Metal Donut
gumroad
Decal Champ (FREE Decal Tool for UE5)
🕑 Added 2024-03-09 20:04:16 +0000 UTC*** Decal Champ has been updated to v1.1. You can now adjust Specular and Metallic values of your primary and secondary textures. If you're updating from v1.0 please see the README.txt in the downloaded zip file for more details ***
Decal Champ is a free Decal Generator for Unreal Engine 5. I made this to create great looking, performant decals with very limited texture inputs. While there are some decal templates (profiles) that come with this tool, it's designed to be flexible enough to build almost any type of decal using just a few texture maps.
Also, check out my free in-engine Texture Painting tool called Texture Paint Champ for UE5 (https://metaldonut.gumroad.com/l/TPC)
Key Benefits:
- Completely FREE!
- Requires very few texture maps (just Albedo and Normal maps required along with Greyscale masks which are included)
- Very simple to use (uses a single Blueprint)
- Offers basic and advanced (procedural) decal capabilities
- Focused on performance - simple decals will use cheaper materials
- Pre-populated profiles to help get started (Puddles, Brick Patches, Cracks, Blood, Sludge, Dirt, Stains etc.)
- Fully extensible - Additional texture maps can be added if required, runtime commands can also be added (i.e. fade over time)
Restrictions:
- Does not use expensive techniques like Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Triplanar or excessive texture maps due to focus on performance
- Designed in and for Unreal Engine 5 only
Support:
- This tool is free and doesn't not come with an official support channel. However, here is a direct link to the Explainer video to walk through how to use Decal Champ: https://youtu.be/NKLMXPQEf6E. I have also added some more tutorials to the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQSzNwc3QR-o9hI-LQxqCzimjMfE6NbAv.
- While I can't commit to formal support/response, if you get really stuck or find any critical bugs, you can try contacting me at metaldonutgames@gmail.com.
