Year 1

In order to create an environment, we needed to find some assets online as it was extremely unreasonable to create every asset we needed by… Read More »Creating My Environment

In order to test if my environment layout would work or not, I decided to create a block out in Unreal. This was my first… Read More »Blocking Out My Environment

Now that I knew what our theme and hero assets were, I could start sketching out some ideas for the environments layout. I started by… Read More »Sketching Ideas For Our Environment

To start this task, I experimented with the particle effects that come in the Unreal starter content folder. I created a small scene using these… Read More »Unreal VFX

I did not know what a HDRI was before completing this task. I now know that an HDRI map stands for High Dynamic Range Image… Read More »HDRI Maps

I had no idea what vertex painting was or how to set it up before attempting this task. I chose a rock as my object… Read More »Advanced Material Setup – Vertex Painting

Prior to this task, I had experimented with lighting in Maya and Blender, however I had never used the lighting system in Unreal Engine. The… Read More »Found Assets And Lighting In Unreal

The first thing I did for this task was sign up for Quixel, which allows me to access thousands of assets for Unreal for free.… Read More »Decals