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Painting Holes in Terrain - Terrain Shaders - Episode 10

Ben Cloward Jan 1, 2026 16:00
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In this tutorial, I show how to update the terrain shader to enable painting holes in the terrain in Unreal and Unity. Holes are useful if you want to add caves, or if you want to remove portions of the terrain to save on performance. Here's the playlist for the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL78XDi0TS4lHI72hWFQHpDJpL87LiQPgC 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=kvCYuyyLgC0 #UnrealEngine #shadergraph #Unity
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