Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environment

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1. Setting up UE5 Project

1.1 Resource pack.zip

1. Introduction.mp4

04:32

2. Introduction to Unreal Engine 5 Software

1. Introduction to UE5 Layout.mp4

10:55

2. Introduction to UE5 Viewport.mp4

09:15

3. Blocking out a Grey box

1. Blocking out Basic Design.mp4

14:12

2. Enabling Modeling Mode Plugin And Saving out Level.mp4

13:23

4. Sculpting out Terrain within UE5

1. Using Landscape Tool.mp4

12:24

2. Sculpting Large Scale Terrain.mp4

17:43

5. Using Quixel Library

1. Introduction to Quixel Bridge and Engine Scalability.mp4

15:41

6. Building a Bridge for the Scene

1. Setting up Nanite to Build a Bridge.mp4

12:12

2. Working with Grouped Assets.mp4

10:28

3. Creating Variations Within Bridge Foundation.mp4

12:27

4. Breaking up the Silhouette of a Bridge.mp4

09:08

7. Adjusting Quixel Assets

1. Manipulating Quixel Assets as a Whole for the Bridge.mp4

11:10

2. Adjusting Quixel Asset Materials.mp4

16:57

8. Adding Textures to our 3D Hut

1. UV Tiling for the Roof Surface Material.mp4

12:17

2. Creating wall textures using UV projections.mp4

11:17

9. Creating Additional Detail for our Virtual Roof

1. Creating roof attachment.mp4

09:42

2. Colour Correcting for Roof Attachment Textures.mp4

14:47

3. Setting up Edges of our Roofs.mp4

07:45

10. Working with Roof Frames

1. Modeling Default Meshes.mp4

13:33

2. Decorating Roof Frame.mp4

16:40

3. Aligning Rooftop Beams.mp4

09:50

11. Adding Custom Detail to our Roof

1. Deforming Rooftop Beams.mp4

14:51

2. Adjusting Colour on Multiple Material Variables.mp4

11:59

3. Setting up The Supports for our Hut.mp4

13:01

12. Adding 3D Meshes to our Hut Foundation

1. Building Foundation.mp4

11:12

13. Deforming Quixel 3D Mesh for the Hut

1. Deforming Wood Supports Using Warp Tools.mp4

15:13

2. Cutting out Custom Shapes from Quixel Assets.mp4

12:52

14. Adding Smaller Props to our 3D environment

1. Introduction to Smaller Props.mp4

16:58

15. Applying Surface Decals onto our 3D Environment

1. Working with Decals and its Basics.mp4

10:43

2. Working With Decal Variations.mp4

08:20

3. Creating Detail Using Decal.mp4

12:58

16. Texturing Landscape Environment

1. Setting up Material Function.mp4

10:44

2. Setting up Automatic Landscape Material Base.mp4

16:34

3. Adjusting Automatic Landscape Material.mp4

06:51

4. Painting in Custom Terrain Texture Values.mp4

15:35

17. Adding Assets as Foliage Actors to our Scene

1. Adding Rocks using Foliage Mode.mp4

15:29

2. Adding Large Rock Clusters using Single Instances.mp4

13:23

3. Working with Smaller Chunks of Rocks.mp4

10:13

18. Adding Vegetation to our Environment

1. Setting up Tree Foliage Clusters.mp4

10:26

2. Planting Smaller Tree Clusters using Foliage Mode.mp4

12:08

3. Setting up 3D Plant Foliage from Quixel.mp4

13:52

4. Adjusting Foliage Colour Values.mp4

13:33

5. Working with Larger 3D foliage plants.mp4

10:43

6. Fixing Overlapping Grass and Building Smaller Foliage.mp4

07:40

19. Creating Water Material

1. Setting up Water Mesh.mp4

12:42

2. Setting up Water Fall Planes.mp4

13:04

3. Fixing Water Planes.mp4

08:53

4. Setting up Basic Water Material Instance.mp4

11:23

20. Adding Additional Detail to our Water Parameters

1. Setting up Scattering and Absorption Values Within Water Material.mp4

10:28

2. Setting up Basic Caustics.mp4

09:53

3. Setting up Water Caustic Parameters.mp4

14:53

21. Creating Water Waves using Normals

1. Creating Wave Pattern Using Normals.mp4

08:32

2. Adding Motion to UE5 Water Waves.mp4

07:56

3. Setting Up Water Normal Parameters.mp4

18:01

22. Making Additional Detail To our Base Water System

1. Setting up Water Colour Texture.mp4

06:30

2. Setting up Vertex Painting for Water System.mp4

17:25

3. Making Final Water Base Material Adjustments.mp4

12:52

23. Setting up Water for Waterfalls

1. Setting up Water for Waterfalls.mp4

07:46

2. Setting up Waterfall Texture Flow.mp4

12:11

3. Applying Waterfall Material Instance.mp4

07:15

24. Creating Niagara Particles for Water System

1. Creating Custom Particle Texture Material.mp4

06:13

2. Setting up Basic Water Splash Particle System.mp4

14:33

3. Adding motion to Water Splash Particle.mp4

15:21

4. Creating Base for ground splash particle.mp4

07:51

5. Creating Ground Splash Particle Effect.mp4

08:16

25. Creating Material With Custom Generated Motion Effects

1. Creating Ripple effect Material.mp4

17:32

2. Creating waterflow effect.mp4

17:49

3. Creating Still Water Ripple and Sorting out Water VFX.mp4

08:57

26. Applying Water VFX to our UE5 Project

1. Making use out of Created Water VFX.mp4

17:23

2. Using Still Water Created Effects.mp4

17:16

27. Creating Terrain Using Heightmap Textures

1. Creating Terrain Using Heightmap Texture.mp4

14:27

2. Creating Automatic Material Texture For Terrain.mp4

10:49

28. Atmospheric Sky Setup

1. Sun Light Setup.mp4

10:14

2. Working with Sky Atmosphere.mp4

06:28

3. Setting up Ambient Lighting and Volumetric Fog.mp4

08:08

4. Volumetric Clouds.mp4

14:01

29. Working with Niagara Fluid Simulation System

1. Creating Fire Fluid Simulation.mp4

10:46

2. Working with Fire Fluid Properties.mp4

09:38

3. Working with Fire Simulation Density.mp4

07:53

30. Adding Additional Visuals to our Flames

1. Setting up Fire Ember Niagara Particles.mp4

15:30

2. Setting up Light Flicker Blueprint.mp4

15:51

31. Working With organic Sculpting

1. Sculpting out a Bird Mesh.mp4

17:48

32. Adding Motion to our Flock of Birds

1. Setting up Bird Material.mp4

13:03

2. Vertex Painting Bird Static Mesh.mp4

07:15

3. Animating Birds Flying Across Horizon.mp4

15:47

33. Creating Firefly Niagara Particles for a 3D Environment

1. Creating Fireflies.mp4

14:48

2. Adding a Pattern Motion to our Fireflies.mp4

11:01

34. Tweaking Water Colour Values

1. Fixing Water Reflection.mp4

05:57

35. Colour Grading Using UE5 Postprocess

1. Colour Grading Scene Using Post Process.mp4

09:37

36. Camera Setup

1. Setting up Camera and its Composition.mp4

08:05

37. Rendering

1. Rendering out our 3D Environment.mp4

07:21

2. Bonus Lesson Setting Up Curved River Meshes.mp4

05:46

Description

Learn How to Crate Unreal Engine 5 Environments from Scratch Beginner to Professional Game Design Workflow

What You'll Learn?

• Building your own riverside environment overlooking a mountain range, and walk around it like in a real game
• Building a 3D environment by making full use of the Quixel library and all its categories, including 3D assets, surface detail, textures, and 3D vegetation
• Making custom adjustments to photorealistic 3D assets through material instance tweaking and modeling adjustments
• Sculpting out your own custom terrains from scratch using UE5 sculpting tool
• Creating a landscape material that allows you to automatically texture out the terrain and add custom details to it
• Creating mountains using height texture map data with generated textures based on their texture
• Setting up your fantasy riverside environment ready for walking through with your very own third-person character in Unreal Engine 5
• Learning all about the Niagara fire systems
• Mastering fire simulations for a campfire using a built-in fluid simulation
• Creating an entire water system, with depth of water and caustics parameters, allowing you to create a still water body or river, fully customisable with wate
• Learning how to make use of the foliage tool to create an organic composition out of our scene
• Making a custom sky atmosphere to simulate a sunset with volumetric fog and clouds.
• Breathing life into the work by adding birds and fireflies to the game environment, and using the Niagara particle system to animate firefly motion
• Learning how to do colour grading to take your work to the next level
• Maintaining and optimising fantasy aesthetics for a full riverside environment overlooking a mountain range scene using an Unreal Engine 5 skybox
• Learning how to use HDRIs as 3D model backgrounds for your portfolio
• Rendering a 3D fantasy environment to a high level for professional 3D artist portfolios using Unreal Engine 5
• Complete the course which is going to be the first stepping stone to creating your own 3D world and RPG game environment

Who is this for?

• Beginner 3D modellers and game designers eager to learn how to build a game-ready environment in a game engine

• Enthusiasts of Unreal Engine 5 who want to fast-track their understanding of its new and exciting changes

• Game designers who would like to design a riverside environment overlooking a mountain range for games in Unreal Engine 5

What You Need to Know?

• To own a computer (Microsoft, Linux or Mac)

• To have downloaded Unreal Engine 5

• A thirst to learn and excitement about 3D modelling and animation

• To download all course resources including a download pack with 8 unique texture maps to help you set up your own water system and an example texture map of a mountain height map texture.

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Description
Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environment - Learn How to Crate Unreal Engine 5 Environments from Scratch Beginner to Professional Game Design Workflow

Course Description

Have you ever wanted to build an entire game world?

Join â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™ because thereâ€™s nothing like it! Be enthralled in a full guide to building a game environment in Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) from creating a landscape, to making water flow through your mountains, and the best way to place environmental details.
If you have ever wanted to get into Unreal Engine 5 or are making the switch over from Unreal Engine 4, then this course is absolutely for you.
Whether you are a video game player who wants to take gaming into their control and build what has been hiding in the depths of your imagination, or a game designer looking to find out all that UE5 has to offer in a dedicated and complete overview, this course is ideal for you.

We have designed the course from the ground up to make sure that no matter your skill level, you will easily be able to follow along and more importantly learn most of the skills to create your own 3D game environment.
You will become a master of using Unreal Engine 5!
Build an intricate landscape with an awe-striking mountain range, and a winding river which leads down to a fishermanâ€™s hat full of life.

Our â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™ top 5:
Â· Building a 3D environment by making full use of the Quixel library through learning how to deform a mesh and adjust material properties
Â· Sculpting out terrains and generating mountains using height map textures
Â· Creating a reusable water system with waterfalls and setting up atmospheric sunset lighting
Â· Creating fire simulations for the fireplace
Â· Breathing life into the work by adding birds and fireflies to the environment

With â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™, you will learn how to do that in no time!
Build an intricate riverside environment with a fishermanâ€™s hut and a wooden walkway, ready for a new 3D modelling adventure.
This course will give you access to just over 19 hours of 3D art in 93 comprehensive lessons.

This course will see you learn all the techniques pros use and how they use them. Learning how to achieve realism through ageing your 3D game environments will be a central part of this course's learning objectives!

Walk around your fishermanâ€™s hut riverside environment with the UE5 default character for the full immersive experience filled with wonder and the smallest, charming details hidden behind every nook and cranny.
Quixel
â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™ will teach you how to design your very own building structure â€“ a fishermanâ€™s hut - in the UE5 environment. You will learn how to work with Quixel assets to their fullest by customising them to your liking.
We will go over all categories within the Quixel library to build our 3D environment: assets, textures, decals and foliage. Join us to find out how to make use full use of Quixel material instance parameters to adjust textures and make them fit the colour pallet of your world.
Deform any mesh to your liking using a built-in modeling mode within UE5 itself. We will make use of a variety of different techniques to bend, warp and even cut into the mesh to get full control over the scanned assets from the Quixel library to make sure that the only limit to building our world will be our imagination.
Water System
You will build our very own water system from scratch to enhance the visuals of your â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™ scene. This will include everything that water VFX involves no matter the type you would want to create. By joining this course, you will essentially be able to reuse this water for any future projects.
We create a fully dynamic water body system that will allow us to create a flowing river with waterfalls, a still body lake or even something in between. Master vertex painting to blend inflows of water and develop realistic water visuals for your â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™ scene. We will also create additional water visual effects to enrich the flow of our liquid. The water system will involve making use out of a variety of material techniques including a particle set up to manipulate animation and give a certain organic feel to our waterfalls.

Creating Living Environments
Breathe life into your own virtual world by creating a flock of birds flying over the horizon, and fireflies playfully buzzing around over water. We will start off by manually sculpting out the shapes of our birds using UE5â€™s built in sculpting mode. This will allow us to add randomised motion to the birds, using a material set up for the birdâ€™s wing flapping effect. Our goal will be to create bird silhouettes flying over the horizon, giving each individual feathered friend a unique flying animation within the flock of birds.
We will continue by creating a firefly particle effect, letting them playfully fly over the top of our water, using the animation sequence within our scene.

Particles

â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™ goes in depth on setting up particles within Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). Learn to use the Niagara particle system to its fullest. We will start off and make use of Niagara to create water flow effects, fireflies, and a fluid simulation to create campfire visuals.
Terrain Building
Throught the course, we will cover multiple techniques for building up a terrain within Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). We will learn how to manually sculpt out a terrain using a built in sculpting tool. This will help us generate a terrain from a height texture map by making use out of a displacement tool to generate a mountain.
The lessons will take you through the versitility of landscape texturing methods within UE5 as well. You will learn how to (a) create an automatic landscape texturing material to generate textures on your level, (b) how to add custom painted texturing detail by creating your own landscape material from scratch, and (c) how to add a variation of textures based on height map detail for the mountains.

Atmosphere Building & Camera Composition

â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™ will finish by setting up a sunset for the environment using the dynamic volumetric cloud system. During this stage, we will learn how to adjust our atmosphere and the sun light color absorption to exaggerate the sunset lighting within the 3D environment. We will learn how to effectively position our sun and increase its scale to create a nicely stylized evening scene.

To top it off, we will set up a nice camera composition for the scene and render out a video of the finished result to show off the work weâ€™ve done.

Course Resources & Freebies

The â€˜Unreal Engine 5 Beginners Guide to Building an Environmentâ€™ resource pack includes 8 unique textures maps to help you set up your own water system and an example texture map of a mountain height map texture.

Join this course and come be part of a game design journey of over 19 hours of learning that will see you go away with a game-ready fantasy game environment full of life and animation.

Check out the free introduction and I am sure you wonâ€™t be able to put this course down!

Letâ€™s create something whimsical and full of life this September!

To get you pumped, imagine how well this sunset fantasy scene fits in with your other 3D Tudor projects.
Be creative! Feature your fishermanâ€™s hut riverside environment nearby a medieval castle keep with â€˜Creating a Modular Kitbash in Blenderâ€™. Also, think about creating an environment behind or above your scene, be it a medieval farm in the far distance using â€˜Blender 3 The Ultimate Medieval Scene Courseâ€™, a church or an execution gallows staging area with â€˜Blender to Unreal Engine 5 | 3D Props | Medieval Gallowsâ€™. Use the full power of Blender 3 and Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) to your advantage.
You can include your fishermanâ€™s hut environment as part of our â€˜Creating a Modular Kitbash in Blenderâ€™ course, nearby to your medieval in or tavern by the harbour area based on â€˜Blender 2.8 Complete Beginners Guide to 3D Modelling a Sceneâ€™, or next to your medieval well or windmill using â€˜Blender 2.8 Creating your First 3D Game Modelâ€™ and â€˜Blender to Unreal Engine 5â€™ respectively.

Until next time, happy modelling everyone!

Neil â€“ 3D Tudor
Who this course is for:
â€¢ Beginner 3D modellers and game designers eager to learn how to build a game-ready environment in a game engine
â€¢ Enthusiasts of Unreal Engine 5 who want to fast-track their understanding of its new and exciting changes
â€¢ Game designers who would like to design a riverside environment overlooking a mountain range for games in Unreal Engine 5

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