Making Dynamic Desert Sand in Unreal Engine 4
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Published 2021-04-21
LINKS:
Material Nodes: imgur.com/AMp3n2R
Material Instance: imgur.com/2GG3Mkt
Sand Rendering in Journey, GDC talk by John Edwards. Must watch this if you plan on making sand: • Sand Rendering in Journey
Discord: discord.gg/bRmKqndeQn
Background music is Celer - In the Middle Of the Moving Field
Huge thanks to Celer for letting me use one of his tracks !
celer.bandcamp.com/
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:22 Base landscape
00:29 Albedo/Base Color
00:50 Normal
01:02 Grainy Normal explanation
01:25 World Displacement explanation & examples
02:15 Adaptive tessellation
02:25 Smaller Dunes depending on slope & orientation
03:10 Wind waves
03:33 Render Virtual Textures (RVT) explanation
04:04 RVT Tutorial
05:19 Front RVT Plane & details
05:35 Noise mask on trail & color change with displacement height
05:52 Tiling Distortion on trail
06:06 Final tweaks
06:17 Outro, next video etc.
Thank you for watching !
All Comments (21)
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No english subtitles needed my friend, your english is very nice. Love the tutorial! Can't wait for the next one!
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I am always working on a desert landscape, and its interesting to see what we did similarly, and see you hit the same challenges as I am doing right now
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Not only amazing effect but actually one of the best UE tutorials on the YouTubes :) ...
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Awesome Video. I'm looking forward to seeing more of these ;)
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Thank you so much for the tutorial, and the great Preperation and extra links. Really really helpful !
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Thank you for the great explanation. Liked your video very much
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Someone should pay you to make tutorials like this, honestly You got me as a Sub!
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Wow! Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to get a good sand dune set up working. This is great! Thanks for being so clear in your explanations.
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Very interesting design. Great voice and explanation, insightful content. Great job man! Here's a sub!
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This was great. Thank you. I really like the design of your character. Subscribed.
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Amazing video, thank you please make more :]
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So badly want to do that! thanks for the tutorial!
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This is the most amazing ways to make a tutorial, I love it
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awesome tutorial. Thanks a lot for making it.
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even though I'm a real noob and beginner in unreal, this video motivates me to what sorta level I want to achieve!! truly inspiring...
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Wow look amasing will have to try this for my desart biome.
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Good stuff! Keep it going :)
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REALLY NICE EXPLANATION OF YOUR WORK
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I googled this on a whim and lo and behold here you are my savior.
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amazing stuff this was very helpfull
