My Guide To Realistic Lighting in Unreal Engine 5

Have you ever wanted to learn how to light your 3D scenes in Unreal 5?
In this Unreal Engine 5 lighting tutorial, I walk you through my entire process of lighting 3D exteriors. This video will be directed at Unreal 5 beginners learning the fundamentals of lighting within the Unreal 5 engine!
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So if you are a 3d artist you will no doubt understand how challenging it can be to master lighting. If you’ve been doing this for some time you will have felt the sting of spending hours trying to get this stage of the pipeline perfected. You are not alone, this area of art is a very unforgiving craft, but it doesn’t have to be. Today I will try and show you everything that’s involved with lighting within the unreal 5 engine. If you use Blender or any other 3d package, today's language will still apply to those tools. We will look at basic lights such as point lamps, well move on to dynamic lighting, HDRIs, and lastly how to blend these all together to get the best results.
⭐EXPERIENCE LEVEL: BEGINNER - INTERMEDIATE
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:37 - #1 Basic Lighting Tool
0:58 - Point Lamps
2:13 - Rectangle & Spot Lights
3:56 - Directional Lights
4:47 - HDRI's
5:53 - Post Processing
6:32 - How I light outdoor scenes in Unreal 5!
8:56 - Outro
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[@brazelabs8451]

I would love to see a VR specific tutorial for this subject!

[@dustypixels501]

Lighting always scared me as a 3D artist, hopefully this video helps all beginners with making better art! Best wishes, Niall.

[@Claw94]

an excelent video and i hope you make more workflow videos in the future

[@marcus9334]

Can’t wait for the environmental video greatly need!

[@cymarin3d511]

That was very useful and clearly explained. Thanks so much :)

[@dustypixels501]

Glad it was useful. Best wishes, Niall. :)

[@3dchick]

This was fantastic, thank you. Doing an environment one as a stream would be fantastic, but it would also be great if you'd leave it up for those in different time zones. Then it can be both! ☺️ Thank you for this!

[@dustypixels501]

That’s a great idea. I’ll drop a time in the community tab soon for everyone.

[@3dchick]

@@dustypixels501 Yay!

[@thomaswindfeld728]

Thankx for the insight

[@dustypixels501]

No worries Thomas, thanks for watching

[@galinmonev]

Thanks for the tips!

[@dustypixels501]

your welcome, happy creating! 👊

[@MrANavarra75]

It's really Nice and clear! I've just an issue. If want to work in a physically correct wat and crack up the directional over 100k lux all other small lights set in candelas were overhelmed, so working in manual mode it's absolutely useless... Do you have any advise??

[@not227]

Thank you so much!

[@dustypixels501]

Your very welcome, happy creating.

[@yearight1205]

Hey brother, I'm working on my first short film in Unreal Engine 5. I'm at a bit of a loss, because I need to have the main character throw a warhammer over a ledge and have it land with the metal part of the hammer facing down (as in it's vertically placed, not lying horizontal). I can't seem to make the hammer fly through the air and look realistic. It looks very unnatural. Could you give me a possible suggestion? Because finding a reference of said thing has proven impossible.

[@dustypixels501]

That's great to hear, I hope the film is coming along! You could possibly create a ragdoll for the hammer and let the physics simulation do the rest. It might take you a few tries to get the perfect shot though.

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[@3jsjeosn]

Where are the secrets? 😢