Client Prompt (Wood & Moss)

apowell1_M_04 Client Prompt Material2.mp4

Does Money Grow on trees?

I mean...if a Tech Artist can make moss appear on trees then they can make money appear too right? Right?! Maybe one day...

Table of Contents

Reference Summary

Height LERP'in Again

Base Properties

Normals Here, Normals There

Final Build

Feature Demonstration

Conclusion

Resources

Reference Summary

Here I tried to challenge myself and have this new material fit into the same environment I used to create my water material with (and have it still look good)!
I really wanted the textures to come out properly so I took some extra time in Sampler to ensure they had the right look and feel to them.

Source: https://www.fasttreeremovalatlanta.com/tag/tree-bark-repair

Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/moss-on-tree-bark-20442687/

Height LERP'in Again

If you followed my last blog on the Icy Environment material you'll see I used the HeightLerp node to blend between elements there as well. So if it's not broken, don't try to fix it! I wanted to use the same technique but tackle a completely different subject matter this time around.

Base Properties

Now this time around I had an extra texture I wanted to add and really push the variations in elements. At first, every time I applied the moss the bare raw wood would show underneath with it. So I had to rearrange a few nodes in order to get the moss to just show up by itself when using the alpha mask / vertex color paint tool.

Normals Here, Normals There

So because I had rearranged the nodes earlier...inevitably I needed to come back and rearrange the normals there. I say this because I forgot and was wondering why things seemed to look so strange at first. No problem though, all is good in the outback now.

Final Build

Here is what everything should look like put together.

Feature Demonstration

apowell1_M_04 Client Prompt Material.mp4

Conclusion

Having set out to meet a specific challenge, I think I was able to pull of having the textures (material) fit nicely within the environment again and more importantly, have it be functional!

apowell1_M_04 Client Prompt Material2.mp4

Resources

Textures - https://www.cadhatch.com/seamless-water-textures

Enivronment - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/rural-australia-environment-collection-now-available-for-free

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