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Quick Environment Creation in UE5
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Quick Environment Creation in UE5

Learn how a professional environment artist works when creating large open-world environments in Unreal Engine 5
Created byFastTrack Tutorials
Last updated 4/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • learn how to quickly put together environments in Unreal Engine 5
  • Learn how to create custom landscapes with the help of world creator
  • Learn how to do lighting and post effects in Unreal Engine 5
  • Learn how to add story telling to 3D Environments

Course content

1 section • 18 lectures • 7h 38m total length

  • Doing Our Planning And Gathering Assets15:57
  • Creating Our Landscape26:12

    Create a flexible landscape in Unreal Engine 5 by exporting a heightmap from World Creator. Import the heightmap into UE5 landscape with edit layers and refine with smooth ridges.

  • Placing Our Hero Building And Water41:20

    Place the hero building and water in a UE5 environment, align the landscape, kit bash actors, and a water system to craft a cinematic lake scene.

  • Fixing Landscape And Placing Our Core Buildings20:50

    Sculpt terrain, fix water, and apply erosion with rocks for realistic coastlines; then place core buildings in clusters, including a central building, a church, and a military base.

  • Placing Our Buildings On The Right Side19:58
  • Placing Our Buildings In The Center26:53

    Place basic town buildings around a central area to form a front market and church, then arrange docks, shops, and living quarters for an organic fisher town in ue5.

  • Placing The Rest Of Our Buildings25:30

    Position and rotate buildings to create a denser, cohesive town with balanced variation, then flatten terrain and use golden spiral composition to guide placement and finalize with a time lapse.

  • Adding Our Terrain Material And Textures31:31
  • Doing Our First Lighting Pass33:33
  • Painting Our Terrain Textures Part126:34
  • Painting Our Terrain Textures Part214:59

    Balance textures, paint terrain in ue5, starting with sand for water and blending into grass and dirt, using brush size and tool strength as shaders recalculate for a beach landscape.

  • Creating Our Water Front Part115:19

    Place the pier, position Nordic beach rocks with megascans, add boats, and prepare for next chapters on real-time rock placement and water scene creation in UE5.

  • Creating Our Water Front Part220:18
  • Adding Smaller Buildings And Tents24:56
  • Placing Our Foliage38:00
  • Placing Small Assets18:35

    Place small props and 3d assets like tables, chairs, crates, gates, and medieval storage to add interest, duplicate elements for spacing, and plan storytelling around key areas before camera angles.

  • Polishing Our Environment Part127:50
  • Polishing Our Environment Part230:05

    Polish and optimize a UE5 environment by tweaking water roughness and absorption, adjusting lighting and foliage, refining camera angles, and capturing high-resolution screenshots.

Requirements

  • We recommend that you already know the basics of Unreal Engine

Description

Quick Environment Creation in UE5 – In-Depth Tutorial Course

Learn how a professional environment artist works when creating large open-world environments using the latest released UE5 with the help of marketplace assets. You will learn various techniques like creating custom landscapes, environment composition & storytelling, asset placement & polishing, lighting & post-effects, foliage painting, and much more.


UNREAL ENGINE 5, WORLD CREATOR

We will cover various topics in this tutorial course, but the main ones are as followed:


  • An overview of where to find assets and reference.

  • Creating a custom landscape using World Creator.

  • Placing various large scall assets while keeping in mind storytelling and composition.

  • Foliage setup and painting.

  • Placing small assets to add to the micro storytelling and make the environment feel complete.

  • Doing lighting and post effects for large-scale environments.

And so much more.


The general takeaway of this course is that in the end, you will have the knowledge on how to create exactly what you see in the product images, and you can apply this knowledge to almost any type of environment or asset.


7+ HOURS!

This course contains over 7+ hours of content – You can follow along with every single step – This course has been done 100% in real-time except for a few small time-lapses for very repetitive tasks. Because this course is all about creating quick environments in UE5 using unreal marketplace assets this means that the environment will not be included in the source files due to copyright.


There will be a file in the source files stating what assets we used for this course.


SKILL LEVEL

This game art tutorial is perfect for students who have familiarity with Unreal Engine – Everything in this tutorial will be explained in detail. However, if you have never touched Unreal Engine (or any game engine) before, then we recommend that you first watch an introduction course


TOOLS USED

  • Unreal Engine 5

  • World Creator

  • Photoshop (only for post effects)


YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Emiel Sleegers is a senior environment artist and owner of FastTrack Tutorials. He’s worked on games like The Division 2 + DLC at Ubisoft, Forza Horizon 3 at Playground Games, and as a Freelancer on multiple projects as an Environment Artist and Material Artist. Next to this he is also the owner of a tutorial publishing brand called FastTrackTutorials.


Who this course is for:

  • This course is perfect for beginner and intermediate artists

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