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.

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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.