WHy I get this weird shadowing on distant grass? [immagine]

i think it is because beyond a certain distance shadows are not being calculated. I dont know enough of the tech to explain details but I can say a few things to toggle which may clean up the appearance: you can probably remove normal maps from the billboard material remove specularity and AO maps …

is there any tutorial on how to do that ? I am not sure how to and I see that the megascan materials hsvr no rfiting options for the grass, they refer all to a master material but the instances do not seem to have entries or even how to add textures , they just open up a window with the image of a b…

First you have to be familiar with basics of materials and material instancing: Instanced Materials | Unreal Engine Documentation Intro to Materials: Material Instancing | 08 | v4.0 Tutorial Series | Unreal Engine - YouTube WTF Is? A Material Instance in Unreal Engine 4 - YouTube Then its probab…

I did those already but I coudln’t find a solution to this problem in there .

This is the windows it opens . https://i.gyazo.com/92d24a755cbc7cc8c0c00f5452a2fbd5.png

in the menu tabs, under window, can you toggle details panel on? Reset the layout?

Ok I am stupid, yes under windows I enabled details and shows so the details … what should I edit there?

those things i mentioned in first response are probably simplest and safest things to mess with. Basicalyl my idea is to try and get rid of the specular shine because that gives away the plane and makes it not look like individual grasses. I usually find the normal map to not make a difference or …

Ok I found what could , perhaps be the solution , I edited the base material and I added this : I will write it here in case others might incur in the same issue : https://i.gyazo.com/a000d3043153299a560e8bf77afee592.png Then I see that the megascan material of the grass is actually two , not sur…

Distance grass darkness

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BIGTIMEMASTER (Aljav) May 22, 2022, 1:52pm 6

Opening up the material instance, you don’t see something like this?