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Unreal Engine 5 - Open World Landscapes

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Master Unreal Engine's Landscape editing tools to create massive environments like in "Breath of the Wild"

What you'll learn:
  • How to create new landscapes
  • How to import existing (real world!) landscapes
  • How to sculpt mountains, valleys, plateaus, and caves
  • How to paint a terrain with mud, grass, rock, or snow textures
  • How to populate a landscape with grass, flower, bush, and tree foliage
  • How to add oceans, lakes, and rivers
  • How to populate a landscape with road, fence, and mesh splines
  • How to add God rays and fog
  • Auto-Material
  • Procedural Foliage
  • Nanite
  • World Partition
  • Environment Art
  • Biomes
  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Landscape Design
  • Open World
  • Game Design
  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Unreal Engine

In this game designcourse,you'll learn how to use Unreal Engine's Landscape and Foliage Editing tools so that YOUcan build open world environments like seen in "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." Knowing how to use these tools is a critical skill for those aspiring to be Level Designers or Environment Artists!

Thiscourse contains over 50fun-to-followvideo lessons! You'll learn how to:

  • Setup a project in the Unreal Engine

  • Grab (free) asset packs from the integrated "Fab" tab in Unreal and use them in our project

  • Create a new landscape

  • Import existing (real world!) landscapes

  • Work on modifying existing landscapes

  • Sculpt mountains, valleys, plateaus, and caves

  • Apply and work with landscape materials

  • Paint landscape surfaces with mud, grass, rock, or snow textures

  • Populate a landscape with grass, flower, bush, or tree foliage

  • Populate a landscape with road, fence, and mesh splines

  • Use numerous Sculpting and Foliage tools within Unreal

  • Illuminate our landscapes with dynamic lighting

  • Add fog & God rays

  • Stream sections of your open world in and out

  • Optimize the performance of our open world

  • And more!

With the knowledge gained in these video lessons, you'll have the necessaryskills tostartbuilding your OWN open world environments!

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Landscape Creation
  • Landscape Sculpting
  • Landscape Painting
  • Foliage
  • Water
  • Landscape Splines
  • Character Movement
  • Sky
  • Sounds
  • Extras

Taught by

Greg Wondra

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