UE4: Complete Guide to Spawning Foliage on Landscapes Using Grass Node Output

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Did you know you can spawn foliage meshes on landscapes automatically, on specific texture layer and without having to manually paint using the Foliage Tool?

Once I found out I could do this, I never want to paint using the Foliage Tool again.

In this complete tutorial guide you will learn how to set up the Landscape Grass Output node and spawn foliage procedurally on your landscapes.

0:00 Intro
00:30 - The Setup
01:50 - Creating Landscape Material
08:59 - Grass Output Node
11:08 - Landscape Grass Type
19:03 - Human Reference Scale
19:57 - Adding Additional Foliage Meshes to Spawn
22:20 - Landscape Material Instance
28:07 - Additional Texture Layers and Landscape Grass Type
32:46 - Premium UE4 Tutorial Courses

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Tutorials Mentioned in the Video:

UE4 Quick Tip #02: Quickly Add Mannequin Model to Projects for Scale Reference Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL9ba98H2_Q

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