Bracken Fern | Nanite Foliage is a high-quality Unreal Engine 5 asset pack featuring 14 full-geometry meshes, ideal for crafting realistic landscapes, fields, or dense foliage. Optimized for Nanite and Lumen with opaque materials, it delivers superior visual fidelity and performance across close-up and expansive scenes. Using Pivot Painter 2, the meshes feature shader-level wind animations, outperforming traditional wind animation for efficiency. This is a passion project of mine, more plants will come!

Video trailer: https://youtu.be/X8mORd5kO6k?si=EpzfObC5ZU-6zGJh

Key Features:

• 14 unique full geometry meshes.

• Pivot Painter 2 wind.

• Single master material for all the meshes with a simple setup.

• Material instances for each mesh.

• Meticulously colored to achieve a lifelike appearance.

• Carefully chosen details of geometry to make sense in a game.

• Supports Unreal Engine’s foliage painting tool for easy placement.

• Prepared foliage type instances for each mesh with settings for density

• Material parameter collection is gathered from pivot painter 2 material functions to control speed, rotation and direction of wind on all meshes in this pack.

• Material parameter collection for changing the appearance of healthier edges of all meshes.

• Size of the asset pack is only 76Mb.

Supported engine versions

• 5.6

• 5.5

• 5.4

• 5.3

Installation Instructions

1. Purchase and download Bracken Fern | Nanite Foliage from Fab.

2. In the Epic Games Launcher, go to Library > Vault, locate the pack, and click Add to Project.

3. Select your project or create a new one to import the asset.

Quick Start Guide

• Create or open a level with a landscape.

• Drag and drop the foliage type instances of choice into the foliage tool and start painting.

• Use the two material parameter collections to control the wind speed, rotation, direction and color temperature of all meshes in this pack.

• Experiment with what meshes you like. Tip: mix with my other free asset Kentucky Bluegrass and White Clover.

Content

• 14 meshes with vertices count between 85 106 - 220 753

• 14 foliage type instances with pre configured unique density on all meshes to give you a good starting point

• 1 material

• 7 textures between 515x512 and 1080x1080.

• 28 position maps for pivot painter 2

• 53 material instances

• 1 material parameter collection for controlling the wind of all meshes in this pack

• 1 material parameter collection for changing the appearance of healthier edges of all the meshes in this pack

• 9 pivot painter 2 material functions(they are engine default except for collection of material parameters)

Material setup

• 1 master material consisting of 3 color textures, 3 normal maps, and 1 noise texture, parameters for color tweaks and pivot painter 2 material functions. Features a two-sided foliage shading model for realistic light transmission.

• 1 material instance per mesh for getting the position maps and for activating and tuning the wind levels. 3 out of the 4 wind levels are used for this asset.

• 1 to 2 material instances for the leaf material slot with double sided materials.

• 1 material instance for the stem and branches with single sided materials.

Changelog

Version 1.1 (28'th of June 2025):

- All meshes and materials are remade with substantial improvements.

- Included struggling and dead variants.

Version 1.0 (19’th of June 2025):

- Initial release