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Unreal Engine 5 Landscape Beginner Tutorial - Learn to Create Open Worlds

UNF Games via YouTube

Overview

Learn to create landscapes in Unreal Engine 5 with this tutorial. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently use landscapes in Unreal Engine 5 and create your own open world. The course covers various topics such as Unreal Engine navigation basics, landscape sizes, sculpting, Gaea operations, material creation, blending techniques, virtual textures, and more. The teaching method includes step-by-step guidance from beginner to advanced levels. This course is intended for beginners who want to learn how to create open worlds using Unreal Engine 5.

Syllabus

Intro
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Basics of Unreal Navigation
Landscape sizes
World partition basics
Sculpting basics
Intro to Gaea
Gaea Basic Node operations
Combining Nodes in Gaea
Exporting a Tiling Landscape
Landmass fundamentals
Blending Landmass with custom height map
Exporting our Landscape with no tiles
Creating our Landscape Material
Height Blending
Creating our Landscape Palette
Creating the Automatic Material
Exporting texture masks from Gaea
Creating the masks in our Material
Blending masks with height maps
Distance Blending theory
Distance Blending Material setup
Enabling Virtual texture support
Virtual Heightfield Mesh
Applying color to our Virtual Heightfield mesh
Virtual texture resolution
Procedural grass spawner
Preparing our Master Landscape parameters
Creating Functions
Creating a Material Library
Exporting a new terrain
Creating a new Landscape Biome

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UNF Games

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