Efficient Grass With PCG - Procedural Content Generation (PCG) - Episode 2
Ben Cloward
Apr 23, 2026 15:01
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In this tutorial, I show how to use Unreal's PCG to render grass efficiently. This method uses a compute shader on the GPU to place grass instances and I show several ways to control the density and distance that the grass renders.
Here's the playlist for the whole series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lF7o4-COsQkltYxV1Zt7nUj
Shader Book Recommendations
https://www.bencloward.com/resources_books.shtml
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Theme Music
Peace in the Circuitry - Glitch Hop
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Background Music
Speo - The Little Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoc9v_TRBqc
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