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

Created by: 3D Tudor
3D Tudor | 3D Artist & Tutor

What Will I 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

Requirements

• • 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.

Target audience

• • 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