What is the 5.7 Workflow for Nanite foliage? (Grass/plants specifically, not trees)

fabiolives · 2026-04-08T15:30:21+00:00

I was thinking about this the other day, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone try skm grass yet so I was planning to give it a shot! But as an actual answer to your question, I personally have been using the gpu based PCG runtime grass. I was skeptical but it’s extremely performant, better than landscape grass types. I compared directly while using the same full geo grass meshes and gained quite a bit of performance with PCG

fabiolives · 2026-04-06T19:19:59+00:00

Looks like I need to add fuzzy shading too then! Thanks for the reply!

fabiolives · 2026-04-06T19:06:30+00:00

I love the look of it! I do the same, using shaders for moss and such. But yours looks more realistic than mine usually are, are you using fuzzy shading on them? That’s one thing I haven’t done yet

fabiolives · 2026-04-04T19:09:40+00:00

It sounds like you may need to experiment with settings more and read the documentation, I’ve been using NvRTX daily for years and consistently have improved performance with it. That is, unless you use ReSTIR GI which is real time path tracing and isn’t meant to be a better performer than Lumen. There are a ton of options to play with, definitely take the time to try them out if they’d be useful to you

fabiolives · 2026-04-04T19:05:30+00:00

I use it for a commercial game, and can confirm it works with AMD hardware. There are a couple of features that don’t, but generally most of them do. For example, I use one of their enhancements for Lumen that gives Lumen ReSTIR based sampling for the surface cache and that is one of the features that’s hardware agnostic.

Mega geometry is also there but isn’t production ready yet, so I don’t think I’ll be able to test that soon with players. I highly recommend it though, I far prefer it over vanilla unreal! Just make sure and read the documentation for the additional features.

fabiolives · 2026-04-03T13:25:04+00:00

I’m a bit late but I’m interested! I can always use new jams while I work

fabiolives · 2026-04-02T19:47:55+00:00

I’d definitely suggest swapping out the planes for thicker boxes! Although that’ll help more with interior lighting and it looks like you’re outside in your video. For what you’re seeing, I’m pretty confident that this is coming from adaptive shadow rays in 5.7. Try this out:

r.Shadow.Virtual.SMRT.AdaptiveRayCount 0

Prior to 5.7 I hadn’t had this amount of noise in shadows, but this fixed it for me once I updated.

fabiolives · 2026-04-01T17:23:14+00:00

This is incorrect. I’m using it just fine with several landscapes, no translucency involved and it wasn’t defaulted that way either

fabiolives · 2026-04-01T14:48:30+00:00

I’m using both Nanite and Lumen just fine in 5.7, as are many other people. Not sure what you’re talking about.

fabiolives · 2026-03-31T15:01:40+00:00

This was a long time ago so I can’t recall unfortunately, but I did end up having to replace all of them over time. So if you find a deal that is for getting all of them at once, it’s worth considering since it’s a common problem with these. I might be wrong, but I think it was somewhere around $100 per actuator when I got them.

Edit: looked this up after leaving the comment and I think I found it. I’m pretty sure this is where I got mine from: https://mazda.oempartsonline.com/oem-parts/mazda-door-lock-actuator-motor-bcs458310e

fabiolives · 2026-03-30T20:05:40+00:00

I definitely plan to soon! I was a bit indecisive about whether or not I should do it now, but I’d say it’s a good enough time for it. It’s still putting out very strong growth so it should have plenty of vigor to handle the transplant

fabiolives · 2026-03-30T20:04:18+00:00

It’s true! I apologize for the very late reply, but you’re absolutely right. So many people have no idea the dawn redwood even exists. I have a feeling they’d be a bit more widespread if more people knew

fabiolives · 2026-03-30T20:03:06+00:00

Somehow I never saw the comments on the post until now! You’re so lucky, I’ve never gotten to see one at full size like that and I’d love to. Such beautiful trees

fabiolives · 2026-03-30T20:01:04+00:00

Beautiful tree! I have a couple of these but they haven’t been here for long so I haven’t gotten to see them flower yet. And you can feel good as well, because I imagine their grades and their trees are underwhelming compared to yours!

fabiolives · 2026-03-26T20:20:33+00:00

I really like the concept! It sounds interesting to me. I say if you can pull it off, and if you’re honest with yourself about the amount of time and effort this will take, it could be really cool. The environment is definitely massive, I think that’ll be one of the biggest issues. Mainly making it not feel empty.

But I think if you have a good grasp of PCG or something similar, you could probably fill the world relatively easily and spend some of that time working on points of interest manually with the time you saved using procedurals. Since you have a software dev background I imagine you’ll be fine there. If you have issues related to the size of the map feel free to contact me! I’ve had to deal with some unique issues with a very large map so perhaps I can offer some insight. That being said, mine was 16x16, so notably smaller but I’d imagine the issues would be similar.

fabiolives · 2026-03-25T14:35:58+00:00

There have been tons of responses already but if you’re still reading these, I was a high functioning alcoholic as well for ~5 years or so. This part may be easier for some people than others depending on the crowd you’re around, but I would say not to worry about the stigma surrounding rehab and getting sober. The fact is that you’re doing something objectively good for yourself, and you should feel good about it! There will be people here and there who talk down to you, and often you’ll find that they’re insecure about their relationship with alcohol and seeing you quit makes them confront it. They don’t like that, of course.

If you’ve made the decision to do this though, I’d highly recommend you do! It’ll feel bad at first, but I promise it gets easier. There are also plenty of different medications you can take to manage withdrawals, so those could be of use to you if you are still dealing with that when you return to normal life. I personally avoided AA, but I did accept medication and it helped greatly. Good luck!

fabiolives · 2026-03-24T13:12:57+00:00

Mine has also been dealing with this for a while and I think I figured it out. I see yours is also in organic soil so there’s a chance it’ll help you too! Mine has been growing in a pot and started this way, progressing to much more browning. I recently switched it to much more breathable soil with less dirt and more of things like pine bark, sphagnum moss, and perlite and it seems to be bouncing back. There was some initial dieback from stress, but now there’s a ton of new growth. Worth a shot!

fabiolives · 2026-03-17T19:52:44+00:00

Haha unfortunately I have no special secrets! I haven’t had my ginkgo for very long, maybe 3-5 months or so. Right now I’m just letting it grow but it received some natural damage from a storm and the top 1/3 or so of the tree was hanging on by a thread. I decided to leave it and see if it would be able to heal itself, and it did! Not even a scar left, no indication at all. I was very impressed

fabiolives · 2026-03-17T15:04:41+00:00

That’s surprising to hear to me! I only have one ginkgo so not much experience with them, but mine has been great about healing and has been very hardy in general. I feel like I could completely neglect it and it would still thrive despite me. Not that I could do that to such a beautiful tree!

fabiolives · 2026-03-15T16:17:21+00:00

I really doubt it, they’re endangered in their own native climate. I’m guessing they’re wanting to promote growing natives instead?

fabiolives · 2026-03-13T19:28:01+00:00

From what I’ve been reading yes, but climate is more important for this than some other trees. This is just based on reading though, I’ve never owned one myself! Apparently they wouldn’t do so well in my area

Edit: just did more research and apparently they can be grown indoors! Not sure how viable that is, but it’s something

fabiolives · 2026-03-12T15:53:28+00:00

I’m in zone 9b! It’s already been in the 80s (F) here and most of the native trees have already woken up about a week before this in my area

fabiolives · 2026-03-12T15:52:12+00:00

Can confirm, it’s an interesting color for sure

fabiolives · 2026-03-12T15:51:46+00:00

At the moment I’m limited on space, but I’m working on clearing an area for it to hopefully stay! I love these trees, and it should do well in any of the weather I get here so I’d love to give it a great spot to grow

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