Unreal Engine 5.4 - The PERFECT Export Settings!

[@IsaacTaracks]

i know this is 5 months old, but if anyone is curious you can actually just render out to exr and install djv, it can playback exrs on windows totally fine and has other nice little tools in it to check things.

[@belkheirifathi4726]

The 1 percent rate took a full 8 hours. I stopped it and went back to the previous method ...I will definitely benefit a lot from your videos, thank you

[@mazenezou]

Vray would be faster

[@povilaslondon]

@@mazenezou and it is faster

[@marcesmack]

Note that in UE 5.4.1 the globalillumination parameters changed as well as some reflections for raytracing.

[@brunoarballo2921]

How its call in 5.4 "r.raytracing.reflections"?

[@smaxfpv1337]

yes and because of that i cant find any of the settings related to that, even the official Unreal Engine HQ movie render pipeline documentation doesnt talk about it. Its very very annoying.

[@parse_error]

Same, trying to understand how to replace these settings...🤔

[@delfindelfondo]

Same here...

[@touristhawk]

ray tracing is irrelevant since its deprecated, unless it starts with r.lumen.

[@UnrealEngineLearn]

Thank you so much for making this!

[@chelo111]

thank you for the info and the console variables notes broddy....i just had to copy the notes ....

[@VyNguyen-om9zz]

Great setting, it fixed almost flickering in my video render, thanks a lot~~~

[@SKDyiyi]

omg, i've meet the same bug with you, i'll try this

[@DevilsRockContract]

Thanks man, nice info. I'm still struggling with best render but sometimes Unreal engine has mind of its own XD

[@polybomb1978]

also great info here. thank you so much!

[@rayddit]

I recommend you to use chaos player to read exr sequences, it's rly good

[@rubberdog]

Great video tut, will be trying this out later today. Thx for the share

[@yonghengshouhu]

Looking forward to more UE5.4 sports design related tutorials

[@MUGMANSAM]

I’m still new at this I made my export of those .exr files but I guess I was expecting a .MP4 or .mov or something. So how do I put these files together to make an actual video file ? 11:00

[@j1mmyvfx]

use aftereffects mate

[@Oceana_3D]

Only when I used movie render queue, It says "cut state uninitialized" and won't render my videos. only legacy seems to work. any ideas how to fix this?

[@Orozco_PNW]

Is there a variable to force emissive materials to illuminate cove lights that may not be directly visible using Lumen? I don't want to rely on Path Tracing since it takes much longer...

[@sreenathv6366]

Soo much useful sir ❤

[@marcesmack]

Thanks for the video! I have an RTX 4090 and I want to render panoramas for archviz, what would you say the antialiasing should be to render a photorealistic nature outdoor scene?

[@PlacesofMiddleEarth]

Have you ever used these settings for a landscape that uses automatic grass on the grass layer? I've found that my render crashes if I don't use the game overrides setting and turn off "flush grass streaming." But then I get really bad grass pop in that looks terrible. I have an rtx 3060 w/ 12 vram. Edit: this also only happens on landscapes that are 4x4k and bigger.

[@robbieolson3493]

Great that you set those console variables, but any zero setting makes that varible do nothing.

[@Djonsing]

3:47 *This command does not work when the «DLSS» plugin is connected.*

[@touristhawk]

it overrides dlss when its above 101

[@Djonsing]

@@touristhawk I completely removed this "DLSS", for some reason in version UE5.4 as soon as I launch the render, the program crashes immediately, in previous versions it worked fine, but in this one it glitches, and it is not needed at all, now there are a lot of all sorts of AI upscalers, for example, the latest versions of "TOPAZ video AI" are the bomb!

[@touristhawk]

@@Djonsing yeah i don't recommend exporting with dlss at all. just use higher screen percentage and anti-aliasing values.

[@hwaseo308]

Is the rendering method Lumen? I haven't used the Dinoise feature in Lumen since ue5 was created.

[@Oceana_3D]

Perfect, Thanks!

[@커피중독알파카]

A cool tutorial! Currently I'm working on a project with unreal5.4 but I saw this video after experiencing a phenomenon where windows stop together during rendering It helped me a lot Can I increase anti-aliasing to make it work even if it takes a lot of time with 4k?

[@MrHollt]

Yes you can but increasing anti aliasing will greatly effect rendering g time

[@Evenskiped]

Why do u use deferred rendering and no path tracing cause i think that path tracing is way better

[@FilmryStudios]

THE RENDER TIMES FOR PATH is just not feasible

[@iPEMiC.]

Where can we see the result of your rendering with this setting?

[@mayssayasmina2072]

Hi thank you ! what kind of hardware are you using with this config?

[@DarkstoneArt]

With these settings 30-35 minutes render is ok? I am running RTX 4070 Super and R7 7800X 3D with 32GB DDR5

[@MrHollt]

@@DarkstoneArt I’d say it’s better than okay. This has left me with 8-10 hours before. This render setting tends to cause long render times since it maxes a lot of settings

[@gastonsaillen]

you forgot to output at 4k resolution instead of 1080p

[@carlosrgil1]

Hi, it take for me 2.30h to render a 489 frames sequence, is this normal? with this kind of specs or is too much and i should see what can i do to solve it?

[@MrHollt]

Yes the render times for this are very long. Which a lot of comments complain about. This is meant to be the best render you can possibly get but I’ll be posting a part 2 soon of a more simplified render that will still kick out great exports. In the meantime reduce your resolution, anti aliasing or remove r.screenpercentage

[@mrdon4252]

Does anyone know how to export multiple presets into one zip file

[@westcoastbrent]

You should have 10000 likes!

[@Ivantkn_Ch]

Hi, thanks for the tip! Wondering if this works on UE 5.3 ?

[@MrHollt]

This will work for every version of UE5

[@Ivantkn_Ch]

@@MrHollt Thank you, much appreciated!

[@realmeeny]

legend

[@proximity88]

Tried these render settings, tbh its the noisiest renders ive ever had, you are disabling all the denoising with these settings can i ask why? also 10hour render for 500 frames? seems excessive and i have a beasty machine

[@MrHollt]

Noise is created with how you setup your scene. post processing should help. If it really is the export than Temporal anti-aliasing should do the trick. Also treat it as a guide. This preset can be overboard so if you want it to be faster best thing is to reduce anti aliasing to a lower level or reduce overall resolution of your scene. Hope this helps!

[@proximity88]

@MrHollt thanks for reply I understand what your saying, but if you disable your console settings the noise isn't there. Why do you set the denoisers to 0 if you hover over the console commands it said 0 is disabled?

[@gangweedgamer8869]

yeah, i got confused too

[@nbamol5453]

my gpu almost exploded

[@povilaslondon]

Exported? You mean rendered

[@pandoraskeyboard]

Haha what a solution to high res rendering at the end there. "It crashes so bring the resolution down" How production ready, I'll just tell my clients we can't deliver 4k because unreal crashes.

[@MrHollt]

@@pandoraskeyboard well you up res it and then down res it. So if you want 4k and you follow this tutorial you’ll get be kicking out 1.5 x 4k and then down res it to 4k. Which is why it is taxing. So if it crashes either reduce resolution or remove that upscale.