Creating a quick Unreal Engine 4 Cave Entrance Scene
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2014
- Quick scene I put together in Unreal Engine 4. Scene took me a little less than 2 hours from start to finish.
I did NOT create the actual art assets used in this video, they were created entirely by Epic Games.
All music in the video is from the Unreal Tournament 2004 soundtrack. - เกม
and meanwhile when I use unreal I was proud of myself when I made the sun shine the correct way on a box lmfao
This unreal engine looks so real.
*unintended pun alert*
WTK?
All personnel must evacuate..
*[siren]*
All personnel must evacuate..
+6Bene runnnnnnn
Lenny 256 That was actually a intended pun
The graphics are unreal
Absolutely amazing, such an amazing artist and engine!
I love watching these, it really helps with my own unreal building process. Your technique is impressive
Very nice dude, it's the best I seen so far, oh thanks for the Unreal Tournament music in the background ! :)
Your scenes kick some serious butt!!!! Great stuff. Thanks for sharing!
WOw... this looks so amazing, dude u got some serious skills!
Great as always!
So realistic and detailed! Good work, like.
Beautiful scene
The end product is beautiful!
Really smart work. Great!
DUDE YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!
Looks great!!
wow! this is amazing!
That's pretty sick!
you should be hired by a game dev company
I've been working in the gaming industry since 2007 :)
evilmrfrank Are you part of a company or independent
logilogilogi There are several companies putting games together, I am also creating a game using this engine, if you check out some of my other videos you can see one of the environments being worked on atm. Video games take a long time to make though and I am sure that by the end of this year there will be some pretty awesome UE4 games released :)
evilmrfrank what game are you working on?
Do you have any tips on nice assets packs from the marketplace or elsewhere? Also, out of curiosity, what company do you work for? As a level designer or Artist?
Beautiful
Mad skillz,Bravo.
The rocks and water are literally photo realistic? That's amazing.
Whoa... Nice work bro...
That was awesome..that is all!
This is obviously a bonfire in the Forest of Fallen Giants of Dark Souls II. And anyone denying it does not play Dark Souls II, and is thus to be executed.
i was thinking about dark souls
amazing work, you made it look so easy :)
Wow! I have no words.
You're so good at UE4!!
really nice one.
This is the power of a good engine! From now on even the indie games will have amazing graphics. No developer will spend days on improving graphic quality, they will simply design the 3D map they are always forced to design and they will have such beautiful graphics at hand.
Very nice. Great attention to detail. I love using UE4.
you're a genius!
That music, liked
Dude that's amazing! If only skyrim looked like this... :D
Mods...
Banana GAMING close. But no they dont go so far with graphics tho.
MultiMariokarter but, still, for a three year old open world game...
Erik Larson true, but still I just gave answer on Banana's comment thats saying skyrim comes close to these graphics from this UE4 Cave example.
to my opinion its not close.
MultiMariokarter depends, I've seen some decent shader mods that scratch on UE4 level... tis' but a scratch though ;)
The robot in Portal was the best at space. You are the best at UE4. You should be happy about that :D
Great Work, I keep meaning to do these quick scene builds myself. I just never get round to it... Will have to do at least 1 next month I think. Prepare myself some Assets over the next weeks and once I Feel I am ready! i'll do it... yours is amazing though. I have subscribed. Seen some of your other content. good work! :)
Thanks! Doing the scenes are a lot of fun, its nice to be able to take a break from spending months on a single map and just kick out really fast fun scenes in a matter of hours :)
I wanted the see the final product in-game. Like you walking around looking at the cave from different angles.
man you should get millions of subscribers! and get Verified
good luck man!
For someone like me that likes to see results fast, I may actually get into this. I have some engine and level design experience but little coding experience. Looks like I can perfect my hobby with this after a while. Watching all these videos got me pumped
Nice! :D
very nice now i want to see you do a waterfall scene...
Uau. Excelent!
Are you for hire? lol... Great work, I've seen a few of your videos, and they are all great, do you just think of what to do as you go? Do you have a model you base these off of?
AngryGamerTV At this time I am currently not for hire no :) I usually spend a bit of time looking up reference pics to find something that inspires me then from there I get an image in my head as to what I want to create and go about creating that image. At times it changes from what I first imagine but often times it remains pretty close.
evilmrfrank Well, they all look great, do you have any sort of special experience or training? Any books or classes?
evilmrfrank your videos are great man, whats your pc cpecs??
good video and excellent scene man is amazing!!! Which is the name of the first soundtrack?
Creating games is just like a game today!
Just as fun as one for sure :)
Nice stuff, tried to replicate it but the lighting was all messed up. Oh congrats on winning the chivalry medieval warfare competition!
Thanks!! :)
evilmrfrank Do you have a contact email?
Yes, it is evilmrfrank at yahoo.com
totally amazing only tutorial I have seen for a really nice cave I been needing to learn to do for a cinemegrapohic landscape. which asset pack did the cave rocks come from?
yeah which asset pack did the rocks came from?
Wow. that was a lot of work for just 4 seconds of footage at the end!
its not all about that.
Awesome stuff man, another quick question. I also have subscribed to epics unreal 4 engine, yet I don't have all those materials and extra stock meshes that come with the engine like you do. All mine came with is a few basic tables and little props, any idea why?
OMG excellent, can you point me where can I find that water shader on marketplace?
Damm dude, your goddamn GOOD (angrygrandpa style) did you buy like nature things (idk what the name of it is) because i want to have trees and grass but i dont have them
Hey, which pack did you use from Epic games, im trying to do same thing but can't find assets.
The particle effects template
Nice! Which assets did you use to create this?
Hi +evilmrfrank, could you put a link to download props/materials used in your videos in the description when they're free ?
I'd like to start using UE4 to create landscapes and scenes (not to actualy make a game, just graphical level design), but I am really begginer andI have no idea where to find content for free.
Also if you have any tip or landscape tutorial I'd be happy to hear it :)
Awesome work you do, keep going :)
Dude, can you make tutirials about this, I really want to learn some stuff about game development and level design.
*tutorials
+† XonXon™ Everything he did there is pretty easy. Get zbrush or mudbox , a program called meshlab, and maya or 3dsmax for making the grass and trees. Finally pirate or buy yourself photoshop 5+ (any earlier version is not worth getting) Look up tutorials on sculpting rocks, making trees, and creating textures and making foliage and your good to go. He sculpted the landscape himself so you don't have to worry about realistic landscape. Sculpting and lighting will be the fastest part of a simple nature scene like this.
+The WHITE WOLFF I appreciate your information.
l love your videos, they're all really great. I was just wondering, you state in the description that all assets were made by Epic Games, where did you get them from? I only see the one rock in the sample assets, I would love to be able to use a more extensive library of models and materials like you have.
You can find these assets as well as a lot of others under the learn tab in the Epic Games launcher
This is a suggestion, but you could change the camera exposure and redo the lighting. You can make a cool wallpaper out of it :D
Really awesome scene. Thanks for uploading! I'm new to Unreal Engine, so here's a noob question: You place lots of mesh objects where they overlap each other (like rocks intersecting with each other, etc). Does having these hidden polygons in the scene affect the overall performance at run time, or does the unreal engine not worry about them if they are hidden?
Unreal Engine will render the entire mesh even if a small corner of the mesh is visible. It is pretty common practice to have meshes overlap with hidden polys but as long as your not going crazy with it its not something that will have a very noticeable effect on performance.
good to know, thanks.
great scene! what is the material you are using for the water? is it one of the marketplace ones?
+x y You can actually find the material for this water under the Cave Effects demo which can be found for free under the learn tab in the Epic Games Launcher.
is there a way to make a custom form of development like off of halo reach where u could make a map so u dont have that confuseing cluster fuck around your screan??
Awesome. What was being done around the 3:00 mark?
Edit: You're videos are pretty amazing, subscribed! Hoping you continue to upload :)
I was trying to stick some roots in that were poking through the rocks but it was a little difficult to get in the right spot because the pivots on that mesh were so far off XD
evilmrfrank This is fantastic! Any chance you can put a download link to the sources? I love your lighting!
Could you pleasse make a walkthrough or a tutorial !?? this is amazing :0
thanks for the vid......how much prior experience did you have on working with the engine?
I've been using Unreal Engine since 2001
Subbed.
Looks really impressive!
But isn't it very bad for performance if you have so many invisible faces because you intersected so many rock models? Or does UE4 optimize that somehow?
where you find the rocks and stuff?
MightyPacifist I believe all his assets are from the Epic Games marketplace. Theyre all free (I think) there's some paid ones. But everything Epic games puts out is free.
I can't find the intro theme in UT2004, do you know the name? It is absolutely amazing
All the rocks, tree's and mountains and stuff. Do they come with the ue kit?
if so i'd like to give it a try aswell
They do all come with the kit along with a lot more. The only piece that did not come with the kit is the tree, that came from speedtree. If you do get into Unreal Engine 4 all of the assets except for the tree can be found by downloading the free cave effects demo on the Unreal Engine marketplace
Is there anyway to make a determined path benchmark with UE4? Like unigine valley or the elemental demo where the camera flys around your level for the player and they can't control it. I'd love to make my own benchmark scene like Valley.
Riley Nelson Yes, that is extremely easy to do in UE4. Your going to want to look into the matinee tools in Unreal
I am starting to wonder why game graphics are so late in attempt to be as good as our realistic animation and modeling industries. I'm guessing there just aren't many computers that can handle anything such as that. It probably would take a super computer to build an entire game with that level of graphics.
Alexandre Borela Ah. I see.
Hey i was browsing unreal tutorials and came across this video, nice job! But judging my your bame, isn't it you who made The Center for ark?
Yes that is me :)
Nice job, dude!
How much GB of RAM is needed to optimal, easy working at UE4?
It mostly comes down to what kind of stuff your doing in UE4. If your making a mobile game with low end graphics you could probably get away with only 8 gigs but I wouldn't suggest any less than 16, 32+ is optimal
I just started to learn UE but please tell me how did you learn all this? Seems hard to me :)
can you do some tutorials on how to create scene using unreal engine?
Where did you get the assets from? Did you buy them or get them off of the internet somewhere?
Do you purchase the assets or make them yourself? Or something else?
the folder "Environment" in the ue4 is igual ue3
you must have really fast computer
Could you sir, make some nature related maps for ut4 please?
how do you get all those rocks and stuff
May I ask where did you get the cave rocks assets? I mean what's the name package made by epic games?
Nice! I really need to put down Unity for a bit and pick up UE 4 and start monkeying with it.
One quick question... What were you "painting" onto the cave walls?
I think the Material of those rock meshes interpolates between different textures depending on the vertex color. So he was probably painting the vertices to get some different textures (mossy, etc.) blended in there.
It goes so fast I didn't see him do any brush selection, so I wasn't sure. So it was some sort of automated blending of textures between meshes? Interesting.
One thing though, and maybe we have different definitions here, but I'm confused. Did you mean to say faces, instead of vertices? Faces can be painted as they have dimensions, vertices are a single point in 3D space that comprise no physical dimensions. They're just markers for points in space...??? I'm guessing you meant to say faces, unless I'm totally misunderstanding you.
JohnHackfresse baller ... I'm in college so I've been trying to be cheap, but I may have to break down and shell out for it. Since I'm in school for Video Game Design the college keeps promising us UE4 on the Game Lab computers so I've been holding out. But because of some weirdness in the way they do Unreal licensing my college hasn't been able to acquire licenses yet, and I'm getting impatient. :D
***** Vertex Painting basically stores color data (a vector with 4 float values) with every vertex of the mesh. The Material can then access these values.
I am not too deep in that subject myself, so I hope I can explain it somewhat correctly: in the world of shader programming, you can distinguish between the vertex shader pass and the fragment/pixel shader pass of rendering. The vertex shader function is called for every vertex of a mesh and gets some data about that vertex passed as argument. It can modify the visual location of geometry that way. And it can also store that vertex data temporarily to pass it on to the fragment shader, so it can work with that.
The fragment shader is called for every single pixel of a face that is supposed to be rendered on the screen. Now the question would be of course: if the vertex shader only got called for each vertex, then the data that it stored for use in the fragment shader can't really be accurate enough, since there are a lot more pixels to be rendered than there are vertices on a mesh and the pixels are in-between the actual vertices, right? The neat thing is that the fragment shader automatically interpolates the values that got stored by the vertex shader depending on the distance of the pixel to the respective vertices that make up the face of that pixel, as well as the data that got stored for each of these vertices.
Example: if you painted one vertex white and left the other two black, then you still would get a grayscale that goes from white to black the further the pixel is away from that white vertex. You basically get the full color range and only need to store color information for three vertices per face, rather than per texel if you were to use actual texture painting. :)
(That was probably a pretty naive explanation because modern shaders programs use something like a surface shader instead of vertex and fragment because the latter don't really support complex lighting information, as far as I know. But it's probably enough to get a vague understanding. Thanks to the Material Editor, we don't really need to know the details.)
Quick question. I just started using UE the other day, and while I find it extremely interesting, I was wondering what the deal is in using these art assets in a game or video. Am I allowed to use them in a project that I create and then market said project, or would everything need to be made from scratch? Thanks
bbuc13 Yes you are allowed to use these assets in a commercial project.
evilmrfrank Thank you very much!
Could you explain how you made that water? I am having a lot of trouble making transparent water that still reflects but this looks great.
Just open up the Cave Effects demo that Epic Games released for free a while back, the water was taken out of there. They basically use two sheets of water, a transparent one that doesn't reflect, and an opaque water below that that reflects.
evilmrfrank Ah alright, thanks. :)
Is there a download? I want to try it out and use this in my game!
Why did you overlay 3d objects?, Does it make slow and heavy the simulation on the engine?
Hello, fantastic scene ;) congrats. Please can you share this project? I need it ;)
This is what I love about building games in engines. I love building the levels, making them look how YOU want them... If this is all it took to be a game dev, I would definitely be doing that. The problem is, you also have to know how to code and script, which I have no interest in. I would just want to be a graphic designer.
You don't have to know coding and scripting if your interested in the art side of things.
evilmrfrank
Hey i had one question uhm this right here what you're doing is like being environment artist? If so does this role take care of textures colors backgrounds and polishing graphics?
And i also wanted to know how its like to being an environment artist in a company like DICE do they like to tell you what they want?
example:Go ahead and make me a very cool forest environment or make me a beach?Is that how it works?
Thanks
BergTutorials I'm actually a level designer but as to who's job it is to do these kinds of art passes changes depending on what studio you work at. Some studios have environment artists doing them, some level designers, some level artists, it really varies. In terms of creating the actual assets used in the environment and the textures it is the job of the environment artists, polishing graphics is a mixture of a lot of people/disciplines. I can't tell you how DICE works as I've never worked there and each company has their own way of doing things but it is a little difficult answering the question as its a lot more complex than just being asked to do things. Some companies give you a lot more creative freedom than others, a lot of it also depends on your actual position and seniority in the gaming industry and company your in. While it is normal to get directions from leads in terms of what is required or wanted it is not normal to be told every little detail on how to do something, but again it depends on the situation. In most well run companies you are expected to be a professional and to know what your doing so you will not have your hand held for you. That being said game development is also entirely a team based profession so your not going to be calling all of the shots on your work, most things come through multiple interactions with several different people from start to finish no matter what department your in.
evilmrfrank So environment artist are the ones who work with the graphics on buildings,weapons,surface,terrain etc?Because im interested in getting into that career,but i wanna work with the graphics so work with the engine and stuff.But if environment artist doesnt do that then who does?
Environment artists create the actual art assets like rocks, and buildings, and cars. Basically if it is a 3D environmental prop it is the environment artists job to make it. At many studios their job is also to do the art passes on levels using these made props.
Where there used material
Did you purchase the art assets or are they for free? Where can I find them?
whats the size of your textures ? are they tilled ?
If I wanna create assets like trees, mountain barriers, is it possible to create in engine itself or should I use software's such as maya ?
You should probably go with Maya, the mountains you can create using the landscape tool in editor though. The trees you can make in maya but there is also an awesome tool to help with making trees called SpeedTree that is definitely worth looking into.
Okay thanks for the info :)
Nice, I tried to do simmilar things in cryeninge 3 but the engine is just to limiting. Especially when writing some code. Is unreal engine 4 an easy to start engine or not? I have tried UE3 and its was pretty doable.
jashelps If you are familiar with game engines it should be very easy to make the move to UE4
Ok I will try it out this vacation. I have tried unity 5 already and I like it. I have tried UE4 for about an hour and so far it has the functions I like about unity and cryenigne I still need to find the spletmapfunction or an add-on for it and I'm sold.
Where did you find this mountains already generated?
Where did you get the mountain assets?
Where did you learn the program if I may ask?
Hey, how did you get all the assets, for some reason whenever I load a new map I have nothing in my content browser. Not even the default meshes.
Sorry for the late response! The assets all came from the free cave effects demo released on the marketplace by Epic Games. You may have selected the option when creating a new project to create a blank project or to not install starter content. You may also want to check the filters in the content browser or check the view options at the bottom right of the content browser as those settings can sometimes hide meshes or other objects in the content browser.
how you made that rock
I'm researching game engines, would Unreal engine be a good engine to do a game that's purely set indoors?
Yes! If anything Unreal Engine 4 is amazing at indoor stuff
Would You able to make a game too?
The problem with a scene like this, is that if you were to actually create a huge cave, the models themselves would too heavy and therefore cause low FPS.
Where do you learn this stuff?