Procedural Content Generation in UE5 | GDC 2023

most of those are already deprecated....

How do you control the scale of different mesh entries in the Static Mesh Spawner node?

This is all worthless until they get some updated documentation that explains how to use it.

Congrats, it's so thrilling to see procedural stuff being developed!

absolute rotation is basically useless if you make pcg homes along spline please add a node that allows houses to face the road but ignores the landscape deformation

Great tutorial thanks, the most useful one for PCG I found.

Epic Games had the best booth at GDC 2023, hands down.

Can we use the PCG Splines to do housing instead of landscape? Like: provide rules/give it a pool of actors/meshes/etc to draw from and let it create cities with explorable interiors?

Arran is so awesome at presenting. Love him!

Compared with the previous PFS (Procedural Foliage Spawner) this is a vast improvement! Thank you!!

As an experienced UX architect with 20 years experience and now a 3D artist I'd like to offer some feedback. Like the PFS before it, the labeling of the controls is very confusing. For instance, is it a good idea to use the words "Point Extents" as a major section control label? As a 3D artist this means nothing to me. Always label controls based on anticipated behavior, not on internal technical jargon (please stop doing this). The next control label "Looseness" should be called something closer to Randomization. Again, label controls based on anticipated behavior. Proper labeling of these controls would solve half the usability problems this tool currently has.

Hey Guys, Chapters would be nice next time

Great presenter.. It wa overwhelming and not it's not.. Great Job!

A silly question. Is it possible for a game to build such a level at run time by changing values, such as location/ rotation of rocks, replacing grass with trees etc.

Imagine PCG body animations, actually why not PCG everything!

MidJourney to PCG pipeline? 😁

amazing

Awesome new tools that I'm so excited to dive into especially for a project I'm working on that really needs procedual generation, but I have to say this guy was so entertaining! I actually laughed out loud quite a bit and still found the video super informative. Great work!

is this all completely points based? because everything I've seen involves generating points. can I manipulate geometry itself like deformation (to another surface, or something like shader displacement), or topology, etc.? How can I send data from pcg to shaders (or the opposite) or other actors, or get data from then? also how do i access the data from the spreadsheet.
most importantly, how dose it work internally? like ate the points generated, then I deleted them, or am I affecting the *original* distribution of points going backwards (which would be more preforment)?
I know I have a lot of questions, and any information will be much appreciated.

This is what MASH does in Maya. Nice to see it in Unreal, it has been in Maya since a long time.

so, unreal have added geo nodes from blender to the environment

ok girlie.... he was giving UNREAL

i hope you can make it for skeletal mesh to make it for crowd simulation and characters with bones

I hope some basic engine stuff gets love soon. Bridge is insanely slow/laggy, the engine and Bridge always make you sign in, lots of basic UI/UX love needed.

Instead of generating a ton of points and filtering out half of them based on the (random) density value, why not generate half the number of points to begin with? Is it just an artificial exercise to demonstrate filtering, or is there some other benefit to doing it that way?

The only thing I really need is a PCG Cliff Placement on Slopes Tutorial^^

Can PCG be animated ? Could be cool if it then could be use with niagara and geo cache

Really good presentation. Very clear and hands on. Hope this guys has more unreal teaching content

PCG ROCKS! Pun Intended

great stuff - where are the downloadable demo files?

A very well prepared and fantastic presentation!

This is so cool. I've had an artistic vision for a generative open world game in my head for decades and the technology I need is finally coming around.

Nice video

Can you share project?

What a great presentation, love the procedural stuff. May I suggest using a better color scheme in the future, to be able to distinguish landscape and rocks/etc? In some scenes, it all just blends together.

Great presentation from Aaron. Thank you!

is this in 5.2? or in 5.1?

This is awesome!

Any way to have exposed variables in this instead of having all the values hard-coded on the nodes?

Yeey Houdini in unreal! I was waiting for this

When is an ai assistant developer tool coming to help lamen development? Hmm?

Love this stuff !

The Power

Why you just not take lesson and make similar system like in Blender called "geometry nodes" is much more universal and super intuitive, one system work like geometry script, PCG, Procedural Mesh

This guy is a pro at presentin', very clear and snappy.

Would be very cool to have those PCG graphs to put hands on 🙏

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not only the speaker is good but this new feature is amazing. this is peak human development