Hello! 👋 Mao here, It is time for another Environment tutorial! This time we are touching landscapes and the water system to create an Island! Want to learn to create an Action Game from scratch? Go to www.unfgames.com/action-game and watch the first lesson for FREE! If you liked this video, subscribe for more! Comment below what kind of Tutorial you would like to see next!👇 You can find my Gaming channel on: www.youtube.com/@maomaopvp & www.twitch.tv/maomaopvp Edit: Since the release of this video we got some frequent questions about the same topics so I will put them here with the solution: Q: I don't see the Landmass Blueprint A: Make sure you enable Landmass plugin, restart the editor AND Enable Edit Layers before creating your Landscape Q: I don't see my water: A: If it is the first time you put it, it will take some time to load. In the video I loaded it into memory before so you don't have to wait, but typically you will wait a few minutes. If you still can't see it make sure you put the Water on the right layer. Above the base can work.
Funny, in my project when i change to play mode, it goes on first person, is there a way to change for third person? I think is better to have both options to view better the scene.
dont know if someone already mentioned it; around 1:18:10 when you're painting foliage on the water plane; its usually way easier to just unclick the "static meshes" button in the foliage editor "filters" section. this way youre only painting on bsp and landscape meshes. definitely a more effective way than moving your camera beneath the surface every time. anyways, nice tutorial, good pacing. keep em coming!
It looks great ! You use a lot of keyboard shortcuts that I don't know as a newbie. It's nice if you put on the screen what you click on the keyboard and mouse, it would be much clearer. :)
has nobody noticed the water in the rivers are flowing backwards? this is because he is placing the starting point at the ocean or lake instead of it's actual starting point. this is very noticeable at 31:25 when he joins the 2 rivers together the waterfall is flowing upwards.
What really made me twitch was the river arbitrarily splitting before flowing (theoretically) into the ocean. Rivers don't do that. But hey, for an environmental art tutorial, I can overlook it.
Just wanna say this is amazing I was like another unorganized youtube playlist I was not satisfied until I saw ur website and I wanna say this is the best thing ever u have begginers to advace concept organized and all for free. Fr this is amazing and thank u
it is NOT only UE5 is powerful, you are very creative too, and the result a masterpiece ! Even at the start of video, without any objects added into the 3D world, your imagination and shaping the landscape alone is very creative @ 48:15 Enjoyed your video. Thanks P/s - with your talent, you should apply for a job in a gaming studio
i just starting to learn unreal and ur tutorials really helps me a lot man, I really appreciate how you explain it step by step in a simple way so even newbie like me can follow through, many thanks!!
Just mind blowing bro. Mad respect for the detailed tutorial ❤️. Thank you for spending hours for making this video. Please keep the good work. Expecting more tutorials like this 😁
For those who are having some troubles with a river, f.e it's not affecting the landscape or the water is located outside of the generated shape - Just move your landscape up. Rivers have a lot of troubles working below Z 0 coordinate
I'm still going through this tutorial, but so far it's excellent content. I had some issues with the ocean visibility that I was able to resolve with the following: While in selection mode, click on WarmBodyOcean > Under terrain, make sure Affects Landscape is disabled. This will stop the water from terraforming when you move the divot it creates. > If your ocean only covers a small portion of your scene and the yellow bounding box is visible, you can extend that by going into Water > Ocean extents and adjusting the values to fit your map.
Thanks for this, great to follow along. Would love explanations as to what the settings do - saying "I can change this from 1 to 2, or 5, or 10" doesn't give much insight. Looking forward to working through the rest of your videos this weekend :)
Hey there, I am hoping if you guys can make a tutorial on how to make a maze/labyrinth. It would be very nice and I think everyone would like that. Also if you end up doing this, could you show us how to make a procedurally generated maze? Thanks, you are amazing! Keep it up.
This is an awesome tutorial! I've been heavily into environment design and wishing to pursue it. This video is super helpful and I'm going to combine it with my Blender models once complete. Thank you for the video and a job well done! Can't wait to see more like this!
This tutorial is amazing. I'm doing a masters degree and have never touched unreal environments before. I was totally able to use this tutorial to make my own island as a great foundation for some of my coursework. That layerable material I can foresee being particularly useful in a tonne of situations. Thank you so much!!
We need more in depth LOD optimisation tutorials and blueprinting to keep frame rates high. Especially seeing as these sort of designs really need to be implemented a lot more in multiplayer games. Excellent video thankyou.
This was really well done and also a member on your website, What i really hope you would do next is a Ai Tutorial With behavour trees.... Vote with a Like if you agree Guys...
Whaat that’s amazing… I actually just started to play around with UE5 a couple of days ago and most people show you how to auto generate some highmaps. But that is exactly whst my creativity was looking for! Thanks for this tutorial mate 🙏
Really small one, when the adding the WaterBodyRiver should be affecting landscape, it is not affecting landscape. I think this might be because things like sculpt and affects landscape are only impacting the base layer and not not the landmass, am I doing something wrong when I set this up? without the affects landscape working it just looks like my river is hovering and defying all known laws.
TNice tutorials is aweso! I was feeling kinda overwheld when i first start soft but after watcNice tutorialng your tutorial video, i feel much more confident
Hi If anyone has similar river issues whereby the landscape doesn't form around river and the river floats like a column in mid-air it might be worth checking the following steps 1) Check the splines of the ocean to make sure they form around the landscape, I hadn't moved mine and it meant when I moved the water layer to the top the whole thing went kaput. For some reason I must have missed this part of the tutorial. 2) Move the ocean layer to 0 height. 3) then when I moved the water layer up top I got the following. 4) Make sure affect landscape ticked in details box under Water Heightmap settings I am sure other more experienced people could probs give better explanations but hopefully this helps at least one person.
I just finished the tutorial, thanks for that! Will polish my Island bit more and soon I will publish a cinematic :) Btw how to smooth the blending on 23:19?
First of all, thanks for this awesome introduction to Landmass and Water plugins in UE5. It's not common to see a terrain tutorial :)) In minute 18, if you first add a Water layer in Terrain Mode and then, add the water body in select mode, your terrain doesn't get destroyed. When I added the water body at first, the water layer wasn't automatically being created and the water body brush was in the landmass layer content. Just a question, how do you get shoreline caustic effect?
WOW! I will definitely dive into this tutorial after finishing Unreal Sensei Beginner tutorial(almost finished, 10 mins of video left). I will comment here when I'll start this tutorial, It looks seek!
I am here again, been busy and finishing some stuff(btw I uploaded my First Cinematic of my first scene using Unreal Sensei tutorial, its on my channel, if anyone is reading this comment and interested, what do you think about it?) alright I will start this tutorial now
These tutorials are INSANELY good!!! I am just finished up a course at Rebelway that is very similar to all that you're teaching. I was wondering if you are possibly making any tutorials from WorldMachine into Unreal 5?
@@unfgames Quick question! Strictly speaking GPU and UE5, would you recommend the AMD 6800 16GB GDDR6? I currently have a 2016 RX480 8GB GDDR5. I hit about 97% GPU usage in UE5 at 7.6GB/8.0GB used in heavy scenes and it lags extremely bad. It seems like UE5 in real-time environment feeds directly off of the GPU. My CPU sits at a low 10-15% and barely breaks a sweat. Any guidance?
Are you planning to make a tutorial about how to make a playable city? Cause make landscape with megascans is 'kind of easy' but things get hard where you have to build a playable city (from assets to design). It will be REALLY usefull
Such a valuable tutorial! You could teach rocket science to a 4 year old and he would totally understand it. And probably build his own rocket the next day.
38:58 Press U + Left Click for TextureCoordinate, Press M + Left Click for Multiply, Press 1 + Left Click for Constant. It's not simply Press U, M, and 1
Amazing video. Also want to add, that sometimes if you have some knowledge of Quixel Mixer you can change some already existing materials and assets to look a lot more like the way you want them to look instead of changing your materials to fit the pre-existing assets that you later add.
Hello: I follow your tutorial exactly, but at minute 3:00 you Restart and come back to the flat landscape that you had just created. However, when I click on Restart I come back to the initial 3rd person view that is created at the beginning of the session, not the flat landscape that you created. I think you missed something. Please explain.
At 27:00, I try swapping the layer on top, specifically putting the water layer above the landmass so it takes precedent, but it ends up making my whole landmass creation disappear. Any tips?
Extremely useful demo but we really need the other stuff to complete this, such as setting up & using the landscape spatial partitioning system, how to correctly import world machine layer data for creating auto landscape materials on a large scale.
Hello! 👋
Mao here,
It is time for another Environment tutorial! This time we are touching landscapes and the water system to create an Island!
Want to learn to create an Action Game from scratch? Go to www.unfgames.com/action-game and watch the first lesson for FREE!
If you liked this video, subscribe for more! Comment below what kind of Tutorial you would like to see next!👇
You can find my Gaming channel on: www.youtube.com/@maomaopvp & www.twitch.tv/maomaopvp
Edit:
Since the release of this video we got some frequent questions about the same topics so I will put them here with the solution:
Q: I don't see the Landmass Blueprint
A: Make sure you enable Landmass plugin, restart the editor AND Enable Edit Layers before creating your Landscape
Q: I don't see my water:
A: If it is the first time you put it, it will take some time to load. In the video I loaded it into memory before so you don't have to wait, but typically you will wait a few minutes. If you still can't see it make sure you put the Water on the right layer. Above the base can work.
i cant find the blueprint mode
@@Chance_POV me too i can not find blueprint
UNF it is not in the landscape thingt i can not find it
Funny, in my project when i change to play mode, it goes on first person, is there a way to change for third person? I think is better to have both options to view better the scene.
@@efxnews4776 go to world settings and override the Game Mode to the Third Person one
Have not finished the video and already learned a lot more in detail of the actual tools. Thank you for taking time to elaborate the tools
If you don't see the landscape blueprint brushes, Edit>Plugins>(search for)Landmass>enable>reset unreal done.
Thank you 😁
Thank you ;)
once you enable landmass plugin and reset unreal, blueprint don't appear anymore...
@@alextorres1038 You need to enable Edit layers before creating the landscape
Shift 2😂
dont know if someone already mentioned it; around 1:18:10 when you're painting foliage on the water plane; its usually way easier to just unclick the "static meshes" button in the foliage editor "filters" section. this way youre only painting on bsp and landscape meshes. definitely a more effective way than moving your camera beneath the surface every time. anyways, nice tutorial, good pacing. keep em coming!
Nice catch! yes there are some filters for painting and are very useful! 😁
It looks great ! You use a lot of keyboard shortcuts that I don't know as a newbie. It's nice if you put on the screen what you click on the keyboard and mouse, it would be much clearer. :)
The team at UNF knows what’s up! What a wonderful tutorial
thank you!
The perfect video for beginners, I know nothing and now I can actually do stuff on unreal
Very happy to hear that! 😄
每个部分没用说整么保存和读取，我照着一步步来试的，隔天会遇到无法读取的问题，你是如何学会的？
He did a very good job imo. Explaining the basics step by step. English is not my first language and I have no experience in using DAWs
Having a polite voice for the tutorial makes a world of difference 👍
I love the orange alien looking sky u briefly showed. I literally paused the video a few times to admire the image
This man doing all these for free! Glory for you kind person!
Thank you!
@@unfgamescould you give me download link for the map the UMAP file because my whole thing got corrupted and messed up
has nobody noticed the water in the rivers are flowing backwards? this is because he is placing the starting point at the ocean or lake instead of it's actual starting point. this is very noticeable at 31:25 when he joins the 2 rivers together the waterfall is flowing upwards.
Noticed it AF
What really made me twitch was the river arbitrarily splitting before flowing (theoretically) into the ocean. Rivers don't do that. But hey, for an environmental art tutorial, I can overlook it.
Driving me crazy
@@ronbutler4527 Haha the whole tutorial I was thinking about that river going 90 degrees🙄
River direction and speed can be changed from the riverwater component
Just wanna say this is amazing I was like another unorganized youtube playlist I was not satisfied until I saw ur website and I wanna say this is the best thing ever u have begginers to advace concept organized and all for free.
Fr this is amazing and thank u
Welcome glad you find the content useful 😀
I just wanted to say - this is the perfect way to make a tutorial ..simple, clearly explained, well presented! Thank you
thank you! means a lot!
it is NOT only UE5 is powerful, you are very creative too, and the result a masterpiece !
Even at the start of video, without any objects added into the 3D world, your imagination and shaping the landscape alone is very creative @ 48:15
Enjoyed your video. Thanks
P/s - with your talent, you should apply for a job in a gaming studio
Thank you! You can always get better with practice,it's a never ending journey. As for the game studio, I used to work for Ubisoft
i just starting to learn unreal and ur tutorials really helps me a lot man, I really appreciate how you explain it step by step in a simple way so even newbie like me can follow through, many thanks!!
Amazing. Spent whole day doing a small island and next up is trees etc. Thank you alot.
Just mind blowing bro. Mad respect for the detailed tutorial ❤️. Thank you for spending hours for making this video. Please keep the good work. Expecting more tutorials like this 😁
thank you! Glad you appreciate the effort! It's really hard to make them but it's nice to see people can learn from them so it worth it 😁
this is cool i used this tutorial and sold my game
@@teogaming7515 Awesome! Keep going! 💪
What a great tutorial just finished watching I am going to rewatch now whilst creating my own island thanks
Watching other guides, always leads me back to yours to get the level of detail I need on how to do things! Keep it up!
Happy to hear that 😁
Great Tutorial, im about done with my creation and the process was amazing! Keep it up!
very excellent tutorial i love it although i wish you would've included how to make beach waves, waterfalls and custom sky clouds
This video massively helped with my project, thank you so much!
Welcome!
For those who are having some troubles with a river, f.e it's not affecting the landscape or the water is located outside of the generated shape - Just move your landscape up. Rivers have a lot of troubles working below Z 0 coordinate
thank you! 🙌
bro how to shift first person to third person?
@@randomsports5247 you have to start a tpp project
thanks dude
Can I kiss you on the mouth? You just saved me!
I'm still going through this tutorial, but so far it's excellent content. I had some issues with the ocean visibility that I was able to resolve with the following:
While in selection mode, click on WarmBodyOcean
> Under terrain, make sure Affects Landscape is disabled. This will stop the water from terraforming when you move the divot it creates.
> If your ocean only covers a small portion of your scene and the yellow bounding box is visible, you can extend that by going into Water > Ocean extents and adjusting the values to fit your map.
Thanks for this, great to follow along. Would love explanations as to what the settings do - saying "I can change this from 1 to 2, or 5, or 10" doesn't give much insight. Looking forward to working through the rest of your videos this weekend :)
Great suggestion!
not know , but just know you've affected my life, and apparently tens of thousands of others, in an imnsely positive way. Thank you
Absolutely brilliant tutorial, so clean, simple, clear. Very very easy to understand, thank you!!!
Thank you! glad you know that! 😄
Honestly this is the best tutorial i have ever watched thank you so much 🔥🔥💯💯
Hey there, I am hoping if you guys can make a tutorial on how to make a maze/labyrinth. It would be very nice and I think everyone would like that.
Also if you end up doing this, could you show us how to make a procedurally generated maze?
Thanks, you are amazing! Keep it up.
The first tutorial that can explain how to do something from preview image!)
Lol thank you!
This is an awesome tutorial! I've been heavily into environment design and wishing to pursue it.
This video is super helpful and I'm going to combine it with my Blender models once complete. Thank you for the video and a job well done!
Can't wait to see more like this!
thank you! Please share with us on Discord what you create!
This tutorial is amazing. I'm doing a masters degree and have never touched unreal environments before. I was totally able to use this tutorial to make my own island as a great foundation for some of my coursework. That layerable material I can foresee being particularly useful in a tonne of situations. Thank you so much!!
Thanks for letting us know!
We need more in depth LOD optimisation tutorials and blueprinting to keep frame rates high. Especially seeing as these sort of designs really need to be implemented a lot more in multiplayer games. Excellent video thankyou.
Thank you! Maybe you can watch this th-cam.com/video/DmnAI01boww/w-d-xo.html
bro you covered every single aspect 😂 thank you for this amazing tut
thanks! glad you appreciate it 😁
thanks my man, you always put a smile on everyones faces
This was really well done and also a member on your website, What i really hope you would do next is a Ai Tutorial With behavour trees.... Vote with a Like if you agree Guys...
Thanks! I guess AI is a topic many are interested in, we will take a look for sure it's something we wanted to do for a long time
Whaat that’s amazing… I actually just started to play around with UE5 a couple of days ago and most people show you how to auto generate some highmaps. But that is exactly whst my creativity was looking for! Thanks for this tutorial mate 🙏
Are you forced to work with the Water as it is? Or can you change the Color/Exposure/Brightness and stuff like this?
Glad I could help!
Really small one, when the adding the WaterBodyRiver should be affecting landscape, it is not affecting landscape. I think this might be because things like sculpt and affects landscape are only impacting the base layer and not not the landmass, am I doing something wrong when I set this up? without the affects landscape working it just looks like my river is hovering and defying all known laws.
a bit too late but do you know the fix?
@@tommy1683not sure if my comment a bit further down helps? Apologies if not :)
TNice tutorials is aweso! I was feeling kinda overwheld when i first start soft but after watcNice tutorialng your tutorial video, i feel much more confident
Hi
If anyone has similar river issues whereby the landscape doesn't form around river and the river floats like a column in mid-air it might be worth checking the following steps
1) Check the splines of the ocean to make sure they form around the landscape, I hadn't moved mine and it meant when I moved the water layer to the top the whole thing went kaput. For some reason I must have missed this part of the tutorial.
2) Move the ocean layer to 0 height.
3) then when I moved the water layer up top I got the following.
4) Make sure affect landscape ticked in details box under Water Heightmap settings
I am sure other more experienced people could probs give better explanations but hopefully this helps at least one person.
Thx dude i was looking for you comment my savior. xd
I had the same problem. Thank you!
will get it. Just don't get burnt out. Whenever you need a break, take one.
You placed all your rivers backwards which makes the water look like it's flowing uphill.
Lol didn't notice
this was godsend for somebody starting out, really appreciate it
welcome! 😁
I just finished the tutorial, thanks for that! Will polish my Island bit more and soon I will publish a cinematic :) Btw how to smooth the blending on 23:19?
firstly I would like to wish you well and to say a huge thank you for uploading these videos as they have been an invaluable resource to
Welcome!
Thanks for the tutorial, it's much faster than any other method I came across.
Welcome
First of all, thanks for this awesome introduction to Landmass and Water plugins in UE5. It's not common to see a terrain tutorial :)) In minute 18, if you first add a Water layer in Terrain Mode and then, add the water body in select mode, your terrain doesn't get destroyed. When I added the water body at first, the water layer wasn't automatically being created and the water body brush was in the landmass layer content. Just a question, how do you get shoreline caustic effect?
Please tell me where to find the Terrain mode?
I *love* this tutorial - you filled in all kinds of areas I had questions about as a beginner in the landscaping/level set up.
WOW! I will definitely dive into this tutorial after finishing Unreal Sensei Beginner tutorial(almost finished, 10 mins of video left). I will comment here when I'll start this tutorial, It looks seek!
:)
I am here again, been busy and finishing some stuff(btw I uploaded my First Cinematic of my first scene using Unreal Sensei tutorial, its on my channel, if anyone is reading this comment and interested, what do you think about it?) alright I will start this tutorial now
These tutorials are INSANELY good!!! I am just finished up a course at Rebelway that is very similar to all that you're teaching. I was wondering if you are possibly making any tutorials from WorldMachine into Unreal 5?
thank you! We did cover Gaea here: th-cam.com/video/V54kqpy1Q-Q/w-d-xo.html
@@unfgames Quick question! Strictly speaking GPU and UE5, would you recommend the AMD 6800 16GB GDDR6? I currently have a 2016 RX480 8GB GDDR5. I hit about 97% GPU usage in UE5 at 7.6GB/8.0GB used in heavy scenes and it lags extremely bad. It seems like UE5 in real-time environment feeds directly off of the GPU. My CPU sits at a low 10-15% and barely breaks a sweat. Any guidance?
Just wanna confirm that it worked , thank you !
You're blessed with the gift of Tutorialism!
Are you planning to make a tutorial about how to make a playable city? Cause make landscape with megascans is 'kind of easy' but things get hard where you have to build a playable city (from assets to design). It will be REALLY usefull
Good idea!
@@unfgames I will wait for it :)
amazing tutorial bro, so useful for someone who wants to dip their toes in!
wow I am new to UE5 and I am in love with your tutorial.
Watching this while at work and cant wait to gi back home and do it…. omg.
Such a valuable tutorial! You could teach rocket science to a 4 year old and he would totally understand it. And probably build his own rocket the next day.
Thank you!
38:58 Press U + Left Click for TextureCoordinate, Press M + Left Click for Multiply, Press 1 + Left Click for Constant. It's not simply Press U, M, and 1
I cant believe that this is a free tutorial!!! Thank you, ser! Subscribed
Loool. I legit spend 6 years using gms before finally getting serum. I was making blown out saw softs and exporting them to Edison
Dude you are the best. It is safe and 100% works
I can not believe that is working perfect. Thanks a lot for sharing.
You're welcome!
Amazing video. Also want to add, that sometimes if you have some knowledge of Quixel Mixer you can change some already existing materials and assets to look a lot more like the way you want them to look instead of changing your materials to fit the pre-existing assets that you later add.
Yep, its a great workflow! Perhaps can touch Quixel Mixer in the future
Amazing staff.Clear and encouraging.
This works. Recommended to try this out. Thanks a lot for your help
Thanks dude, it said directx error, but i restarted and it worked good
man I missed this kind of tutorials lol. Great work here, thanks!!!
Welcome!
Amazing tutorial, thank you! I feel a lot more comfortable with creating levels in Unreal Engine now
That's great to hear!
This is Exactly what I was looking for... Thank you friend!
Glad I could help!
Been learning your castle environment tutorial from Wingfox which has been great. Will try some of these videos for breaks in-between.
These free videos are great too! 😄
This helped me out loads, thanks!
subscribed!
Now to make a start on my game's landscape :)
Awesome!
Stoked cant wait!
Awesome tutorial! Thank you!
I like the materials and colors!
thank you! glad you like them 😃
Just finished it and wow. Thanks for awesome tutorial. I'm quite new around here. 😊
You can post the results in our discord server if you like in the #showcase section. We love seeing the results of our community!
Great work. Time is the scarcest asset so thanks for yours mate. I leave my sub!
Thanks for the sub!
@1:12:20 Songs giving me old Sonic Vibes
Great vid. Im using a lot of those techniques for building an open world
Great to hear!
Hello: I follow your tutorial exactly, but at minute 3:00 you Restart and come back to the flat landscape that you had just created. However, when I click on Restart I come back to the initial 3rd person view that is created at the beginning of the session, not the flat landscape that you created. I think you missed something. Please explain.
This is the best tutorial ever
Thank you!!
wow. Can't wait.
see you there!
I like it so much, almost half way to complete this tutorial
Cool!
Thanks brother! You're doing the grate job! You're really cool guy❤
thanks for doing what you are doing - love your teaching skills , keep posting -THANK YOU SO MUCH -you make Unreal Learning Easy
thank you so much!
Nice tutorial.... Very helpful
thanks!
Iam confused af from textures.. but its work... thank you man
Watch it slowly, you can💪
you record with hardware outside of the program. Great tutorial btw it was very detailed but still just right for beginners.
thank you :) yes we use OBS
At 27:00, I try swapping the layer on top, specifically putting the water layer above the landmass so it takes precedent, but it ends up making my whole landmass creation disappear. Any tips?
you need to add virtual textures to the landscapp and the meegascan assets materials to have a nice realistic blinding
Yep
Awesome tutorial. I literally feel like actually learning something!
Great to know that!
I am just wondering why you are being so generous with your knowledge?
knowledge is abundant, the application of it is what is lacking today
I subscribed! You deserve it!!
Thanks for subbing!
#riverproblem you have to put the water layer up and the landscape and ocean level more than Z-100 bor best results
I'm coming late, but this is Amazing! Thank you.
having something on the scene for scale would probably help, as in the end everything turned out to be huge
Totally!
Thank you for your hard work...you are helping a lot of people...
thank you!
Installed, everything works, thanks!
thanks! I love this tutorial.
Welcome!
Extremely useful demo but we really need the other stuff to complete this, such as setting up & using the landscape spatial partitioning system, how to correctly import world machine layer data for creating auto landscape materials on a large scale.
Perhaps this video can help th-cam.com/video/V54kqpy1Q-Q/w-d-xo.html
Help please: how to handle 3 islands on one Landmass? How to set up the water ?