Environment Materials 1.0

This pack contains over 12 detailed, organized and commented materials. Demonstration examples are in the Overview scene. The project also includes a skysphere, landscape,  terrain texture examples and a few props. This is a living content pack: updates, maintenance and support will be provided. Please email me if you have any questions or concerns.

Patrick P.

Patrick@byob3d.ca

Landscape

• 3 layer blend with detailed height blending and Material attribute parameters
• Supports dynamic or static tessellation and displacement
• Uses the landscape Mode and layer painting

Foliage

• Animated wind applied by vertex colour with variable strength and direction parameters
• SubSurfaceScattering mask generator

Animated Cloth 

• Animated wind and ripple effect using vertex colors and masked animated normal maps.
• Multiple parameters for wind animation directionality, strength and speed

Animated Water

• Animated waves, rain and ripple effects
• Object intersection for shorelines
• Colour depth modification
• Supports planar reflections

Multi Material Blend 

• versatile multi material that can be used for terrain and props
• Animated Rain and wetness, darkens and applies displacement for puddles or mounds
• Blended and displaced by height map transitions and vertex colour. The displacement is toggleable

Multi Material Mask 

• Tiles textured masked material layers 
• Good for modular props, trim kits, building facades, detail tiles for grout, floor tiles
• Works for props with baked and tiling materials

Layered Scalable Prop

•  Good for large objects, additional material layer tiles automatically using object space UV’s
• Ambient Occlusion material layer masking
•  Top down worldspace blend for natural surface detail build up

Detailed Prop

• Detailed material attribute parameters for roughness, metal, specular, tiling etc
• Top down worldspace blend for natural surface detail build up

Particle

• Camera distance fades to blend the particle opacity. 
• Good for dust, mist, fog, smoke and other ambient VFX. 
• Comes with additional material using SubUV or Flipbook function for animated particles. 

Fog

• Animated, intensifies and fades with camera distance. 
• Good for Fog, Clouds, Mist, smoke. 
• Can be used on objects or particles. 

HDRI 

• Custom Skybox mesh and Material used for HDRI’s. 
• Rotation, exposure and color tint controls.

Decal 

• Simple Decal with Color tint, roughness and emissive controls. 

Post Processing Sharpen

• Post processing material override to apply a sharpen and contrast effect, similar to photoshop.

Unreal Engine 4.25

Package can be migrated to old or upgraded to newer engine versions. Works with Unreal Engine 4 and 5.

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