Unreal Engine Mesh Paint Material (Vertex & Texture Color)

Paint rich, dynamic surfaces directly inside Unreal Engine—now with support for both Vertex and Texture Painting.

This powerful, flexible mesh paint material is designed to give Unreal Engine users maximum artistic control and production-ready performance across a wide range of projects—games, cinematics, and real-time.

What’s included

• The Mesh Paint master material and material instances that can be studied.
• An example level.
• Some meshes to test the material and its features.

There are 3 Unreal Engine projects.

• A UE 5.0 project: The material in this project supports vertex painting and can be used with all UE5 projects.
• A UE 5.4 project: The material in this project supports vertex painting and can be used with all UE 5.4+ projects. Its difference with the 5.0 version is that support for nanite tessellation and displacement is added.
• A UE 5.5 project: The material in this project supports both vertex painting and texture painting and can be used with all UE 5.5+ projects.

Key Features

• Free updates.
• Engine Compatibility: Fully compatible with Unreal Engine 5.0 – 5.5 and all future versions.
  • Vertex Painting supported in all UE5 versions (5.0+).
  • Texture Painting added in UE 5.5+ (supports both vertex & texture painting simultaneously).

• Flexible Material Setup:
  • Use 3 materials + puddle or 4 materials.
  • Easily toggle between setups to fit your needs.

• Realistic Height Blending for seamless transitions between material layers.

• Tri-Planar Projection Mapping is supported in all versions.
  • World-Aligned Tri-Planar & Local-Aligned Tri-Planar.
  • Expensive Projection (using 3 texture samples) & Cheap Projection (using 1 texture sample).

• Nanite Tessellation and Displacement in the 5.4+ versions.
• Per-Material Weathering: Add unique weathering effects to each material independently.

Compatibility

Vertex painting: all Unreal Engine 5 versions.

Texture Painting: Unreal Engine 5.5 and above.

Licenses

Indie: For an individual creator or a small team with not more than $100k of revenue or funding in the last 12 months.

Studio: For studios or other entities with over $100k in revenue or funding in the past 12 months.

Whether you're building natural landscapes, sci-fi props, or stylized worlds, this mesh paint material gives you the tools to quickly iterate, polish, and enhance your assets directly in the viewport—no extra shaders or plugins needed.

Who is this for?

Perfect for:

• Environment artists
• Game developers
• Cinematic creators
• Tech artists

Carefully developed to give you a professional edge when building realistic or stylized environments—without reinventing the wheel.
Download it once, and use it across all your UE5 projects—future versions included.

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