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Jumped back into unreal but I’m heavily procrastinating the game parts so I started messing with some of the environment tools in unreal. Specifically I’ve been poking at the grass setup tools (https:\/\/dev.epicgames.com\/documentation\/en-us\/unreal-engine\/grass-quick-start-in-unreal-engine<\/a>). Not too complicated essentially, your environment drives a few inputs and outputs in your landscape material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I whipped up a quick ground texture in gimp:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where each layer is a bit more grass ontop of the dirt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I whipped up two quick grass and tree models in blender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then once you import both into unreal you can tie everything together using a “LandscapeGrassType” which is just a data holder for what you consider grass:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then throw it into your material<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final result was surprisingly good. Obviously I could add more grass, touch up the ground texture, make a tree that doesn’t look like a plastic pylon. But I’m dumbfounded how far this stuff has come along from unreal 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n