Unreal Engine 5 – The Witcher Inspired Scene

During this course I will show you how to create a scene inspired by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.The goal of this course is to show you, step by step, how to create an inspired environment from scratch.From the creation of the vegetation with Speedtree 9 to the final composition on UE5.1. We will see the creation of textures with Quixel Mixer, terrain to dress the background of our scene with Gaea (optional) and we will create all the necessary shaders to get the maximum quality. And we will finish with the 4k renders with the Movie Render Queue. More details below.What I will learn?In Speedtree 9:Create serval Next-gen trees with hybrid logic (structure with Nanite and foliage with common LODs/Imposter)Create 3d branches to use as texturesCreate an atlas to combine several parts in a single textureCreate ground foliage models optimized for realtime rendering.In UE5:Complex shaders for trunk, foliage, terrain & Megascans assets.Advanced terrain shader with distance blend texture, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, RVT, automatic logic and spawn foliage with mask.Complete composition (Procedural Placement, lighting, vfx…)Create renders with the Movie Render QueueIn Quixel Mixer:Create multiple advanced textures with and without animated puddles in UE5Export with the correct packed texturesIn Gaea:Create some terrains used to dress the background of our sceneExport masks to use them for texturing in UE5In Photoshop:Replace colors of some texturesEnhance the qualityCombine masksWhich chapters are available?Aspen Trees (Complete Creation) – (7h26)Bark & Foliage advanced Shader – (2h35)Pine Trees (Complete Creation) – (6h55)Variations & Saplings for Aspen & Pine – (3h)Complex Landscape Shader & Quixel Mixer Textures (UE5.1) – (4h47)Ground Foliage (Speedtree 9) – (7h25)Scene Creation (Part 1) – (2h52)Distant Terrain + Shader (Gaea / UE5.1) – (1h10)Megascans Advanced Shader (UE5.1) – (1h05)Scene Creation (Part 2) (UE5.1) – (7h27)Decals Shader (UE5.1) – (51m)Adding Wind on Foliage (Speedtree 9 / UE5.1) – (1h24)Simple Particles (Ambient Dust / Moving Pollen…) (UE5.1) – (40m)Scene Creation (Part 3) (UE5.1) – (1h10)Rendering with Movie Render Queue (UE5.1) – (1h)What I will get? (updated weekly)~51 hours of step-by-step video tutorialSeparate downloadable chapters (.zip)1080/30fps resolutionSoftware Used:Speedtree 9.1.2 or aboveUnreal Engine 5.13d Modeler (Blender, 3ds Max, Maya…)Photo/Image Editing Software (Photoshop, Gimp…)Quixel Mixer 2022Gaea 1.3.2 (optionnal)Level:Anyone who wants to learn, improve or fix their skills in environment creation.Prerequisite:Owning a computer with Windows 10 (64Bits) / Not tested on Windows 11Winrar or 7zip to decompress filesThe basics on Unreal EngineImportant note :This course was created in version 5.1 and it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to use THE SAME version! If you choose to use another version, be aware that you may encounter possible errors not covered in this course.About copyrights:All you can find in the resources of the course are for personal usage only. You cannot share or sell it.
Published 2/2023
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Language: English | Size: 43.18 GB | Duration: 50h 15m

Learn how to create an UE5 scene inspired by The Witcher game
What you’ll learn
Create an environment from scratch on UE5
Create next-gen trees
Create multiple optimized shaders
Create different vegetation type on Speedtree 9
Requirements
Owning a computer with Windows 10 (64Bits) / Not tested on Windows 11
Winrar or 7zip to decompress files
The basics of Unreal Engine
Description
Overview
Section 1: Aspen Trees
Lecture 1 Speedtree Overview
Lecture 2 Aspen Tree – Structure
Lecture 3 Aspen Tree – Branch Texture (Part.1)
Lecture 4 Aspen Tree – Branch Texture (Part.2)
Lecture 5 Aspen Tree – Baking Textures & Test
Lecture 6 Aspen Tree – Second Branch
Lecture 7 Aspen Tree – Generate Atlas
Lecture 8 Aspen Tree – Base Cutouts
Lecture 9 Aspen Tree – First Branch Creation
Lecture 10 Aspen Tree – First Branch Test & LODs
Lecture 11 Aspen Tree – Second Branch Creation
Lecture 12 Aspen Tree – Improvements
Lecture 13 Aspen Tree – Adding Lumps
Lecture 14 Aspen Tree – Adding Small Branches
Lecture 15 Aspen Tree – Adding Tessellation
Lecture 16 Aspen Tree – Setup UE5 Project
Lecture 17 Aspen Tree – Export Structure
Lecture 18 Aspen Tree – Export Foliage
Lecture 19 Aspen Tree – Remove Noisy Alpha
Lecture 20 Aspen Tree – Import in UE5
Section 2: Bark & Foliage Shader
Lecture 21 Shader Basics
Lecture 22 Import Default Textures
Lecture 23 Tiling Function
Lecture 24 Albedo Controls Function
Lecture 25 Specular, Roughness & Emissive
Lecture 26 Normal Intensity Function
Lecture 27 Greyscale Controls Function
Lecture 28 Sorting Instances
Lecture 29 Billboards Function
Lecture 30 Test & RDO Texture
Lecture 31 Foliage Set Function
Lecture 32 Comparison
Section 3: Pine Trees
Lecture 33 Trunk Creation
Lecture 34 Branches Creation
Lecture 35 Bark Texture
Lecture 36 Green Branch – Structure
Lecture 37 Green Branch – Improvements
Lecture 38 Green Branch – Needles
Lecture 39 Green Branch – Texturing
Lecture 40 How to Create a Gradient Needles
Lecture 41 Green Branch – Assign Gradient
Lecture 42 Green Branch – Overlap Improvements
Lecture 43 Green Branch – Improve Top Needles
Lecture 44 Green Branch – Adding Details
Lecture 45 Green Branch – Texture Test
Lecture 46 Green Branch – Rework
Lecture 47 Dead Branch – Full Creation
Lecture 48 Dead Branch – Test on Tree
Lecture 49 Branches – Variations
Lecture 50 Branches – Bake Small Parts
Lecture 51 Green Branch – Atlas Creation
Lecture 52 Dead Branch – Atlas Creation
Lecture 53 Atlas Cutouts
Lecture 54 Adding Anchor Points
Lecture 55 Improve Top Tree
Lecture 56 Improve Density
Lecture 57 Top Details
Lecture 58 Down Details
Lecture 59 Adding Tessellation
Lecture 60 Export to UE5
Lecture 61 Test in UE5
Section 4: Tree Variations & Saplings
Lecture 62 Aspen Tree – Variations
Lecture 63 Pine Tree – Variations
Lecture 64 Variations – Increase Segments
Lecture 65 Variations – Export Aspens
Lecture 66 Variations – Export Pines
Lecture 67 Aspen Sapling – Cutouts
Lecture 68 Aspen Sapling – Creation
Lecture 69 Pine Sapling – Structure
Lecture 70 Pine Sapling – Needles
Lecture 71 Saplings – Export & Import to UE5
Section 5: Landscape Shader
Lecture 72 Upgrade Project for UE5.1
Lecture 73 Distance Based Texture Blending
Lecture 74 Layers Function
Lecture 75 Layer01 Function
Lecture 76 Other Layers
Lecture 77 Slopes Logic & Clean
Lecture 78 Grass Texture
Lecture 79 Main Ground & Variations
Lecture 80 Height Based Paint Layers
Lecture 81 Fix Grey Terrain Issue
Lecture 82 Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM)
Lecture 83 POM – RDO Support
Lecture 84 Rock Texture
Section 6: Ground Foliage
Lecture 85 Grass
Lecture 86 Landscape Auto Foliage
Lecture 87 Fern
Lecture 88 Pink Flowers
Lecture 89 Yellow Flowers
Lecture 90 Reeds
Lecture 91 White Flowers
Lecture 92 Dry Plant
Lecture 93 Masked Automatic Foliage
Section 7: Scene Creation (Part.1)
Lecture 94 Setup Level & Terrain
Lecture 95 Landscape Paint Brush
Lecture 96 Path – Creation
Lecture 97 Path – Material
Lecture 98 UE5 Terrain Issue
Lecture 99 Drawing the Path
Lecture 100 Adding Reliefs with Blueprint
Lecture 101 Trees Blueprint
Lecture 102 Procedural Aspen
Lecture 103 Procedural Pines & Saplings
Lecture 104 Volumetric Fog
Lecture 105 Path Texture
Lecture 106 Improvements
Section 8: Distant Mountains
Lecture 107 Terrain Creation
Lecture 108 Convert Terrain to Mesh
Lecture 109 Textures Setup & Import in UE5
Lecture 110 Master Material Creation
Section 9: Megascans Assets Shader
Lecture 111 Master Material Creation
Lecture 112 Cover System
Section 10: Scene Creation (Part.2)
Lecture 113 Explanations
Lecture 114 Big Clean
Lecture 115 Fix Landscape Mode Crash
Lecture 116 Relief Improvements
Lecture 117 Variation Layers
Lecture 118 Set Landscape Grass Types
Lecture 119 Ground Foliage – Rework
Lecture 120 Ground Foliage – Color
Lecture 121 Ground Foliage – Optimized Shadows
Lecture 122 Ground Foliage – LODs
Lecture 123 Setup Trees
Lecture 124 Improve Lighting
Lecture 125 Runtime Virtual Texture (RVT)
Lecture 126 Distance Moutains Placement
Lecture 127 Path Improvements
Lecture 128 Adding Rocks & Ruins
Lecture 129 Improvements
Lecture 130 Local Volumetric Fog
Lecture 131 Salabilities Blueprint
Lecture 132 Grass Rework
Lecture 133 Adding Stumps
Section 11: Decals / Common & Water
Lecture 134 Common Decals
Lecture 135 Water Decals
Section 12: Speedtree Wind
Lecture 136 Ground Foliage
Lecture 137 Aspen Trees
Lecture 138 Pine Trees
Lecture 139 Billboards (Broken)
Lecture 140 Fern
Section 13: Niagara Particles (Ambient Dust & Flies)
Lecture 141 Ambient Dust & Flies
Section 14: Scene Creation (Part.3)
Lecture 142 Ground Foliage
Lecture 143 Distant Mountains
Lecture 144 Remove Path Flatness
Lecture 145 Far Tree Billboards
Lecture 146 Final Improvements
Section 15: Rendering (Movie Render Queue)
Lecture 147 Single Shot & Animated Sequences
Anyone who wants to learn, improve or fix their skills in environment creation.

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