UE4 Environment Breakdown: Desert Dunes & Pyramids or How to Get Back to Creating Ext Environments

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A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and living conditions for vegetation and animal life are very hostile. Desert is isolation and lack.
For the world creator isolation and lack means minimal number of assets need to be used to create the environment.
Minimal doesn't mean easy but it does mean less time authoring custom content and more time focused on composition and lighting.
I decided that the desert themed environment was perfect to get back into environment design, create something quick and focus on new Sky Atmosphere feature in UE4.
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[@alejandromartinezcarballeda]

Great stuff indeed ! one subscriber fairly earned, keep up the good work !

[@sithilliyanage3676]

Great stuff ! It would be cool to add some sand wind and footsteps

[@petertremblay3725]

Lighting in UE5 is a totally new ball game now!

[@joeshmoe3340]

This is somewhat off topic, but your distant pyramids raised a question. What is the best way to go about distant/background terrain? For small maps I understand that meshes are a good way to go due to control. However, what about when you get into slightly bigger maps like a 2017x2017? Would creating a 8129 map and using blocking for your 2017 area, then counting on good lods be a good way to go? Throw in elevated cameras to the mix aswell, maybe characters flying or tall mountains, so you would be able to see a decent distance.

[@HelderP1337]

Awesome stuff!

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

Thank you Helder! I appreciate that.

[@shakaama]

Man I wished you had included that height map. i spent 4 hours and made a terrible map. I literally gave up and went with what I had.

[@armondtanz]

Great tutorial. I see you do tutorials. Will you be doing any covering megascans workflow. Painting in terrain. Watched some vids and they are mind blowing. Would love to get into this. Not to make games but animations. I own iclone and have the pipeline etc so could create and animate characters.. Any info would be great Cheers.

[@jonayne2176]

This is super useful! Thanks.

[@timarenski8137]

Thank you, very interesting video :)

[@shakaama]

I guess terrain party no longer works

[@Blurns]

at 5:50 the video seems to glitch-out.

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

I had to re-upload this video multiple times. KZbin messed the compression on multiple occasions. Very small glitch, I'm ok with that. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@AJ-xx5ik]

Would this technique be appropriate for a VR scene that will be loaded directly onto an Oculus Quest headset?

[@WorldofLevelDesign]

I would think so. I haven't done any experimentation on this yet but I'd start from here and see how it looks through VR set.

[@SafaAlkan]

I wish you shared that height map :/

[@altamashjawad6691]

Yea would have been great, been trying to gimp the height map but nope, it doesnt wanna look the same

[@JK-xj7ps]

How can i delete cloud?

[@wenzhoubatmanli1546]

I hope to issue an issue about advanced desert materials 0 0！