Creating a quick Unreal Engine 4 Cave Entrance Scene

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.

[@m1stlongshot129]

and meanwhile when I use unreal I was proud of myself when I made the sun shine the correct way on a box lmfao

[@GGBGameplays]

This unreal engine looks so real.

[@442277100]

*unintended pun alert*

[@KaraokeNig]

WTK? All personnel must evacuate.. *[siren]* All personnel must evacuate..

[@tiqosc1809]

+6Bene runnnnnnn

[@GameXFuture]

Lenny 256 That was actually a intended pun

[@cha0tixgamer624]

The graphics are unreal

[@FLUTTERNINJA]

Absolutely amazing, such an amazing artist and engine!

[@Lunarbs]

I love watching these, it really helps with my own unreal building process. Your technique is impressive

[@Shepard7]

Very nice dude, it's the best I seen so far, oh thanks for the Unreal Tournament music in the background ! :)

[@2dornot2d57]

Your scenes kick some serious butt!!!! Great stuff. Thanks for sharing!

[@ProfilaktiskasLT]

WOw... this looks so amazing, dude u got some serious skills!

[@diegominguez8432]

Great as always!

[@tamu75Chan]

Really smart work. Great!

[@hellrider15]

So realistic and detailed! Good work, like.

[@leslietoomey5455]

DUDE YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!

[@darkwyvern9796]

wow! this is amazing!

[@DerekNFriendz]

Looks great!!

[@Arcticvbi]

That's pretty sick!

[@shadowclans8507]

The end product is beautiful!

[@floop74]

Beautiful scene

[@definetlynotapirate]

you should be hired by a game dev company

[@evilmrfrank]

I've been working in the gaming industry since 2007 :)

[@wolfspirit9999]

evilmrfrank Are you part of a company or independent

[@evilmrfrank]

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 :)

[@ShakeITyEA]

evilmrfrank what game are you working on?

[@Cindorellatellstory]

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?

[@Unioxe]

Beautiful

[@AlecWyld]

The rocks and water are literally photo realistic? That's amazing.

[@karabon13]

Mad skillz,Bravo.

[@LiberateMyHatred]

amazing work, you made it look so easy :)

[@URELL17]

That was awesome..that is all!

[@nathanieljonathan4275]

Whoa... Nice work bro...

[@duckotaco]

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.

[@blackheartgaming6121]

i was thinking about dark souls

[@shamsfx8837]

really nice one.

[@Navhkrin]

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.

[@VirtuosicKitty]

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! :)

[@evilmrfrank]

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 :)

[@Danlovar]

Wow! I have no words.

[@442277100]

You're so good at UE4!!

[@hamimseater]

you're a genius!

[@haknslash]

Very nice. Great attention to detail. I love using UE4.

[@LARESCIV]

That music, liked

[@Xgamesvidoes]

Nice! :D

[@jpeg5047]

The robot in Portal was the best at space. You are the best at UE4. You should be happy about that :D

[@johnnyzhang5333]

Dude that's amazing! If only skyrim looked like this... :D

[@bananagaming600]

Mods...

[@MultiMariokarter]

Banana GAMING close. But no they dont go so far with graphics tho.

[@dragonarmy2008]

MultiMariokarter but, still, for a three year old open world game...

[@MultiMariokarter]

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.

[@Serygalacaffeine]

MultiMariokarter depends, I've seen some decent shader mods that scratch on UE4 level... tis' but a scratch though ;)

[@notVinodRodrigo]

man you should get millions of subscribers! and get Verified good luck man!

[@AngryBO2Gamer]

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?

[@evilmrfrank]

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.

[@AngryBO2Gamer]

evilmrfrank Well, they all look great, do you have any sort of special experience or training? Any books or classes?

[@ravishogre8682]

evilmrfrank your videos are great man, whats your pc cpecs??

[@coutwiliam846]

Uau. Excelent!

[@nsanegaming5425]

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

[@fullfunk]

very nice now i want to see you do a waterfall scene...

[@Phrosen1]

I wanted the see the final product in-game. Like you walking around looking at the cave from different angles.

[@josipsemuga9657]

Hey, which pack did you use from Epic games, im trying to do same thing but can't find assets.

[@olivergashi4721]

The particle effects template

[@RatherFast]

Nice stuff, tried to replicate it but the lighting was all messed up. Oh congrats on winning the chivalry medieval warfare competition!

[@evilmrfrank]

Thanks!! :)

[@michaelodetola]

evilmrfrank Do you have a contact email?

[@evilmrfrank]

Yes, it is evilmrfrank at yahoo.com

[@proflooney]

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?

[@egnogra]

yeah which asset pack did the rocks came from?

[@leonchristin4254]

Creating games is just like a game today!

[@evilmrfrank]

Just as fun as one for sure :)

[@Darkwalker9000]

good video and excellent scene man is amazing!!! Which is the name of the first soundtrack?

[@zubairsaifi5850]

OMG excellent, can you point me where can I find that water shader on marketplace?

[@MightyPacifist]

where you find the rocks and stuff?

[@alyssariemer3300]

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.

[@dankjeenyus]

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?

[@Martegames0]

Dude, can you make tutirials about this, I really want to learn some stuff about game development and level design.

[@Martegames0]

*tutorials

[@johnpeoplefox]

+† 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.

[@Carnageloser7]

+The WHITE WOLFF I appreciate your information.

[@chikingames]

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.

[@evilmrfrank]

You can find these assets as well as a lot of others under the learn tab in the Epic Games launcher

[@antoinegonzalez787]

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 :)

[@raybbo]

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

[@evilmrfrank]

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

[@AlterNateHeaDacHe]

I can't find the intro theme in UT2004, do you know the name? It is absolutely amazing

[@nielsdecker5669]

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

[@CyberWolf755]

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

[@RobSteptoe]

Wow. that was a lot of work for just 4 seconds of footage at the end!

[@DeGameManiak]

its not all about that.

[@onokas]

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?

[@evilmrfrank]

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.

[@onokas]

good to know, thanks.

[@PHOBIAx57x]

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.

[@evilmrfrank]

Riley Nelson Yes, that is extremely easy to do in UE4. Your going to want to look into the matinee tools in Unreal

[@christianlandmann9759]

I just started to learn UE but please tell me how did you learn all this? Seems hard to me :)

[@ClosetPlatypus]

Nice! Which assets did you use to create this?

[@whyusaltycuh]

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??

[@3ddominator]

great scene! what is the material you are using for the water? is it one of the marketplace ones?

[@evilmrfrank]

+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.

[@alpieelviscanon1217]

May I ask where did you get the cave rocks assets? I mean what's the name package made by epic games?

[@astralboy]

thanks for the vid......how much prior experience did you have on working with the engine?

[@evilmrfrank]

I've been using Unreal Engine since 2001

[@Banthor]

Where did you get the assets from? Did you buy them or get them off of the internet somewhere?

[@13th_Shots]

Could you pleasse make a walkthrough or a tutorial !?? this is amazing :0

[@ale92cr]

Why did you overlay 3d objects?, Does it make slow and heavy the simulation on the engine?

[@voltywolty]

Is there a download? I want to try it out and use this in my game!

[@daudmichael4690]

can you do some tutorials on how to create scene using unreal engine?

[@naturesfunk]

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.

[@evilmrfrank]

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.

[@derpherp6798]

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?

[@bbuc13]

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

[@evilmrfrank]

bbuc13 Yes you are allowed to use these assets in a commercial project.

[@bbuc13]

evilmrfrank Thank you very much!

[@dimoronen]

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.

[@evilmrfrank]

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.

[@dimoronen]

evilmrfrank Ah alright, thanks. :)

[@Banchuba]

Can a beginner do this too in UE or do i need code or learn alot to rebuild this? Sure it needs time, but also coding?

[@andreaseichert2553]

It doesn't take really much time to learn doing this (no coding at all if you don't need complex game mechanics). You need to have good models ofc and have an eye for placing them right (or good concept art/references). Also you should have a feeling for lightning a scene. So all in all it's propably more artistic stuff than techniques.

[@evilmrfrank]

Yea, learning the tools is relatively easy, especially with all of the documentation out now.

[@musiclova21]

The blueprint system in UE4 just about completely negates the need to be proficient in C++. It is still helpful though to have a good understanding of 3D art core concepts. Knowledge of basic physics and some advanced math doesn't hurt either. Still, there's a good amount of tutorials on Epics KZbin channel to get a beginner going.

[@TheMrbiggs]

You need to learn, ALOT but not that much coding, even though it's kind of useful

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

is all about references, pictures, other games, etc

[@WellPlayedGamer]

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 ?

[@evilmrfrank]

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.

[@WellPlayedGamer]

Okay thanks for the info :)

[@meeww8912]

Do you purchase the assets or make them yourself? Or something else?

[@cretzsf]

the folder "Environment" in the ue4 is igual ue3

[@lauch8844]

whats the size of your textures ? are they tilled ?

[@gipro1]

Subbed.

[@SimpleCookiee]

Did you purchase the art assets or are they for free? Where can I find them?

[@jashelps]

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.

[@evilmrfrank]

jashelps If you are familiar with game engines it should be very easy to make the move to UE4

[@jashelps]

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.

[@Zetrominator]

Awesome. What was being done around the 3:00 mark? Edit: You're videos are pretty amazing, subscribed! Hoping you continue to upload :)

[@evilmrfrank]

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

[@Discipol]

evilmrfrank This is fantastic! Any chance you can put a download link to the sources? I love your lighting!

[@SinglyPringly]

Where did you learn the program if I may ask?

[@migtylp4395]

Hey there is no cave effect demo anymore or cant i just see it? Goto Learn on UE4 Right?

[@migtylp4395]

Thx found it allready Particle Effects iam so dumb sry

[@smidge146]

I'm researching game engines, would Unreal engine be a good engine to do a game that's purely set indoors?

[@evilmrfrank]

Yes! If anything Unreal Engine 4 is amazing at indoor stuff

[@jens2481]

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?

[@evilmrfrank]

Yes that is me :)

[@jurovillafuerte7452]

Where did you get the mountain assets?

[@jorari71]

Where did you find this mountains already generated?

[@andrewswiderski8811]

Nice job, dude! How much GB of RAM is needed to optimal, easy working at UE4?

[@evilmrfrank]

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

[@adkieboom1380]

how do you get all those rocks and stuff

[@The091266]

Where did you find the models/assets that you use in this video? i cannot find them. Is it a marketplace thing? Sorry bad eng

[@evilmrfrank]

The assets used in this video were from the Unreal Marketplace under cave effects demo. They may have been moved under the learn tab.

[@The091266]

evilmrfrank Thanks :D

[@k3mpx]

Were all the materials and everything free? Or did you need to buy them?

[@evilmrfrank]

All of the assets here were free from the cave effects demo that Epic Games released a while back. Also the tree is from speedtree

[@KyleFN]

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?

[@CrushaKRool]

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.

[@KyleFN]

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.

[@KyleFN]

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

[@CrushaKRool]

***** 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.)

[@SwitchMaxFX]

questions, what were you doing for 1:22?

[@evilmrfrank]

I was painting the mesh to see what color painted what

[@user-zp9jy2vw1d]

Where there used material

[@joshuarocks337]

Where can I begin to learn and start making scenes like this on my own? I'm 18 and really want to be able to create beautiful digital designs but don't have the first idea where to start. I've made featured levels for games like Trials and Farcry but the level creators are far too basic for me to actually learn anything or give me anything to make a career out of. Just help with the first step! I'm open to anyone's help. Thanks, Joshua.

[@hepzibah4573]

Joshua Richardson Everything used in this is ready made. Just download the free unreal engine and download all those assets(free) and use them to create the levels. The beauty of your levels will improve with experience.

[@herrfrohlich3264]

Could you sir, make some nature related maps for ut4 please?

[@havocyasoki7931]

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.

[@havocyasoki7931]

Alexandre Borela Ah. I see.

[@Bandito1312]

How long time did dis take to make? like, without speedup. :)

[@evilmrfrank]

A little less than 2 hours.