Unpacking Terrain Textures - Terrain Shaders

Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Today we talk about unpacking terrain textures and make a simple terrain layer subgraph/material function with only two texture samples. I share some secrets for make the terrain layer run a little bit faster.

Here's the playlist for the whole series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lHI72hWFQHpDJpL87LiQPgC

Shader Book Recommendations
bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml

------------------------------

Theme Music
Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop
teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526

Background Music
Speo - The Little Things
youtube.com/watch?v=kvCYuyyLgC0

#UnrealEngine #shadergraph #Unity

Unpacking Terrain Textures - Terrain Shaders - Episode 2

Landscape Puddles - Terrain Shaders - Episode 19

Procedural Hex Grid - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 46

Procedural Brick Normals - Advanced Materials - Episode 30

What to do if youre GPU Bound - Game Optimization - Episode 6

Series Summary and Whats Next - Game Optimization - Episode 11

$Swizzle & Channel Manipulation - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 25 In this shader tutorial, I show how to swap, rearrange, drop, and append channels in Unreal Engine and Unity. I compare and contrast methods between the two engines and show the strengths and weaknesses of each with regards to channel manipulation. Heres last weeks video that explains Reflection and Refraction Vectors: https://youtu.be/TNGNtVhCGvs And heres the playlist for the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lEBWa2Hpzg2SRC5njCcKydl Shader Book Recommendations https://www.bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml Theme Music Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1526 Background Music Speo - The Little Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoc9v_TRBqc #UnrealEngine #shadergraph #Unity$

Fantasy Health Meter Part 3 - Procedural Shapes and Patterns - Episode 21

Optimizing Based On Analysis - Game Optimization - Episode 8

Worn-Out LCD Screen Shader - Advanced Materials - Episode 25

Shader Performance Measurement Part 2 - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 22

Filtering Overlapping Objects - Procedural Content Generation (PCG) - Episode 11