UE5 Lighting Tutorial Exterior

Tips and Tricks from a Senior Lighting Artist in Virtual Production!
In this video we go through my thought process and workflow on lighting scenes in Unreal Engine.
This video is intended to help structure your workflow for a better outcome as well as providing some useful tips in order to achieve a more believable scene!
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[@NickFromPlanetEarth]

Searched for exterior lighting and got the best result at the top! thanks Dallas!

[@pgjohnson5504]

Great Lesson! I like your logic behind starting with Sky first. The Lighting order of operations is great advice.

[@ryndesign5309]

Dallas, thanks for this content I work primarily in blender but your videos have helped me adopt unreal more and more! The upcoming world building class was a little beyond my financial and time commitment but these bite sized lessons are perfect! Would love to see how you work in Da Vinci resolve as well. Thanks again for sharing your insight

[@DallasDrap]

Of course! It’s kind of a fine line between things I can show here that doesn’t interfere with my courses at CG Pro or Gnomon but I am really working on spreading the good word for everyone without having a pay barrier!

[@galinmonev]

Thank you for this process go through. Really appreciated.

[@nafizjubaer1717]

This was a really good watch. Gone through alot of videos online bout lighting, and I can say this is very informative

[@DallasDrap]

Thank you! Your kind words mean a lot!

[@im4999]

Great tutorial. Thank you. I really appreciate emphasizing the order of lighting elements. For a newbie it might be confusing so it's nice to have these guidelines, one thing at a time sort of thing. Subbed

[@DeekerActual]

make sure to either render the videos in widescreen or convert ur screen to a 16:9 ratio for future videos. thnx!

[@tonywood2283]

Great tutorial. Thank you.

[@LandOfBits]

thank you for making this one !!!

[@chejz]

thanks for this Dallas, was so helpful learning UE5. I just started like a mount ago and got so many problems going all of UE settings, know to be really tedious coming from 3ds max and Corona.

[@DallasDrap]

I had the same background going into Unreal Engine haha it’s definitely a new thought process but I hope videos like this can help! Another great channel is William Faucher btw. He also makes great content :)

[@jackygutierrez103]

Hi, good tutorial and nice demo. I have a problem when I use path tracing , some of my foliage disappears, I use SM_blackAlder_field for my background. In mode lit all is good. Do you have a idea what problem is.... thank you.

[@timharnans]

I was not prepared for a mustache of that magnificence! Quick question, would you say Blender or Unreal Engine is better for general modeling of scenes for still renders and animations?

[@DallasDrap]

lmao thanks man! My wife wont let me shave it XD Blender is better for modeling i'd say, and theres plenty of great tools for set dressing, in addition Cycles is a great renderer. I have been using Unreal Engine for a while now, so when it comes to rendering, set dressing and all of that im partial to Unreal Engine, and it handles animations really well too, however still set up your animations in another 3d software but Unreal Engine is also great! Kinda depends what you're going for. If you're trying to do games or virtual production, or real time rendering then Unreal Engine for sure

[@acsomiT]

Thank you for sharing. What version of UE5 do u use? I use 5.3.2 and the Sun Indirect Lighting Intensity doesn't change what ever values I use. Im also using the Sun at 120000 lux. Can that be the couse?

[@MrVisualDesine]

great tutorial x the models in your level, tress and plants, where did you obtain these from, ? quixel? thanks again.

[@jasonmoll8836]

Hi Dallas! Are you open to giving personal art critiques? I've been using Unreal Engine for quite a while and I'm constantly looking for ways to improve my art direction. No worries if you got a busy schedule. I completely understand that.

[@DallasDrap]

I’m actually going to be opening a discord channel for my subs and that will be part of it! I’m on vacation right now, I’ll be back on the 29th and get that going :) I’ll try to remember to comment on this again when I get that going!

[@jasonmoll8836]

Great! Looking forward to your discord channel!

[@noole847]

beautiful beard

[@maksymperchun9085]

Hello, thank you for the tutorial. I have a question from another topic, in your scene I don't see any LODs on foliage, is there any command/parameter how to disable it? Or maybe you just don't use them? :) Scene looks very natural without LODs.

[@666nevermore]

So you do have auto exposure when you are lighting?

[@ar3designs]

The tutorial is useful. But I cannot see the sides of the screen.

[@dimensaosonhar]

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[@Peepspaint]

your videos light my life up. O u O

[@benaissiahamza3467]

man good job i liked the tutorial but that's waaaaaay to little work on the post process sadly :(

[@YourComputer]

What graphics card did you have when making this?

[@luigi.montagna]

OMG

[@reaperone7325]

why cut your screen? you know people come and check what you are using, not all who come here know where those options are.

[@RawfunRahman]

does unreal engine have black men support