(UE4) Vertex Paint Water Puddle Master Material

aaronkaminer

This is a complex master material I am working on in my free time. I recently put in a vert paint puddle system. You can make the blue vert paint channel act as liquid with a toggle. Looking to add a few more functions... but here it is! hope you like!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ibwXHZL6g&feature=youtu.be

Qdwach

Damn that looks pretty, really makes me want to finally get my hands on UE4

ZacD

Wet but not puddled areas could be darkened with their saturation boosted. Here's a huge paper on this topic https://seblagarde.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/observe-rainy-world/ You don't need to read the whole thing, there's just a lot of good reference photos and discussion about how to create certain parts of the effect.

Bruno Afonseca

Looking good! I made a simplified version of this too, on mine I'm using a secondary texture other than the floor heightmap to break up the painting a bit (the water bias texture):




I see that you even added ripples and such! I'd love to see a breakdown of yours

aaronkaminer

@ZacD Awesome read! Thanks! I already have most of this happening within my wet map properties but I can definitely see room for improvement now.

aaronkaminer

Bruno Afonseca wrote: »

Looking good! I made a simplified version of this too, on mine I'm using a secondary texture other than the floor heightmap to break up the painting a bit (the water bias texture):




I see that you even added ripples and such! I'd love to see a breakdown of yours

Your's looks great! I would love to show breakdowns eventually. This is just one small part of this master material... and I plan to release it on the market soon!

xChris

This is real neat, I was literally looking into how do this a few days ago!!!

stpashik

This is really cool.

aaronkaminer

Hello everyone! I have just release the tutorial series on creating this material with the vertex painting water puddles. It is available for purchase here. Here is the trailer video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ycWesmKe0

Here is the splash page showing the contents of the download.

DWalker

I'd go for a more traditional font for the title; the inverted 'V's serving as 'A's are unreadable.

beefaroni

Yo dude great job putting this together. I haven't purchased yet but the trailer and presentation is very enticing this time around

Kosai106

DWalker wrote: »

I'd go for a more traditional font for the title; the inverted 'V's serving as 'A's are unreadable.

I'll have to disagree on that.

TheRod

Hey, thank for the tut! i bought it earlier today to have a crack at it! every thing so far is workin appart from the roughness of the WetMap, when I add the lerp to the liquid lerp and then to the roughenss i get an error. I dont understand why becasue it worked for the Hue of the wetmap jsut not the roughenss.

Swarm22

Will be buying this tonight. Thanks, looks great.

Fisty

makes me wet

gloriousczar

Just picked this up, looking forward to checking it out!

aaronkaminer

TheRod wrote: »

Hey, thank for the tut! i bought it earlier today to have a crack at it! every thing so far is workin appart from the roughness of the WetMap, when I add the lerp to the liquid lerp and then to the roughenss i get an error. I dont understand why becasue it worked for the Hue of the wetmap jsut not the roughenss.

make sure you are only plugging in 1 channel.

systemic

Hi Aaron,

Great tutorial. It's been really helpful for me.

How did you create the "wetmap" texture, though?