Procedural Generation and Simulation

Prof. Dr. Lena Gieseke | l.gieseke@filmuniversitaet.de
Teaching Assistant: Sylvia Rybak | sylvia.rybak@filmuniversitaet.de

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Session 04 - Tilings (10 points)

This session is due on Monday, May 15th and we will discuss the results on Wednesday, May 17th. This session is the second half of last week’s assignment. The tasks are not really connected to the topic of tilings.

This assignment should take <= 2h. If you need longer, please comment on that in your submission.

• Session 04 - Tilings (10 points)
  • Tilings
  • Unreal
    • Task 04.01 - Materials in Unreal
    • Task 04.02 - Custom Material Expressions - OPTIONAL
  • Learnings
    • Task 04.03

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Tilings

Re-cap Chapter 05 - Tilings

Unreal

Task 04.01 - Materials in Unreal

It is time to learn about materials and custom shading in Unreal.

First, you have to get into the very basics of working with Materials and the Material Editor. As usual, you can use any resource you like to get the knowledge. We recommend following the tutorial SARKAMARI - UE5 Series: 02 Intro to Materials in UNREAL Engine 5 (it uses our good friend from last week, the lerp 😁).

For this task you do not have to create a designed scene, the task is just about learning to work with materials.

Submission: At least one preview image of your experimental scene, linked in your pgs_ss23_04_lastname.md file.

Task 04.02 - Custom Material Expressions - OPTIONAL

Next to creating spaghetti salad with linking nodes, you can also use code within your network. Often times it is up to personal taste, when to use spaghetti, I mean nodes, and when code. But once in a while, you will encounter cases where you can only archive what you want by using custom code.

If you are interested in learning how to use Custom Material Expressions within a Custom Node in the material editor, we recommend the tutorial SARKAMARI - Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial - Technical Shading - HLSL Basics / Simple Shapes.

Good tutorials are also:

• Ben Cloward - Using Custom HLSL Code - Advanced Materials - Episode 24 (just skip the parts that refer to Unity).
  • • You could even go for a hexagonal grid 🤓.
• renderBucket - Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial - Technical Shading - HLSL Brick/Tile Generator from the series Unreal Engine 5 - Technical Shading With HLSL

Submission: Preview image of your experimental scene, linked in your pgs_ss23_04_lastname.md file.

Learnings

Task 04.03

Please summarize your personal learnings (text or bullet points - whatever you prefer). What was challenging for you in this session? How did you challenge yourself?

Submission: Text in your pgs_ss23_04_lastname.md file.

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Happy Tiling!