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

Requirements

We recommend that you already know the basics of Unreal Engine

Description

Quick Environment Creation in UE5 – In-Depth Tutorial CourseLearn 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 CREATORWe 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 LEVELThis 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 courseTOOLS USEDUnreal Engine 5World CreatorPhotoshop (only for post effects)YOUR INSTRUCTOREmiel 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.

Overview

Section 1: Course

Lecture 1 Doing Our Planning And Gathering Assets

Lecture 2 Creating Our Landscape

Lecture 3 Placing Our Hero Building And Water

Lecture 4 Fixing Landscape And Placing Our Core Buildings

Lecture 5 Placing Our Buildings On The Right Side

Lecture 6 Placing Our Buildings In The Center

Lecture 7 Placing The Rest Of Our Buildings

Lecture 8 Adding Our Terrain Material And Textures

Lecture 9 Doing Our First Lighting Pass

Lecture 10 Painting Our Terrain Textures Part1

Lecture 11 Painting Our Terrain Textures Part2

Lecture 12 Creating Our Water Front Part1

Lecture 13 Creating Our Water Front Part2

Lecture 14 Adding Smaller Buildings And Tents

Lecture 15 Placing Our Foliage

Lecture 16 Placing Small Assets

Lecture 17 Polishing Our Environment Part1

Lecture 18 Polishing Our Environment Part2

This course is perfect for beginner and intermediate artists