Auto Landscape

The Auto
Landscape tools provide the landscape material and
environment-material foundation used by Hyper environment maps. Start here when
you need the material, RVT, paint-layer, and biome base to behave consistently
before adding forests, props, paths, water, or gameplay actors.

Related setup: For landscape creation, material selection, RVT setup, landscape paint
layers, and biome placement, see Set
Up Your Game Environment – Landscape setup.

Related Videos

Version note:
some videos may have been recorded before V4. The same principles still apply,
but current project names and written docs should be treated as the source of
truth.

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What This System Covers

• Landscape material presets for Hyper environments.
• Material instance tuning for textures, snow, grass, and
  environment look.
• RVT integration when the project uses Runtime Virtual Texture
  blending.
• Landscape paint layer support for custom painted areas and
  physical material assignment.

Use It When

• You are setting up a custom landscape for a
  Hyper-based map.
• You want the landscape material to work cleanly with
  weather, biome generation, RVT blending, and physical surface rules.
• You need a consistent material base before placing
  forests, props, paths, water, or gameplay actors.

Integration Notes

• Start with the existing Hyper landscape material
  presets unless you already have a project-specific landscape stack.
• If the Weather System is used, prefer letting that
  system drive snow-related runtime behavior instead of hardcoding it only
  in the material.
• Only enable RVT when the project is configured for
  virtual textures and you actually need mesh-to-landscape blending.
• Assign physical materials to landscape layers when
  other systems depend on surfaces, footsteps, traces, or environment
  filtering.