Create an abandoned apartment in UE4: Lighting

In this third and final video of a three-part series, Quixel's Isac Crafoord walks us through his his approach for lighting this abandoned apartment scene using Megascans, Bridge and Mixer.
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Find out more about the general design process here: • Create an abandoned ap...
And more about set dressing here: • Create an abandoned ap...
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[@jimmwagner]

I would love to see a series on building a scene like this from start to finish for those who are just learning unreal. Give me all the hours of boring mundane stuff please! :)

[@tinychamberz]

Exactly :D i dont even know how to get started ^^ what mesh is from unreal, if any? how much is modeled before going into the engine? how is the cloth done? etc. etc.

[@begalooloo]

same here give it from start to finish

[@Aleks_Dzi]

top this comment for do series of that

[@sofers2069]

what to do if DX12 is not supported on your system. Try running without the -dx12 or -d3d12 command line argument?

[@guategeek.]

I also really want a tutorial of how to make a scene like this from scratch as an intro to Unreal and to Megascans.

[@varzit8317]

Can't wait till this guy uses UE5

[@sevenhundred77_]

You need to make more in-depth tutorials

[@tyler_puryear]

;)

[@matiascasag]

Agree

[@momomadi2]

+1

[@TyBreaker]

Like tutorials in Maya too

[@youngspecial64]

Do you believe ps5 games in the later 3 or 5 years games will look this highly detailed for tge ps5.....it seems damn well possible

[@mv4770]

I'm just here to say thank you. For everything you guys have done, and still will do. You're phenomenal. Thank you

[@gauravmishra5998]

We would love 3-4 videos of an hour long on just one scene to really just illustrate why, how and what is being done to achieve that particular goal. You guys are the best and with deep insight of just 1-2 scene, we can really understand what and how we should do at every step to of the project.we understand it sounds lazy and selfish and you guys are already explaining enough !! And we am really grateful for it. Thank you !

[@AbhishekSingh-wn4kj]

Can you guys just do a indepth lighting tutorial form start to finish.

[@matiascasag]

Yes please

[@dylankuzmick3122]

I also really want Quixel to do this one day, but in the meantime, 51Deadalus has really good hour long tutorials of him going through and completely relighting existing scenes, and he splits each scene into a playlist in chronological order, it's really nice. If you really want to see a really quick example, go to his 2.1 lighting academy video, and look at the light at the beginning and then the end of the video, it's amazing. Another guy on KZbin, Guilherme Rabello, created the most photorealistic outdoor scene I had ever seen, and he completely credited 51Deadalus for learning how to light it, so I'd check him out if you're interested. Also, Unreal Studio - Lightmass and Beyond, by Wolfe WOLF is a great video that explains what each lighting setting does in high detail. I'd definitely check that one out too if you're completely new (btw I don't think he touches fog, just things used in interior lighting).

[@chocosenpai3279]

watch videos from Lighting Academy everything regarding cg lighting fully explained in depth

[@marklavania3680]

@@dylankuzmick3122 Thank you for sharing, Dylan! That was abundance of information. I have followed few 51Deadalus tutorials, he is amazing!

[@hiscraft]

A lighting tutorial would be excellent

[@simulify8726]

If ue4 has this level of detail support in it, imagine how much detailed ue5 would be!!!

[@gnome3d750]

As a beginner UE4 and Quixel user, these videos are beautiful to watch. However, it would be great to see you guys release some full-length tutorials (maybe an hour long?) which helps set up the whole project and follow along. Thanks for all the hard work you guys put!

[@marciopereira1726]

I am with the same ideia

[@PolygonAcademy]

awesome content as always :D

[@JonathanWinbush]

These 3 part focused breakdowns have been really useful I like this format better than the live streams 👊🏾

[@desertlion7013]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing. And thanks for your time. Thanks for making this 😊

[@noobaaxa6680]

We want Quixel's UE5 scenes.

[@jjrbanana]

Incredible

[@romanbruni]

brilliant !!! really nice series of very short objective videos 'abandoned apartment unreal4'. really enlighting ! would love to watch the post-processing and grading ! cheers from Rio.

[@AriaRedux]

Fantastic!! Thanks you for sharing! Wonderful work and superb workflow insight! :)

[@crzymlk]

so beautiful!!!

[@astonyo7544]

Great job! I`d like to see different light setups breakdowns with different moods or different seasons of the weather...

[@TheF4c3m4n]

OH the detail in this is just sick! You guys need to take some time off and let the rest of the UE4 World have a chance to even catch up to what you're doing at Quixel. Amazing, beautiful, and Epic! Thank you so much for the video!

[@dreamzdziner8484]

Nothing is impossible for Unreal & Quixel. ❤👌❤

[@TheF4c3m4n]

Exactly!

[@swapnilkashid3578]

Great work men

[@parthnaik2033]

I would love to see an extended breakdown of the scene like one of those live streams

[@sepulturia]

amazing video! loved the cricket ball

[@ravindran5]

This are amazing 🤯🤯

[@yassg7542]

“Is”

[@user-ht6tp5tg5t]

Great work! What I want to see next is step by step tutorial for beginners. Like distribute a simple building model made in blender, tell exactly what assets you use from Megascans, and then show how you use Mixer & Bridge, and setup scene in UE4 so that a complete beginner can make the exact same scene for practice. Maybe it will be so long but I really want that. I am an indie game dev who wants to try making realistic scenes like this but it’s pretty hard now.

[@EeVeE3D]

Really Inspiring... 🙏

[@darkenergy7291]

very cool

[@jmdenisme]

This is mind blowing. I am discovering the potential of UE through theses videos. Is there a full / uncut step by step from 0 to 1 course?

[@ChrrZ]

wow, amazing

[@BaliDreamsDesign]

Amazing..👍👍

[@rebx5891]

Tutorial Suggestion: Quick overview on the Blend Material function of Megascans in UE4. I've been attempting to use it but it's rather quirky it feels (blend channels seem mixed up). Getting an overview on how to use it and 'best practices' would be great.

[@ArtIsDead_AI]

How did you make the floating dust particles? It’s a subtle effect but it looks so great.

[@dulichnghialo]

I come across here accidentally and I see your job is so amazing. My dream is to do things like this. Can you please tell me which softwares do you use so I can learn it and where to get those materials? Many thanks

[@StylizedStation]

Man, getting heavy Last of Us vibes on this one. Love the lighting.

[@franciscogallucci327]

You are very good at your job. I want to be like you

[@erichance8222]

The high level overview of your process here is nice, but showing more of your baking process step by step and settings would be useful.

[@alexelmoth4643]

Ok, wow

[@g144hz]

i love lighting make more tuto or something about that I would like to make it one of my specialties

[@shaikharsh47gmailcom]

Keep the hype up guys caus the difference between UE4 and 5 is like comparing gba with ps4 pro.. Imagine a world with every single thing impacts the game and is interact able Generating a world with mechanics comparable to our real real world.. And graphics better than real world... Hats off to UE and quixel

[@lz4090]

Nice series. I noticed you were using movable lights for the directional light and opened some areas of the ceiling to brighten the dark areas. Would it help if static/stationary lights were used to lighten those areas since global illumination is present in static/stationary compared to movable lights? Thank you

[@vivektyagi6848]

Please start a Cinematography series including that with Characters (Action / Conversing), Vehicles in Action all within in Quixel Environment.

[@moodnamoodnai8742]

I know this is Quixel's channel, but can this guy do a complete in-depth lighting tutorial? please?

[@pissfiss]

@quixel make an open world scene where a huge area is visible than a small one. In your "Forest in UE4" video you just made a small scene where not much was visible as there were trees all around.

[@richardparry10]

Super interesting work with abandoned, Isaac - would really like to touch base w you about a film project. If possible?

[@hakanviajando]

Thanks a lot, very helpful video. One question is, what do you mean by rendering inside the engine? Is it possible to let it calculate the light not-realtime to get an image without noise? Or do you mean pausing the camera and waiting until the raytracing calculates, and then taking a screenshot?

[@behrampatel3563]

Yes. With Raytracing there are options in the render dialogue to allow the system to wait for a specific time for a frame ( warm up ).

[@tajender_singh]

Can you please make a scene with cyberpunk setting ❤️❤️

[@HamiltonWard]

Did you use blender to make the walls? Love this series!

[@cgtechie]

its a new revolution

[@ahmedalsalameen5898]

We want one detailed tutorial for creating such realistic scenes

[@brdklt]

Full length tutorials pleeeeeease 🙂

[@Battle-Scarred]

Great video but we need in-depth stuff. How to use the tools like export from blender to ue4 and then work with megascans. The whole pipeline

[@FatalisArx]

Hi, nice content. i'd like to see how we can light setup 4 bedrooms or 5 bedrooms apartment for instance ?! thx

[@rebx5891]

Will this project be distributed somewhere? This is great - but would be awesome to get some of the details that aren't talked too much about (or shown) - which is just as simple as opening the project itself and poking around (adding more context to these great videos). Are you using a baked skylight and everything else is moveable ray-traced for directional/fill/etc? It would be great to get an overview on capturing a video within a ray-trace scene. I've not found much on that process relative to ray-tracing specifically.

[@JamesClark1991]

How long did it take you to create this from start to finish?

[@Cyb11893]

How? How did you make such cool graphics?

Wish games were like that

[@Navhkrin]

I want a floor design in a futuristic skyscrapper with windows on all sides.

[@raycaputo9564]

I really like the Music in Background, how i can find this song? Thanks in Advance :)

[@knl654]

the vegetation looks beautiful but are they really game ready because they don't look like cards

[@Cpt.Tripps]

What is the music at the beginning? Is it available somewhere?

[@cabbagenjam]

It's written in the description...

[@darkenergy7291]

Hi, I would really like to see, if you have time on your hand, how similar lighting can be achieved with unreal's Lumen system

[@quixeltools]

We will, eventually!!

[@SunnySkyNL]

I hope there will be a way to use game engines on next gen consoles. I have been playing and using a lot of Dreams on ps4 but it feels restricting for making things that are realistic looking. I would love to be able to use high end engines like these and see what I can make myself.

[@shomnathdhar]

How UE camera works here? need more details about UE camera thanks.

[@danielmfa3D]

It is possible to achieve this result without using raytrace? Or close

[@SenSation25]

What programs are used for modeling environment?

[@vaishakkrishnan1638]

Is sort of graphic fidelity possible with vanilla ue4 with normal cpu lightmass without raytrace??

[@snehilmallick4680]

i used decals in my project but it just goes transparent behind shadows what should i do to fix that my version in UE 4.25

[@sofers2069]

what to do if DX12 is not supported on your system. Try running without the -dx12 or -d3d12 command line argument?

[@anderpr]

Niceee 💖❣️💖❣️

[@thebox8826]

El futuro es hoy

[@sarthakyadav9697]

How to customize a assest such as resolution, contrast.i have to use megascan for my android game and in which software we can customize it.

[@sarthakyadav9697]

I am beginner

[@sarthakyadav9697]

This asset is also on marketplace.if we made the same by ourselves. Does it will copyright? And most of the are free which are not allowed to commercial use.so, we can make it same by ourselves and use it for commercial

[@gursimransingh3513]

It's a shame that still ue4 do not have proper dynamic light solution and specially dynamic global illumination where as cryengine had it 8 years ago

[@gursimransingh3513]

@@OCASM not everyone can affort a rtx card

[@Navhkrin]

It has SSGI, works rather well on my gtx 1080 with only few frames of difference. Nvidia has branch of UE4 with VXGI on it. UE5 is going to introduce Lumen which is a very good GI solution but we have to wait another year. If you are building in-editor it also has full blown movie level path tracer, but as far as i know Path Tracer is restricted to be used in-editor only.

[@gursimransingh3513]

@@Navhkrin lumen again would be a very hardware demanding feature I recently tried cryengine and was blown up, specially by its performance with inbuilt dynamic lighting solution which is perfect more over tons of other things runs smoothly such as volumetric clouds, fog etc when even combined together you won't believe it gives around 200 fps even when using all these features at its highest settings on a 1050 ti where as in case of ue4 even a volumetric fog with engine settings at high gives only 45 fps now that's a huge difference

[@asntech4014]

when you say render. does it means those config is not for gameplay ?

[@adriaperez6446]

Why if you have baked GI, when you open parts of the roof the GI enters the scene in real time??

[@joaquinotazu1412]

It's the Autoexposure turn on? Just wondering

[@Potatinized]

Glad to see we can finally do what koola has been doing. lol.

[@arejays6701]

haha, Koola is a god.

[@josh7624]

Please make a game like this and put it on all platforms

[@user-dc7xv8cy5w]

您好，我有一个问题要问你。在您的“被遗弃的公寓”项目中，我可以使用电影摄像机的光圈来控制进入的光量和曝光，但是当我自己创建项目时，我无法使用光圈来控制。是否有任何我没有检查的设置或其他原因？我希望你能回答这个问题。

[@brianfordhamm2740]

3:02 - straight from The Last of Us 2.

[@brianfordhamm2740]

@@OCASM A PC version would've been nice. Come on, Sony, do something like 5 years exclusives. So the games would be on PCs much later, but they *would* be. And also... the gameplay would settle it all. If gameplay is meh, even realistic graphics wouldn't count.

[@arianhoorn]

Put the artist portfolio please ?

[@SaimAsifThe_Weeb_Artist_420]

TELL ME THE MUSIC I CANNOT FIND IT

[@tajender_singh]

Please make a scene with futuristic architecture on alien environment... with weird lighting from maybe 2 suns or moons😅

[@gursimransingh3513]

Wdia a bai😅

[@cwidd1929]

6:52 RTX skylight noise

[@jimmy-k6770]

Will this get crashed when we use more than 3 megascans?

[@youngspecial64]

Question.....do you believe games for the ps5 in the later 3 or 4 years they will look THIS HIGHLY DETAILED......it seems damn well likely.

[@user-mg7cw4gh3j]

damn HQ

[@artemibatullin5211]

thr background music is a bit loud

[@ukko8243]

Do you need a RTX card for the ray tracing?

[@InnerAnimate]

yes

[@NielsNudist]

Pray for Isac

[@devm3240]

Depth lighting tutorial in next

[@darkenergy7291]

8th!

[@sarthakyadav9697]

Please answer

[@TheMagaPunk]

Isac прошу сделай урок по созданию этой сцены от начала до конца!! Готов заплатить любую сумму!!! Прошу!!!

[@berkealisenelyt]

I'm Sure This Is Last Of Us 3 For PS6... !!! 😁

[@redditman3314]

Pin this comment to prove that you guys indeed read our comments!

[@tyler_puryear]

We read them!

[@behrampatel3563]

@@tyler_puryear Glad you do and I believe you are going to address feedback too. So thanks. There's some genuinely legit questions & requests here. How about addressing them in an AMA or live stream with the Author of this scene ? Basically what UE regularly does but coming from Quixel. Cheers, b

[@davidos7120]

С00l

[@chloetzpiano6548]

i want to make a game but i cant even fucking draw with my hand

[@youtubescp2356]

Why does it look like last of us hmmmmm

[@wutevaidc]

yea so profressor i think that um how did you um did you do the...thing? ummm eeehhh..ummm how did you, you know like. its like crazy i get it i kinda but i dont, i think if u like explain it one more time. I saw it, visually? so now that i know what it look like, wut its supposed to look like. yea so i think if u explain it now with words imma gonna get. So can you um....explain? like more? uuuuh yea, like. uummm like. yea. um..yea. so like. yea ok... yea so. uhuh....uhuh....ok....uhhuh.....oh. yea ok. yea that....yeathat makes sense....yea...uh huh....ok.....ok thank you...thank you... *whisper* _i still dont get it.....do you get it?......you think this is gonna be like, on the test?....yea i dont think its gonna be on the quiz for sure the midterm....uh huh. yealike, i get the texture part, i just dont get the light part....yea i- oh really?.....uh huh....yea like..._ oh sorry, sorry professor!.... _yea im sort of second guessing taking this class... like, i need this class to graduate.....but like, i cant afford to fail it, im gonna be on probation.....academic probation yea............you think i should ask him? I donno i still dont get it, i think hes gonna get mad at me... its like literally his job tho... you wanna start like, a study group?......_ I wasnt even talking!.... _dude, bro, hes like, insane theres something wrong with him.... when i get home im gonna get on ratemyprofessor even tho the semester just started....ur right two more months two more months.... what grade do u have in this class?.... dam a C?.... crazy bro, yea i just dont rlly understand the material right now............._ oh, its time to- yea the bell ring. yea see you- ill message you on canvas.... oh haha- yea for sure dude....um- yea.... ok yea... oh your pencil.... yea no problem...alright bye.

[@semmert]

PLEASE turn the music off. It's too loud, and you speak too quietly. It's just a distraction, and honestly, music isn't even necessary.

[@sarthakyadav9697]

Please answer