Creating a quick Unreal Engine 4 desert scene

[@gmoney771]

What makes this even more awesome is that unreal engine 4 is now 100% free!

[@CookieeMonstarr666]

garrett gaddy yass!! :D

[@gmoney771]

+MotionBlur you mean the 5% royalties on release? Or the market place add ons?

[@gmoney771]

+MotionBlur yes, but really the 5% royalties or only applied when you put your game on the market, otherwise you can tinker around as much as you want.

[@alphacourage860]

Wait udk is free?If there are any teens out there that want to create games but don't have that much experience like me comment back

[@CookieeMonstarr666]

Alpha Courage me though i uninstall the software days later cuz building a game is not easy as to play it XD

[@Koenji]

Look like what would be on the Title screen of a Next-gen off-road racing game. Sweet.

[@evilmrfrank]

Thanks :)

[@jezzupwuzzup]

evilmrfrank It really looks "next-gen". I would buy a game like this.

[@classicchillout7376]

The only limit now is our imagination...

[@ChefarztWayne]

and time and skills

[@wildnshortz5213]

Also,expensive hardware yay -.-

[@project_X_design]

Milos Radulovic imagination is limitless, according to spongebob

[@jambrador]

iHaveMyEyeOnYou Which i agree with.

[@hisokamorow3611]

thats right radko

[@Neceros]

Man, UE4 is such a nice engine. That path tool is sick.

[@sw5596]

+Teamlichking yea im in the process of making a game in it now its a beautiful product

[@DevyKins]

@@sw5596 Where do you even start in making a game? I try watching tutorials but they are all overwhelming

[@lipslide101]

He makes it look so easy!

[@samcalder3570]

***** i know right!!

[@MUJONYC]

Gilles that's what happens when you know all functions where they are and what they do. I think the biggest challenge is for him is what you want to be build what is your imagination🌿🌱🌴☘️

[@blank8197]

for real!

[@julianstiebler8217]

He has just a good Automaterial for his Landscape, and a mouse. Basically nothing more is needed for this....But for the LandscapeMaterial its another thing.

[@RojoSostenido]

@@julianstiebler8217 what are you talking about? I don't understand any of those terms

[@СергейНаврожин]

Perfect for the title screen. The main "character" on display, the further adventures (start sign) on display, and the "air" is there making the scene look deep enough to think that the adventures ARE there somewhere. Also, the number of details decrease with the distance, which adds to it as well. Perfect. Thanks for the morning "kick" to go and work on something as well :)

[@omegapixelled]

Unreal Engine 4 is now free. TIME TO CRY TEARS OF JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[@davidenbom986]

Are you done crying?

[@AbsolutelyHalal]

David Enbom *3 years later, hasn't stopped crying*

[@lemisanthrope535]

@@AbsolutelyHalal *4 years later, still hasn't stopped*

[@mete5635]

Legends say he is still crying

[@mattwba]

I'm an aspiring games and level designer and to watch this was great for me so I could see what kind of programmes I may want to use, thanks and what an awesome map design!

[@wave1858]

I'm 16 and have an extremely strong passion for video games, but sadly I don't know enough about how to work graphic and rendering engines yet. But I do have an extremely creative mind and great ideas for video games. Does anyone know any free graphic engines that I could play with to start practicing video design?

[@evilmrfrank]

just a suggestion but if you have the money I'd suggest skipping free engines and going with UE4. If you don't have the money I'd look into going with UDK which is the free version of UE3

[@wave1858]

evilmrfrank Okay, thank you.

[@wave1858]

Joseph Walsh Thanks.

[@wave1858]

ST3V0179 I know that man. I wasn't really planning on creating my big game right now, that for in the future because I still need experience to be able to get to the director/lead designer position. Practice is really all I'm going for at the moment.

[@animatrix1851]

ST3V0179 age doesn't natter , I'm 16 and I know 12 languages , Photoshop and blender , currently learning zbrush , I'm not an expert in any if these except java but not everyone who makes games is an expert in the art , they have their strong points anyways my point was , money and age do influence your ambition but if you can make a little addictive game and make a heck lot of money to invest on a bigger game and work your way up , nobody can stop you .. To avoid any arguments I'll mention the languages I know - Java , c++ , c , c# , objective c , php , SQL , HTML 5 , XML , JavaScript , kismet , boo.

[@eddierey5202]

Nice music ;) I was addicted to that soundtrack for many years!

[@Beikenost]

this looks great for a menu background for a game

[@Alex-hn4we]

Last song is actually from Unreal Tournament 2003, great times and great work

[@darmikela]

jesus I wish Unity was this awesome...

[@andyWEASEL]

cool vid and nice music choice, it's so nostalgic hearing the ut2004 tracks :)

[@doubleA_96]

That was unreal man, no pun intended

[@Velocirocktor]

Absolutely beautiful stuff man, not just from a level design standpoint but composition in the frame too. You make me want to pick up level design again. I'll probably be contributing to the new community UT; a big fuck yeah to the UT music on your videos!

[@evilmrfrank]

Thanks! If your thinking about picking up level design again now is the time to do it. UE4 makes level design a breeze compared to previous versions of the engine :)

[@rebulerom3]

well done, nice job

[@snowviliers2304]

You are great on creating games man, your job is really impressive!!

[@RoboticP002]

: "I need to make a game"

[@jonettheonly]

Wow, I would've thought at least 8 hours for this, max 12. Great job.

[@TheRealVeigar]

how do you make the sand terrain become rock when you erode it down or whatever? thanks ahead of time.

[@evilmrfrank]

+Christian Dimaggio This is done through the material itself. You can download Epics vehicle demo to view this material and see more in depth of how it is done :)

[@magickmechanic]

Hi Frank. Where is Epic's Vehicle Demo? Is it no longer compatible with later versions of the engine?

[@bae_velvet]

This is amazing, i cant believe you made this in just 4 hours! this would have taken me at least two days hahaha

[@morskoyzmey]

fencing in front of car has wrong direction :P

[@ncshuriken]

FINALLY a road system!! No more hacks and workarounds just to get convincing roads on terrain!

[@marcolp6477]

It looks so gooood

[@Gahanun]

I love the fact that the same chunk of rock makes up half of the entire scene. :D

[@JustAlex1]

How did he make the cliffs?

[@autbo]

In the terrain material, you get the slope angle of the terrain and do some sort of masking to make the sand only appear if the slope is less than maybe 25 degrees. If it is steeper than 25 degrees, blend to rocks. You could search KZbin for a tutorial on how to make a terrain material with automatic cliffs by slope or something like that.

[@StefanConstantinDumitrache]

+A1EX on the Models tab pick Landscape, adjust parameters and click Create at the bottom of the tab. Once the landscape is created you can "paint" elevations, erosion, etc...

[@stevebomer7670]

its abdolutly... beautiful :)

[@Itshabbovidz]

*SMART PEOPLE ONLY* vvvvvvvvvvvv I have a question, you see this engine? Could you make an open world game like GTA in (obviously not AS BIG) but relatively similar to GTA with all the high res graphics, pedestrian AI and AL. Do you think it is achieveable and how hard would it be, BONUS: Would this be doable in UNITY 5 or in pure C++ and OpenGL or pure Javascript and LWJGL? BONUS #2: How hard is it to make an open world game AND make it multiplayer? or is that just simple and quick

[@newbies9633]

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[@CommunistRainbowdash]

Well, it depends on how much stuff the player can interact with, how big and detailed the map is, and where you're getting your assets (textures, models, and sounds) from. The guy in the video made this desert render in 4 hours, but I can guarantee it took much longer to make the car, the rock and sand textures, the plants, etc. If you're super rich and can buy all the assets you need, and you're an experienced level designer, you could probably make a tiny section of city that looks decent in two or three months of work time. However, the bulk of the work is going to be coding, modeling and bug testing. If you just want car chases and nothing else, an experienced coder can probably make police cars and oncoming traffic in a month or two if they work really fast, but pedestrians are a whole nother story (4 or 5 months at least). Unless you want everyone to be mute, you're going to need to record dialogue and chatter, so that's another month of frantically looking around for volunteers who don't sound awful (Bad voice acting can ruin an otherwise perfect game and scar you for life). You're also guaranteed to find a couple of bugs that will set you back, so I'd give you another 1 to 3 months. So if you want to create Grand Theft Minimalism: Never Get Out of Your Car, you could probably do it in 9 months minimum working alone, but that's assuming you're an genius level designer *and* coder, and you can invest thousands of dollars in assets. If you make the assets yourself, that's looking at another year of work at least. But if you're on a team you can divide the work up and work much faster. Bonus 1: It's doable in Unity, but coding an engine from scratch in C++/OpenGL is going to take years even with a team. Unless you're making a 2D game or something like Minecraft, Javascript will be a dead end. Bonus 2: One word: netcode. What's the maximum number of players on a given server? Annything more than 10, and you'll need to start optimizing your servers. You're going to need to be prepared for the worst-case scenario: if you have a couple of dedicated servers in England and suddenly an Australian LPer mentions your game, you're going to be in trouble. So yeah, it's a long way from a screenshot-worthy desert scene to a full game.

[@Itshabbovidz]

Communist Rainbow Dash Thanks, do you want to work with me to create a GTA game but in London (like the Getaway 3?) we will become millionares

[@giacomo1215]

SecretAccount Hey maybe I can help! lol

[@Itshabbovidz]

Giacomo Giorgi Communist Rainbow Dash What game engine should I use for GTA London remake? Unity appears to make low quality games or something... or is it because most of the developers aren't good at art?

[@TheJstuie]

This is really awesome dude. I wish I had this kind of talent, it would save me a lot of time.

[@RazKun]

This is the first video i've seen of this engine, and i can get why it's called unreal. I'm utterly shocked at this. I havn't done any game creation before, but i do 3D modeling and animation.. and i had spent days before trying to creat an environment. and after days of work, it did not look as good as just a few seconds into this video.. So this engine.. Do alot of these assets come with the program or readily available for download? What kind of platforms can you make the game for? and can it do cutscenes? :3

[@izvarzone]

UnReel is analog of Source FilmMaker is in UE4.

[@evilmrfrank]

All of the assets used in this video come with UE4 free. You can make games for pretty much every platform including IOS and Android. And yes you can do cutscenes, UE4 actually has a very robust cutscene/movie tool :)

[@gavinator354]

evilmrfrank All of these assets come free? Surely you don't mean with the initial tool download, but on the marketplace? I have the tool and I have no such assets.

[@evilmrfrank]

Gavin Niebel Yes sorry they are on the marketplace but they are free still. They are in the free vehicle demo that Epic Games released.

[@gavinator354]

evilmrfrank Oooh okay great. Thanks! I just started so I will go to the Marketplace and DL all the free assets possible. ;)

[@AutoBotAM]

You've earned yourself a subscriber man. Amazing work!

[@DaleNolanJr]

nice backwards guard rails 5:13

[@MrFasoal]

In 4 hours he created a masterpiece....

[@KtotheJ524]

holy..can you imagine a non rushed sonic 06 on UE4? sega will be drowning in money. but no instead theyll put a scarf on him n cross there fingers.

[@johnn6217]

It's... beautiful. I am crying

[@chesneypc4308]

This looks awesome and luckily the unreal engine is now FREE!! one question when you place the car is it already programmed so you can drive it or do you have to program that?

[@MrJimmySegers]

Depends on what you use as startup project. There is a racing project, which has a ridable car already :)

[@The9PointStar]

This engine is amazing!

[@KnightOfNostalgia]

how did you make that amazing sandy wind :o

[@StephaneCharre]

I'm also questionning myself about the wind/sand particle effect? Did you find a way?

[@sylviajones191]

LOL XD

[@Darkwalker9000]

Excellent work bro!! And the music of the UT2004

[@OsomPchic]

You forgot the pyramid.

[@evilmrfrank]

Indeed :)

[@cubansandwichxd9108]

this is great! you should consider creating a mini indie game with your knowledge! i would so play it if it had these visuals!

[@DusajGQ]

This engine is unreal! HUE HUE HUE

[@phaneron4250]

Pyramids are a nice touch.

[@lucabrito]

SOO COOL! But I'm sure it's not as easy as it looks thought... :(

[@isai_alv9382]

+lucabrito it's easy if you want

[@louismarotta4573]

The problem is only scripting

[@imlolly6707]

+Louis Marotta I'm still learning ;P

[@ethanwasme4307]

+lucabrito You don't need to touch a single line of code to do anything shown in this video

[@imlolly6707]

But code *might* help with making the actual game :P But indeed a you don't need code to make levels, although a little blueprint knowledge might be useful for texture mapping etc

[@strauchy344]

Whenever I see these scene videos I think of park creating games like planet coaster and roller coaster tycoon.

[@piggywiggy1820]

plz do tutorials on youtube!!!!

[@SirusStarTV]

This is great engine for making great games =)

[@fluffysauce7251]

"Quick" xd

[@cozmicwolf9721]

wow dude that's amazing I'm getting a cori7 laptop soon so I will be able to get that engine soon the graphics are awesome

[@bladelazoe]

I'm not gonna lie, as someone who is majoring in Game Programming, and constantly learning what game engines are truly capable of...This kind of blows me away despite it's simplicity(even though I'm sure this must of took him several hours to complete). If this was a an actual gaming, I'd probably buy it!.

[@charliebrownau]

Looks awesome , considering its built in resources , great work

[@thevoodoogamer7168]

WOW!!! That is just AMAZING!!!

[@xpioilove]

I'm sorry but all I could think of during this was: kh3 is gonna be AMAZING!

[@clarifier88]

Subbed! I'm beginner in game development and 3d modelling. Its frustrating but you've inspired me, thx!

[@evilmrfrank]

That's awesome to hear :)

[@clarifier88]

***** Thanks so much for the advice, much appreciated!

[@dominiksulzer1338]

Looks beautiful Ben!

[@evilmrfrank]

Thanks :)

[@MatthewN56736n4]

That looks absolutely stunning! Well done! I don't know why I switched to CRYEngine to develop my project, since I thought I won't run well on UE4 (This was before the Vehicles Demo was released) I'm already in development with a couple friends of mine. You should get together with a few friends with knowledge in programming. You will love it!

[@qiddissiddiq951]

This is so inspiring. Keep it up man.

[@gabrielresidentevil]

Awesome Job Dude!

[@BeenieBomb]

Beautiful! Great scene :D

[@gabrielagodin5482]

9:04 - A wild Skype window appeared! Amazing video... Amazing program actually.

[@moshe22cohen]

you just made me jealous now... its soo goood!

[@ethermay]

this is AWESOME! Thank you for sharing!

[@EthanMoriceau]

I FUCKING LOVE UNREAL ENGINE AND HIS GRAPHICS!!!!!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱

[@jimmysgameclips]

Very good level design skills! Really goes to show why it's its own job, I can create art assets but can't do the level design near as well as you do it!

[@IronwaveStudios]

Were all of those assets provided by Epic Games for free? Or did you have to import some and pay for others or whatnot?

[@evilmrfrank]

They were all made by Epic Games and available on the marketplace for free

[@IronwaveStudios]

evilmrfrank Thanks!

[@bengoobidiegootch7233]

evilmrfrank where on the market place? im trying to find a material that shows rock like the one you have, or is that a default material?

[@evilmrfrank]

You can find the material in the vehicle demo that Epic Games released a while back.

[@AbhimanyuAryan]

awesome man. I am fortunate enough to find your channel. Subscribed

[@snowviliers2304]

I am 14 and i really love video games an i dream of becoming a game developer!

[@TheDazzer98]

I would love to see a slower version of this for tips in using UDK if you could upload the original version that wasnt sped up it would be greatly appreciated great work man!

[@peytongrimm3542]

K so I got a question. How exactly do you create layered terrain in unreal 4. Like in most game engines you just simply drag and drop or click add layer, but this one is strange. You would think they would have kept udk's layer system, but instead they made it extremely complicated. I've seen some tutorials that use the material editor to make layered terrains, but when I try that it becomes a glitchy buggy mess.

[@TheMovieGaff]

Would love to see a narrative slower version of all your videos. good job

[@diegorborges]

Fantastic work man! Subscribed!

[@BrennenSprimont92]

I understand this is just a scene, but quick newbie question how would you handle level streaming? would you just have the entire loaded all at the same time? does UE4 handle it for you? or how would you go about something like this?

[@evilmrfrank]

I haven't tried using level streaming in UE4 yet but I imagine it works the same as UE3 does for the most part. You basically split your levels into multiple levels and setup streaming volumes, basically as a player progresses through the level they hit the streaming volumes and it triggers the next sections of levels to be loaded in. This is helpful for both memory and performance reasons on much larger levels. I imagine on next gen consoles you wont have to use nearly as much streaming as one of the main reasons you'd need to on 360 and PS3 was the low memory restrictions.

[@PatrykPonichtera]

There is a tutorial about level streaming somewhere on the Unreal Engine youtube channel

[@tatoforever]

There's World Browser that handles level streaming automatically.

[@WarriorMasterTrainer]

Impressive. I would like to learn the ropes, but I'm also trying to get more advanced at 3D modeling, and dealing with two of these at once is too much for me. So I'm going to stick with 3D modeling. However, I do love your work, and may someday try to improve my Unreal Engine 4 skills.

[@danecustance2734]

Stop being evil Frank lol, nice work. :)

[@stego-id9xx]

2019 and I still look awesome

[@deraidos45]

You should totally make more of this kind of things :D

[@evilmrfrank]

I definitely plan on it :) They are a lot of fun!

[@1fishmob]

Hey, can you make fully working games with this? You know like progressing from level 1 to level whatever and have dialogue or little cut scenes?

[@1fishmob]

Because I'd be interested in this.

[@herobrine1914]

its beautiful :D

[@heybakaley6337]

Nice man! Great Job :D

[@bngreen35]

Nice work keep it up. I want to see more :)

[@sniff7561]

Subscribed after this awesome video! :O What do you use to create thoose trees and rocks?

[@jasonstraurss6974]

awesome video! what material are you using

[@paaatreeeck]

Sooo, i'm gonna start by saying how much i love your work, that's always a good place to start, especially when you really mean it ;) now i recently started trying to learn the engine, and i'm making good progress (i think), and i have one question. It says in the description you only used assets provided by epic games, however i can't seem to find out how you made those cliffs appear automatically in the landscape editor to save my life... hope my question is not to low-level and obvious^^ your work is an inspiration to anyone interested in getting started in game production, keep up the good work and (if possible) continue sharing it with us :)

[@evilmrfrank]

paaatreeeck The landscape cliffs are done through the actual material itself, basically automatically applies a specific texture to things at a certain slant. You can find this material in the vehicle demo that Epic Games released a while ago.

[@ProjectXH]

Great work man!

[@scoobynicker]

Truly Inspirational. Did you create these models or download them?

[@ricardomaccotta6367]

Nice to this creation been done. How log took in real time to create it? What are the PC specs used?

[@RandomGuyyy]

How do you approach placing rocks to make cliff faces? Like, is there a set pattern of scaling and rotating or is just experience that gives you that nice organic look you get on your rock walls?

[@emilyshar1761]

wow this is amazing :D

[@MYRAGGE2000]

Please, can you tell me the specs of the hardware for work this way?

[@jeremyernst]

This is great stuff!

[@tousifzaman9392]

How you did the planning? Like I'm gonna put the rock here or there! Did you make the scene at something else first? Or you just keep going, whatever comes in mind?

[@thelindblomer]

Amazing! How long did it take?

[@evilmrfrank]

AlexSuperHD 4 hours

[@sizzlebae2060]

I wish i could be this creative o.O

[@hoppi4954]

I like the way this video is like "quick and easy scene in UE4" and then it plays all this cool music like "Yeah I'm so awesome at this!" xD Is it easy or is it pro? Who knows! :)

[@luissalazarmunoz9574]

nice job!! what pc do you have? im buying a new pc for working in unreal engine but i don know what is needed, thanx for your help !

[@ovrkill1234]

pshhh i could make this but really, great work. I'm new to the engine, how did you make it so when you lowered/raised the terrain it had the rock material automatically applied to the sides?

[@aspected]

How did you create the desert track? is it just terrain? it looks fantastic.

[@GamesUKStudios]

fantastic love your videos

[@busdriver0000]

Wow he made this in 10 mins, and if you set the speed to '2' on KZbin he makes it in just 5 mins, this guy is insanely fast!

[@danjol7579]

4 hours...

[@kennyelkhart]

Obvious troll

[@busdriver0000]

Jaaamm :^)