Introduction to Modeling in Unreal Engine 5

Name: Introduction to Modeling in Unreal Engine 5
Rating: 4.1 (26 reviews)

Learn how to model inside UE5 and save hours of work using the new tools

Created byMao Mao

Last updated 11/2024

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What you'll learn

Learn the Basics of Modeling in 3D inside Unreal Engine 5
Understand the most important tools you will use to take advantage of Unreal Engine 5
Learn how to make UV Maps and add surface detail using modern techniques
Understand the difference between Unreal Modeling Tools and other 3D Modeling Apps

Course content

4 sections • 35 lectures • 3h 11m total length

Viewport navigations3:01
Navigate Unreal Engine 5 viewport with right-click drag and WASD, use E and Q for up and down, F to focus, orbit with alt-left-click, switch to modeling, foliage, landscape modes.
Creating primitives6:59
Discover how to create and customize primitives in Unreal Engine 5, using the create panel to place boxes, spheres, toruses, capsules, and stairs, adjust size, rotation, and alignment.
The Cube Grid6:39
Use the cube grid to paint meshes, push and pull with e and q, snap dimensions, merge blocks, and delete faces to create a final static mesh.
Creating Primitives Drawing6:33
Explore creating and editing primitives in Unreal Engine 5, including extrude polygon, true path, revolve path, and snapping options, to build and model complex meshes from a base primitive.
Polygroup Editing10:08
Learn polygroup editing in Unreal Engine 5, moving faces, edges, and vertices within polygon groups, and use extrude, bevel, offset, inset, and merge to shape geometry.
Editing Edges7:08
Explore edge editing in Unreal Engine 5, including extruding and inserting edge loops, welding, filling holes, bridging gaps, and straightening to create clean, connected geometry.
Editing Triangles6:20
Master triangle select techniques in Unreal Engine 5, including polygroup and mesh edit modes, painting selections, growing and shrinking, and separating or deleting geometry with normals and border optimization.
Important Mesh Edit Operations5:37
Apply essential mesh edit operations in Unreal Engine 5, including filling holes, merging with booleans, remeshing for even polygon distribution, and simplifying or welding vertices for clean topology.
Subdivisions3:24
Explore subdivision to smooth surfaces with Catmull-Clark on a cylinder, and learn to add edge loops and insets to control bevels and prepare for boolean operations.

Booleans4:21
Learn how booleans in Unreal Engine 5 merge and modify static meshes through operations like subtract, difference, intersection, and union, with live updates in the content browser.
Poly Cut and Mesh Cut3:08
Explore poly cut and plane cut in Unreal Engine 5, using presets to cut through meshes and add new geometry, with adjustable scale, rotation, and plane orientation.
Mirror and Trim Tools3:32
Explore mirror, trim, and mesh cut tools in Unreal Engine 5, using a gizmo and plane with presets to mirror geometry, cut meshes, fix holes, and manage booleans.
Sculpting Tools7:14
Explore vertex sculpting in Unreal Engine 5 by using symmetry, dynamic sculpt, and move, inflate, and pinch brushes to shape organic forms, refine with flatten and smooth.
Smooth and Offset3:01
Explore the smooth tool to soften meshes with a slider and apply offset to generate a shell along normals, useful for cage work and baking normals.
Warp and Lattice4:58
Explore warp modifiers and lattice sculpting in Unreal Engine 5 to bend, twist, and deform meshes with a gizmo, adjustable subdivisions, and cubic smoothing for smooth normals.
Displacement8:34
Explore displacement in Unreal Engine 5 with Perlin noise, remesh, and texture maps to add detailed surfaces, adjust frequency and intensity, and use the blue channel height texture.

XForm Tools4:33
Master Unreal Engine 5 transform tools, including duplicating as instances, editing pivot points, and aligning to bounding box axes, to place and adjust assets accurately in scenes.
Pattern Tools and Merge4:10
Learn to use unreal engine 5's pattern tool to generate line, grid, and circle patterns, adjust start angles, rotation, translation, and scale, and merge instances into a single static mesh.
UV Tools Part 15:41
Explore uv mapping in Unreal Engine 5, including uv unwrap, auto uv, checkerboard previews, and project uv for planes and boxes; learn to repack, manage islands, and apply atlas layouts.
UV Tools Part 22:43
Master UV tools part 2 in Unreal Engine 5 by selecting islands, transforming UV islands, layout UVs, repack or normalize to 0 to 1 space for efficient tiling and packing.

Modeling the Tower Base4:24
In Unreal Engine 5, model a medieval tower base by starting with a cylinder, baking the transform after scaling, duplicating parts, and aligning a kong-shaped top with 16 subdivisions.
Adding Deformers7:56
Build a base, duplicate and offset parts, then deform with a three by three by three lattice set to cubic; bevel edges and add a shell for a stylized silhouette.
Using Extrude to Model more complex shapes5:16
Explore extrude and polygroup edit to create complex shapes, align and duplicate shells, and refine with mesh remesh, lattice, and normals threshold to form a tower in Unreal Engine 5.
Modeling a Door4:32
Model a door in Unreal Engine 5 by creating a cylinder, applying a plane cut, extruding and inset details, adjusting pivots, deleting the floor, and adding foundational supports.
Creating the Roof Support8:09
Model roof supports by creating a box, extruding and beveling edges, then apply a circular pattern with adjusted pivot and rotation, baking transforms for even distribution.
Adding Textures5:01
Use Quixel Bridge to download textures and assets and apply them with materials; adjust project UVs, checkerboard scale, and seam rotation.
Texturing the roof3:53
Apply roof textures using existing UVs in Unreal Engine 5. Adjust transform or layout UVs and scale, test checkerboard and cylinder projections, and tune smoothing groups and normals for a clean roof.
Texturing the Door6:06
Texture a door in unreal engine 5 by separating meshes, applying a wood material, beveling edges, and projecting uvs with box and cylinder mapping to add detail.
Adding Displacement Details7:59
Learn to add displacement details with a 2d texture map, adjust texel density via uv transforms, and explore remeshing and textures like stone, plaster, and wood.
Fixing intersections with booleans2:37
Duplicate geometry, remesh to 5000 polygons, use polygroup edit to extrude, and apply booleans to fix door intersections, then accept the result.
Fixing the Bottom part of the Tower5:52
Fix the tower texture by adding a new cylinder, aligning it to the ground, and applying cylinder UVs before using remesh, booleans, and deform lattice to clean up the bottom.
Using Booleans to create windows6:55
Learn how to use booleans to carve window openings into a box, apply materials, and refine UVs and displacement to create detailed window geometry in Unreal Engine 5.
Using Modeling Tools to fix the window depth6:37
Apply modeling tools in Unreal Engine 5 to fix window depth by adjusting UVs, using booleans to create holes, and enhancing shadows with deeper geometry for realism.
Adding Details to the Roof7:26
Apply polygroup edits and big insets to shape the roof, create and adjust UVs with planar projection and unwrap, then experiment with displacement and lighting in Unreal Engine 5.
Wrapping Up0:49
Apply Unreal Engine 5 modeling tools to create assets directly in engine, saving time by avoiding back-and-forth with other software and strengthening workflows and artistry.

Requirements

No experience needed

Description

Unreal Engine 5 comes with a powerful modeling toolset that allows you to create and modify 3D models inside the engine without the need to go to another 3D Application. Learning this skill can save you countless of hours jumping between back and forth different APPS and allowing you to be more creative with your project.

We will go through different types of modeling tools such as: Poly Editing, Editing Normals, Booleans, Transform Tools, Deformations, Sculpting and UVMapping. As we progress, you'll gain hands-on experience by applying what you've learned to a practical project: constructing a medieval tower from the ground up.

This course is aimed for beginner artists who want to learn how to model inside Unreal Engine 5 or even advanced users where they are familiar with modeling but want to incorporate Unreal Engine into their pipeline to speedup their workflow and eliminate back and forth between different 3D Modeling applications.

With new tools and improvements coming to Unreal Engine in every update it is important to stay updated to get the most out of the development time. Learning to model inside Unreal Engine 5 will open your eyes to more possibilities that you may not have thought before.

Who this course is for:

Aspiring Game Developers or 3D Artists who want to incorporate Unreal Engine into their pipeline

Introduction to Modeling in Unreal Engine 5

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Course content

Modeling Basics9 lectures • 56min

Deform Tools7 lectures • 35min

UV And XForm Tools4 lectures • 17min

Modeling a Tower15 lectures • 1hr 24min

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