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@@craigjohndesign hey Craig, congrats on your recent graduation! That’s an interesting question. I don’t dive super deep into tech art related subjects, but there are valuable videos on workflows and optimization. The value the course can provide to you is a deep understanding of an industry level environment art workflow. Each studio will work in a different way, but some aspects of env art creation are somewhat universal. As a tech artist who focuses on tech art for environments, you will be miles ahead of the competition if you know the process well. The best env technical artists are usually those who were env artists before, if you understand the process you will understand the typical pain points and will be better able to serve the env art team. Hope that helps and best luck with your career! Cheers

@@TKEnvironments Thanks for the response! Definitely seems worthwhile for me, then. Looking forward to working through it!!

@@김하늘-m2d1i hello! I’m currently not taking new members. Not sure if and when I will open new slots as I want to focus on the members already in the server. Cheers!

Try it and find out :)

The script I made does a few things more than just switching a sublevel on and off. It plays a transition screen, and also rebakes all the reflection probes (which btw is impossible to do in Unreal in runtime). To switch the lighting scenarios in Unreal you will also have to use some blueprints right? If you are playing a transition screen, you will want to disable the player movement during the cutscene for example.

@@3TQHAJSHNQ the majority of the environment was made before UE5 was released, but all the extra videos I added later in the tutorial are in UE5. Check out the video on my channel UE4 vs UE5 ;)

@@rackneh do you have box mapping on? Do you rebake the probe when you move it? Btw probe reflections will never be perfect, they are just an approximation

@@3TQHAJSHNQ when the course originally released, the standard version was cheaper but only had parts of the course. I then upgraded the content and added a lot more parts of the course (for a full experience) and also added some videos from the Advanced and Master editions free of charge. That’s on top of all the new videos I’ve added since (like the Unity videos I added recently). I’m now picking up Blender, and sometime in the near future I’m going to add Blender tutorials too. It’s a living course and the price bump reflects getting a lot more value than originally with the new content :) I understand it can get pricy for some countries due to currency ratios but it’s an investment that pays itself back many times over over the years :) cheers!

@@impheris ahh damn, that sucks :( I didn’t remove the comment, probably a bug on YT

@@caponeart3596 I know, that problem is really annoying. But I found a workaround. When you use PolyPaint it adds a PolyBrush (or something) component. There’s an option there to change from unique mesh to “downward stream” (forgot the name). With this option you maintain the connection, it doesnt replace it with a new mesh. Of course if you update the original mesh you lose the vertex painting, but at least it doesnt lose the mesh connection. I’d assume it also breaks instancing, but I’m not sure. SRP Batch Instancing works differently than other techniques, and drawcalls have a different meaning there. I think it could become a problem if you have lots of tiny pieces all with unique vertex painting. But if you have larger pieces that get reused a few times it should be totally ok.

That's awesome to hear! :D Best luck!! It's a challenging but fulfilling journey that's for sure.

Having them as “pure” realtime probes that update every frame will indeed tank fps. The way I set this was up was more like a “hybrid” probe, its dynamic in the sense that it gets baked when the scenario changes, but only once. What you suggest might be a good optimization, but seems like the workflow would be a nightmare. The more scenarios you add, the more you are going to have to manually bake the probes for each scenario, and every time you change something in the level… meanwhile if you just bake dynamically when you need, you get the best of both worlds.

@@TKEnvironments Ahh ok, so you are baking once when the scene loads? That makes sense. Is there some kind of callback to know when the bake has finished, so you don't display the scene while the bake is happening? I'm just starting to use APV myself - love the workflow, but getting unreliable results with reflection probes in URP.

@@ZirrelStudios not sure if there’s a callback… i didnt look. In my case I just added a “transition camera” that looks at the sky only while the probes get baked. It’s not perfect and maybe on older machines the baking could last longer than the transition camera…

I can post the code for the reflection probe baking if you want, its a script that looks for every probe in the scene and fires the bake function, so for ex, you can execute it when the scene loads or when you transition

I won't touch mushrooms anymore, neither eat them. Lol, what an ending. Far cry 3 vibes at the end!

Strange, haven't heard that before from anyone. Did you extract the files to a unique folder somewhere?

Funny, I was just looking into this question again this week. So far there's no official solution from Epic. Seems like it should be quite a straight forward feature to add, but maybe it's not. Here are workarounds I found for this limitation: - You can still have vertex colors but just not per instance. So maybe you can use Unreal's vertex color baking tool to bake cavity to R, AO to G etc... and use that to drive procedural masks with world space grunges and what not so each modular piece has different grimes. - This is super hacky, but you can duplicate the mesh and apply vertex paint on that copy. The reference to the original mesh still exists, so if you hit reimport you can iterate. But obviously this is not feasible if there are a lot of variations. Could work on a hallway or something. - You can use Dbuffer decals to blend materials. I haven't used this technique yet and I don't what are the performance complications, but seems like an interesting one: th-cam.com/video/gHQtV4JCsfU/w-d-xo.html Maybe if more people post about it on Epic forums they will prioritize it? :)

@@TKEnvironments for my understanding old good vpaint is no longer usable beacuse data held with amount of vertex per nanite mesh would be super huge, but yeah not adding anything new for that is super weird imo. This Dbuffer decals looks very intresting! Thanks!

@@andrewalexart hey! 1024 for 4m, but Id recommend 2048 for 4m now

@@TKEnvironments Thank you!

Thanks! HDRP

No idea what you mean by that!

No specific requirements, if you can run the programs you are good to go (Unreal Editor, a modeling program such as maya or blender, and texturing programs such as substance)

I cant see why not

Hello! As you can see in the video, the environment that I started in Unreal was converted exactly as it was into Unity :) The workflow of asset creation is basically the same. The only differences are more technical, for example, how to import the assets into Unity, and how to set up the lighting. I'm currently working on a Unity section for the tutorial that highlights these differences, and shows how to do specific things in Unity. It will be an addon to the course, not a full remake, since the process is the same regardless of the engine. I'm hoping to get this done no later than the end of July, but possibly earlier. Regarding the versions of the tutorial, if you are plan is to remake the Spanish Town in Unity totally go for the Advanced version. The Standard version contains all the information necessary to make your own environments, but the Advanced version contains all the Spanish Town specific videos (mostly about texturing and very specific things). Hope that helps, and stay tuned for the much awaited Unity update! (and I will cover both URP and HDRP)

Thatis a very good point. A lot of people want to get hired at Blizzard/Riot tomorrow. But it takes years and years to develop the skills and experience needed to become an attractive employee for these companies. No matter how naturally talented the person is, it takes time to simmer and absorb experience :)

Several people successfully did, but it depends how experienced you are with Blender. If you are complete a beginner, you will probably have a hard time, but if you have some experience, it should be a breeze. I don't use any Maya specific tools and I'm mostly doing simple operations, such as extruding, cuting, beveling etc... the one thing that people always have question about is how to maintain the texel density. For that, there's this amazing Blender script: renderhjs.net/textools/blender/

@@TKEnvironmentsThanks, I have a Nvidia Rtx 3070 will it be enough for this tutorial?

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The AO gets multiplied with the environment lighting AO, adding some extra detail to materials in the shadows.

Hey Kapthos! I go in-depth into these questions on my Environment Art Mastery course. It's not a one size fits all kind of answer, but a short version is this: - If you bake everything, it will be much harder to maintain a consistent texel density, and you might also run into performance problems in a real world scenario. There's a recent game that made everything unique, Final Fantasy VII Remake, but they had quite a few problems with texture streaming when the game released. Besides, they are a very experienced team with world-class programmers that can help optimize. For most people, I recommend using tileables for architecture. Nowadays there are many different techniques to blend materials, such as layered materials in Unreal, height blend, nanite tesselation etc.... Uniquely baking should really be reserved for props and specific elements (for example a store front, maybe windows that can be reused, etc...). I actually want to make a video for TH-cam expanding on texel density, because no joke, I get asked about it at least twice a week, and while a lot of people freak out over it, it's actually pretty simple once you know what to look for :) Stay tuned for the texel density tutorial, it should be coming up in the coming weeks!