Brief Introduction
Master Unreal Engine 4's Landscape editing tools to create massive environments like in "Breath of the Wild"Description
In this game design course, you'll learn how to use Unreal Engine 4's Landscape and Foliage Editing tools so that YOU can 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!
This course contains over 110 fun-to-follow video lessons. You'll learn how to:
Download, install, and setup a project in Unreal Engine 4
Create a new landscape
Import existing (real world!) landscapes
Stitch together multiple landscapes to create massive open worlds
Sculpt mountains, valleys, plateaus, and caves
Create a landscape material
Paint landscape surfaces with mud, grass, rock, or snow textures
Utilize Blueprint Brushes to sculpt and paint a landscape
Spawn different visual and audio effects based on the surface type a character is traveling upon
Populate a landscape with grass, flower, bush, or tree foliage
Populate a landscape with road, fence, and river splines
Use numerous Sculpting and Foliage tools within Unreal (including Procedural Foliage tools!)
Create a day / night cycle
Add fog & God rays
Stream sections of your Open World in and out
Visually profile and debug your landscape's performance
And more!
With the knowledge gained in these video lessons, you will have the necessary skills to start building your OWN open world environments!
Requirements
- Requirements
- SUGGESTED: Basic computer knowledge
- SUGGESTED: Desktop PC with Windows 7 (or later) 64-bit - OR - a Mac with Mac OS X 10.9.2 or later
- SUGGESTED: 8 GB RAM
- SUGGESTED: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor
- SUGGESTED: DirectX 11 compatible video card
- SUGGESTED: Unreal Engine version 4.23 or later
Knowledge
- How to download, install, and setup a project in Unreal Engine 4
- How to create new landscapes
- How to import existing (real world!) landscapes
- How to stitch together multiple landscapes to create massive open worlds
- How to sculpt mountains, valleys, plateaus, and caves
- How to paint a terrain with mud, grass, rock, or snow textures
- How to spawn different visual and audio effects based on the surface type a character is traveling upon
- How to populate a landscape with grass, flower, bush, and tree foliage
- How to populate a landscape with road, fence, and river splines
- How to create a day / night cycle
- How to add God rays and fog
- How to visually profile and debug your landscape's performance
Greg Wondra
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