Unreal Engine 5, Creating an Alien world for games & Movies

Download and install Unreal Engine 5 via the Epic Games launcher, then create your first project from a blank template using C++ with a starter kit and ray tracing.

Explore the Unreal Engine 5 user interface, including the toolbar, content browser, place actors panel, and world settings, and learn to organize content and tailor editor layouts for efficient workflows.

Navigate Unreal Engine 5 by moving with w a s d and e for up, rotate with right mouse button, and adjust camera speed with scroll wheel; focus with f.

Explore Unreal Engine 5 viewport settings, including frame rate indicators and bookmarks. Switch between perspective and orthographic views, and use wireframe and lit modes to adjust objects.

Learn to create and place objects in Unreal Engine 5, using drag and drop shapes or imported models, and transform them with move, rotate, scale, local/global axes, and snapping.

Learn how post processing volumes control auto exposure in Unreal Engine 5, balancing static and dynamic exposure, manual values, and infinite extents for game and editing modes.

Create and apply materials in Unreal Engine 5 by building a simple material, adjusting base color, metallic, and roughness through node-based visual scripting, and applying it to objects.

Learn to build texture-based materials in Unreal Engine 5 by using grass and dust textures, connecting base color, metallic, roughness, and normal maps to create realistic ground materials.

Resize and control textures using texture coordinates and multiply nodes, then create and convert to material instances to expose parameters like size, base color, roughness, and normals for real-time updates.

Explore Unreal Engine 5 lighting fundamentals by comparing directional, point, spotlight, and sky lights options, and explain static, stationary, and movable light mobility, shadows, and lumen usage.

Discover Unreal Engine 5's lumen, a fully dynamic global illumination and reflection system, and learn to configure lights, sky atmosphere, ground material, fog, and post-process volume for a realistic world.

Explore 16,000 free assets in Unreal Engine 5 and import them directly without a bridge plugin. Drag and drop 3D assets, walls, and materials, and access metahumans via Metahuman site.

Explore landscape creation in Unreal Engine 5, learning to sculpt mountains, slopes, and caves, and apply materials with landscape tools for large worlds.

Learn to create a landscape material by blending multiple textures (grass, rust, rock) with a landscape layer blend, apply textures to a landscape, and paint layers with a material instance.

Learn to paint foliage in Unreal Engine five using foliage mode, drag plants from the content browser, and adjust density and scale while adding rocks as 3d assets.

Create a new Unreal Engine 5 project named alien world, then migrate the prepared assets from a downloaded folder into the new project's content, populating the alien world.

Organize tools and create a new Unreal Engine 5 level, then set up lights, atmosphere, skylight, and shadows for a ready-to-test alien world.

Create and sculpt a realistic landscape in Unreal Engine 5, configure landscape settings and sizes, add a third-person template, place bookmarks, and sculpt a river to form your map.

Apply a landscape material to sculpt mountains and atmosphere on an alien world, revealing a red starry sky, sun, wind-animated grass, and painting mode with shader compilation.

Create a realistic river scene by adding water, shaping and refining reflections, then populate the landscape with trees and stones using foliage mode, density settings, and painting tools.

Explore creating and tuning a post-process volume to colorize a world, adjust exposure, lens flare, sky atmosphere, skylight, god rays, and color grading for an alien world.

Add planets to an alien world in Unreal Engine 5 by creating spheres, enabling modelling edit mode, applying Jupiter and moon textures, and adjusting their location and scale.

Add a house and an astronaut to an Unreal Engine 5 alien world, placing, resizing, and snapping assets. Paint ground textures and paths, adjust lighting, and capture a final shot.

Create cinematic video shots in Unreal Engine 5 by using the level sequence in the sequencer to place and animate cameras, adjust lens settings, and export the movie for Premiere.

Add a third person character to our Unreal Engine 5 world and enable game mode to play a navigable scene using WASD or arrows, with water interactions and future effects.