Part 3. Thatched Roofs: Medieval Game Environment in UE4

[@JonathanWinbush]

Really appreciating this series so far. Glad you guys went with a medieval look and not do the cyberpunkish esthetic, it's refreshing to see 🤙🏾

[@mandalora5325]

this is so cool 😭 as someone who's just starting to dip their toes into environment building, seeing the whole process like this is incredibly inspiring and exciting, thank you so much for making this series!

[@Joda-sw5kk]

Where are you now, 2 years later?

[@MLLD00]

Every part of this series blows me away. The workflow and engine knowledge is jus brilliant. It's also most admirable that you take zero shortscuts for perfection. This series made me realise that I need to learn and explore the depth of UE.

[@Alexander_S_K]

It's amazing how much you can do in engine now. Having to forego exporting - reimporting from a DCC for so many operations is a huge time saver.

[@CBSuper]

Just awesome. I didnt even know you could do all this with megascans. Really opens doors for me.

[@fddesign]

did you plan to do more step by step tutorial? Can be VERY COOL :)...tremendous work BTW :)

[@asddasasdful]

They drop hints about what, and how they use it. The rest you can find in the documentation, and by digging through this project freely available in the store. It's worth the time investment to learn this on your own :)

[@igormattioli9707]

It is insane... Really perfect and hard pipeline, master of masters

[@migi847]

The ominous music makes the Tutorials so interesting !!

[@JC-jz6rx]

The skills shown here in terms of creativity and basically creating assets out of nothing is pretty damn amazing

[@grimmx]

Great tutorial series so far. Would love to see some more detailed deep dives, like spend 30min going through the steps to make those shutters, with the new sculpting tools.

[@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod]

Awesome work. 😊

[@kevinthoomes3919]

Really cool set, very inspirational, but a more step nu step approch would be great, for example on how the hatches were created or in episode 1 how the different meshes were merged

[@LoganPinney]

This is so wild! I think im going to invest in learning how to use that that native Ue geo builder - thanks so much for sharing this deep medieval town break down

[@greaver5470]

I was a little po'd that the 'tutorials' were so glossed over. But... that was before I downloaded the scene from UE Marketplace! Watch this series again with the scene open! There's soooo much there, and it has helpful creator tags ALL THE WAY THROUGH!! If you are not too beginner, but are HUNGRY for proper flows, download it, open it, play with it, IT'S ALL GOOD!!!!....

[@ivnstudios6135]

the house seems to be a real house not a virtual one, and that is stunning

[@spaceman2202]

It would be really really great to see a tutorial on how to rearrange atlases from megascans like that in photoshop because I understand everything here but have no idea how to do that without messing up the texture, and now its hard to get interesting cards only using one megascans atlas which is all i can use since i dont know how to combine them

[@froggyworld]

This is awesome, thanks for the video! Are there any plans from unreal to do step by step videos to get a grasp of these new in engine workflows?

[@alexanderlysak7911]

This is superb!!! Marvellous!!!

[@ogarga666]

wow ,this is beyond amazing. Thanks so much.

[@pop2147]

The modelling tool is awesome. And that's sculpt tool.

[@ToastyOrchid]

So this was for assassins of creed I knew I seen it somewhere :D

[@tomasklecer6674]

Respect... Thanks for your work!

[@GDi4K]

Wow. I didn't know there's a modeling toolkit in Unreal Engine. I'm eager to try that out.

[@tylerclinton3475]

The Mixer section definitely needs a detailed breakdown. Making those roof meshes is a very simple step, and this was more than enough to do the same for my own, but I have completely dug through Quixel's KZbin and there isn't an adequate breakdown texturing something in this context. For instance, applying the Thatch Roof material only to the edges & undersides of each row. I'm struggling building the masks to do that. I understand how I can piece together my discoloration masks. But then the final layer that is activated suddenly adds a bunch of displacement to the mesh. Is that all that is happening? Using the displacement map and upping the strength?

[@enensis]

This is so interesting most of it went over my head deffo need to watch it a few times but I am abit of a noob on unreal. Also Jacobs voice is epic he should narrate movies

[@slothsarecool]

Very interesting, thanks!

[@MrHuman-iy5lw]

Wow these tools so usefull

[@guilhermenaco]

It would be great to understand better how you did the atlases of the windows. On 07:02 I didn´t got it how you applied the decal on the mesh.

[@carlstrand1]

Learning a lot and a detailed overview is great. It’s a shame that it didn’t stay fully in UE and having to go into Houdini. Is this a future aim is to get all the tools needed into UE? It’s getting tiring to learn so many other programs. I do love how blender is achieving this in-house methodology and wondered if you had the same path?

[@user-bz7gt4zi7r]

Unreal engine has that fortnite money 💰 so I think it has the best future .Unity is very good too.

[@tarettime9392]

I think UE is moving towards a complete production pipeline in program. I think if blender can keep up with ue over the next year we might have two complete pipeline programs dominating the industry

[@2020Tech4U]

great work

[@iOwlPro]

Love it!

[@nfrancisj2122]

you mentioned performance by baking down. Is that video available?

[@LeoChou]

AWESOME!

[@impossibletechsage]

What are your system specifications for this?

[@Perry-wy2fc]

wow ...! Just WOW !!!

[@AniMAYAanimation]

Freaking awesome

[@faustoart]

I'ts very nice, but it's impossible for me to follow it as a tutorial, I should need a lot more of information. And I have one question. How much time do someone need to create just one roof with this techniques? At least one or two days, no??? (for me, maybe weeks :-D)

[@KiwiHawk-downunder-nz]

After a year practice you be faster right, well I know would take me that long

[@tylerclinton3475]

I watched the video a few times over, played with all the used tools a lot, and I created my own roof mesh in a couple days. The problem I’m having is using Mixer to create the roof’s Thatch material.

[@grey_box]

Ok, i need to learn ue... again

[@LucianoJacomeli]

i like to see the tutorial for optimization! 6:09

[@garrytalaroc]

Yeah it looks cool but it burns my PC at 10-15fps. So many draw calls. How tf do I use this. I have 3070Ti and 16Gb.

[@Maxation]

Is there any more info on that Houdini atlas scatter tool? Is it available to download?

[@dandysd6087]

You can publish that mixer scene?

[@SanderAgelink]

What DCC is that? I've never seen it

[@SanderAgelink]

Found it; RizomUV. Never heard of it before

[@javierfernandez3727]

I'm really curious about the sculpting tool in UE4, is it a plugin?

[@AlexiosLair]

Now this is all built in

[@reck101101]

wait, you can sculpt in 4.26?!!! They fly now?!?!

[@LucianoJacomeli]

what is the software to UV in 3:00?

[@DeathDealer-DD]

i think Rizom UV

[@AlexiosLair]

It is

[@RogueSecret]

Looks like Witcher 4 ;P

[@ascension6699]

still confused why a 2d texture kills performance.

[@tarettime9392]

If it's high res it takes up valuable ram the more hi res textures you have the more ram it takes up. A 4k texture might be a couple mb but if you had to have one for every 3d object you'd have nearly a gig per building

[@ascension6699]

@@tarettime9392 4k textures on a 1080p screen shouldn't perform better if that was true.

[@tarettime9392]

@@ascension6699 I'm not sure what you mean. Texture resolution has nothing to do with screen resolution

[@ascension6699]

@@tarettime9392 shouldn't. that's why i said why does it perform better if it's the same? lol

[@ascension6699]

@@tarettime9392 cuz technically 2k textures should run better on 4k screens, but they dont. :D

[@colby4390]

What app is at 3:09

[@Maxation]

Rizom UV

[@Hilichurlos]

Please tell me how to remove the text of the game menu when rendering video in cinematics? This text always pops up in my cinematic videos((

[@dszarts]

Is my world even real?

[@samuelkilik8233]

this vedio need a more detail explanation ...

[@wilismatrix9847]

To have all those skills, need a decade of practice !

[@henrykelly6770]

you do know tutorials usually actually consist of tutorials not 7 minute breakdowns of what you did right?

[@linezgames3893]

Not worried about Polys? 10 sec later he deletes 1/5th of them? I thought it didn't matter? I 100% doubt "It just works" ue5 will work for an actual game. UE is a movie creator at this point now. Unity here we come!!!

[@grimmx]

Was that really hard to understand? He was not worried about polys at THAT stage of the design process, eventually he reduces them for the final game asset. I would think 100% Epic know what assets work in the engine, as they've had experience shipping games with it.

[@yenkule]

whole tutorial was a bummer