PANORAmake Studio - Complete & Accessible AAA-Grade Landscape Texturing

PANORA|make is a single-person project aiming to lower the barrier of entry for texturing detailed Landscapes in Unreal Engine.

It is a plugin-in made for artists, removing the need to go into the shader graph and having its own easy-to-use interface, making iterations quick and simple.

Whether you are a beginner or an expert, following a specific workflow or not, PANORA|make spares a lot a time leaving only the creation itself as the main focus.

It uses a non-destructive mask-based workflow to automatically paint its materials as well as allowing you to paint them manually.

These masks are made by you, by using filters and noises that you can Add, Subtract, Multiply by each other to create the result you want.

Basically, it's a very flexible and powerful Landscape auto-material creator, tailored to suit as much use cases as possible.

• Easy to understand Layered Workflow

PANORA|make uses an easy to understand layered materials workflow, which are then applied on the landscape using masks created by the user. They can also be applied manually with the default Landscape painting tools. The user can apply advanced effects to the materials themselves like Triplanar Mapping, UV Breaking, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Distance-Based UV Scaling with just a click.

• Suitable for Cross-Platform projects

Unified Cross-Platform developement is available on the "Single" Instance Mode, making the same Material usable for both Low and High-End targets (GLES3.1 for Mobile and VR, and SM5/6 for Desktop).

Additional options are available, for keeping the number of total texture samplers under 16 (Hard limit for GLES 3.1 targets), to cut heavy features on Mobile but not on desktop, etc.

• Custom Interface

The Interface is a core component of using PANORA|make, allowing to use its extensive features without having to scroll hundreds of Instance lines. It also allows a much more ergonomic and comprehensive layout along with extra features like the Auto-Converting of the imported textures, the ability to import from other materials, guiding the user through the creation of an Instance, etc. 

• Mask Builder & Linking

The Mask Builder allows the user to make its own masks based on Filter or Noises, which can then be Added/Multiplied/Subtracted together. One of the filters is a Splatmap Importer, allowing the user to quickly import a splatmap from World Machine, Gaea or other software and use one of its RGB channels as a mask. 

It is also possible to link filters between different Sub-Layers, to apply noises only on a zone defined by another Sub-Layer, exclude a zone defined from the mask of another Sub-Layer, etc. (Example : apply a noise only on the slopes of a terrain, etc.)

You can think of the mask linking as the anchor points in Substance Painter, it is basically the same workflow.

• Hybrid Caching System

The Landscape supports Runtime Virtual Caching, allowing the user to get more performance out of the final landscape. If there is need for a dynamic feature like Distance-Based UV Scaling on one Sub-Layer, it can be excluded from caching. 

It all comes down to choice and the ability to let the user make his own tradeoffs.

Try out the Free Demo and see for yourself ! You can find the full documentation here and videos here. 

No assets are included, access to the plugin itself is what's sold !