Unreal: The complete guide for game level design in Unreal 4

Create an Unreal Engine account, explore the marketplace and assets, and engage with the community. Build a first-person level by creating a blank project and shaping landscapes with available assets.

Refine the landscape by adding shapes to create layers and sculpt more information, improving the terrain's feel. Bake the lighting and set the start position for the player.

Create and organize textures, import them into Unreal Engine, and build a master material to blend grass and dirt using a landscape layer blend with normal and roughness maps.

Paint and blend landscape materials in Unreal 4 by creating layers and painting with brushes to blend grass and dirt across the terrain, then test lighting.

Blend and paint landscape materials to create cohesive terrain, mixing rock, grass, water, and soil while adjusting properties and lighting.

Drag marketplace assets into the scene, then rotate, scale, and position them; use the foliage brush to scatter rocks and trees, adjusting density and offset for a blended landscape.

Place trees to populate the environment, adjust landscape height and foliage density, and blend rocks, grass, and other assets for a cohesive outdoor scene.

Explore adding volumetric lights in Unreal 4 by configuring directional sun light and skylight, adjusting light shafts, scale, and color to produce blue light rays and shadows in your environment.

Create a cinematic environment in Unreal using Matinee, camera animation, blueprints, and post-process effects to tune focus, lighting, and mood, then preview and finalize the scene.