Megascans Scene - Black Alder Forest

Learn how to create a detailed scene on Unreal Engine 5 using meg

What you'll learn

Working on Terrain Creation with Landmass Plugin

Using Procedural Foliage Volume to spawn trees across the scene

Using Automatic Foliage Setup thanks to Landscape Grass Type

Dressing up lake borders and setting up water shader

Using Nanite/Megascans assets

Create a realistic and natural lighting

Add details such as stumps and rocks

Requirements

Owning a computer with Windows 10 or Windows 11

Winrar or 7zip to decompress files

The basics on Unreal Engine (Camera movements, create Materials, Import assets…)

Description

You have always wanted to create a scene in Unreal without spending hours creating complex shaders, vegetation and going straight to the point to focusing only on composition? This course is for you!What I will learn?In Unreal Engine 5.3.2:Working on Terrain Creation with Landmass PluginUsing Procedural Foliage Volume to spawn trees across the sceneUsing Automatic Foliage Setup thanks to Landscape Grass TypeDressing up lake borders and setting up water shaderUsing Nanite/Megascans assetsCreate a realistic and natural lightingAdd details such as stumps and rocksWorking with Quixel Bridge pluginWhat I will get?3h30 of step-by-step video tutorial1080/30fps resolutionSoftware Used:Unreal Engine 5.3.2Level:Anyone who wants to learn, improve or fix their skills in environment creation.Prerequisite:Owning a computer with Windows 10 (64Bits) / Not tested on Windows 11Winrar or 7zip to decompress filesThe basics on Unreal Engine (Camera movements, create Materials, Import assets…)Important note : This course was created in version 5.3.2 and it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to use THE SAME version! If you choose to use another version, be aware that you may encounter possible errors not covered in this course.About copyrights:All you can find in this course are for personal usage only. You cannot share it, sell it or make it available for free on any platform.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Intro & Provided Project Overview

Section 2: Landscape Creation

Lecture 2 Add Terrain & First Brush

Lecture 3 Add Other Brushes

Lecture 4 Assign Material Instance

Lecture 5 Kill Texture Repetition (Texture Bombing)

Lecture 6 Add Texture to First Layer

Lecture 7 Add Texture to Other Layers

Lecture 8 Smoothing Edges

Lecture 9 Manual Painting- Explanations

Lecture 10 Manual Painting - Terrain & Lakebed

Section 3: Procedural Foliage

Lecture 11 Enable Plugin & Add Volume

Lecture 12 Tall Trees - Create Spawner & First Generation

Lecture 13 Tall Trees - Set Density

Lecture 14 Tall Trees - Set Angle

Lecture 15 Tall Trees - Set Z Offset

Lecture 16 Tall Trees - Set Scale

Lecture 17 Tall Trees - Steps & Number Per Step

Lecture 18 Tall Trees - Add Other Tall Trees

Lecture 19 Tall Trees - Improve Tile Overlap

Lecture 20 Tall Trees - Exclude Landscape Layer & Set Max Height

Lecture 21 Add Medium Trees

Lecture 22 Add Small Trees

Lecture 23 Growing in Shade

Section 4: Optimization

Lecture 24 Set Minimum LOD on First Tree

Lecture 25 Set Minimum LOD on Other Trees

Section 5: Automatic Foliage (LGT)

Lecture 26 Explanations

Lecture 27 First Layer - Add Sorrels

Lecture 28 First Layer - Improve Specular

Lecture 29 First Layer - Add Frens

Lecture 30 First Layer - Add Nettles

Lecture 31 Set Second Layer

Section 6: Lake Creation

Lecture 32 Download Assets

Lecture 33 Dress up Edges

Lecture 34 Add Cliffs

Lecture 35 Set Mesh Edges Material Instances

Lecture 36 Set Water Parameters

Lecture 37 Vegetation - Rework Edges

Lecture 38 Vegetation - Add Grass

Lecture 39 Vegetation - Set Grass Material Instance

Lecture 40 Vegetation - Add Cabbage

Section 7: Lighting

Lecture 41 Add Fog & HDRI

Lecture 42 Set Sun Direction

Lecture 43 Set Volumetric Fog

Lecture 44 Remove a few Trees

Lecture 45 Terrain Height Rework

Lecture 46 Add Sky

Section 8: Add Details

Lecture 47 Explanations

Lecture 48 Download Rocks

Lecture 49 Add Rocks

Lecture 50 Add Stumps

Lecture 51 Add Water Rocks

Lecture 52 Use Megascans Blueprint

Lecture 53 Set Contact Shadows

Lecture 54 Outro

Beginners wishing to learn how to create a detailed scene on Unreal Engine 5