how to add color variation in quixel trees

I have a scene with quite a bit of foliage, but i was wondering if there is an easy way to control the foliage of specific trees so that there is a randomness in the materials as well?

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The material node

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Im so sorry if this comes off as dumb but will that make a color change on each and every foliage asset? Cause i dont wanna use the color gradient on the global foliage actor, i have realised it kinda messes up a lot of stuff…Is there a more updated/recent video for the application on this…?

Yes, each instance gets its own color. There’s nothing to it, just vary the color with

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Woah and this works with MASS foliage like world building level trees and stuff too?

Also, can you control it in the tree’s parameters?

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Foliage is foliage, no? :slight_smile:

It’s a material parameter, so any instanced object with that material, has it.

Hmm…

Im still trynna find the one master material for the leaves right now tbh :frowning:

All i can see as the master material is just this

Try double clicking this

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I think since i added two different packs, im getting two of those now hehe…

But i shall brb whilst trying the variation thingy…

Just as a confirmation, im gonna make a lerp 3 color, connect by base texture and 2 more colors, make the world pivot+add in the alpha and connect them to the base color…

Hopefully this works :slight_smile:

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Wait umm quick question thoug. Should i just connect a scalar parameter by multiplying the interp node so tha i get the power to change colors?

You do it just like I did above, except one input of the lerp is the base texture, the other is the base texture * a color.

Thankss, i got through!

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Very good :sunglasses:

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Please consider taking a look at this :frowning:

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I did look at it, I don’t have an answer, I’m afraid.

I think it might be something to do with shadow distance and the directional light, but I’m not sure where that’s set now with Lumen…

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