Auto landscape material for mesh terrain
The only way to see displacement map of a material in path tracer is to apply it to a mesh with modeling tools.
...but it is not possible to apply displacement to a landscape object.
Auto landscape material (ex. brushify) are really good to build fast biome but they just apply to landscape (they are based on height).
Would be helpful (and possible?) an auto material that can work with mesh terrain and would be possible to apply the displacement map of that material (with modeling tools) to the terrain mesh before render with path trace?
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I know about the upcoming vertex blend material 🙂 Maybe masking the 3 materials with angle and/or height would be a starting point but...what about apply displacement map to the mesh for those blended vertex materials? Is that possible?
I think that video is inspiring for the last point (get displacement map of vertex blend material)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O85QCU_huk4&t=2s
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Height Blending and Displacement with Layered Material Demo | Unrea...
Tutorial for this video demo: https://youtu.be/gmN_oMbl2ZE
This is a super short demo showing off just the height blend functionality of my layered material system that I have been developing in Unreal Engine 5. This system is designed for tiling textures to be reused with RGBA masks, as well as other procedural masks.
Overview of my material ...
or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njz3Ei3w7TA
There it explain that vertex paint needs to be applied before converting mesh to nanite.
But the point is: is there a way to "extract" the displacement map to apply then later with modeling tools to the mesh? That makes sense?
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Thanks for the suggestion and details! I have noted down the request!