Textures don't look so great - poor quality looking material - UE4.27.2

[zero_solaris70]

Hope you guys are doing well. I am using UE 4.27.2 and my texture doesn’t look so great…

This is a 4k texture, here are the materials:

This was downloaded from polyhaven. The 8k textures seem better but still don’t seem to be on the level of realism I like. Even from fab, due to the engine being out of date I must manually download the material and hook it up. I can’t help but feel I am doing something wrong. When I looked at other Youtubers that used the same or even older version of UE4 their textures looked realistic. Any advice or thoughts is greatly appreciated!

[ClockworkOcean]

I assume if you put it on a normal cube it looks great? ( and the cube in your picture is massive )

It will also probably look great on a 4x cube.

But larger than that, not. Then you can do a trick with camera distance to make it look like its always high quality

How to... Use Camera Position in Unreal Engine 5 Materials

( You use the trick to swap UV scale, not make it transparent )

[zero_solaris70]

thank you, ill try this

[ClockworkOcean]

You can vary the UV scale with distance, basically use this to calculate the input of a lerp

and use it to choose between two scales

You also need to do the same for the normal etc