Introduction

This blog post documents my process in learning how to create auto landscape materials in Unreal Engine 5. These are materials that can be used to create landscapes in the software automatically, rather than meticulously crafting every detail of the landscape by hand, which takes a long time.

Drawing a Node Tree

In this lesson, the laptops that the class were using were not powerful enough to run Unreal Engine, and so the class followed the teacher’s instruction to write down the node tree on paper, which could then be used to create a node tree in Unreal when suitable PCs were available to use.