[UE5.5] Help Needed. How to merge virtual textures and world aligned textures

Filip5

Hey guys, I have world aligned textures on my building in unreal engine, but would like to combine it with virtual textures introduced in UE 5.5. I am a bit new to materials in UE, could you plese help me outh with this?





So altogether I want to paint virtual textures on a object with a world aligned texture. Is it possible to achieve it?

poopipe

yes - completely possible. 

you connect it up just as you would any other material with a virtual texture - its covered quite well in the documentation. 

and - just to clarify... virtual textures were introduced in ue4

Filip5

poopipe said:

yes - completely possible. 

you connect it up just as you would any other material with a virtual texture - its covered quite well in the documentation. 

and - just to clarify... virtual textures were introduced in ue4

After looking at docs, it is quite a new addition. These virtual textures were added in 5.5 and sadly, I did not find a way to connect world aligned textures with this new mesh paint option. Link to docs: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/getting-started-with-mesh-texture-color-painting-in-unreal-engine?application_version=5.5

poopipe

ah sorry.  completely misunderstood. 
This isn't a virtual texture as such despite needing the setting enabled. I'd assume the setting needs to be enabled to support the reatlime painiting.

reading the docs  - you should be able to combine your mesh paint with world aligned textures but it doesn't look like you'll be able to paint a world aligned texture since you need the mesh UVs to project your strokes onto the texture .