hit quarry" to the surface. The rest can be the same
@@azielarts looks awesome, except that currently there is no landscape (IN node) to drag off. The PCG Graph does not recognise the landscape (it's overlapping)? Are you using a special map, not the starter examples?
Learning a lot ! A query ..... If I wanna spawn grasses, they dont come over the whole volume, and spawns here and there. I tried playing with density filter but couldnt come up with a solution. Also when I spawn bushes, they feel like spawning exactly at tree locations. Changing the offset works, but is not random. Is changing the offset only solution ? Thank you !
I see you set the volume well into the landscape, If one is making an island, if the volume is set up a little to say just above the water line I guess theres nothing below, there for noting in the water or on beach's where there would not be growth?
Yes you can use the placement of the volume to cut off the sim. However for the situation you are describing I would mask the points by hight so that it would only sim above the water line.
I'm having trouble with a drastic FPS drop whenever I add trees. I'm using the European Beech pack and they stated in the description that all trees are optimised with LODs etc. but I have no idea if I'm forgetting a few settings to make it all go smoother
I found its a version difference, I can use "get landscape data" instead of "In" node in UE5.4.2, thats so confusing, but its not on you tho. Now I can follow your course, that's so great! PCG is wonderful! Thanks for you free tutorial, straight and accurate, eazy to catch up. Thank you again! And I have coding background, so I thought these Nodes basicly equals Classes in Programming language, and I tried to find documentation on Google about these Nodes, so I can tell which are the Classes, Methods or Implements, that will help to understand better, but I get nothing there. even in UE official forum. I'm not sure if I searched correctly. Can you do a tutorial explaining thoese Nodes all about film making? There are only 2 playlists about these but they are more focusing on Game Dev, Thanks for all your tutorial again.
Hey Nathan, thanks so much l, I am glad you are getting a lot out of the tutorials.I don't currently have a tutorial on all the nodes there are probably hundreds. But, you are right alot of the math and logic is based in C++. However, in PCG, there are lot of custom nodes and it is more about filtering data. You can think of each node like a function. Can you clarify what you mean by filmmaking nodes ? I actually have a course specially on Unreal Engine From filmmaking if you are interested. Here is the link.courses.azielarts.com/earlybird-yto
What do I do if I don't have the Density Noise node in the selector? (UE 5.3) Edit: Never mind! Found your other video explaining that it is now called "Attribute Noise" in UE 5.3!
@@azielarts As a long time player, and recent content developer I find your tutorials enlightening, informative, succinct and professionally presented. Thank you so very much!
Great video. Definitely want to try UE after getting frustrated with unity3D's lack of large, procedurally generated open world support while UE appears to have it built in.
Thanks for the great video, i have a couple of questios. 1) There dosent appear to be a density noise node? 2)Is there a way to stop spawning assets on raised hills? Thanks
Nice video. What exactly do u mean by "make sure the pcg overlaps with the landscape"? I see the spawned rectangles, but for some reason all the transformations dont work (like filtering and rotation), so i guess it is because i didnt "overlap" them.
I am using UE 5.2. I have now created a PCG forest, but I have these blurry textures in the debug ! Is that normal or can I turn it off somehow. I use Ultra Dynamic Sky as lighting.
I am quite new to all of this, i was wondering why even when using the bounds modifier all of the trees are still touching and intersecting with each other. I've tried restarting like 5 times and i am not sure what to do? Any help would be appreciated!
Any mesh could be placed with it. A maze specifically I am not sure. I am sure there is a way. Alot of the applications I have used so far are for scattering and randomness. It might actually work to have maze sections. Like little squares with maze walls in different configurations. Then you could use this to lay them out those sections randomly.
Dude this is such rich content keep going! Also would love to see how to get the best photorealism out of Quixel nanite mesh. That's the part where we struggle right now, One suggestion was for super close up shots you need a 16k texture on your main props to the foreground. Cheers!
Yo! Amazing! That is such a great question. I will add that to my video list. 👍 There is definitely some strategy involved there. I am also still learning it myself :)
Hmm It should follow the shape of the landscape by default. I believe there is also an align to surface node. Also are you sampling the surface of landscape?
Yes absolutely, two way are the easiest. Use a simple invisible cube or something as a blocking volume, or run PCG through landscape layers so you can paint out areas where you don't want it to spawn. I actually have a video coming out on this in about a week and a half
Love the videos. Seriously, they're great. I'm a newbie and having a difficult time getting my trees to render without fireflies. I cannot find anything on how to solve this. I think it's from the wind animation but - not sure. Thoughts? Thanks and keep up the great work.
awesome presentation Sir! i like the organization of your video. You never got off topic and you never jumped around to different things. This helped me understand the basics. Im looking forward to watching more of your content! Thank you!
This is great. But what if you wanted to make, say, a stone path through the forest, and not have vegetation on that path? Yet have the path be a controllable spline that can blend into the dirt landscape on the sides?
I've got gray boxes hiding all of my floor plates? I tried lowering scalability but I still can't see what I've spawned unless I zoom into the gray boxes...? At first I could see the rocks and patches I selected for my meshes but then it all turned into gray boxes? Any fix for this?
So i had to turn the bounds on my density filter to 0.04 and 0.08 to get the density roughly where yours was in this video, but my terrain is still covered in the little grey and black node boxes which wasn't the case in yours, has that ever happened to you?
How can I get my trees to only orient up and down versus with the normal of the terrain? I may not have reached this answer yet in your videos, but figured I'd ask.
I personally prefer PCG driven by landscape layers, since I can make more complex logic with more types of foliage, or foliage growing on other foliage, but it is really up to you.
Yes definitely an LOD thing, try switching the foliage to nanite or going in to your foliage assets and adjusting the lod settings and turning off mipmaps on the textures
Having trouble using Surface Sampler in debug. It just won't show, but if I use a Select Points from the Landscape input it will show cubes... any help please?! Thanks!
Hmm strange, maybe try restarting the engine, and hitting compute on the PCG graph in your level? It could also be that the PCG volume is not overlapping the landscape. Or it could be that the actual points are too small to see, In which case you can try adding a bounds modifier after the surface sampler multiplying the point bounds till they are big enough to see
@@azielarts Thanks for the reply! I thought by dragging it over the landscape it would overlap like in the video, but the scale was still very small so I figured that out by watching your other video on PCG. Thanks!
Can anybody tell me what the best way is to handle procedural foliage? Master material where foliage placement can be layer based or procedural foliage tools or PCG? To me it seems like doing it through a master material is an older method.
In my input node there isn't any green Landscape input that I can use for the surface sampler, all I have is the "In" parameter. Anyone got any idea how I can change this? This is the default unreal project with the semi mountainous default landscape.
The pins under the Input were deprecated. Right click in the graph and add a Get Landscape Node. Drag out from the output of that Get Landscape Nodes output and add the Surface Sampler node suggested in the video. Should be what you need.
==thank you for amazing video, i am using 5.4 but I'm confused, in graph id don't have landscape or anything inside inout. can you please make a new tutorial for new version of unreal? thank you
First thing first. Your way of explaining the base root of PCG is one of the best i found so far. Its all clear to follow, and most of all, You explain whats happening and why. More people should take those videos as starting point of how to teach others. Now my question is, how to add in to PCG setup, a single mesh ? so basically, a part of having all the bushes, floor, rocks etc., i want to have a tank as well. The tricky thing for me is how to spawn only "1" mesh (tank) within my PCG setup so that it always stays with all the rest of elements and also it moves and "changes" when changing the PCG actor position. @azielarts
@@azielarts Help..I cant get the pcg when i go to plugins i put in procedural and the only one comes up is the mesh component the outher 2 arnt there i got 5.3..What do i do?
Hello, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, you are truly a great teacher. Currently, we are working on a project, in which we must create many roads. For optimization reasons, we are evaluating the possibility of creating these roads with PCG. We have problems with the meshes, they do not deform correctly in curves. Do you know if it is possible to make roads with PCG and have them deform correctly in curves?
Great question. You can actually expose variables from the PCG graph, just like other blueprints. So you could expose a float connected to the seed of the surface sampler or even the density filter and modify that on load which would give you a random output.
You don’t want to use at runtime unless it’s small, pcg checks everything and if you you have a large pcg doing anything at runtime will create huge lag
You can use a spline like in this video.ruclips.net/video/STqt92VF3KM/видео.htmlsi=7BU3mZ98TFczJ36n Or connect it to landscape layers. I have. A video coming out on that soon.
Hey, thanks a lot for the video. I'm getting awesome results, but there's one issue. The trees grow aligned to the ground and on slopes look weird. Do you know how to fix this in static mesh in PCG ?
A great and easy to follow video that has made my life in unreal much simpler. Any pointers to help get leaves on the forest floor, is it basically the same process?
TY Please respond to this. I am creating a horror game project and would like to know how you did that animation at the end of the video. Was that in ug5 or blender. I need the same animation for my own intro for the project Ty
Hey whats up! No problem. I did it straight from Unreal Engine. I made a level sequence, added a camera, and just animated it flying through the PCG Forest. Then I rendered it out with the movie render que.
This tuto is amazing!!, ONly works for meshes? or also with blueprint actor as well?. I have kitbash3d buildings group in blueprints and I look into build a wide aerial shot from a city 👀
Could be a few things. You might need to find the node and hit the D key to stop debugging. That will hide the cubes. It might be that they are overlapping your meshes.
@@carlosapiens Hey, so if you see any cubes it means that one of your nodes is set to debug. The D key is a toggle for debug view that only works if you have the particular node selected. So first go look at your graph and find the node that has a blue/green Dot on it(that means it is in debug mode). Just select that node first and then hit the D key to turn it off. The Dot should go away as well as the cubes. You also might have cubes showing from multiple nodes at once in which case you need to select each of them and turn off the debug mode. Hope that helps
@@deepeshsubhash7915 you have to sample the surface of the mesh. I think this video shows it. ruclips.net/video/qKlWZjfkuRY/видео.html I will try to make one on it as well
Haha lol I wish. You still have to go through the set up process for RVT to blend the assets that way. Although I have noticed that if you up the density of the ground plates to completely cover the landscape material the blending is more seamless.
@@azielarts Yes that would be a workaround ! But how could I do so with a snow landscape ? Just saw your storm NS video, I'll use it as a blizzard effect !
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures ooh snow! I honestly have less experience with that biome. May need to get back to you on that one. I know RVT would work well. You would probably still scatter snow banks or piles, but you might need a more advanced Landscape material that shifts between snow materials based on steepness so that snow is only in top of things. Also in my Niagara weather effects course I cover making a snow storm. Not sure if that is helpful
@@azielarts Thanks for the advice ! I've never thought about decals for snow, there might be some good ones out there as well that could do the trick !
@@azielarts hey aziel, yess now the name and color of node changed right? So my mesh in the final, are all white and some artifacts are appearing. Not so clear to me what node must be on on debug.
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This was mentioned in the first tutorial... felt like it could be mentioned here as well. Density Noise is now called Attribute Noise.
Right on🤙 yeah unfortunately out this up before the change, but new videos will have the update.
@@azielarts thank you for videos!
If you're missing the "Landscape" pin, then select your input node and configure the settings on the right to have a custom pin that takes a Landscape. Similarly, select your SufaceSamplerNode and set the "ExecutionMode" dropdown to "Debug" to see the cubes in your editor.
Exactly my issue, and this is a great starting point, thank you!!
Edit: So apparently the Input node is almost deprecated. The current dedicated solution is to use the "Get Landscape Data" node and pipe it into surface instead of the Input node.
Thankyou
Thank you!!!
@@true.ja3son thanks!
Love how you did the part that I need behind the scenes. Very helpful
You nailed it, it gave me more answers than the ones I was seeking to solve initially when I clicked this video.
I am so happy to hear that!! That is a exactly what I am going for👍
hello, very nice video! just one question why can't i find the "density noise" in 2:15? in both UE5.2 and UE5.3
Hey I am running in to that as well ! just put up a video on it ruclips.net/video/GnpaBZiwExA/видео.html
@@azielartsthankkk you mannn much appreciated !
bravo! geez bro this has to be the best explanation of PCG and the settings! you explained exactly what each setting does, thank you
Thanks so much for saying that! I am so happy you found it helpful. I love teaching, so I am glad it comes through.
I love your tutorials, high quality, clear, and concise. Instant sub!
Thank you! I am so happy to hear that🤙 More to come!
when extending input in the first bit i dont have all of those options.
Great video! Very easy to follow
Your tutorials are awesome very informative short on point
Thanks
Absolutely! I am so happy they are helpful. Rock on👍
I'm literally earning a college degree on RUclips. Thanks 🧘🏾♂️
This is so amazing to hear! That is really my goal. I want to spread the knowledge so more people can make amazing creations!!! It shouldn't be limited by paying for an expensive education.
Me too. I am literally gaining an entire profession from just these videos. I will be able to do digital real estate 3d tours, video game maps, cinematic scenes for film or short films, I mean... this information, this industry... it's so ripe and fruitful! I am so thankful to be alive to be able to have access to this stuff. The images in my mind can finally come to life, apart from the need for a paintbrush or what have you!!!
@@azielarts keep it up💯
@@2834E will do! Y'all keep me going 💪
@@azielarts😊
Great tutorial! Thx on the 5.4 update nodes!
if anyone wants to follow this tutorial but spawn everything on a static mesh instead of a landscape, in the PCG connect the "landscape" to the "bounding shape" in the Surface sampler and connect a "World ray hit quarry" to the surface. The rest can be the same
Awesome tip👍
@@azielarts looks awesome, except that currently there is no landscape (IN node) to drag off. The PCG Graph does not recognise the landscape (it's overlapping)? Are you using a special map, not the starter examples?
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Learning a lot ! A query ..... If I wanna spawn grasses, they dont come over the whole volume, and spawns here and there. I tried playing with density filter but couldnt come up with a solution. Also when I spawn bushes, they feel like spawning exactly at tree locations. Changing the offset works, but is not random. Is changing the offset only solution ?
Thank you !
I see you set the volume well into the landscape, If one is making an island, if the volume is set up a little to say just above the water line I guess theres nothing below, there for noting in the water or on beach's where there would not be growth?
Yes you can use the placement of the volume to cut off the sim. However for the situation you are describing I would mask the points by hight so that it would only sim above the water line.
I'm having trouble with a drastic FPS drop whenever I add trees. I'm using the European Beech pack and they stated in the description that all trees are optimised with LODs etc. but I have no idea if I'm forgetting a few settings to make it all go smoother
I found its a version difference, I can use "get landscape data" instead of "In" node in UE5.4.2, thats so confusing, but its not on you tho.
Now I can follow your course, that's so great! PCG is wonderful! Thanks for you free tutorial, straight and accurate, eazy to catch up. Thank you again!
And I have coding background, so I thought these Nodes basicly equals Classes in Programming language, and I tried to find documentation on Google about these Nodes, so I can tell which are the Classes, Methods or Implements, that will help to understand better, but I get nothing there. even in UE official forum. I'm not sure if I searched correctly.
Can you do a tutorial explaining thoese Nodes all about film making?
There are only 2 playlists about these but they are more focusing on Game Dev, Thanks for all your tutorial again.
Hey Nathan, thanks so much l, I am glad you are getting a lot out of the tutorials.I don't currently have a tutorial on all the nodes there are probably hundreds. But, you are right alot of the math and logic is based in C++. However, in PCG, there are lot of custom nodes and it is more about filtering data. You can think of each node like a function. Can you clarify what you mean by filmmaking nodes ? I actually have a course specially on Unreal Engine From filmmaking if you are interested. Here is the link.courses.azielarts.com/earlybird-yto
Very good tutorial 👍I already subed to your channel 👊
What do I do if I don't have the Density Noise node in the selector? (UE 5.3)
Edit: Never mind! Found your other video explaining that it is now called "Attribute Noise" in UE 5.3!
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When using PCG instead of the foliage tool, how do you keep trees vertical that are on a slope?.
Just add a transform points node and check on absolute rotation
@@azielarts Thank you.
Thanks, do we need to convert the assets to nanite ? Especially for the ground plate
Yeah I would recommend to do that
Keep up the great videos!
I will!! Thanks for the encouragement 🙏
@@azielarts As a long time player, and recent content developer I find your tutorials enlightening, informative, succinct and professionally presented. Thank you so very much!
Great video. Definitely want to try UE after getting frustrated with unity3D's lack of large, procedurally generated open world support while UE appears to have it built in.
Thanks for the great video, i have a couple of questios. 1) There dosent appear to be a density noise node? 2)Is there a way to stop spawning assets on raised hills? Thanks
can't find it either
use attribute noise, it seems to be the new name in UE 5.3
@@gambello1195 Thank you so much!
Nice video. What exactly do u mean by "make sure the pcg overlaps with the landscape"? I see the spawned rectangles, but for some reason all the transformations dont work (like filtering and rotation), so i guess it is because i didnt "overlap" them.
I mean the PCG volume cube needs to overlap with the landscape otherwise it won't have any points to simulate
This was a great video. Just curious though, does PCG related performance suffer from a larger scale map?
why is my input node only has a "In", there is no options such as Actor, Landscape etc.
I am using UE 5.2. I have now created a PCG forest, but I have these blurry textures in the debug ! Is that normal or can I turn it off somehow. I use Ultra Dynamic Sky as lighting.
I am quite new to all of this, i was wondering why even when using the bounds modifier all of the trees are still touching and intersecting with each other. I've tried restarting like 5 times and i am not sure what to do?
Any help would be appreciated!
can i use this to make a maze? or interior walls?
Any mesh could be placed with it. A maze specifically I am not sure. I am sure there is a way. Alot of the applications I have used so far are for scattering and randomness. It might actually work to have maze sections. Like little squares with maze walls in different configurations. Then you could use this to lay them out those sections randomly.
what if you dont want to use landscape but instead an alembic or obj you imported to generate onto?
Dude this is such rich content keep going! Also would love to see how to get the best photorealism out of Quixel nanite mesh. That's the part where we struggle right now, One suggestion was for super close up shots you need a 16k texture on your main props to the foreground. Cheers!
Yo! Amazing! That is such a great question. I will add that to my video list. 👍 There is definitely some strategy involved there. I am also still learning it myself :)
@@azielarts and also can you talk about common problems/ bugs/ mistakes can a beginner faces.
Right on, I will see what I can do!
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how do i make the mesh be lined with the curves of the hills? My mesh is all in a straight line and goes through the hills. Hard to describe, sorry.
Hmm It should follow the shape of the landscape by default. I believe there is also an align to surface node. Also are you sampling the surface of landscape?
If I don’t want PCG contents at certain areas, is it possible to exclude that area? Like.. if I have houses or structures at some areas.
Yes absolutely, two way are the easiest. Use a simple invisible cube or something as a blocking volume, or run PCG through landscape layers so you can paint out areas where you don't want it to spawn. I actually have a video coming out on this in about a week and a half
Great guide, and done me good. But, is there a way to make the trees stay straight up in a slope? Doing a project exam now and bit of a nickle this
Yep just check on absolute rotation in the transform node
@@azielarts Dang, thanks! That's all I need to do?
Amazing videos, it helps me a lot!!!
Hello do you know how to add a tag to the spawned static mesh ? I need that for gameplay. thanks !
Hmm good question. You might need to create a blueprint asset, add a tag to it, and then spawn that instead ?
Love the videos. Seriously, they're great. I'm a newbie and having a difficult time getting my trees to render without fireflies. I cannot find anything on how to solve this. I think it's from the wind animation but - not sure. Thoughts? Thanks and keep up the great work.
Great tutorial ❤
awesome presentation Sir! i like the organization of your video. You never got off topic and you never jumped around to different things. This helped me understand the basics. Im looking forward to watching more of your content! Thank you!
Great video! One issue I seem to have is that my trees ONLY spawn on top of the ground plates and nowhere else. Any idea why that might be the case?
This is great. But what if you wanted to make, say, a stone path through the forest, and not have vegetation on that path? Yet have the path be a controllable spline that can blend into the dirt landscape on the sides?
I've got gray boxes hiding all of my floor plates? I tried lowering scalability but I still can't see what I've spawned unless I zoom into the gray boxes...? At first I could see the rocks and patches I selected for my meshes but then it all turned into gray boxes? Any fix for this?
Hey! So the grey boxes means you have the debugging view turned on for a node. If you switch that off then you should be able to see what you spawned
@@azielarts you are a wizard, thank you!
So i had to turn the bounds on my density filter to 0.04 and 0.08 to get the density roughly where yours was in this video, but my terrain is still covered in the little grey and black node boxes which wasn't the case in yours, has that ever happened to you?
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really nice, it helps much. But where i can set the normal spawn in this case ? All my Trees are left and right, not straight up
The Input node does not have any drop down options anymore in v5.4?
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@@azielarts Amazing, thank you very much!
How can I get my trees to only orient up and down versus with the normal of the terrain? I may not have reached this answer yet in your videos, but figured I'd ask.
Which one is better? PCG method or autolandscape material with procedural foliage?
I personally prefer PCG driven by landscape layers, since I can make more complex logic with more types of foliage, or foliage growing on other foliage, but it is really up to you.
Can you create a tutorial on that? PCG using landscape layers@@azielarts
@@StinnMysterious yes absolutely, I am actually working on one right now ;)
Thanks. Pls do from scratch
Very cool. How can I avoid vegetation to popup black in distance? I think its an LOD setting...how can I avoid that ? Thanks
Yes definitely an LOD thing, try switching the foliage to nanite or going in to your foliage assets and adjusting the lod settings and turning off mipmaps on the textures
Having trouble using Surface Sampler in debug. It just won't show, but if I use a Select Points from the Landscape input it will show cubes... any help please?! Thanks!
Hmm strange, maybe try restarting the engine, and hitting compute on the PCG graph in your level? It could also be that the PCG volume is not overlapping the landscape. Or it could be that the actual points are too small to see, In which case you can try adding a bounds modifier after the surface sampler multiplying the point bounds till they are big enough to see
@@azielarts Thanks for the reply! I thought by dragging it over the landscape it would overlap like in the video, but the scale was still very small so I figured that out by watching your other video on PCG. Thanks!
@@artofminh Absolutely! That has happened to me also, don't worry.
Can anybody tell me what the best way is to handle procedural foliage? Master material where foliage placement can be layer based or procedural foliage tools or PCG? To me it seems like doing it through a master material is an older method.
In my input node there isn't any green Landscape input that I can use for the surface sampler, all I have is the "In" parameter. Anyone got any idea how I can change this? This is the default unreal project with the semi mountainous default landscape.
The pins under the Input were deprecated. Right click in the graph and add a Get Landscape Node. Drag out from the output of that Get Landscape Nodes output and add the Surface Sampler node suggested in the video. Should be what you need.
==thank you for amazing video, i am using 5.4 but I'm confused, in graph id don't have landscape or anything inside inout. can you please make a new tutorial for new version of unreal? thank you
hey there! thanks for the tutorial.
just need little help here, i cant find the assets you using, can anyone help?
straight to the point!
Thanks!! That's what I aspire to!
First thing first. Your way of explaining the base root of PCG is one of the best i found so far. Its all clear to follow, and most of all, You explain whats happening and why. More people should take those videos as starting point of how to teach others.
Now my question is, how to add in to PCG setup, a single mesh ? so basically, a part of having all the bushes, floor, rocks etc., i want to have a tank as well. The tricky thing for me is how to spawn only "1" mesh (tank) within my PCG setup so that it always stays with all the rest of elements and also it moves and "changes" when changing the PCG actor position.
@azielarts
Thank you man, very cool tutorial, simple and clear! Good luck to you
Absolutely 👍 I am glad it was helpful
@@azielarts Help..I cant get the pcg when i go to plugins i put in procedural and the only one comes up is the mesh component the outher 2 arnt there i got 5.3..What do i do?
in 5.4 and 5.5 you need to use "Get Landscape Data" instead of "Input" pin
Hello, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, you are truly a great teacher. Currently, we are working on a project, in which we must create many roads. For optimization reasons, we are evaluating the possibility of creating these roads with PCG. We have problems with the meshes, they do not deform correctly in curves. Do you know if it is possible to make roads with PCG and have them deform correctly in curves?
How do you regenerate the meshes at runtime?I mean without moving the volume, how do you spawn them randomly everytime you start the game
Great question. You can actually expose variables from the PCG graph, just like other blueprints. So you could expose a float connected to the seed of the surface sampler or even the density filter and modify that on load which would give you a random output.
You don’t want to use at runtime unless it’s small, pcg checks everything and if you you have a large pcg doing anything at runtime will create huge lag
@@gamejamreject I just want it initialized at game begin went once, basically I want it to be randomized everytime I start the gamelevel
Thank you so much, you are a life saver!
Absolutely! Happy to help!
This is great, thanks!!!
Right on 👍 Happy to help
@@azielarts Curious is it possible to have this as a blueprint to use over and over? I have not created this yet, have it on your patreon or sale?
Hey..This is great tutorial! short and precise...I'm curious, what should one do, if they don't want trees in certain part of the area?
Create a spline path. There's tutorials on that.
Yes I agree, spline paths are the way to go. Lots of great tutorials out there, I am also working on one now👍
@@corvidgamesstudio I figured it out right after I posted this comment..
@@azielarts I figured it out the way to do it, right after I posted this comment..still I'm looking forward to your video on how to do it..
@@thegreatSalu Solid, nice work!
2 questions! I don’t see density filter and followed the steps but don’t see the cubes for the population area
You're doing a great job thanks a lot for the tutorials
Thanks so much for that ! You rock
Great! Really got me fast to the point. A question to not spawn Rocks and Grass into the trees or each other , how do I accomplish that?
Great question, by using a difference node set to binary. This will cut out one set of points from another.
@@azielartsThanks alot, I actually saw how you did later in the Warzone video.
@@azielarts Hi again! I have also a second question, is there a way to flatten the landscape with pcg when placing buildings with it?
@@astralstormgamestudios1259 yep if you flatten your landscape with any of the landscape tools, PCG will just adapt to the new shape
@@azielarts Isn't there any logic where the landscape gets flatten out before pcg spawns? Since my landscape is 32x32km I can't do it by hand.
Very cool
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The input node does not have landscape?what to do?
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Thanks dude❤
you got it 🤙
amazing video, helped a lot
hi, i cant find the density noise and density filter, i have version UE 5.3
Wow, thanks for the tutorial! Could you also show how to add spline road in your PCG to open up paths in the forest?
Yep absolutely, I will add that to the video list
Is there any possibilities about a PCG tutorial where we use medieval cities instead of trees ?? Thanks in advance.
Good question 👍 I will look in to it
@@azielarts Thanks man already subbed so looking forward to it.
@@zenparvez 🙏
my pgc is not changing anything can you help me whenever i change density or anything nothing changes and the mesh is not applying either
Nice,but how to erase some area for add house etc ?
You can use a spline like in this video.ruclips.net/video/STqt92VF3KM/видео.htmlsi=7BU3mZ98TFczJ36n Or connect it to landscape layers. I have. A video coming out on that soon.
Hey, thanks a lot for the video. I'm getting awesome results, but there's one issue. The trees grow aligned to the ground and on slopes look weird. Do you know how to fix this in static mesh in PCG ?
common issue, you have to change to global rotation instead of surface, then they will all point up.
Mind Blowing 😍
Thanks so much!
Is it editable meaning can I add in rivers and paths
A great and easy to follow video that has made my life in unreal much simpler. Any pointers to help get leaves on the forest floor, is it basically the same process?
the density noise node doesnt appear for me. would you know why?
ME TOO, did you find a solution?
Hey I am running in to that as well ! just put up a video on it ruclips.net/video/GnpaBZiwExA/видео.html
TY Please respond to this. I am creating a horror game project and would like to know how you did that animation at the end of the video. Was that in ug5 or blender. I need the same animation for my own intro for the project Ty
Hey whats up! No problem. I did it straight from Unreal Engine. I made a level sequence, added a camera, and just animated it flying through the PCG Forest. Then I rendered it out with the movie render que.
What software is this ?
could u link the ground plates?
great video, thanks
This tuto is amazing!!, ONly works for meshes? or also with blueprint actor as well?. I have kitbash3d buildings group in blueprints and I look into build a wide aerial shot from a city 👀
Yep works with blueprints as well.
im not getting the expand in the input node...
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i followed all the steps but it still shows all the cubes... I did this in a very big environment could that be why?
Could be a few things. You might need to find the node and hit the D key to stop debugging. That will hide the cubes. It might be that they are overlapping your meshes.
@@azielarts please help me! when I press D key....Nothing :-(....don't appears a cubes....I dont understand the problem?? thanks
@@carlosapiens Hey, so if you see any cubes it means that one of your nodes is set to debug. The D key is a toggle for debug view that only works if you have the particular node selected. So first go look at your graph and find the node that has a blue/green Dot on it(that means it is in debug mode). Just select that node first and then hit the D key to turn it off. The Dot should go away as well as the cubes. You also might have cubes showing from multiple nodes at once in which case you need to select each of them and turn off the debug mode. Hope that helps
@@azielarts Thank you very much! Perfect tutorial!
Is it possible to do PCG on custom meshes?
Hey yep it can use any mesh
How@@azielarts
@@deepeshsubhash7915 you have to sample the surface of the mesh. I think this video shows it. ruclips.net/video/qKlWZjfkuRY/видео.html
I will try to make one on it as well
Looks good !
Anyway to quickly blend everything with RVT BUT without going through the RVT process ?
Haha lol I wish. You still have to go through the set up process for RVT to blend the assets that way. Although I have noticed that if you up the density of the ground plates to completely cover the landscape material the blending is more seamless.
@@azielarts Yes that would be a workaround ! But how could I do so with a snow landscape ?
Just saw your storm NS video, I'll use it as a blizzard effect !
@@daviddelayat-dnapictures ooh snow! I honestly have less experience with that biome. May need to get back to you on that one. I know RVT would work well. You would probably still scatter snow banks or piles, but you might need a more advanced Landscape material that shifts between snow materials based on steepness so that snow is only in top of things. Also in my Niagara weather effects course I cover making a snow storm. Not sure if that is helpful
@@azielarts Thanks for the advice !
I've never thought about decals for snow, there might be some good ones out there as well that could do the trick !
What's the performance? Good for mobiles?
Performance is great for pc if you set it up efficiently. Probably not good for mobile, though I really have not tested it.
My PCG Input have no sub items such as actor, Landscape etc in UE 5.4.1
UE 5.3.2 Density Noise Not showing ?
can you tell why this is happening
Made a video on it👍 ruclips.net/video/GnpaBZiwExA/видео.htmlsi=vW17V1MmymUqmtoo
density noise or points doesn't show up in 5.3, reissued, renamed, removed :) not sure
Yep, ran into that also, here is the fixruclips.net/video/GnpaBZiwExA/видео.htmlsi=Np9orGieYYMfog7Y
Is there a limit for the amount of instances?
no density noise option in ue 5.3
please help
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super cool. thank you for such a detailed explanation
Absolutely! Glad it was helpful!
cant see the mesh in my project, cant find density noise too.
Hey, what mesh are you referring to. Also I'm recent versions of UE the density noise node was replaced with the attribute Noise node
@@azielarts hey aziel, yess now the name and color of node changed right? So my mesh in the final, are all white and some artifacts are appearing. Not so clear to me what node must be on on debug.
The whole method is now different because they changed PCG. For example at 1:00 you can't expand the input node anymore to get more pins.....
Yep you are right. Here is a video on that. ruclips.net/video/RiEUQQXa4xA/видео.html