EasyMapper

EasyMapper is a Master Material setup that supports World-Aligned (Triplanar) texture projection, combined with Nanite tessellation/displacement, and Advanced Vertex Blending in one simple, elegant package, for easy texture blending across assets.

With EasyMapper, you can project tileable, world-aligned textures across any surface, combined with Nanite displacement, without needing UV’s on your models. EasyMapper’s material instances are cleanly organized for easy art direction, and with a few clicks, you will be able to texture entire levels in moments, and give your models the detail they deserve.

You can toggle between World-Aligned (Triplanar) texture projection, giving you full control over the size/scale of your texture projection. Or you can use your “regular” UV mapping on your models if needed.

With the help of Nanite tessellation/displacement, you can also displace your models using height/displacement maps.

To top it all off, you can add realism to your models by blending up to 3 different materials with the help of advanced Vertex Blending, with full blend controls using the height/displacement data of the materials to ensure realistic blending.

Designed and intended for Cinematics usage.

Required Plugins (For Vertex Painting as shown in the Documentation tutorial):

ModelingToolsEditorMode

StaticMeshEditorModeling

*Nanite is not strictly necessary for EasyMapper, but tesselation/displacement won’t work if Nanite is disabled on a given model.

*Nanite Displacement/Tessellation will not work with Pathtracing, as Pathtracing does not utilize Nanite.

* Disclaimer: Nanite Tessellation/Displacement does not currently seem to work on Mac or AMD graphics cards as of Unreal Engine 5.3. This is an engine issue, not related to EasyMapper.

Technical Details

* Disclaimer: Nanite Tessellation/Displacement does not currently seem to work on Mac or AMD graphics cards as of Unreal Engine 5.3. This is an engine issue, not related to EasyMapper.

Features: (Please include a full, comprehensive list of the features of the product)

• World-Aligned Texture projection (No UV’s needed on any model).
• Texture-driven Nanite displacement/tessellation, works with World-Aligned Projection.
• Advanced Vertex Blending with height-masking, for natural-looking blends of up to 3 materials, and a Puddle layer can be enabled and painter with the Blue vertex color channel.
• Supports both packed ARD (Megascans) and unpacked greyscale textures for mapping
• Full texture adjustments, tiling, blend, and scale controls.
• Displacement Contrast/Intensity Adjustments
• Virtual Texture Support
• Normal Intensity
• Albedo Adjustments
• Roughness Adjustments
• Ambient Occlusion Adjustments
• Triplanar Blend Contrast
• Global Scale
• Displacement, Vertex Color, and World-Aligned mapping are all toggleable.
• Allows quick mapping of large scenes with ease, without worrying about UV stretching.
• Test Scene included for learning.

Required Plugins: (For Vertex Painting as shown in the Documentation tutorial):

ModelingToolsEditorMode

StaticMeshEditorModeling

Number of Unique Materials and Material Instances: 9

Number of Textures: 34

Texture Resolutions: 4096x4096, 2048x2048, 16x16

Supported Development Platforms:

Windows: Yes

Mac: Not Tested