TerrainMagic brings a set of tools that makes it easier to create & modify landscapes in Unreal Engine.
Home Page: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/terrainmagic-supercharging-landscape-creation
License: Other
We need to write paint layer data, right inside Landscape Clips.
At least, we need to provide support for Splat Maps & Normals based painting
Internal Notes
Create a Landscape Clips which uses noises to generate Landscape.
Use both procedural noises & texture-based noises.
Add the ability to paint some masks.
This is a way to introduce and customize the heightmap of the landscape via a special actor.
A Landscape clip is not a Blueprint brush.
But it talks to the blueprint brush at some point to commit the height data. Here's the reason for that
We also need to support the following items in a clip
This will be a long project & we might have implemented this in smaller chunks
1>Plugin 'TerrainMagic' (referenced via TerrainMagic.uproject) does not contain the 'TerrainMagic' module, but lists it in 'E:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.1\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace\TerrainMagic_UE51\TerrainMagic.uplugin'.
I've followed the instructions in your Youtube video, tried to install in the engine and inside the project separately.. But no success.. Installed DotNet SDK 6.
When I generate the Visual Studio project files:
Running E:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.1/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/Build.bat -projectfiles -project="E:/UE5/TerrainMagic/TerrainMagic.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="E:\UE5\TerrainMagic/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2023.10.25-22.25.12.log"
Running UnrealBuildTool: dotnet "..\..\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.dll" -projectfiles -project="E:/UE5/TerrainMagic/TerrainMagic.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="E:\UE5\TerrainMagic/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2023.10.25-22.25.12.log"
Log file: E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Saved\Logs\UnrealVersionSelector-2023.10.25-22.25.12.log
Log file: C:\Users\noob_013\AppData\Local\UnrealBuildTool\Log_GPF.txt
Some Platforms were skipped due to invalid SDK setup: IOS, Android, Linux, LinuxArm64.
See the log file for detailed information
Discovering modules, targets and source code for project...
E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Plugins\TerrainMagic_UE51\TerrainMagic.uplugin: warning: Unknown platform Win32 while parsing allow list for module descriptor TerrainMagic
E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Plugins\TerrainMagic_UE51\TerrainMagic.uplugin: warning: Unknown platform Win32 while parsing allow list for module descriptor TerrainMagicEditor
Compiled assembly file 'E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Intermediate\Build\BuildRules\TerrainMagicModuleRules.dll' appears to be for a newer CLR version or is otherwise invalid. Unreal Build Tool will try to recompile this assembly now. (Exception: Could not load file or assembly 'E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Intermediate\Build\BuildRules\TerrainMagicModuleRules.dll'. Format of the executable (.exe) or library (.dll) is invalid.)
E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Plugins\TerrainMagic_UE51\Source\TerrainMagic\TerrainMagic.Build.cs(5,14): error CS0101: The namespace '<global namespace>' already contains a definition for 'TerrainMagic'
E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Plugins\TerrainMagic_UE51\Source\TerrainMagic\TerrainMagic.Build.cs(7,9): error CS0111: Type 'TerrainMagic' already defines a member called 'TerrainMagic' with the same parameter types
Expecting to find a type to be declared in a target rules named 'TerrainMagicTarget'. This type must derive from the 'TargetRules' type defined by Unreal Build Tool.
When I put the Plugin inside E:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.1\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace\TerrainMagic_UE51 I get the following:
Running E:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.1/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/Build.bat -projectfiles -project="E:/UE5/TerrainMagic/TerrainMagic.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="E:\UE5\TerrainMagic/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2023.10.25-22.30.03.log"
Running UnrealBuildTool: dotnet "..\..\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.dll" -projectfiles -project="E:/UE5/TerrainMagic/TerrainMagic.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="E:\UE5\TerrainMagic/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2023.10.25-22.30.03.log"
Log file: E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Saved\Logs\UnrealVersionSelector-2023.10.25-22.30.03.log
Log file: C:\Users\noob_013\AppData\Local\UnrealBuildTool\Log_GPF.txt
Some Platforms were skipped due to invalid SDK setup: IOS, Android, Linux, LinuxArm64.
See the log file for detailed information
Discovering modules, targets and source code for project...
E:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.1\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace\TerrainMagic_UE51\TerrainMagic.uplugin: warning: Unknown platform Win32 while parsing allow list for module descriptor TerrainMagic
E:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.1\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace\TerrainMagic_UE51\TerrainMagic.uplugin: warning: Unknown platform Win32 while parsing allow list for module descriptor TerrainMagicEditor
Binding IntelliSense data...
Exception while generating include data for TerrainMagicEditor: Plugin 'TerrainMagic' (referenced via TerrainMagic.uproject) does not contain the 'TerrainMagic' module, but lists it in 'E:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.1\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace\TerrainMagic_UE51\TerrainMagic.uplugin'.
Binding IntelliSense data... 100%
Writing project files...
Opening the solution in VS2022:
E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Intermediate\ProjectFiles\UE5.vcxproj : warning : Platform 'Win64' referenced in the project file 'UE5' cannot be found.
E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\Intermediate\ProjectFiles\TerrainMagic.vcxproj : warning : Platform 'Win64' referenced in the project file 'TerrainMagic' cannot be found.
and when using debug:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error MSB3073 The command ""E:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.1\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\Build.bat" TerrainMagicEditor Win64 Development -Project="E:\UE5\TerrainMagic\TerrainMagic.uproject" -WaitMutex -FromMsBuild" exited with code 6. TerrainMagic C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.MakeFile.Targets 44
Warning Unknown platform Win32 while parsing allow list for module descriptor TerrainMagic TerrainMagic E:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.1\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace\TerrainMagic_UE51\TerrainMagic.uplugin 1
Warning Unknown platform Win32 while parsing allow list for module descriptor TerrainMagicEditor TerrainMagic E:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.1\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace\TerrainMagic_UE51\TerrainMagic.uplugin 1
With this, we can access paint layer information right inside Blueprints. We can use this to detect the paint layer & launch foot sounds & etc.
This can used in full if we create auto materials based on TerrainMagic.
Here we need to test how this system works with WorldParition & what else we can do about this.
This will be very similar to features we have in the Clips, but instead of the Landscape. We will add it as a static mesh.
We can have all the features we have already. Here are some of the things we can do:
The idea of these for now is to add background meshes, vistas, etc.
Well, this is not about creating auto materials. But get the same effect with TerrainMagic.
This will provide more control & easy use.
Here using the Landscape Height & Other information, we should be able to create some masks. These are not "paint layers". But some masks.
We can create a mask using the following things:
Here are set of things that we can do with masks:
Implemented with #11
Sometimes, we need to export these generated heightmaps (Maybe for another client)
So, in that case, we should allow a clean option to export heightmaps.
Also, a way to flatten-out LandscapeClips & WeightMaps.
Here we can nice blend two heightmaps but replace existing ones. We can use an alpha mask to lerp between the original & the new clip.
Implemented with 1.7.0
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