DESCRIPTION

To achieve the best results in Unreal Engine, you need to prepare your models and unwraps correctly. In this section, you will acquire the necessary knowledge for transferring architecture from 3D Max (or other 3D packages) to Unreal Engine 5.

MODULES

1.1 Measurement Units, Scene Optimization
1.2 Texture Mapping, Material ID’s
1.3 UV Channels, Unwrap
1.4 Pivots
1.5 Model Optimization
1.6 Exporting to Unreal Engine
1.7 Datasmith: What, When, and Why?
1.8 Floor Generator and Multitexture export

DESCRIPTION

In this technical part of the course, you will become familiar with the interface, understand how Unreal Engine works, customize it to your preferences, and create your first project.

MODULES

2.1 Installing Unreal Engine 5
2.2 Creating a project
2.3 Interface
2.4 Real-time rendering theory
2.5 Geometry import and project organization
2.6 Editing geometry within UE5 (Mesh editor)
2.7 Moving and deleting assets without errors

DESCRIPTION

Lighting is the foundation of a realistic image. In this section, we will cover lighting sources, lightmaps, settings, and baking to achieve the most realistic results.

MODULES

3.1 Light Sources
3.2 Lightmaps
3.3 Lighting Configuration Process
3.4 GPU Lightmass
3.5 Luoshang GPU Lightmass
3.6 CPU Lightmass
3.7 Volumetric Lightmaps
3.8 Lighting Scenarios
3.9 Post Process Volume (PPV)
3.10 Reflections. Settings and Types

DESCRIPTION

MODULES

4.1 Creating Materials in UE
4.2 Master Material
4.3 Material Instances
4.4 Creating a UV Master Material
4.5 Working with Material Instances
4.6 Creating a Masked Material
4.7 Creating Transparent Materials
4.8 Creating Decals
4.9 Creating Emitting Materials
4.10 Creating Fabric Materials
4.11 Creating Light Functions
4.12 Creating Displacement Materials
4.13 Creating Curtain Materials

DESCRIPTION

In Unreal Engine, there are numerous resources available, both paid and free assets. In this section, we will explore how to work with Quixel Bridge, the Epic Games Marketplace, and other resources for assets.

MODULES

5.1 Assets migration
5.2 Quixel Bridge
5.3 Adding assets from marketplace
5.4 FAB (new)

DESCRIPTION

What is ray tracing with modern video cards. Enable, detailed settings, optimization, Path Tracing.

MODULES

6.1 Enabling Ray tracing
6.2 Setting up Ray tracing (optimization, console commands)
6.3 Path tracer

DESCRIPTION

After completing work on lighting and materials, we will learn how to set up cameras, animate them, and render out videos and images using the Movie Render Queue.

MODULES

7.1 Cinematic Camera Actor
7.2 High-Resolution Screenshots
7.3 Camera Animation
7.4 Regular Video Output
7.5 Movie render queue
7.6 High-Quality Screenshots with MRQ
7.7 Creating a Video in Davinci Resolve

DESCRIPTION

After all the work is done, our project needs to be packaged, menus need to be added for convenience, and interactivity needs to be implemented, such as changing materials on objects, turning on the TV, and adjusting lighting options.

MODULES

8.1 Collisions
8.2 Adding a character
8.3 Creating a menu
8.4 Changing lighting scenarios
8.5 Turning lights on/off
8.6 Changing materials
8.7 Turning on the TV with sound
8.8 Opening doors
8.9 Project packaging
8.10 Tap water

DESCRIPTION

Revolutionary lighting and geometry rendering systems in Unreal Engine 5. We will delve into the basics of working with Lumen lighting and the translation of geometry into Nanite.

MODULES

9.1 Lumen Lighting System
9.2 Nanite Geometry Visualization System

DESCRIPTION

It’s time to get acquainted with virtual reality headsets, transfer our project to VR, and refine interactivity, taking into account the possibilities of immersive environments.

MODULES

b.1 Getting to Know the VR Headset and Connection
b.2 Adding VR Template
b.3 Optimization
b.4 Start Menu
b.5 Exit Menu, Changing Lighting Scenarios
b.6 Turning On/Off Lights
b.7 Changing Materials