Need help with vertex paint layer material

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Currently I’m trying to recreate landscape material from The Last of Us Part 1 with all features like puddles, snow clumps etc.

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I made material with multiple layers for each channel and it look like this

  1. Base Layer - Soil
  2. R - Grass
  3. G - Snow
  4. B - Puddle

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But I have a problem with next step - adding melted snow around my snow layer like here

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Is there any solution to achieve this kind of effect? What nodes could I use? Maybe isolate somehow snow layer borders?

Will appreciate any kind of help - links, tutorials, etc. Thanks!

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Hi @Ianaken!

I believe what you are looking for is Height Lerp- which has conveniently been packaged up as an engine-provided Material Function. This is a pretty common way to achieve this exact effect.

Here’s a tutorial that goes into how to set up this MF:

Let me know if you have any other questions!