SOLVING SHADOWS! Unreal Engine 5.2

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@Drilian Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've been cranking on a small video project for the last few days and your videos on getting media planes/shadows working in UE5 have been *clutch*!

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Wow thank you so much. You're my first super thanks too! I'm sure to do more media plane videos in the future too. If you're ever in need of help I have a discord you could join.

@upper378 Жыл бұрын

Great video! There isn't much information out there about shadows and film editing in unreal so props to you for digging into this.

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Hey no worries. I definitely need to do more editing tutorials with sequencer

@armondtanz Жыл бұрын

Theres a good tutorial on shadow maps vs shadow maps beta. More tweaks to get a great shot.

@Yitzhakk 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your info and progress these last few years. Subscribed.

@JoshuaMKerr 4 ай бұрын

Thank for your support!

@santiagotorresnino5393 Жыл бұрын

Man, you are amazing, keep doing these incredible tutorials :3

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Shouldn't be too long for the next one

@HappyMadArtist Жыл бұрын

oh that's really cool thank you so much for this easier way and more accurate to add the shadow and control it more that last part was really interesting thank you for pointing it out

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad it was helpful. Yeah I definitely got confused about the tracked camera movement earlier but it's good to figure these things out.

@divinevideo 5 ай бұрын

Hi thank you it works fine. Do you have a trick to make the caractere touch the ground (kind of) ?

@GodsonJasmin 6 ай бұрын

thank you for the video, but i have a question, how do we get reflections from translusent material? do you have any tricks to achieve it?

@GreenPleco Жыл бұрын

Have you ever had the problem where your masked shadow does not update or leaves a trail of shadow? It’s almost like making a angle in snow effect but with the masked shadow because it does not update the last position of the shadow and it stays “painted”. Its happens to me randomly.

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Hmm that's very odd. I haven't ever experienced that. Let me know if you figure it out. Or join my discord where you can post pics of the issue

@gle_Goo Жыл бұрын

Resolved by changing "shadows / Shadow Map Method" from Virtual shadow maps to shadow maps in the project settings.

@Drasma Жыл бұрын

Such an amazing video thank you Joshua, however I have noticed that this doesn't work for directional lights and it shows the shadow of the plane, have you found any way to make it works with directional lighting ?

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Interesting, I've not tried that yet. I have also had problems with rect lights on media planes too. Point lights seem to always work though.

@yorikb Жыл бұрын

Why duplicate the master material? You can change the blending mode in the duplicate instance.

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Yes you can duplicate the instance and change the blending mode. There are many ways to skin a cat.

@sybexstudio Жыл бұрын

Once I tick masked blending mode I get the black background again. Any thoughts?

@marcfruchtman9473 7 ай бұрын

I don't really get why the mocap wasn't working for you... The thing about the shadow mask is that it will be really hard to get right if your rotation changes. and the foot position will usually look odd.

@ApplicableProgramming Жыл бұрын

hey man love your tutorial. Any advice how to do this with IMG player? I do not seem to find the material to duplicate it. I tried making the instance to Masked, but then entire plane is black (I do not know what I am doing though...)

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

I'd suggest joining my discord, you can post images of your issue in the support forum there.

@thedealer-3D 11 ай бұрын

🎉❤❤❤ Thank you so much Brother 🎉

@puchika7091 Жыл бұрын

Bro this lilee amazing video, I being having trouble with shadows in my exr sequence. Are you using png image sequence or exr sequence or another format of video like MP4??? I have 3 days trying but I can't get my exr sequence to cast shadows I'm using unreal engine 5.2....any advice

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Exr is the best for unreal. You should post the problem in my discord with some images. Much easier to help that way

@oscaroneill8222 Жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial Joshua! Great way to get shadows going. It is a bit of work but great effect. I don't really understand the last part of the video talking about UV Transforms and making the footage bigger etc, isn't it fine if the footage is just a static size? I don't see why you would want to make it bigger as you zoom in, because just by how the camera works the footage would appear bigger as you zoom in.

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, to clarify having the footage remain proportional based on the camera position is exactly what we need. I had made an error in a previous video where I assumed that the proportions were increasing.

@armondtanz Жыл бұрын

Ive alwayd had problem with shadows. These bizzare triangles that appear when using rect lights and exposure in post process . Watched a great tutorial on virtual on shadow maps v (beta) version. Finally got rid of it.

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Can you send me the video here. Worth a look

@armondtanz Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaMKerr if link doesnt work , the channel is 'alex' and the title is 'terminating the shadow terminator (jagged edge)'

@sybexstudio 10 ай бұрын

How would you get a shadow for a live composure feed?

@JoshuaMKerr 10 ай бұрын

ideally, you would do a live soft key that includes the natural shadow.

@sybexstudio 10 ай бұрын

@@JoshuaMKerr Hey thanks for the reply. Do you mean a separate key for shadows? Any tutorials on that? Also I’ve seen reflections on live talent onto cg floors

@JoshuaMKerr 10 ай бұрын

@sybexstudio6318 Yes reflections are fairly simple but those are done by placing people in the scene on planes, so not composure. The key would be a single key but it keeps the shadow. just key the lighter green and add despill

@sybexstudio 10 ай бұрын

@@JoshuaMKerr Yeah they probably keyed after the fact. Thats a lot easier for shadows too. I just thought I could record straight out of obs or something with shadows already.

@JoshuaMKerr 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, I mean most people use hardware keyers like ultimatte to get it all done live. They are expensive.

@nttnrecords5474 Жыл бұрын

Hello, i got a big problem here, any chances you know why even in masked mode the plane still casts shadows (not masked)

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Are you using a material instance?

@tommyhogann 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! This is great, but when I try to uncheck "Visible" and then check "hidden shadow", the shadow does not appear. Using a regular material with the domain set to "surface", blend mode "masked" and shading model "default lit". Is there anything else I could be missing? Ive tried making it two sided too but no luck.

@JoshuaMKerr 11 ай бұрын

Are you raytracing?

@tommyhogann 10 ай бұрын

Yes. I think it might be an issue with 5.1@@JoshuaMKerr

@Edaurdoo Жыл бұрын

very good tutorial bro, but the shadow only appears in the viewport and it doesn't appear in the render, why?

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Interesting, maybe you could join my discord and post the problem in the support forum?

@Edaurdoo Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaMKerr yoo, i solved the problem bro it was simple, i had an option disabled in the directional light hahaha, anyway, thanks for your attention!

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

@@Edaurdoo Anytime. What was the option?

@marcogrob3899 Жыл бұрын

Dear Joshua! Thank you for your constant interesting posts! Now i have a problem related to media plates… AND IT DRIVES ME NUTS! After importing i wanted to change the blending mode to see what changes… as it seem that made the connection from the output the opacity mode break. I can see it in the note three. - the line is black not white anymore. I tried to import a new media plate and start from scratch but it took the same settings as before….how could i fux the connection? Or reset the nodes? I am working on a music video and have no idea how to go on!! Help is very very much appreciated!!! Thanks in advance and keep up the good work. Best Marco

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

I don't totally understand the problem. Maybe if you join my discord and post in the support forum you'll be able to add some images and I can help.

@titanium4094 Жыл бұрын

Bro for high quality render which type has best quality- lumen, path tracing or Ray tracing

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Well path tracing is the most accurate which is why people use it as a reference for their real time work with lumen or ray tracing.

@RepaireroftheBreach Жыл бұрын

Wow, can you go back to the comment about "chewing up your edges?" I've been doing dozens of shots using my green screen subject in masked mode. And it works, but I'd love better edges. With your mediaplate selected the edges are all highlighted so I couldn't really tell what you meant. I tried transparency mode and wow the edges DO look better! One of my big issues is that I'm rendering my screen screen footage as an object id (cryptomatte) so that I can bring it into resolve and have complete control over grading my Green screen footage to match the 3D environment. (UE doesnt have any colorgrading tools for media plates). However, Im finding that cryptomatte cuts a hard edge. Any soft gradients, such as opaque hair to alpha channel is lost with the cryptomatte. If there is a way to maintain the soft gradients within the transparencies AND still render it on a separate layer for compositing in Resolve, now THAT would be something! I tried rendering a cryptomatte with my mediaplate set to transparency but then the cryptomatte is broken! Argh!

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Can you not just render a layer that only contains your media plane plus alpha? Sorry if I've misunderstood

@My_WorldSpace 7 ай бұрын

Thank You sir for Your Video It helped me a lot...But I have a question I created a forest Sense and I put a lion green screen on my Forest When I was doing the render sequence my camera moved forward but I saw my rendered lion he was not there and my lion hi moving like left to right so can you help me please i render Walking forward lion to left to right and same time My camera is moving forward and both Lion green screen and My created sence Render together... it's helped me a lot 🌱✅

@JoshuaMKerr 7 ай бұрын

Im not sure I completely understand the question. I suggest you join my discord and pot this problem in the support forum with skme images.

@My_WorldSpace 7 ай бұрын

@@JoshuaMKerr please can you send me the discord link here

@JoshuaMKerr 7 ай бұрын

@My_WorldSpace It's in the video description

@injectionAI Жыл бұрын

is this still accurate in 5.3? Thanks

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

As far as im aware yes

@TheAndrizone Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

No worries

@chriszagas Жыл бұрын

i followed all the steps but when i render the shadow just stays in the same spot? Have you ever come across this problem?

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

Does it move when you play through in sequencer?

@chriszagas Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaMKerr nah still frozen, only time the shadow will move and be in its correct spot is if i mute and unmute the media plane

@chriszagas Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaMKerrIt does move when i move my light source around like at the start of your video though

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

So the shadow doesn't move but the media does? You should double check that the material on your shadow plane is using the media texture you're using in sequencer. If its using the same media source then it should work.

@chriszagas Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaMKerr yeah its for sure the same texture. It just has a lag then freezes up. very strange

@aliamirian15 11 ай бұрын

perfect

@ukmonk Жыл бұрын

Why isn’t this as simple as Blender for using green screen footage. They still haven’t sorted it, it’s def easier now in UE than it was but still needs work.

@JoshuaMKerr Жыл бұрын

It's getting there. If they had an good inbuilt keyer that would be game changing