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Installation & Setup

Welcome to the start of your Brushify journey!

Please watch the Beginner Tutorial and read the FAQ.

Beginner Tutorial in Unreal Engine 5

This comprehensive beginner tutorial teaches new Brushify users how to install unreal engine, add brushify packs to a new project, setup...

Movie Render Queue Crashes

This is an extremely common bug with both UE4 and UE5. It was first introduced with the Movie Render Queue (MRQ) plugin. This crash...

Installing Brushify Packs

Learn how to install Brushify packs to your Unreal Project.

Merging Brushify packs into one project

Brushify packs can easily be merged together, in the Epic launcher, click 'Add to project' then choose 'Overwrite files'. This is...

Using the Landscape Auto-Material

Learn how to use the Brushify Landscape Auto-Material, use Sculpting brushes to generate terrain and add distance meshes for the far backgrounds surrounding your level.

Creating your first Brushify Landscape

Learn how to setup the Brushify Landscape Automaterial and start sculpting and painting.

Sculpting Brushes

This video tutorial shows how you can use Alpha Brushes to sculpt more detail onto your landscapes.

Distance Meshes

Learn about Brushify Distance meshes and how they can be used to create realistic background vistas and save performance.

Footstep Sound Effects

To allow detection of footstep sounds on various materials and slopes of the automaterial, it's necessary to use a system such as this...

Customizing Paint Layers

Learn how to customize the Landscape Auto-Material, adding new materials, roughness, Understanding features like Nanite and RVT.

Nanite Displacement & Runtime Virtual Textures

If you've tried to use Runtime Virtual Textures and Nanite, then you've definitely come across a common issue where the landscape...

Adding Custom Materials (e.g. Megascans)

Video Tutorial: Text Tutorial: In this article I'm going to explain how Custom Materials can be added to the Brushify - Landscape...

Enabling Nanite Displacement

Video: To begin, we're going to paint down the Mud Layer, as this already has Height information input. You can do this on any Brushify...

Roughness Materials

It's possible to give Brushify Paint layers custom Roughness maps to create effects like Wet Mud and Puddles. This tutorial gives an...

Grass & Rocks

Learn how to tweak Brushify's procedural Grass & Rocks using Unreal Engine grasstypes system

Procedural Grass

it's possible to alter the density and scale of the Brushify grass, add new custom grass meshes (Megascans etc)

Cliffs & Canyons

Learn how to add more realistic Cliffs to your scenes, and how to enable Tri-planar mapping for more vertical landscape detail

Creating Massive Worlds

Set Dressing: Creating Detailed Cliffs

It's very important to decorate cliffs using Static Meshes in order to maximize the detail.

Enabling Tri-Planar Mapping

With Brushify you can eliminate Vertical stretching on landscape slopes using the built-in Tri-planar Mapping feature. In this example...

With Brushify it's possible to create massive worlds using these techniques.

Create Massive Worlds with Brushify

This powerful workflow allows for rapid environment creation for large Unreal Engine projects.

World Composition

It's possible to use World Composition with Brushify AutoMaterial. However this feature outdated and redundant in most use cases.

Procedural Foliage

Certain Brushify packs include realistic foliage.

Learn how to procedurally scatter foliage across your landscape

Procedural Foliage

In this tutorial I show how you can activate Unreal Engines powerful Procedural Foliage system and use this in combination with...

Wind System and Integrating Ultra Dynamic Weather

Brushify includes it's own Global wind system, which is also compatible with weather plugins such as Ultra Dynamic Weather

Integrating UDW Wind with Brushify Global Wind

It's possible to use Brushify's Global Wind system alongside Ultra Dynamic weather. The setup for this is actually very simple. First ,...

Global Wind System Overview

Brushify has a built in Global Wind System that affects all actors using the Brushify Foliage Material. There are a few separate...

Skies & Lighting

These Tutorials show you how to integrate Sky and Weather systems into projects using Brushify.

Integrating Ultra Dynamic Weather

It's possible to use the popular UDS plugin with Ultra dynamic weather. This adds a sophisticated sky and lighting system, as well as...

Recommendation: Ultra Dynamic Sky

For a fully dynamic sky with Volumetric clouds, I highly recommend Ultra Dynamic Sky as a Drag and Drop Solution.

Recommendation: Hemisphere Skies

Hemisphere skies uses Real Life video captures and is a great way to add Photorealistic timelapses to your Brushify Landscapes.

Water & Oceans

Brushify comes with a simple Ocean and Lake shader that's easy to integrate into your levels.

Adding Water to your landscape

How to add water to your landscape.

Voxel Worlds

Brushify is fully compatible with the Unreal Engine Voxel plugin,

it's even possible to create spherical worlds.

Voxels

It's possible to use Brushify in combination with the Unreal Engine Voxel Plugin You can get the free Voxel Plugin here:...

Spherical Worlds

It's possible to use Brushify with Spherical shaped landscapes. Here's an example with Voxel Plugins Spherical World: The process is...

SmartBrush System

The Brushify SmartBrush system allows you to work

non-destructively in Unreal Engine using sculpting brushes.

Massive Worlds with SmartBrushes

This showcases how to create massive worlds using SmartBrushes using Landscape scaling. It's possible to build massive MMO levels using...

Using Sculpt, Smooth and Flatten

You can still use all the traditional sculpting tools alongside SmartBrushes with a completely non-destructive Layer Based workflow....

SmartBrush Troubleshooting

Video Tutorial: Changing Landscape Scale Go to Landscape actor and increase to your desired scale (1:1 ratio only) You will now find that...

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Customizing Paint Layers

Nanite Displacement & Runtime Virtual Textures

Customizing Paint Layers

Adding Custom Materials (e.g. Megascans)

Customizing Paint Layers

Enabling Nanite Displacement

Customizing Paint Layers

Roughness Materials

Customizing Paint Layers

Runtime Virtual Texturing

Customizing Paint Layers

Parallax Occlusion Mapping