Hello! I hope whoever is reading this is having a wonderful day/night.
Myself and many others I have talked to have been wanting the newest terrain materials for quite some time now. We get many galleries and prefabs which contain the latest and most visually pleasing assets, but when placed next to landscape materials we currently have, they can sometimes look very out of place.
An example of this which myself and others have recently is using chapter 5/6 cliff assets on Chapter 4 Landscape. Looks great in some places, but due to how the materials are set up on these props, they can look extremely out of place in different areas of the world. This is due to these terrain props having global biomes which change the colour of the assets materials based on their global coordinates.
There aren’t currently any methods (that of which are clear/user friendly/permitted) to disabling the biome effect on these official assets, so a clear way to disable the biome effect (along with other material attributes) with some user friendly parameters would be extremely helpful.
Exposing read only material parameters would open up many opportunities for those of us who enjoy Fortnite’s artstyle and wish to keep it consistent and coherent. This will allow creators to fine tune materials and make them look far more consistent, instead of looking hastily put together.
If exposing read only material parameters is too much of a hassle, adding the chapter 5/6 landscape materials to the content browser would at the very least allow developers to use these assets in harmony with their intended landscapes.
And if all of that is too much work to do, at the very least, provide the community with the necessary textures to formulate their own Landscape Materials which stay faithful to the official chapter 5/6 landscape materials. This could be a subtle, but very helpful change that could go a long way, and I truly hope to see the former of these suggestions implemented in the future.
Seriously, Epic, your latest landscape materials look wonderful, we’d love to use them.
Sincerely, flevoh.