it’s giving me a no layer info assigned error, maybe it’s a naming conflict between the hole material and the main material? can’t pick up on the layer blend on the hole material because it has the same names as the main material? When I assign a new layer info and try to paint it just makes more black
“This layer has no layer info assigned yet. You must create or assign a layer info before you can paint this layer.”
Ok, here’s a new test. Try making a copy of the original material and take out the visibility mask. Use the original material as your hole material and use the second material as your normal layer painting. Does this still occur?
Same result
Here it is with a new material, again splat textured from world machine, but I turned off the normal maps and now you can see a little bit of the material poking through in red. This method is adding the visibility mask to the base material and setting it to both landscape and hole.
Here’s a closeup of the texturing showing through and where it’s coming from, it’s a lerp overlay of a sediment layer that’s downstream from the layer blend
Removing the layer blend and adding just a simple base color fixes the blackness issue as well, I’m calling shenanigans on the layer blend 
Can you show me your new material setup so I can understand what changed and test it on my end?
Here’s the latest mat setup
To make the white appear, I simply punched a constant3 into the base color and it works, the only thing left is the layer blend… if you want I can send you a copy of the assets, I’ll try and narrow it down a bit as well
I rebuilt the scene as simply as possible using only 2 splat maps for the layer blend and a bunch of constant3’s for color and the results were the same
Here’s a shot of that material
Does this only occur when using the splat maps or do you get the black splotches even when using nothing but 3 vector constants?
Just tried it with just a constant 3 running the layer blend, and it’s still showing black
here’s the mat as it stands
Even more simple way of reproducing the bug…
Just make that the material for your hole texture and voila, blackness… bypass the layer blend and go straight from the color into the base color and it works as desired, but if a layer blend is anywhere in your material it will make those sections black
Hi Visnarel,
I attempted this on my end but everything seems to be coming in as intended. Here are the settings I used when creating my material:
And here was the result:
Is there anything that I am doing differently than you are?
from there it looks the same, maybe the blend settings are slightly different? Here’s a link to my blank debug scene that shows the problem on my end
Hi Visnarel,
I was able to get your visibility mask to correctly render on my end by replacing your landscape hole material with the GroundMat_Test that you were using in your original material. I also noticed you did not have any weight blended layers set up in this, which may have been lending towards the landscape. So put the GroundMat_Test with landscape visibility mask in both the material and the hole material for the landscape slots and see if that fixes your error.
Not quite, with some effort I could paint on the weighted area and paint a hole into it, but it would never pick up on the layer blend materials from the splat masking height blend it stayed black until I painted one of the layers into the square, and then instead of black I would get just that color, not the results of the blended layers
I’ve attached a test landscape material that on my end seems to be working, try it by adding it to both the landscape material and hole material slot and then setting all three layers to weight blended. If this is not working please let me know.
Same problem, it will allow you to put colors on there… manually, by painting them on afterwards, but it’s completely ignoring the effect of the splat map, so any zone that you have a hole in, would have to be manually painted back by scratch
With the default settings included in the download
With the preview set to .5 in the layer blend
Manually painting into the green mask
Manually painting into the blue mask
I tried it on the default content (landscape) and it was working as expected, the only real difference is that it’s an instance, instead of a regular material, I’m wondering if that may have something to do with it
