Unreal Engine 5 Environment Tutorial for Beginners - Start Here

if you've never used Unreal Engine and want to get started this video is perfect for you my goal is that at the end of this tutorial series you can start creating your own environments without needing to follow a tutorial you're going to learn everything you need to know to get started in unreal and make cool renders like these starting with unreal ready to start awesome get the epic games launcher go to the Unreal Engine Tab and download it once it's open choose film because we're creating an envir M and then select the blank template okay unreal is Open click and hold the right click on your mouse and you can look around while you're still holding you can use w a s and D to move around the scene it won't work if you're not holding right click on your mouse if you press e you get up and when you press Q you go down now I want you to play around with that and just get comfortable some of that might be a little confusing as at first but you get used to it pretty fast since you're learning the control you might want to know how to change the camera speed see this button you can click on it and drag it to the speed you want the higher number the faster then the lower the slower we will use this later when creating large environments it's quite important to have a fast moving camera really just keep moving around and use what you know so far now I'll show you how to add objects in your scene click the cube with a plus and you can see there's a lot of things we can add for now we'll focus on the shape section add a cube it spawned below the ground but that's okay I can put it back up now it could be handy to put the camera speed lower so see these three arrows you can move the cube around using these just click and hold the one you want and move the cube in the direction the arrow is pointing for example the up Arrow make the cube go up and down play around with that a little and get comfortable when you're ready switch to the rotate mode by clicking on this now just like the arrows you can click and hold a color and rotate in the direction you [Music] want the arrow option allows you to select objects but you can't do much with it for now select the last option for scale again you get some sort of Arrow and you can scale the cube in the direction of your choice you can use q w e and r on your keyboard to change the tool you're using you need to learn those shortcuts that's non-negotiable they will be incredibly useful later on you possibly noticed when you move the cube it moves up in blocks really not smooth and you don't have much control these three buttons right there are directly related to the move rotate and scale options this is the snapping if you want you can totally disable it for moving the cube it's this one disable it and you gain full control of the exact position of the cube click again and you can turn it back on optionally you can set a number for the snapping setting it to 50 makes the snapping a lot worse but this can be useful sometimes now select the rotate option just like for moving there is a snapping it works the same way you can disable it or change the strength scaling same thing disable the snapping if you want or change the [Music] [Applause] value look between these two arrows there's a line if you click and hold that line and then drag it you can change the scale in only those two directions at the same [Music] time let's add some more objects what about a sphere just click on it oops it appeared below the ground too let's go a little higher so the next object appears over the ground let's select the cylinder no matter what object you select here they all move rotate and scale the same [Music] [Applause] way to select an object it's pretty simple just click on it to delete an object you press the delete key on your keyboard now I'll show you one of my favorite part of Unreal Engine the bridge with Unreal Engine you get free access to this incredible library of 3D assets let's see if we can find something cool here yeah I'll add this you might need to log in if you didn't already click on the item you want and from there you can choose the quality you want the model to be download at you then click this green download download button on it to start downloading on every item you want and then you can export them to your scene with this blue export button you can close that go back to your scene and now do Control Plus spacebar on your keyboard everything you download from bridge will appear in a mega scans folder so open that and you can see we got the two items we just downloaded you click hold and drag the one you want in the scene where you want it to be placed we'll add the two objects now this is the content drawer you can see everything that's in the project the levels we'll show what this is a bit later and some folders you can also create your own folders we set it already but to open this content drawer you do Control Plus spacebar alternatively you can click on content drawer in the lower left corner if you didn't find the cone just search for traffic cone and it should be there anyway add whatever you want it doesn't need to be a cone in case you don't have the bridge tab or accidentally close it it's easy to add Back Control Plus spacebar to open the content drawer go back to content rightclick and select add quixel content it will open it back see this thing in the middle it's for video games it just tells the engine where the player should start we don't need that we are here to create an environment so just delete it anyway you could add it back if you wanted to Let's duplicate those cones press and hold the ALT key on your keyboard and then click and hold an arrow and drag the cone where you want with what you know so far you should be able to rotate the cone and make it lay on the floor for that you'll need to turn off snapping and use the move and rotate options let me show you something real quick if I had a sphere and find a snow texture I can apply it to the sphere and it makes a snowball see how that could make a super easy Snowman in fact this will be the first complete environment we will make together we will create a snowy place with a beautiful snowman you don't have to remember how to add a texture for now I will explain it with more details in the next tutorial we talked about levels earlier let me show you what it really is see this level named Maine here it's this scene with the cone the Snowman and absolutely everything it contains you can see in the outliner we got all the objects we added plus the ground the lights the clouds everything now here's how to create a new level you see this bar at the top you go to file new level and just select the basic template this template is pretty cool because it already contains everything I need to start creating an environment to save this do Control Plus s on your keyboard you should think of saving your project quite often I'll name it 3 Cube you'll understand why in a second I'll add this Cube and duplicate it two times now that I made this new level you can see it's here in the outliner just double click on the level you want to open let's go back to main looks familiar huh now let's go back to our three cubes let's make another one basic again I'm just naming it empty World cuz it's quite empty honestly the little eye icon next to object in the outliner is useful to hide object in the scene you can think of directional light as the sun it's the main source of light and it's very strong all the other effects that are here by default are very useful for making the scene what it is right now click on the directional light and if you look down you can change the intensity and make make it crazy strong or super low you can even change the color press and hold contrl plus L on your keyboard this will appear and from there you can move the sun using your mouse just make sure you keep holding control and L as always you can do contrl plus Z to undo that if you want to delete the directional light and add it again you can certainly do that in fact everything that's currently in the outliner can be added manually the directional light hides in the light section see it's back now so cool you better put it back in the folder now I want you to stay very organized I'm watching you exponential height fog is guess what for the fog we can't see much fog right now but that's definitely something we will play with a lot in the following tutorials the clouds are very simple to use so I'll just show it to you right now use the two first options there to change what the clouds look like yeah that's pretty pretty much it now that you know how to create a project a level move around how to add objects including those from Quick cell move scale and rotate them you're ready for the next step creating environments I'll show you exactly how to do them and later on in the series I'll also show you how to create and animate metahumans that you'll be able to import in your environments I am metahuman if this has been useful to you so far now might be a great time to subscribe that would mean a lot to me and you won't miss the next tutorials of this series if you're serious about learning 3D I suggest you watch at least one tutorial from this series every day all available in this [Music] playlist

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Length: 10min 57sec (657 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 08 2024