Landscape Puddles - Terrain Shaders - Episode 19
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Ben Cloward
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Ben Cloward tutorial video in the Terrain Shaders series on adding landscape puddles in Unreal Engine, following a prior Unity rain-effects episode. The URL is one episode of about eighteen minutes on his YouTube channel.
It walks through weather puddle material functions for landscapes, including the Weather_Puddles_Landscape path and related ripple functions referenced from earlier Unreal materials episodes. Topics stay practical: material-function wiring and how puddles fit a broader terrain weather look.
Intended for intermediate technical artists working in Unreal landscape materials. Comfort with material graphs and earlier series episodes helps.
Free YouTube video with description links into related episodes and the Terrain Shaders playlist. Watch on the channel; no separate paid course shell for this URL.
Useful for adding readable wet-weather detail to landscape shaders without starting from a blank material graph.
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