Create Stunning Star Systems in Unreal Engine - A Step-by-Step Tutorial!

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Get the space scenes from here: Gumroad UE5 Project Files - arghanion.gumroad.com/?sort=page_layout Artstation UE5 Project Files - www.artstation.com/a/12830081 Space Scene Tutorial in Unreal Engine: Link to Part 1 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/haXJgYqDabJsoJI Link to Part 2 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3mTdoijhpKbY6s Link to Part 3 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGq4h39vgbetoLc

[@krumino]

Thanks!

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Thank you for the coffee

[@shanethompson9562]

Seriously incredible content! The fact that you can create these effects using free software blows my mind. Coffee well deserved!

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Thank you!

[@abdulshabazz8597]

@00:19:42 Can you please start with a viewable output image, so we can see how adding each node effects the image, for a more realistic work flow...

[@galatei11]

Multiply is commutative just like div, so the product will always be the same, no matter whether how a, b are used

[@ledistortioniste2758]

Grandiose! I'm amazed with the result i have! Subscribed!

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Baleur]

31:00 surely the two star textures are meant to be individually named parameters? Right now you're using the same texture for both star slots, plus the alpha slot..

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Yes, you are right and I must have forgotten about it. Both the texture parameters need to be named differently so that 2 textures can be added. I messed it up.

[@VicA_33]

Great Tutorial! It is working just fine for me. However, for some reason, the textures come out as black and white. I have tried changing the textures and rewatched the video a couple of times to see if i got anything wrong, but i can't seem to find the problem...

[@shadmehrmomeni7793]

yooo you dont't know how much i searching for this tutorial and found nothing thanks❤❤❤

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Glad it helped you. Join the discord if you need help

[@jstara9125]

This was brilliant thank you so much for this free tutorial!

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

No problem!

[@arpandas461]

great man ... keep going ... 🔥❤

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Thank you, I will

[@Meatball117]

I am having an issue with the material. It seems to be wrapping/stretching around and having two points of "origin" and I've tried multiple images, conversions to HDRI and it still isn't working. I've tried rotating the sphere to try and limit the stretching but doesn't seem to work on my end.

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Is this when applying the flow map or just the simple setup?

[@Meatball117]

@@ArghanionsPuzzlebox both the flow map and even the normal skybox

[@Meatball117]

@@ArghanionsPuzzlebox I found the fix. Thank you for the tutorials but I am having crashing issues whenever I press play. Is this normal?

[@GeerHedVR]

I'm really confused at 18:19.. how did you create that value node? did you use a keyboard shortcut?

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

You can keep keyboard button "1" on the keyboard pressed while you left click anywhere in the Material Editor and this will add a Value of 1 Constant for you to use.

[@GeerHedVR]

@@ArghanionsPuzzlebox thank you for the quick response! 🙏 now I can continue!

[@chamnittmuk8515]

Yo when I put my hdr file into the Material Expression texture base the skybox come out black and white. What should I do about this?

[@ComplexKangaroo]

Super awesome tutorial, exactly what I was looking for, Unreal should pay you to make this a built-in quick start template. Are you sure holding the 3 key gives you a Constant3Vector in unreal editor 5.1, when I try this I just get "33333..." in the filter text box. But I can find "Constant", "Constant2Vector" and "Constant3Vector" which seems to be what you are using in this tutorial.

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Yes, you can search for them like that. Odd that for you it doesn't work when you keep a number pressed and left clicking in the shader editor. Heh, I'd wish they pay me but I doubt it. I'm thinking of doing some more stuff on Udemy maybe.

[@astonyo7544]

great. how we can light an entire environment with HDR map with correct lighting, shadows and reflections?

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

There is a great Tutorial from William Faucher that shows how to do just that. Please take a look at his content.

[@jerryatricks1]

This went correctly all the way up to adding the textures. I tried HDR, DDS, and PNG, and neither of them worked. TextureSample nodes all returned these errors: [SM5] (Node TextureSample) Cannot cast from larger type float3 to smaller type float2. [SM5] (Node TextureSample) Sampler type is Linear Color, should be Color for /Game/Skybox/Space_Alpha.Space_Alpha Also, the Sky Material will not take a Material Instance of the Skybox Material. 😐

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Hi. Please join the Discord Server and we can work together on fixing this issue. I'm sure it's just a mixup of node connections. Link: discord.gg/tyKJYwnutr

[@ISteadyYouSteady]

For those who facing this problem, please make sure that your texture is HDRI format such as EXR, when u import it into unreal engine, it will show it is texture cube format in unreal engine which was same like as the video above

[@gengu6779]

What do I actually apply the material to? I put it on a sphere with 2 sided lighting and scaled it way up but it looks all wrong I assume it's some other way

[@elcid2651]

I know it's extremely basic, but I'd love to see a tutorial on how to make a *realistic* (not purple) space scene in Unreal. As in: what I would actually see if I were in outer space right now en route to somewhere in the solar system. Just grabbing an 8k hdri star map and throwing it on a sphere doesn't work; it's still blurry and the massive file size weighs down the scene. I'm really curious how professional studios pull off this effect in a way that looks great but isn't too taxing on resources.

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Hi I'm pretty sure it generally is just a texture on a sphere if it's in a video game type environment. Depending on the scene, they might use a cube (not sphere) in order to add higher texture star maps in a smaller overall texture to get a far crisper effect. I've done a similar thing in this particular showcase video where my skyboxes are far more crips than what is shown in this tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4HInZSPnad1hJI I will be covering this topic further in future videos and I might actually remaster this tutorial as I think it's a bit outdated and not concise enough.

[@Baleur]

Cube map

[@tarialorehand]

I think this is amazing to see how everything is flying around. It would be perfect for my space scene, but I better not use it. if you could maybe just explain how to add the hdri into the scene because everything I have tried hasn't worked. that would be great. I don't have that particular space scene but I am currently searching around for one to use.

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

If you just want an HDRI spawned in the scene, you can always just import it into Unreal Engine and add it to a sky light (must have a sky atmosphere in the scene). There are tutorials on youtube on how to do this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHTdgmara9mspKc

[@tarialorehand]

@@ArghanionsPuzzlebox I just saw this reply, I am so sorry I never replied sooner. but thank you for the information. Unfortunately I can't use Unreal 5 on my computer. I have to stick with Unreal 4. I did however get a space scene into my project after I wrote this, but for some reason today, it's not working. The HDRI in Unreal has a flat surface and it's making everything stretched and some of the HDRI's that I'm getting aren't working in Unreal which is weird. And any of the textures for HDRI that I download are stretched and blurry. so If you have any suggestions on how to fix this I would appreciate it.Thank you again for the reply and I am sorry I didn't see your reply until now.

[@Messir]

How did you make that nebula im Blender? I think you've missed that part, dude

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Hi. Please watchi this tutorial on generating your own nebulas kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6K7lqdvhNh2laM

[@CasualGamingOn]

Nice tutorial! Quick question. How does one make the skybox 360 degrees? As in below the horizon level? Only half the skybox is showing the space I made. Below the horizon is completely blank.

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

If the skybox material is added to a sphere object and the texture is encompassing the entire texture space (the bottom half is not blank) then after applying the setup from this tutorial, it should work.

[@Horizonik]

Its probably because you have a height fog with density set to max

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Yeah that could also be the case

[@kalubandali2241]

thanks man

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Cheers

[@WhatWillCome]

This is great mate, but rookie question here : It's possible to make a nebula inside Unreal with shaders (like in Blender), instead of a map?

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Yes it is. Using raymarch in techniques. I am. Currently developing something like that buts it's a complex process. They will be 3d volumes.

[@WhatWillCome]

@@ArghanionsPuzzlebox Would be great to see that! Thank you dude!

[@KittenisKitten]

Great idea, but sadly lacking in any explanation to why things happen. this really connect the dots to make what he made, don't expect to understand why it works. He does not explain what the nodes do in terms of affecting the material. Just another dude following the Documentation and pretending its a tutorial

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

I'm sorry you feel that way, but a KZbin video format, in order to have any decent amount of success, can't go to lengthy amounts of explainer as it would be too long. I tried this before and most people don't watch even half of the tutorial. Please feel free to join the discord server and I can help you there directly. Most nodes have documentations of their own on what they each do. Trust me, I would love to go for hours in depth on this stuff but 90% of viewers wouldn't watch it, thus wasted effort and not enough return for me.

[@Baleur]

@@ArghanionsPuzzlebox But if people dont watch half the tutorial, they're not interested in learning Unreal Engine to begin with.. Its a very small niche market to begin with. Then again, just check the UE5 beginner tutorials numbering in 4 hours and their view count. As for not enough return for you, well perhaps you're looking at the whole thing wrong then. If the 10% who watched the whole video "convert" to buy your assets, thats better than having 2% convert from these shorter videos.

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

The stats don't lie. Retention rate for tutorial content is quite low across the board for a lot of creators, some get more views than others but that doesn't mean the content was watched. Also long tutorials take a long time, quite difficult if it's not a full time job.

[@eckee]

bruh you just made an animation, I thought you were creating a star system with planets, gravity orbits and shit. clickbait title smh

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

There is an entire section of tutorials, oh which this video is part of, on creating almost everything you need for orbits and planet systems. Most assets and project setups are on sale as well.