Environment art for real production: modular kits, vegetation and material systems in Unreal Engine 5 — with the numbers, the failure modes and the source files.https://vitchalany.com/enhttps://vitchalany.com/articles/grown-not-placed-01-speedtree-to-nanite-foliage/https://vitchalany.com/articles/grown-not-placed-01-speedtree-to-nanite-foliage/There is almost no free, current, written resource for getting a SpeedTree asset into UE5 as Nanite foliage that actually performs. Here is the entire chain — export settings, the masked-to-opaque decision, wind, and what each step costs.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTGrown, Not Placedspeedtreefoliagenaniteoptimisationvegetationhttps://vitchalany.com/articles/breaking-the-tile-01-why-your-wall-looks-tiled/https://vitchalany.com/articles/breaking-the-tile-01-why-your-wall-looks-tiled/Visible repetition is not a texture-resolution problem, it is a spatial-frequency problem. Once you can name what your eye is catching, the cheapest fix is four nodes and about ten minutes.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTBreaking the Tilematerialstilingsubstance designerunreal enginehttps://vitchalany.com/articles/shipping-kits-01-spec-before-modelling/https://vitchalany.com/articles/shipping-kits-01-spec-before-modelling/Every modular kit I have shipped that went badly went badly for the same reason: I opened Blender before I knew what the modules were. Here is the one-page document I now write first, and the four decisions it forces.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTShipping Kitsmodulartrim sheetsproductionfab