PCG Basics - Unreal 5.2 Tutorial - Part 1

What if I want to exclude some spots from PCG,... such as if there's a house/structure?

I skip the "ProjectPoint On Landscape" because a dont find the right way to it...

I would be extremely grateful if you could explain or do a video on how to tie this into PCG on runtime. I'm struggling to understand how to generate a landscape and meshes on runtime based off a random seed.

If you're using UE 5.3.2 or later and are wondering why the i key doesn't work for inspecting, it's been changed to the a key.

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The ProjectPaintOnLandscape Node is not showing up for me

No more projectpointsonlandscape for 5.3 :(

If you're trying to find the "ProjectPointsOnLandscape" feature in version 5.3.1 and you're running into some issues, here's a friendly guide for you:

- First, create a "Projection" node.
- Insert the points you want to transform into the "Transform" node within the projection.
- Then, create a "Get Landscape Data" node. It only has an "out" output.
- Take this output from the "Get Landscape Data" node and insert it into the "Projection Target."

Hope this helps! 😊
(P.S if others mentioned this already I've not seen it sorry!)

I add ProjectPointsOnLandscape but they are not returning, what could be the reason? PLS

Superb, thanks for doing this. Found it really useful.

Thank you so much! Great explanation of all steps :)

I'm in a later version and the DensityNoise seems to be missing - I'm wondering if anyone can confirm that the Attribute Noise object is a replacement for that?

very nice starting for me as a beginner ... on Youtyube there is are some videos that playing with PCG BluePring and making a shape for example a apartment with 2 mesh ... actually compile them to make a nicer shape ... anyway they are advance and i hope to reach that point with this tutorial ..... Thanks ! <3

Dude, you nailed it.

Thank you, I like your tutorial, I learn a lot with it. I almost succeeded, I'm missing the node (project landscape), but I'll come back when I find a way to replace that with something else.

finally i found you!

Understanding Unreal's PCG is relatively easy after the torture of Houdini's🤣

Awesome tutorial, I just started with pcg and really appreciate a thorough walk through. While watching your video when talking about the density something that occurred to me, not sure if you talk about this later on. But it appears to be a float value and by favoring one end or the other is reminiscent of a histogram. The way that you were able to narrow down the spawning felt like clamping with the levels

I can not find Project on landscape node, there is not even a category Landscape in nodes... Please help with this

my debug/foliage are at the top of the box instead of on the landscape.. what do I do?

I was playing around with pcg the last days and it reminds me on houdini (sort of)
Its awesome! I subbed and will watch your Tutorials on binge😂
They are gold- as you said there is very rare tut stuff available yet
Thank you man!!!😊

Germany :)

Great series, thanks so much!

Absolute legend thank you. Downloaded the Electric Dreams scene - the most recent PCG example Epic have released - and realised I need to learn the basics of PCG before going anywhere near that goliath hahhaa

Thank you, very good explanation!

Dude you are a good teacher :-) thank you so much!

I am trying to add cliffs to my slopes, but I need the cliffs to remain upright and not align to surface. The landscape height pin seems to be the only possibility for not aligning points to surface, but the density filter does not work with the landscape height input. Any suggestions?

When i click generate it fills the entire landscape instead of just inside PCG bounds. Can you please help

Can the PCG spline walk and can it achieve animation of moving, rotating, scaling along the spline path and then restoring to its original position under custom walking

Cant find ProjectPointsOnLandscape node for the PCG graph. Anyone know where to get it?

Hello, thanks for your toturial! If I want to spawn points on a mountin mountain with spline data, what should I do?

I can't find landscape in the official release of UE5.2

Silly question, can a level be created in run-time by modifying the values such as number of rocks, area of foliage, replacing trees with shrubs etc.?

Unreal's documentation has always been lacking. Ever since the UDK days.

Would this work for buildings, like if I wanted to make a dungeon crawler game? (I'm very new)

Thank you!

The shortcut to inspect a node is now 'a' for attributes instead of 'i' for inspect.

the projectpointsonlandscape is not showing up for me sad face

thanks, i am trying to make a game and this is very helpful!

Can you do an updated one? Great tut

Will you personally be using this for foliage also or sticking to the painter?

Nanite, lumen, and now this. Unreal Engine 5 is the best game engine!!!

Just discovered your tutorial. In my UE5.2 Preview 2, there is no "ProjectPointsOnLandscape" node. Can you confirm that or do I have a slightly corrupt download that I need to run the "Verify" on my 5.2?

Thank you for these tutorials. Your teaching style is a welcome technique that I wish many tutorials had!!!

I can't get the static mesh spawner to work, idk what I'm doing. Thanks for the video I think I'm gonna try some simpler stuff and maybe wait for the full 5.2 release

Im wondering what the limit is for feeding in shape files. Like if I hade 2000 areas I needed to use the PCG to solve?

I don't have nodds "project points on landscape" what to do?

Inside your PCG Blueprint, your left list of options have 5 functions under the "Landscape" tab that do not appear to be included with the default PCG plugins. Did you create these on your own or downloaded them from another location? Could you share them? You've referenced one of them in this tutorial "ProjectPointsOnLandscape". But this doesn't appear to be included by default.

Hi... the projectpointsonlandscape is not showing up for me here... Can you please let me know how do i get it?