The Secret to make Unreal Engine 5.2 PHOTOREALISTIC Revealed
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2024
- This video is all about making the visuals in Unreal Engine look as photorealistic as possible. It's not quite a tutorial but it does cover the workflow I used to get the foliage and lighting to look incredibly realistic as quickly as possible.
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RESOURCES USED
Height Maps: • 15 Free Terrain Height...
Megascans: quixel.com/megascans/
Barn: sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-f...
Trees: www.unrealengine.com/marketpl...
www.unrealengine.com/marketpl...
Sky HDRI: polyhaven.com/a/industrial_su...
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VIDEO CHAPTERS
Introduction 00:00
Landscape Mood Board 00:34
Creating the project 01:02
New level 01:13
Creating a landscape using a height map 01:21
Finding a nice view 01:38
Adding a material to the landscape 02:00
Adding grass foliage 02:30
Using path tracing 03:26
Fixing grass culling distance 04:13
Tweaking material colours in the material instance 04:40
Using a HDRI image for the sky 04:49
Adding the cobblestone wall 05:50
Adding trees 06:38
Adding the barn 07:45
Adding the hedges 08:09
Landscape layer blend for field materials 08:40
Finishing touches 09:23
Finalise lighting 09:35
Final render 10:20
Conclusion 10:35
Really enjoy how photorealism makes animation appear similar to the art style called live action!
I have never seen such an awesome awsome tutorial... no hanky panky, to the point, amazing tips and good soundmixing... overall amazing... definitely gonna subscribe
Glad you liked it!
As someone who is has no experience with working in game engines but is fascinated with the process, this small snippet was awesome to watch. I never really had much of a grasp on the process of making something like this come to life. Looking at a scene like this, with my ignorance on the process, I would have imagined it taking weeks just to put together something this pretty. The fact that it only took an hour and a half is amazing. Very excited for the future of games in Unreal 5.
Thanks for the great showcase sir
Love how easy and simple it looks.
Thanks dude.
Great tut! Thanks a lot!
Great~! Awesome tutorial.
I subscribe entire CZcams unreal engine tutorial channels. I watch em all before making real game. I don't care how long it takes to watch it. Thanks for the great tutorial.
Keep working - you'll get there!
What the game about?
great video, thanks!
Nice tutorial =). I have a question, how make the foliage wind render in pathtracing?
I wish someone would make a course on landscapes for managing large open world maps at runtime. Pretty images are great but I want to understand the loading behaviors and management of large land masses/assets so I know how to better approach building them.
is this ready to use in a game ?
Nice video, thanks Shane!
You're welcome dude. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment 👍❤️👍❤️
@@GameDevAcademy keep'em coming mate!
Looks great! I wonder whether this would be ideal for turning into a game where the character can explore the entire landscape yet not struggle with real-time gameplay performance.
Great little tutorial, Thank you, just one thing I'm not understanding - at 5:21 when you come to add the HDRI, you select the... SM Sky Sphere in the Outliner, please can you tell me how you get a SM Sky Sphere into your scene to add the HDRI into. Thank you Very Much.
Thanks Shane. Enjoyable watch.
Wait... You're not Shane... I'm Shane! How are you doing this???
@@GameDevAcademy We are legion 😄
Great video, thanks! There is not a lot of UE Path Tracer content out there so this was appreciated. Two questions though.
1) Why does your sky still appear when you're in unlit mode? My sky turns black.
2) How did you crank up your dir light lux to 18 and not blow out your whole scene?
Are my settings different than yours? Something not set up right?
Thanks!
1) not sure/can't remember
2) I might have disabled auto exposure and set the exposure to a specific value (can't remember for sure - made this a while ago)
Hey Man, thanks for the video. I got a question, what format did you import the Barn from Sketchfab that kept the textures? Was it FBX?
I can't remember for sure but I usually go with fbx, or obj if fbx isn't available.
Chapeau, super
Great content ! love how you are giving this out to the people for free, and making it accessible for everyone!
You are most welcome
What song plays at 2:30? Thank you
how fix poor performance shadow nanite?
thumbnail is different and looks so much better than what's shown at 10:42...what happened there? xx
I did it twice. The video is actually me recreating what I did for thr image in the thumbnail so I could share what I did.
I preferred the first one which I spent more time me on so used that one for the thumbnail.
cool
hi . i have just subscribed your channel ... question do have any course from scratch for unreal engine to build game and puplished on line ..tnank you
it doesnt look photorealistic at all, its overall too clean, realism is the oposite of perfect, thats why its so hard, bc it takes time, realism lies in the detail
It's not bad bro. Don't h8
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always wanted to learn unreal but never had the iq to do it :( lmao ahaha
I'm condamned to unrealistic scenes with my 11 years old gtx 1060 😅
Noooooooooo!
@@GameDevAcademy Yes! For the moment still working, I just praise everyday it doesn't break. I couldn't use blender or unreal wihout agraphic card I think
Is it just me or does anyone else see that the Unreal Engin 5.1. playlist contains off-topic videos? ^^
Does it? It shouldn't - I'll check to see if I can see a problem.
There were random videos in there! Thanks for the heads up. Should be sorted now.
haha its the forza horizon 5 car barn
😂😂
this barn 8:00 ruins the 'English' look
😢