Procedural Landscape Material - Physical Materials?

Hello,

I’ve set-up a procedural landscape material that textures terrain by detecting height and slopes etc… This is all working nicely and uses similar techniques to the open world example material. However, I have been scratching my head as to how I can automatically apply physical materials in order to have different sounds and particle effects play based on the generated layers.

The way I understand it, physical materials can be applied to layers via the paint tool and a single physical material can be applied to the entire material but is there a way I can apply multiple physical materials to my procedurally generated layers automatically? I’m really trying to avoid having to hand-paint the terrain as I would have wasted so much time making it automatically texture only to revert back to hand-painting.

I spent some time studying the open world material and couldn’t see how they have achieved it if they even have at all…

Could someone shed some light on this please?

Is it even possible?

I’ve hunted high and low and couldn’t find a definitive answer.

Regards,

ULLS

I’ve had an answer via the forums but this isn’t really ideal. Can Epic Games confirm that this isn’t possible?

I’ve found an answer here - It’s apparently scheduled for 4.14