Environments

Advanced Materials

Create an automatic landscape material from scratch and learn the systems behind it.

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What you will learn

  • Build a landscape master material with reusable functions
  • Auto-texture terrain by height, slope, and world position
  • Project textures with triplanar mapping
  • Set up runtime virtual textures for blending and performance
  • Hide repetition on large surfaces
  • Blend objects seamlessly into terrain

About this course

Landscape essentials, automaterial creation, texture projection, and virtual textures. The skills transfer to any large-scale surface: hide repetition, blend by height and slope, and keep it fast.

Syllabus

5 chapters, 26 lessons. Click any lesson to open its public preview.

01Landscape Essentials10 lessons
01Master Material17:0602Basic Landscape13:4103Landscape Material Function20:4804Specular Changes8:3405Repetition and Distance Blend10:4506Distance Blend 29:1707Macro and Distance Variation12:0408Distance Variation Blend8:5109Landscape From Height Map7:2210Landscape Material Maps10:34
02AutoMaterial Creation!5 lessons
11World Position Height Material12:4712Height Material Part 212:0513AutoMaterial Slope Blending14:0414AutoMaterial Normal11:1815Extra AutoMaterial Blend!16:37
03Texture Projection2 lessons
16Triplanar Projection14:0217Cell Bombing10:02
04Virtual Textures4 lessons
18Virtual Texture Setup10:3919Increase Performance with Virtual Cache6:2520Landscape Blending Part 18:4021Landscape Material Part 213:27
05Nanite Tessellation5 lessons
22Nanite Tessellation9:3523Tessellation Adjustments8:1024Nanite Landscapes4:4825Height Blending16:4426Landscape Displacement16:32
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