Hi,
I am creating a beach and I have a rippled sand material in my landscape material. However, I want to rotate that particular material to always be rotated toward the water (or rather the core of the island).
I thought the alpha brush or pattern brush would do that, but it does not seem to rotate the material but only the brush.
Is there a way without having like 5 different landscape material layers?
The landscape has UV just like any other material. I’m guessing you can rotate it there…
Thank you! But would that not require me to have a bunch of materials cluttering up my landscape layers for every rotation I need? I need a different rotation for every angle the water hits the island.
I could be wrong, but I think if the ripples are in the normal of your material, you have to rotate the material.
So basically I have to create 4 to 8 materials with different rotations to account for all angles and to be able to paint them afterwards?
Is there any completely different way to go at this?
That’s a last resort ( get it?! )
You might be able to do something with distance fields, or RVT.
You know all these tutorials about blending object with the terrain? If you had an object ( set hidden ) under the edge of the water actor, you could use that blend area to use a texture / normal aligned with the water edge?..
I will try the distance field method, sounds interesting. And it seems to be used for ripples in water too.
Not sure I saw a tutorial of what you referred to – could you link one?
Thanks a lot!
It may not be much use…